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DarkHorse Podcast

Love in the Time of Robots: The 314th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Adaptation, Society & Culture, Science, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, News, Modernity, Natural Sciences, Politics

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

On this, our 314th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss love, coffee, and AI. For Valentine’s Day, Bret shares his thoughts on myths, love, and soulmates, and we discuss how relationships form—both in the abstract and in our case—and how relationships cannot be antagonistic or about short time horizons. Then: new research finds that drinking moderate amounts of coffee or tea—but not if decaffeinated—slows cognitive decline. And: is AI coming for us, and if so, how soon? How fast are LLM’s...

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0:00.0

Hey, folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream. I took me a second. Remember what

0:11.6

podcast I was on. I sometimes do other ones from behind this desk. But this is the Dark Horse

0:15.9

podcast live stream. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather High. It's the 314th, I believe.

0:23.2

Yes, it is. So I got all the information in there. Wasn't in the right order. Perhaps not as

0:27.6

professionally delivered as possible, but, you know, there's always next time. There's always

0:32.1

next time. Here we are on our rare Saturday live stream. It's Valentine's Day. We'll be

0:36.9

starting off by talking a little bit about love and Valentine's mythology, you say.

0:42.4

And then AI, a natural follow-on, really not.

0:46.1

And just a bit new finding about coffee and how freaking great it is for you, honestly.

0:52.9

Nice.

0:53.3

I'm glad to hear that.

0:54.2

Yeah. It's great when your vices turn out to be a-okay.

0:56.8

No, not a vice.

0:58.1

I have been certain of this from the beginning.

1:00.7

And when I found I was, I was pregnant for the first time, not having expected it,

1:05.5

and immediately went looking into like what can I cannot do.

1:09.1

The evidence on coffee was remarkably consistent that small amounts

1:13.4

of coffee were just fine in pregnancy and everything else. Yep, it's good. It's not quite as good

1:19.7

as that time that we all collectively discovered that meat was health food, but it's good. Love coffee.

1:27.7

Again, neither you, that meat was health food, but it's good. Love coffee. Again.

1:31.0

Neither you nor I discovered that meat was health food.

1:33.4

Well, let's put it this way.

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