297 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Brian Brushwood tells us how he put together the most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams and over the top chicanery. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.

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0:00.0	Two quick pieces of news, I've received a gazillion emails about a recent study that involved
0:08.0	taking an artificial intelligence like a gPT, LLC m type thing and they trained it to debate conspiracy theorists about
0:17.5	their conspiracy theories and it has a very high rate of success changing
0:21.2	conspiracy theorists' minds.
0:24.1	The scientists who conducted that research are going to be on an episode of this podcast
0:29.2	very soon.
0:30.2	The interview is already set up.
0:31.6	All right, that's the first piece of news. The second piece of news is next month,
0:35.8	right in the middle of the month. I'm going to Las Vegas to take the stage, the same stage as
0:41.0	Neil degrass Tyson and Brian Cox to give a lecture at CSICon,
0:46.3	Saicon, all about how minds change.
0:49.3	So I hope you have tickets to that and if you don't there is still time.
0:55.3	Okay here comes a pre-roll ad and then the show.
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1:10.3	and you'll get half off a set of thinking superpowers in a box.
1:16.0	If you want to know more about what I'm talking about,
1:19.0	check it out, middle of the show. Coming to the middle of the British and make. We're cool, we're up a happy, they were quiet.
1:35.0	But then talking about the power of a gospel.
1:39.0	Everybody.
1:40.0	We're cool, puppy. They require.
1:44.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
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