TED talk
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TED talk is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 14, 2021 and April 14, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Octavio Sanchez stumbled upon the TED talk where Romer discussed charter cities”; “you can watch her TED talk here”; “if it can, it probably takes more than one TED talk”. It most often appears alongside Manhattan, Silicon Valley, Adraste.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: April 14, 2025
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- Manhattan (2 shared issues)
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- Silicon Valley (2 shared issues)
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- Adraste (1 shared issues)
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- Alaska (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Amisulpride (1 shared issues)
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- anarcho-capitalist (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Jackson (1 shared issues)
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- Arizona Supreme Court (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
In 2009, Honduras' leftist-ish President Manuel Zelaya proposed a referendum to change the Constitution, which his opponents interpreted as a plot to remove term limits and rule indefinitely. The Supreme Court ruled against him, Zelaya ordered the military to assist in holding the referendum anyway, and the military held a coup instead. They appointed the next person in the line of succession the interim president, then held tense elections which were partially boycotted by Zelaya supporters and of debated legitimacy. Conservative candidate Porfirio Lobo Sosa won and became president. Lobo's chief of staff Octavio Sanchez stumbled upon the TED talk where Romer discussed charter cities and invited him to Honduras for negotiations.
Galef admits she’s a little behind the curve on this one. Books on rationality and overcoming cognitive biases were big ten years ago (Thinking Fast And Slow, Predictably Irrational, The Black Swan, etc). Nowadays “smiling TED-talk-circuit celebrity wants to help you improve your thinking!” is more likely to elicit groans than breathless anticipation. And that isn’t the least accurate description of Julia (you can watch her TED talk here).
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Here Scout Mindset reaches an impasse. It’s trying to train you in rationality. But it acknowledges that this is closely allied with making you a good person. And that can’t be trained - or, if it can, it probably takes more than one TED talk. So what do you do?
We wanted people to question p-hacked psychology studies and TED talk experts telling them the Nine Ways That Science Proves Merit Is Fake. So we punctured some windbag experts, then woke up one day with an anti-vaxxer in HHS and half the country thinking insulin is a globohomo conspiracy - or whatever it is they’re saying on X now [...]