Science: Natural Sciences
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Steven Pinker on Cancel Culture, Common Knowledge & AI
Get 3 months off the annual plan and start learning faster at shortform.com/impossible In this episode, Steven Pinker unpacks how common knowledge shapes everything from why rational people can’t agree to disagree to why markets boom and bust. We explore the risks of falsifying expert claims, the power of social norms,
The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment
Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It’s also necessary for social coordination. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it with signals
The Nicotine Cover-Up: The Biggest Medical Lie from 2020 with Dr Bryan Ardis | EP 480
What if everything you've been told about nicotine, tobacco, and hospital protocols has been a carefully orchestrated lie designed to keep you sick and dependent? Dr. Bryan Ardis, the whistleblower who exposed the deadly hospital protocols during COVID-19, reveals truths about how Big Pharma has manipulated governments
Is 3I/ATLAS Alien Technolgy? Avi Loeb & MIchael Shermer DEBATE
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David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI
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Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews
As The War on Science continues to circulate and reach readers around the world, I had the privilege of closing our Origins mini series, The War on Science Interviews, with my colleague and book contributor Gad Saad. It felt fitting to end the series with a candid and provocative conversation that reflects the spirit o