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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All right, two points.
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One.
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See my earlier point about heritability.
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Two, I think you're underrating the degree to which human beings are special and you have a second mode of inheritance that has everything to do with how intelligent you end up.
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Right, culture evolved for a reason, a cultural mind that comes not totally unprogrammed, but comes amenable to having a program loaded into it after birth.
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That's a very special condition, and it has a lot to do with why human beings are so intelligent.
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It's not a secondary thing, it's not an arbitrary thing, it's the key to human success.
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So
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so let's take
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Maybe the one example we have where we can test your intuition from what you've just said.
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The
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Utility of a given language is contingent to
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On where on the earth you're gonna be.
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So speaking Italian if you're gonna be in China
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Is not very valuable.
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So what
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Cultural toolkit you have
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dictates your capacity to function.
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What has never been demonstrated as far as I know is
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is any propensity for any population to have any advantage in learning any human language.
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