6208 How to Fight Bias!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux tackles whether humans can think without anthropomorphic biases, drawing insights from discussions with AI. We explore the impact of biases on our reasoning and the importance of critiquing authority figures like parents. The conversation questions the reliability of knowledge, highlighting how narratives are influenced by power dynamics.

I discuss the challenges posed by economic dependencies and social pressures on objectivity, as well as psychological barriers that hinder admitting errors. The episode invites listeners to reflect on their relationship with truth and engage with the complexities of bias and rational discourse.

The listener's question:

"Do humans, even, have the ability to think and philosophize with absolutely zero anthropomorphic bias? The more I discuss philosophy with AI the more of my own anthropomorphic bias I find in my own arguments. This can serve to invalidate or at the very least undermine much of our philosophical ideas."

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. I hope you doing well. This is Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain, the Domain of Freedom. Freedom is the main thing. Free domain, formerly radio, now TCPIP. And I hope you're doing well. Had a great question from my listener. Do humans even have the ability to think in philosophize with absolutely zero anthropomorphic bias?
0:23.1	The more I discuss philosophy with AI, the more of my own anthropomorphic bias I find in my own
0:28.6	arguments. This can serve to invalidate, or, at the very least, undermine much of our
0:35.2	philosophical ideas. So it's a great question to do with bias, of course.
0:41.1	How do we know if we are reasoning in good faith, or how do we know if we're biased?
0:48.3	Now, of course, the easy answer is, hey, just try and figure out whether you've committed a logical fallacy, right? But, you know,
0:57.4	we can't spend our entire lives examining everything we've said, or we'll say, or do say,
1:03.6	running it through some sort of perfect rational checker. I mean, obviously, we strive for reason
1:09.2	and we like to be corrected with regards
1:10.9	to reason, but there's a bunch of stuff that you can do ahead of time that is going to be very
1:16.4	helpful on figuring out your biases and other people's biases. So I had a call the other day.
1:23.6	I did sort of a spot live stream. I had a call with a young man, he was 29, no job,
1:29.1	no girlfriend, lived in his parents' basement, like, you know, really a bit of a sad situation.
1:34.0	And I said to him, are you willing to criticize your own parents? And he said no. And that's fine,
1:40.8	right? I mean, obviously, it's all free will. It's all the choice. You don't have to do
1:45.5	any of that if you don't really want to. I'm not going to impose that. You know, if somebody's
1:52.3	overweight and you say, are you willing to diet and exercise? And they say, no. Then it's like,
2:00.0	okay, well, then you're going to have to live with being
2:03.3	overweight, if you don't want to take, right? If you refuse a treatment, you continue usually with
2:08.8	the ailment, which is fine. But obviously it wasn't that young man who would be harmed in the long
2:16.8	run by criticizing his parents. It was his parents, who would be harmed in the long run by criticizing his parents, it was his parents,
2:20.1	who would be harmed in the short run, and maybe the long run, who knows, by being criticized,
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