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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I think the model you're putting forward is a cartoon, in effect.
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Yes, it is true that you may have uh an optimal arrow tip, but the amount that you can know about the creatures that you're hunting and their likely behavior so that you are
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more effective at finding them, at tracking them, kill them quicker, make use of more parts of them.
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All of those things are IQ tests.
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So there's never a point at which you've slam dunked all the IQ tests and something else is a priority.
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Being smarter is better.
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You're right that the brain does have an energetic cost, which if a brain is not being used would
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push in the direction of shrinking it.
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But the habitat where the brain is not valuable is not obvious.
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Uh to me at least.
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I would also point out you've pointed to um
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IQ differences between blacks and whites, presumably in the US, is that right?
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Okay.
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Sorry.
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Um
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Blacks.
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virtually all of which in the US are derived from a slave population.
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had the mechanism, their cultural
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uh transmission of culturally heritable information mechanism was disrupted and intentionally so.
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You had people who didn't speak the same language being put in the field right next to each other.
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