In this week’s episode, we discuss why there is a regressive backlash against women, and how to Rescue the Republic, and Join the Resistance. On the former topic, we talk about #MeToo, Olympic athletes that aren’t what they seem, and candidates for high office who are useful only for their immutable characteristics. On the latter, we discuss what the West is, why it needs to be saved, the hedonic treadmill, the Five Eyes Alliance, and whistle-blowers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Also: the New York Times proves that, even when the stakes are low, it butchers and misunderstands science and logic.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Open Letter (at Natural Selections): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/open-letter
Rescue the Republic: https://jointheresistance.org
Whistleblowers: https://x.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1822821735835533802
New York Times totally debunks stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/well/2024-health-trends.html
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying explore the pressures to prematurely close off possibilities by examining woke" as a social phenomenon where dissent is pressured and consensus is enforced.
"...There's banish, we're not gonna platform you because you've lost your mind and there's coercion. We're gonna get you back on board with the consensus. And those two things are basically a choice. Either you get back on board with the consensus or you're out."
"The nested sets nature of logic, which branching diagrams can reveal in a different way than if you just nested the sets within parentheses or something, can show you that it could be Tyler Robinson and still not have him be some lone gun nut, which is exactly what you have established here." Heather Heying
"I get it. And it’s not that it is impossible to imagine robotic teachers doing an excellent job, but it is stunning to watch a sophisticated person fail to recognize what happens when you think that that’s what you’re going to produce, and you set it in motion.
Let me point out that Wikipedia has many of the advantages that Melania is describing in this video. It is completely democratizing of knowledge, such that it doesn’t matter where on earth you are. If you have an internet connection, you’ve got Wikipedia. It’s like an extension of your own mind, and it will make us all brilliant.
Now, of course, that didn’t happen, did it? Wikipedia is a hellscape of misinformation, much of it targeted based on a political agenda. We are less certain of what we know, and less capable of reasoning on our own.
Now, that doesn’t all come from Wikipedia, but my point is the promise of Wikipedia was not realized. And what we got instead is arguably worse than what we had before it was ...
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In Ep. 318 of the Evolutionary Lens, Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying discuss how to understand our universe: through logic, intuition, and probability, through keeping track of what we believe, and being willing to change our minds.
Avoiding certainty is difficult, but necessary. Using examples of: who killed Charlie Kirk, and whether the venue where he was speaking suggests black magic, we discuss how to make sense of the world in a scientific way.
Add “Careful Thinking in Reckless Times” with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying to your podcast playlist:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJapnzOqxY
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77m1g0-the-318th-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying.html
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lrFDTeb5h0lcaz8ziWLUO?si=1DvxraHoT2GggKiHy0o9dQ
Apple: ...
