Bret Weinstein

Yes.

Yeah.

The idea that we tend to think that the longer something's been around, that it's overdue to be destroyed, but that often the answer is something that's been around a long time is actually built to last.

And so if it's been around a long time, you might expect to see it last a lot longer.

So it's that.

It's the Lindy effect in animal or plant form.

Yes.

And in fact, you know, we are in some ways, we haven't been around that long, but our

it looks like we are a variation on that theme, precisely because we have a generalist body plan, right?

The physical robot that is the human being is capable of doing a tremendous number of things.

And the software program can be essentially entirely rewritten, right?

The culture that you inherit can take a person and it can

rewire them for a very different niche, including the ability to avail themselves of whatever tools are necessary to do whatever things that the body plan doesn't do on its own.

So that's a cool strategy, to have a generalist robot and a software program that can be swapped out as needed, that evolution can rewrite very rapidly, that evolution can rewrite on the basis of

not only the conjecture of an intelligent creature, but the pooled parallel processing of multiple individuals of the species, right?

This is what Heather and I describe in our book as campfire.

The light has faded.

It's too dark for you to be productive at whatever your niche is.

You gather around the campfire and you talk.

You talk about problems that you've run into, solutions that you're working on.