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You Are Not So Smart

090 - Reality - Donald Hoffman

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Have you ever questioned the nature of your reali…

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Did you know that you can grind up crickets into a powder and then use that powder to make food

0:05.7

and you never know that you're eating crickets?

0:08.4

Crickets are one of the most sustainable and nutritious protein sources in the world, and exo, EXO is making tasty, nutrient-dense cricket protein bars made with only natural ingredients.

0:21.0

They're made by a chef with three Michelin Stars and they're good for the environment and they're good for you.

0:26.0

So head to exoprotein.com slash so smart to try four different bars for less than ten dollars.

0:35.0

That's EXO protein.com slash so smart. You're going to be a Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 90.

1:07.0

Episode 90. Bring her back online.

1:29.0

back online. Can you hear me?

1:37.0

Yes, I'm sorry, I'm not feeling quite myself. You can lose the accent.

1:47.0

This is the first scene in HBO's new series, Westworld.

1:52.1

Do you know where you are?

1:54.0

I'm in a dream.

1:56.0

That's right, Dolores. You're in a dream.

1:59.0

Would you like to wake up from this dream?

2:01.0

In the show, Westworld is a theme park in the future in which people pay huge sums of

2:07.0

money to immerse themselves in a sort of real world version of a role-playing video game like The

2:14.2

Witcher or Skyrim or Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption or

2:19.3

something like that and when they do this when they go into this world that's been created for them, they interact with a

2:26.8

population of robots that are indistinguishable from human beings.

2:30.8

And in this first scene in the show, we see technicians interviewing an

2:35.2

Android, actually to be technical a gynoid, named Dolores, who seems to have suffered

2:41.2

some kind of malfunction and they inspect the

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