Episode 292: Boundary Issues

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler lead off with a breakdown of the new commercial for “friend (not imaginary)” a new AI necklace that takes hikes with you, interrupts your favorite shows, and will be there for your first kiss. Then we talk about a new paper co-authored by VBW favorite Joe Henrich that challenges cognitive science for pretending to be universal without offering evidence. A good discussion punctuated by David’s new theory of the rise of the autism. (TLDL the nerds are having sex).

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Kroupin, I., Davis, H. E., & Henrich, J. (2024). Beyond Newton: Why assumptions of universality are critical to cognitive science, and how to finally move past them. Psychological Review. [harvard.edu]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist Dave Pizarro,
0:06.0	having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say and knowing my dad
0:14.5	some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	You must have thought it was a white boy day.
0:21.0	He didn't white boy, is it?
0:25.0	Oh man, it ain't white boy day.
0:27.0	The great and ass white boy day.
0:30.0	The waiting has spoken.
0:34.0	Pay no attention to that band behind the curtain.
0:41.0	Who are you? A very bad man? I'm a very good man.
0:47.0	A very bad man.
0:49.0	I'm a very good man. Good man. They think deep thought, and with no more brains than you have.
0:58.0	May no attention're like man.
1:07.0	Anybody can have a brain. You're a very bad man.
1:11.0	I'm a very good man. Just a very good man.
1:13.0	Just a very bad wizard.
1:16.0	Welcome to very bad Wizards.
1:17.0	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:20.0	Dave Labor Day weekend is here.
1:22.0	The Summer of Glen Powell has come to an end. I know it's hard to choose just one, but what was your favorite Glen Powell moment this summer?
1:31.0	I don't. I barely know who Glen Powell is. Do you know who he is? My guess was that like it was 50-50 whether you would know who he is at all. No, I just googled him and I know who he is,
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