The Games We Play: The 321st 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

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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On this, our 321st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss AI, Iran, Trump, emergencies in the state of Washington, and stories from the Covid era. Anthropic, which makes Claude, announced that they are halting the release of their latest model due to unexpected capacities it has revealed. We discuss trade-offs, exploration, and game theory as they pertain to bats and planes, cats and humans, and LLMs. Then: did Trump make a genocidal threat against Iran? And: what emergency in the state of ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream.
0:08.8	It is episode 321.
0:12.2	321.
0:13.1	Three.
0:14.4	Somehow I had not put that together.
0:15.9	But yeah, three to one.
0:17.1	Blast off.
0:18.4	I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:19.8	You are Dr. Heather.
0:20.7	It's in keeping. We have Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather. It's in keeping.
0:22.2	We have Artemis 2 out there doing its thing.
0:26.0	Some people think we don't.
0:27.3	But yeah, fascinating that we are either going back to the moon or pretending.
0:35.4	One of our friends who has left Washington State because that's happening has moved to Florida
0:40.8	and sent me a video.
0:42.1	She doesn't even live particularly close to Canaveral, but sent me a video of catching the
0:48.3	blast off.
0:50.3	Yes, we also had other friends in the neighborhood.
0:55.0	David, Maryland were on a boat watching it.
0:57.8	So something definitely took off.
0:59.4	Nobody doubts that, I think.
1:01.1	But, I mean, I'm sure there's some doubters.
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