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William MacAskill

Oxford philosopher; co-founder of effective altruism and 80,000 Hours.

3 books on the record · 24 Jan 2020 – 24 Jan 2020

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Gordon, Robert J.

'The Rise and Fall of American Growth' by Robert Gordon. A very powerful account of just how much technological change there was in the period, let's say 1870 to 1950

on a podcast · 24 Jan 2020 · Report

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The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich

One partly just cause it's such a great book. It's like the best popular nonfiction I've read or among that, is 'The Secret of Our Success' by Joseph Henrich, which is about cultural evolution

on a podcast · 24 Jan 2020 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.