On this, our 321st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss AI, Iran, Trump, emergencies in the state of Washington, and stories from the Covid era. Anthropic, which makes Claude, announced that they are halting the release of their latest model due to unexpected capacities it has revealed. We discuss trade-offs, exploration, and game theory as they pertain to bats and planes, cats and humans, and LLMs. Then: did Trump make a genocidal threat against Iran? And: what emergency in the state of Washington could possibly apply to college tuition, out-of-state militias, accurate representation of sex on government IDs, and responding to pandemics? Answer: all the legislature has to do to make their ideas referendum-proof is declare that they are responding to an emergency—they do not even have to say what the emergency is. Finally: our memories of the Covid Era have begun to fade and morph, but it is important that we keep them alive.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Bret on Trump on Iran: https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/2041543705325347266
Glenn Greenwald on Lebanon: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2041906094818156646
Nguyen op-ed in Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/im-not-a-millionaire-i-dont-think-we-need-a-millionaires-tax/
Nguyen on X: https://x.com/VietQNguyen
Nguyen’s WA tracker: https://picsterola.github.io/wa-ec-tracker/#/
Covid Era Stories: https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories
The Symptoms I Carry: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-symptoms-i-carry
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:06 Introduction to Global Stories
00:07:47 Sponsor: Xlear
00:11:45 Sponsor: Caraway
00:15:31 Sponsor: Puori
00:20:10 AI Alarm: Mythos & Zero-Day Risk
00:25:55 Anthropic: Truth or Marketing?
00:29:48 Hidden Toggles & AI Limits
00:33:56 Game Theory is Breaking Out
00:42:48 AI & Phases of Innovation
00:54:09 Trump, Iran & Nuclear Risk
01:02:09 Strait of Hormuz Impact
01:12:34 WA Emergency Bills
01:22:28 Identity, Mandates & Power
01:34:39 COVID Stories & Memory
01:45:07 The Relationship COVID Broke
01:51:53 Rebuilding Trust
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."
Bret and Heather will be speaking at Polyface Farm in Swoope, VA August 28-29th (along with many other incredible speakers). Find out more and grab your tickets before registration closes.
Bret and Heather discuss the WNBA, and the surveillance state. At the WNBA, only women can play, but they don’t define what a woman is; as such, two former NBA players have declared their eligibility for next year’s WNBA draft. In humans, as in all mammals, sex is binary and immutable. This is simple and fundamental, and denying it is delusional.
Then: Toka is an Israeli company that advertises “frictionless surveillance.” Toka’s technology can locate cameras not their own, remotely access them, and change footage, both previous and live; and they can disappear evidence that any changes have been made. What could go right?
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Great documentary on Therapy Culture and self-inflicted mental health conditions, their rise over time, etc. Specifically they mention the transition from psychiatry to psychology to "scientific" grift like we talk about every week here. I know we had a whole convo on that in here a few months ago, or it was a topic of a DH ep.
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