Why Even Try? The 322nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
4/11/20261 hr 32 min
On this, our 322nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cartesian crisis, whether going to the moon is valuable, and college in the age of AI. Before the ads, we discuss the nature of knowledge, and whether paying attention all the time, to all the things, can backfire and make a personal less capable of comprehension. Later: why go to the moon? An op-ed writer at The Guardian says there’s no point—there’s nothing to see, no one to talk to. We discuss the value of science—not just in terms of what we become capable of doing, b...
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First 90 secondsBret Weinstein· Host0:00
[theme music] Hey, folks. Welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream. It's number 322. You and I are the resident dark horses. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying. It is Saturday, not our usual spot, but hey, it's kind of traditional around here.
Heather Heying· Host0:21
It has been traditional, and then we, we moved it, and, uh, this is the fourth in a cluster of four live streams. And we're-- then we're gonna be taking, uh, most of the rest of April, uh, to do some other work. Uh, but, uh, there's gonna be some interesting inside rail drops in our absence. And as always, we have our Locals, uh, watch party going on. We had some great Q&As on Locals in the last couple weeks, and, uh, check us out there.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:46
A cluster of Dark Horse podcasts. I'm just thinking, some fraction of our audience has been trained such that the word cluster auto-completes- I know, but it makes-- then that makes me wonder, and I have known in the past, um, what are the cluster A personality traits? Oh, that's not what I was thinking at all.
Heather Heying· Host1:08
Oh, you were thinking bombs?
Bret Weinstein· Host1:09
Yes.
Heather Heying· Host1:09
Mm.
Bret Weinstein· Host1:10
Exactly.
Heather Heying· Host1:10
Yes, okay. So- Well, not exactly ... some, some fraction of our audience thinks cluster B personality- No, I think our audience- ... thinks... Yes, some fraction. Yes. There's no way no, no fraction of our audience thinks cluster B. For one thing, that's what I thought of.
Bret Weinstein· Host1:22
Yep. No, I was actually, uh, the bombs- And you- ... have been r- ...
Heather Heying· Host1:27
with your, like, agro military focus [chuckles] are thinking