In this 168th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
This week we discuss twitter mobs, and Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society, with example after example of how the media filters reality and creates fiction while burying reality: from famine to homelessness, gun control to unemployment. We also discuss science, a field—like journalism—that is supposed to be working in pursuit of truth. Then we return to the question of AI, and whether two pieces out this week that suggest a moratorium, or something stronger, are the right approach. Finally: Do male armadillos, like all the rest of mammals who have been studied, get erections during REM sleep?
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Q&A Link: https://youtube.com/live/Vze4L4Tjt8Q?feature=share
Mentioned in this episode:
Clifton Duncan’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CliftonDuncanEntertainment
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century, by Jacob Siegel in Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Pausing AI development. We need to shut it all down. By Yudkowsky: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
Affanni et al 2001. Absence of penile erections during paradoxical sleep. Peculiar penile events during wakefulness and slow wave sleep in the armadillo. Journal of Sleep Research, 10(3): 219-228.https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/download/paper/paper_09621105_v10_n3_p219_Affanni.pdf
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