Andrea Jones-Rooy

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1,079 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Sep

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 podcast

I was like, you don't even know how necessary.

Yeah, yeah.

I was like, now I understand why I need it.

Do you think very dense gravitational waves could be causing Havana syndrome?

That's the problem with science fiction is it breaks all the rules.

I'm learning.

But you're right.

And to Steve's point, we could all be sitting here as different forms of life who don't need iodine and bromine to live and be talking about.

Imagine if we needed those things, how silly we'd be.

I'm hearing that Bob is quite the carbon superiority.

It is.

Carbon supremacy.

Would silicon be the next most likely or is that even that question too muddied by my own –

Yeah, I'm inclined towards where Bob began, which is that, yeah, it seems to be kind of like an outcropping of cooperation, being in a society, listening to one another.

But maybe on a collective evolutionary perspective, you know, it's individuals, traits that are advantageous for individuals matter, of course, but traits that matter for groups probably matter even more.

And so groups that have higher gullibility, meaning they listen to their leader and will march into war with them,

might actually outperform those that think for themselves and separate.

And so it actually might cause, you might want cultures from an evolutionary perspective, cultures that are more gullible because then you listen to whoever's in charge and all the coordination problems we were talking about earlier.

But I agree with Bob that there is a level at which information either travels too fast or the wrong information travels and gullibility becomes a problem and maybe we're running into that.

But I could certainly see it being an advantage.

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