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🗓️ 1 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, so Keynesian Beauty Contest. |
| 0:01.8 | Yes. |
| 0:02.5 | People are asked to rank who is the most beautiful. Yes. But they're also then asked to rank who they think other people think is the most beautiful. Yes. And then is that also the thing where you're then told that the stuff is screwed up and you're seeing the data and then you come back and you rank the same people differently because you were shown how other people are. Oh, maybe. There might be a twist on it. So this guy's actually done it, but he's done it for... |
| 0:24.0 | So he basically... and you rank the same people differently because you were shown how other people are. Oh, maybe there might be a twist on it. |
| 0:22.3 | So this guy's actually done it, but he's done it for the way. |
| 0:24.5 | So he basically has the most incredible data set that shows that people agree on 88% of the things that are important in life. |
| 0:36.9 | Now, we may disagree on policy and how to get there, |
| 0:39.2 | but people want exactly the same things. And right now, we're in this massive moment of collective |
| 0:45.5 | self-silencing. And part of the reason why, and it's super fascinating when he talks about the |
| 0:49.9 | brain, since we're so wired for connection and social rejection feels like pain, that when you see that, |
| 0:56.5 | I don't know what the stats are today because it's an old study, but you're probably familiar |
| 0:59.9 | with that study that looked at Twitter and how I think it was like 80 or 90 percent of the content |
| 1:06.0 | came from 10 percent of the accounts. And right now, if you look at what's going on in social, the five percent |
| 1:13.0 | of the most extreme voices on both sides dominate 90 percent of the conversation. And everybody |
| 1:18.7 | else is sort of in the middle going, can my fucking parents just stop screaming at each other? |
| 1:27.0 | And everybody is self-silencing because nobody wants to get into it with anybody, and we are |
| 1:33.7 | under the collective illusion that because you're not saying something, you agree with what's |
| 1:39.5 | happening. |
| 1:40.5 | And his data is so important and so hopeful and meaningful. |
| 1:45.9 | And then he has this incredible historical example about the Velvet Revolution that happened, which was the revolution that happened, I believe, in the 80s. |
| 1:55.9 | It's the only time a communist government was overthrown without a single bullet being fired or a single |
| 2:02.6 | person dying. And there's an 80-page free kind of historical paper about it. It all began with |
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