The Games We Play: The 321st Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
4/8/20261 hr 51 min
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...
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First 90 secondsBret Weinstein· Host0:00
[intro music] Hey, folks. Welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream. It is episode 321.
Heather Heying· Co-host0:11
3-2-1.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:12
Three... Somehow I had not put that together, but yeah, 3-2-1, blast off.
Heather Heying· Co-host0:17
Mm-hmm.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:18
Uh, I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying.
Heather Heying· Co-host0:20
Well, it's, it's in keeping. We have Artemis II out there doing its thing.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:25
Some people think we don't, but yeah, um, fascinating that we are either going back to the moon or pretending. Um- One of our friends who has left Washington State, because that's happening, uh, has moved to Florida and sent me a video.
Heather Heying· Co-host0:42
She doesn't even live particularly close to Canaveral, but, uh, sent me a video of, uh, catching the, the, the blastoff.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:49
Yes. Uh, we, uh, we also had other friends in the neighborhood. Uh, Dave and Marilyn were on a, a boat watching it, so something definitely took off. Nobody doubts that, I think. But, uh, I mean, I'm sure there's some doubters, but- Yeah, that's, that's a crazy thing to say. Yes.
Heather Heying· Co-host1:05
Nobody doubts that.
Bret Weinstein· Host1:07
[laughs] I, uh, I withdraw my absurd assertion. Um, all right. So today we're gonna talk about, uh, some global stories. Uh, we're gonna talk a little bit about, uh, the Mythos model that, uh, is causing quite a lot of consternation, uh, coming out of Anthropic, uh, what