Intellectual Stockholm Syndrome: The 220th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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In this 220th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss the modern Dark Age. Topics include informational advantage, entropy, and reason. We discuss whether all static rules are gameable, and whether adjusting your model to increase predictive power can help you evade the sophists. We also ask what people in North Korea actually think about their lives relative to the rest of the world, and how their situation is analogous to that of people who have been kidnapped, or to that of a populace that is convinced by authorities to do things that are against their interests. At what scales does Stockholm Syndrome apply? We also discuss confidence and humility, intellectual obstructionism, and the value of track records.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Excerpt from Chandler Burr’s book about Luca Turin, The Emperor of Scent: https://chandlerburr.com/books
Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/
Evolutionary Lens Livestream 121 from April 2, 2022, Welcome to the Noble Psy-Op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrfL6fRW150
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 220. |
| 0:10.0 | It is Saturday, not our usual, because we have upcoming travel. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr Heather Hying and I believe we are ready to rock and roll |
| 0:21.9 | Yep, we have we have some good stuff We are ready to rock and roll. Yep. |
| 0:23.0 | We have some good stuff today. |
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| 1:06.4 | Now I am tempted to say what she said, but I am always troubled by the fact that what she said and that's what she said are so close together |
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