Bret Weinstein
speaker
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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 25 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.
Appearances
Well, because he was mentored by somebody who was very good in carpentry.
podcast-host
It's not genetic.
podcast-host
So I'm not arguing uh I've already granted you that it is possible to get genetic differences that do encode cognitive capability.
podcast-host
They will tend to go to fixation.
podcast-host
You have human populations that with very few exceptions are not isolated from each other.
podcast-host
So the barrier to those genes going to fixation is non existent.
podcast-host
So
podcast-host
If these characteristics, without a trade-off, if you had a trade-off, if you could say, here's where uh the SmartyPants genes cost you and therefore are selected against, right?
podcast-host
If you had those trade-offs, then we could say, well, okay, yeah, there are habitats in which this other value is favored at the expense, the inevitable, unavoidable expense of intelligence, but you don't have that the way you do with sports.
podcast-host
In that
podcast-host
It's selected against because having eyes is costly and it creates a vulnerability that in those caves is not paid back.
podcast-host
But I would point out
podcast-host
Right, if you don't need extra brains, so then what are you arguing?
podcast-host
Where's the habitat that So there's a so there is a cost to having
podcast-host
If you're a slave
podcast-host
Surviving.
podcast-host
reinforces intelligence.
podcast-host
Figuring out
podcast-host
How to communicate.
podcast-host
under the master's radar, figuring out
podcast-host
Showing 3981–4000 of 17,116 · page 200 of 856
← Previous
Next →