Bret and Heather were live today at 1:55PM PT after The Evolutionary Lens 300. They answered questions submitted during the stream here on Locals, which are timestamped below:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:06:40 Welcome
00:07:59 Imagine passing only one warning to future generations: Would you say the Industrial Revolution replaced human strength, while AI replaces intelligence-or does AI truly erode human collaboration, our core edge? Which conceptual lens is more accurate, and which lens better guides humanity to thrive?
00:14:34 For Bret, would you consider going to Israel to see things with your own eyes like the Darien Gap rather than rely upon the extreme biases and distortions of both sides? And as you alluded to in a recent tweet, ask the legimitate questions that need to be asked?
00:17:27 Can you recommend ways to deal with intense anxiety without resolving to medication? Maybe natural supplements? Many thanks.
00:24:53 I’ve heard Bret mention that game theorically, there was a need for a ´hegemonic power’ to hold a sort of geopolitical equilibrium so that things don’t degenerate into lineage vs lineage competition. Can you specify and correct if I misunderstood? Many thanks, much love 2u2
00:27:15 What do you think of the RFK's administration so far? No accountability for the COVID regime, Tylenol as the autism culprit, not much else unless I have missed it. I understand that there is a big hill to climb, but I am underwhelmed so far.
00:37:47 The Milgram experiment, along with others like it, was conducted by people with military backgrounds. In a sense, they were (my guess) fulfilling a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. There is a rabbit hole that shows how each member of these experiments were military members.
00:47:18 Lifestyle Medicine physicians are charging $400
/hr, packing rooms-group sessions, reimbursed by our tax dollars, educating people to stay away from the food we were all taught to eat, meat, eggs, dairy, fish, oils, as they promote over 80% of chronic onditions. The system is rigged. How can these Drs stay quiet for so long and leave everyone behind to poison themselves unknowingly?? I studied the same material and board certified with these Dr's until I started asking questions, then got sidelined
00:57:06 Congratulations on your 300th podcast! Thank you for being here. How do you keep anxiety at bay? What has worked for you? Much love as always!
01:00:58 Hey guys, love your work! I’m
Hailing from Amish country in Pennsylvania. Been a fan for a while, and have learned a ton since reading HGG in early 2024 (and following the bibliography). I also find myself enjoying the products by your sponsors (ARMRA), and I am always excited to try out your suggestions. A few months ago, though, it struck me that your mattress sponsor seemed a little out of place. So my question is, “How did hunter-gatherers get a good nights rest?” Obviously they didn’t have the “technology” that modern mattresses have, so it makes me wonder how they achieved in their world what a great mattress helps us achieve in ours.
01:06:17 Any thoughts on plasmalogen supplementation as a treatment for neuroinflammation? Anecdotally it's been helpful in treating my brain fog after mold exposure, but I'd like to be sure I'm getting to the root of the problem and doing all I can to prevent future neurodegeneration.
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
A couple weeks ago @bretweinstein pondered if dogs actually like to chase balls or if dogs enjoy watching humans play chase with them. Lola submits one data point, herself. She enjoys tossing balls to herself, and will while no one is watching. I'm trying to get a better video, she will also grab a tennis ball by it's fluf and launch it straight up, like a lacrosse player throwing a ball. She'll drop them down stairs, drop them off the ottoman, or any other high elevation and chase them. She's also developed a sorta soccer style to nudge them back on hardwood floors. So with test subject Lola, the answer is clearly "dogs love chasing balls".
Boom Bust Cycles of Influence
How fiat audiences capture influencers
What does a massive propaganda or influence campaign actually look like? I think if you want to understand how online warfare takes place, the best model we have is the banking system.
When it comes to the internet, attention is the coin of the realm, and there’s nothing more sought after than an influencer who commands a lot of it. And just like fiat currency, attention can be artificially inflated, lent out, and called back, and the influencers who depend on it can be bailed out. Whoever controls the supply controls the people who depend on it.
I think there’s a pattern that emerges for controlling influencers, and it doesn’t matter much whether we’re talking about gamers and streamers, podcasters, political commentators, health and fitness influencers, finance and crypto guys, musicians, or the citizen journalists and open-source researchers who’ve become their own little media category. The tactics seem to be the same. Here are the four I ...
Hi Folks, I saw the Alex Gibney documentary MUSK today and there is much to parse in it (timing, motivations, biases, flawed assumptions, lack of introspection on the part of the filmmakers, etc etc) but in one particular segment, Gibney claims that there were so many early covid victims in NYC that the City had to rent refrigeration trailers to store all the bodies. I had not heard that story and have zero trustworthy sources to investigate it.
Has anyone done an empirical analysis of that claim?
