Tim Urban

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics · 20 Feb 2023 podcast

No, everyone else is gullible about the moon landing.

I won't.

And then yet when there's this evidence like, oh, because you can't see Seattle, you can't see the buildings over that horizon.

And you should, which isn't true.

You should be, if it were, if the earth around, you wouldn't be able to see them.

Therefore, so suddenly they become the most gullible person here.

Any theory about the earth flat, they believe it.

It goes right into their beliefs.

So they're actually jumping back and forth between refusing to believe anything and believe anything.

And so they're the extreme example.

But I think when it comes to conspiracy theories, the people that get themselves into trouble

are the ones who, they become really gullible when they hear a conspiracy theory that kind of fits with their worldview.

And they likewise, when there's something that's kind of obviously true and it's not a big lie, they will actually, they'll think it is.

They just tighten up their kind of skepticism filter.

And so-

Yeah, so I think the healthy place is to be is where you are not, because you also don't want to be the person who says every conspiracy, you hear the word conspiracy theory and it sounds like a synonym for like quack job crazy theory, right?

So yeah, so I think, yeah, I think it's be somewhere in the middle of that spectrum and to learn to fine tune it.

There's a lot of social pressure, actually, to immediately laugh off any conspiracy theory if it's done by the bad guys, right?

You will quickly get mocked and laughed at and not taken seriously if you give any credence.

You know, back at the lab leak was a good one where it's like,

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