Bret Weinstein
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15,687 appearances
29 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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will easily create distinctions in cognitive capacity that will show up in heritability measures.
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So in other words, the hard part to imagine is how you get extraordinary capacity out of genes that haven't gone to fixation.
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The easy part to understand is how you will get measurable differences in IQ that owe to genes as a result of uh bad code.
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Right?
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If you have a mutation and it results in uh a gene being dysfunctional, it will create heritable differences.
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But that's
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a far easier thing to understand on the negative side than on the positive side.
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Hussein Bolt's trade off.
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I mean, I can't specify what the disadvantage is, but we know that, you know, there's a difference between fast twitch muscle and uh endurance.
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muscle.
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Right?
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So there's a trade off built in that I, you know,
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You happen to have landed on an example where I can point to it, but the fact that I can't point to it in some other example doesn't matter.
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In physical space you have trade offs that will manifest.
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If you become better at you know, um if you're an agile flyer, it will come at the cost of efficiency.
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So in physical space the trade offs are inherent and they are unbeatable.
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You have to choose.
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Choose one direction or the other or compromise.
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In cognitive ability, smarter is always better.
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Now you've come up with one trade-off, which is energetics, but the energetics only manifest in a case where you can uh
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