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105 - Gurwinder Bhogal - Our Human Capacity for Self-Deception

10 Oct 2021 • 84 min • EN
84 min
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Follow Gurwider on Twitter: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal You can find all Gurwinder’s Areo articles here: https://areomagazine.com/author/gurwinderbhogal/ Articles referenced here: How Not to De-Radicalize a Twitter Neo-Nazi - Areo: https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/28/how-not-to-de-radicalize-a-twitter-neo-nazi/ Alex Jones Was Victimized by One Oligopoly. But He Perpetuated Another: https://quillette.com/2018/09/30/alex-jones-was-victimized-by-one-oligopoly-but-he-perpetuated-another/ The Best Cure for Fake News is Fake News - Rabbit Hole: https://rabbitholemag.com/the-best-cure-for-fake-news-is-fake-news/ Further References You can find all the articles published as part of Areo’s free speech fortnight here: https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1394704394189479939?s=20 My interview with Ayishat Akanbi: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/63-ayishat-akanbi-styles-of-identity Ayishat’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ayishat_Akanbi My article on the involuntary nature of belief: Can We Make Ourselves Believe? A Letter Exchange - Areo: https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/18/can-we-make-ourselves-believe-a-letter-exchange/ I misspoke during the podcast. The original letter exchange was between Peter Boghossian and Maarten Boudry: Unbelievable: Can You Believe Something You Know is False? - letter.wiki: https://letter.wiki/conversation/22 Bret Weinstein - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5N_uAqApEUIlg32QzkPlg AARON Z. LEWIS: www.aaronzlewis.com Timestamps 3:09 Fake news 11:55 Learning and heuristics, signalling, status games 18:08 Social media, virality and the oligopoly of perspectives 33:43 Listening as a persuasive technique 51:26 Conspiracy theories as a spandrel, mithridatism of false information, why it should be freedom of opinion, not freedom of information, how do we solve the problem of conspiracy theories? 57:38 The lab leak hypothesis and the mainstream echo chamber 1:02:18 The Woozle effect 1:10:08 Hypernovelty 1:13:43 Predictive coding

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