Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
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And my point is that we are underrating, because we can measure genes and because they seem very powerful to us, we are underrating the largely still mysterious mechanisms of cultural evolution that shape the way we think, the way we communicate, the way we partner in thinking.
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All of those patterns are staring us in the face.
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They are profoundly important and likely explanatory of many of the differences that I hear you attributing to genes.
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And so
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That's where the question goes.
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What is the causal explanation for the distinctions you're pointing to, not whether the distinctions are real?
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Well, let me um
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Flesh that out just slightly, just so it's on the table.
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The part that is hard for me to accept analytically.
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is that you have
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Cognitive advantages based in material differences in the
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Genetic sequences and
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that provide significant advantages and don't go to fixation in populations that aren't isolated.
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That's the part that I struggle with.
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It is certainly true that
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That
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defective genes.
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will easily create distinctions in cognitive capacity that will show up in heritability measures.
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So in other words, the hard part to imagine is how you get extraordinary capacity out of genes that haven't gone to fixation.
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The easy part to understand is how you will get measurable differences in IQ that owe to genes as a result of uh bad code.
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