AMA | October 2024
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
4h 33m
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the October 2024 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. So we're in the middle of the semester here at Johns Hopkins, teaching and writing papers and all that stuff. And I wondered the other day about how do I remember how to actually pull off doing these AMAs, right? In the middle of a semester while I'm trying to like teach and things like that. So the answer is I have not figured this out. I have not figured out how to do it. But maybe one strategy is to make the introductions shorter, to spend less time in the intro. So I'm going to do that. I will mention very quickly that pluralism works. is one of the themes of today's AMA.
Strength in diversity, taking seriously other perspectives, sometimes sticking by your guns when there's a true or correct answer, but other times recognizing that we don't know all the answers and letting other people have their feelings about things. That's one thing that shows up again and again in the questions this month, whether it is refereeing scientific papers or mixing cocktails. There are different ways to do it correctly. Reminder that the questions in the AMA are asked by Patreon supporters of the Mindscape podcast. Sometimes I'm getting emails from people who say literally, I know that AMA questions are asked by Patreon supporters, but I'm not a Patreon supporter. Here's my question anyway. Please don't do that.
We get more than enough questions from the Patreon supporters. And I do actually think that they're a pretty good representative sample of the questions we would get anyway. I don't think we're introducing a lot of biases by taking the questions from the Patreon supporters. And it's a nice little benefit you can get. The set of people who ask questions is a small subset of the Patreon supporters. Most people just support anyway. Those people could include you. If you want to become a Patreon supporter of Mindscape, you can go to www.patreon.com slash Sean M. Carroll. And you get the ability to ask the AMA questions. You get the ability to listen without ads. And you get little reflection audio commentaries by me after every podcast. Thank you very much.
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