A few pieces of news before we start the show. First, many of you wrote me asking if I was planning

on doing an episode about De debunkBot, that's the AI, the LLCM, recently developed by researchers at MIT and Cornell and American University in DC that in a series of studies demonstrated it could be a fact-based debunking in conversational format

reliably reduced the belief in conspiracy theories, and even

reliably completely changed the minds of conspiracy theorists, even people who are deeply

entrenched.

And I'm happy to say that yes I have already conducted the

interviews with all the researchers and that will be the very next episode. If you're

a patron over at Patreon I'll be posting the video of my conversation with all the researchers right after

this episode the one you are listening to right now right after it goes live and

also two weeks after this episode airs I will be in Las

Vegas at CSI Con the Center for Skeptical Inquiry Conference the Center for

Skeptial Inquiry is the place made popular by the Amazing Randy, by Carl Sagan,

and they have a conference every year. And I will be joining Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox and the Skeptics Guide of the Universe

and thinking as power and many many others to give a lecture about how minds change.

Amid all the other people interested in in giving lectures and hosting workshops about critical thinking,

intellectual humility, cognitive biases, and so on. But as conferences go, most of the time

we're just all going to be hanging out and you can join us.

Tickets are still available. You can get them right now at CSI conference.org.

The link to that in the show notes.

Two more things, the Alliance for Decision Education is holding a student forecasting tournament called

Forecasting the Future on November 11th registration is opened now. The registration

deadline is November 10th and students can win up to $1,500 by making predictions

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