Why Even Try? The 322nd 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

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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On this, our 322nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cartesian crisis, whether going to the moon is valuable, and college in the age of AI. Before the ads, we discuss the nature of knowledge, and whether paying attention all the time, to all the things, can backfire and make a personal less capable of comprehension. Later: why go to the moon? An op-ed writer at The Guardian says there’s no point—there’s nothing to see, no one to talk to. We discuss the value of science—not just in ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Pod asked live stream. It's number 32. You and I are the
0:12.6	resident Dark Horses. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying. It is Saturday.
0:17.9	Not our usual spot, but hey, it's kind of traditional around here.
0:21.9	It has been traditional, and then we moved it.
0:24.4	And this is the fourth in a cluster of four live streams, and then we're going to be taking most of the rest, April, to do some other work.
0:33.9	But there's going to be some interesting inside rail drops in our absence.
0:38.6	And as always, we have our locals watch party going on.
0:41.7	We had some great Q&As on locals in the last couple of weeks.
0:45.0	And check us out there.
0:46.7	A cluster of Dark Horse podcasts.
0:50.7	I'm just thinking some fraction of our audience has been trained such that the word cluster auto completes.
0:58.6	I know, but it makes, then that makes me wonder, and I have known in the past.
1:01.9	What are the cluster A personality?
1:06.0	Oh, that's not what I was thinking at all.
1:08.3	Oh, you're thinking of bombs?
1:09.3	Yes, exactly.
1:10.6	Yes. Well, not exactly. Some fraction're thinking of bombs? Yes, exactly. Yes.
1:10.8	Well, not exactly.
1:11.8	Some fraction of our audience thinks cluster B personality. No, I think our audience. Yes, some fraction, yes, there's no way no, no fraction of our audience thinks cluster B for one thing. That's what I thought of. Yep. No, I was actually, the bombs. And you, with your like agro-military focus, are thinking about cluster bombs.
1:31.3	But I was actually, the bombs. And you, with your like agro-military focus, are thinking about cluster bombs.
1:31.3	But I wasn't. I really wasn't. The bombs have been, the cluster in cluster bomb has been reappropriated into common parlance to describe an explosively bad situation.
1:45.5	And that's what I thought the autocomplete was leading. I think of that as more of a cluster. Fuck. Yes, exactly. That is what
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