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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Go back to my PhD advisor's point, which is that at the point that human pe human beings become the dominant arbiter of each other's success, that there is no limit to the value of increased cognitive capacity because you're effectively in an arms race with other people.
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So there's no point at which you've mastered the tasks of the environment.
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What you're looking at is an environment
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with a clever antagonist that you have to outwit.
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Um
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no, no.
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They I I would I would uh I didn't mean to interrupt you, but uh I think Buckminster Buckminster Fuller nailed it.
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Right, he described a process he called ephemeralization, the process by which we can do more and more with less and less until eventually we can do everything with nothing.
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Now.
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Of course, that's a classic Fullerism in the sense that he takes it to the point of uh an absurd paradox, but that's the basic point.
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There's never y until you can do everything with nothing, there's always more to be accomplished that rewards greater intelligence.
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Okay.
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And I will argue that um while technically possible that
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is not a logically supported position.
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um based on an unlikely premise of genes for greater intelligence that have not gone to fixation.
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All right, perfect.
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Um I will say
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I don't know how many people followed this conversation.
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I really enjoyed it.
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Um I appreciate that you uh are dedicated to pursuing these things and that you're not cowed by the nasty things people say about you.
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