Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 6d ago
Bret Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, let's take for example
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Um the boy who cried wolf.
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It's not obvious to a child why.
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Uh
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crying wolf or its equivalent is a bad thing to do.
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It causes the adults to react in a way that may be pleasant to the child.
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Problem is it causes a problem they don't foresee, which is that when the wolf comes nobody listens, and so it gets encoded in a story that causes this not to have to be rediscovered again and again.
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So
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The idea that it is immoral to
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To cry Wolf.
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is resonant because it's true.
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But it's true for a game theoretically subtle reason.
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In this case, it's a reason that's apparent to adults but too subtle for a child.
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There are many other moral rules that are about game theory that even adults don't intuit, like collective action problems.
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So I would argue that much of what is encoded in religious texts.
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is about preventing the collapse of a structure because of the failure of collective action.
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And that again, uh I keep using the word arbitrary and it's throwing you because you have a different framework and I can't remember how to phrase it in in your language, but that these have a reality that transcends the
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individual encoding.
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In other words, game theory problems afflict all human cultures and there are parallel structures in distinct cultures that have evolved independently to break the same uh tendency same tendency toward collapse.
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Well, I'm not adding.
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