Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Bret Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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IQ measures general intelligence, but
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Where is the environment that does not select for greater general intelligence?
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All right.
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I think I hear in your presentation and in what I've read of your work.
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Uh a
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belief that when you say that selection favors different types of intelligence and that this is having an impact on IQ differing between populations
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That you your belief is that this is related to genes.
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In what way would you say it's related to genes?
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Um, what I don't get is I s I see some hand waving around the idea that there are environments that don't favor as much intelligence as you can muster.
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Seems to me every environment favors it.
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And even if an environment was somehow
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uh more tolerant at first, the natural progression of population growth would cause resource stress that would then cause intelligence to be valuable no matter what environment you set the experiment in motion in.
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So you have yet to convince me that there is an environment in which being as smart as possible is not favored.
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not not useful.
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You've got me.
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What I should have said was in human beings, every environment selects for greater intelligence.
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But
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You have to demonstrate the trade off then.
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So here's what here's what I think I hear from you, and you tell me if I'm misportraying it.
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That the cognitive capacity
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