Bret Weinstein

If they hold a perspective that isn't right, the answer is to persuade them that it isn't right.

If they hold a perspective that isn't right, the answer is to persuade them that it isn't right.

If they hold a perspective that isn't right, the answer is to persuade them that it isn't right.

Yeah. It's funny. It's actually... Sam Harris hasn't said many nice things about me in the last few years, but... When he did, he used to quote me as saying, bad faith changes everything. And I guess I would rephrase that here as the good faith environment that is necessary to navigate difficult things is supremely powerful, but it is very fragile.

Yeah. It's funny. It's actually... Sam Harris hasn't said many nice things about me in the last few years, but... When he did, he used to quote me as saying, bad faith changes everything. And I guess I would rephrase that here as the good faith environment that is necessary to navigate difficult things is supremely powerful, but it is very fragile.

Yeah. It's funny. It's actually... Sam Harris hasn't said many nice things about me in the last few years, but... When he did, he used to quote me as saying, bad faith changes everything. And I guess I would rephrase that here as the good faith environment that is necessary to navigate difficult things is supremely powerful, but it is very fragile.

And the sense that somebody is not in it to discover what the right answer is, but is actually playing some different game causes good faith to break down. And I think that's what you're detecting.

And the sense that somebody is not in it to discover what the right answer is, but is actually playing some different game causes good faith to break down. And I think that's what you're detecting.

And the sense that somebody is not in it to discover what the right answer is, but is actually playing some different game causes good faith to break down. And I think that's what you're detecting.

Well, I think there's a kind of hubris that has taken over.

Well, I think there's a kind of hubris that has taken over.

Well, I think there's a kind of hubris that has taken over.

It's like deranged. But I think it comes from a particular place. Which is interesting. We've gotten very good, technically, at solving problems. I mean, you know, the wizardry in your phone is unimaginable. Yes. But... Phones, computers, all of these systems up until AI are complicated. So complicated that most people don't understand them.

It's like deranged. But I think it comes from a particular place. Which is interesting. We've gotten very good, technically, at solving problems. I mean, you know, the wizardry in your phone is unimaginable. Yes. But... Phones, computers, all of these systems up until AI are complicated. So complicated that most people don't understand them.

It's like deranged. But I think it comes from a particular place. Which is interesting. We've gotten very good, technically, at solving problems. I mean, you know, the wizardry in your phone is unimaginable. Yes. But... Phones, computers, all of these systems up until AI are complicated. So complicated that most people don't understand them.

Maybe nobody understands them completely, but somebody understands every piece of your computer or your phone. So that's a complicated system. And you can get so good in the realm of complicated systems that you feel mastery.

Maybe nobody understands them completely, but somebody understands every piece of your computer or your phone. So that's a complicated system. And you can get so good in the realm of complicated systems that you feel mastery.

Maybe nobody understands them completely, but somebody understands every piece of your computer or your phone. So that's a complicated system. And you can get so good in the realm of complicated systems that you feel mastery.

And the problem is that the places where you're seeing people holding opinions that are preposterous and a level of arrogance that isn't justified by anything, those are complex systems. And a complex system is not just a really complicated system. A complex system is actually meaningfully different. It's fundamentally unpredictable.

And the problem is that the places where you're seeing people holding opinions that are preposterous and a level of arrogance that isn't justified by anything, those are complex systems. And a complex system is not just a really complicated system. A complex system is actually meaningfully different. It's fundamentally unpredictable.