Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
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1,523 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Jaime Hoerricks, PhD’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But he ends up dead because he demanded certainty in a scenario that didn't offer any.
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But you know, when we talk about making a bet, we usually think of two people putting money on a poker table.
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In life, most of these bets aren't against other people.
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They're against alternative versions of ourselves, aren't they?
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Like the Johnny World story.
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The ultimate Vegas guy.
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So Johnny is evaluating two futures, one where he stays in his comfortable Vegas routine and one where he adapts to small town domesticity for a nice payout.
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Wow, he lasted forty eight hours.
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It really makes you wonder if we don't even know what our future selves want or can tolerate, how can we possibly trust the foundational beliefs driving these bets?
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Like a vetting process.
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Here's where it gets really interesting.
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How so?
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Wait, really?
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So the default state of the human brain is basically gullibility.
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We just absorb information as truth because it takes too many calories to be skeptical up front.
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I'm struggling with this though.
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If you have an audience of highly educated analytical people listening right now, you'd assume their brains are better trained to overcome that friction, right?
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Right.
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Doesn't high intelligence or advanced education provide a defense mechanism against this automatic belief formation?
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Worse, how?
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