DarkHorse Podcast with Daniel Schmachtenberger & Bret Weinstein
Intro and Context
0:00:00 to 1:00:00
| Time | Topic | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Welcome | |
| 2:22 | Homeschooling | |
| 3:54 | What is it like to be an independent thinker | |
| 12:41 | Collective action problem | |
| 15:06 | Is there hope given all the catastrophic risk? | |
| 19:13 | Failed ancient civilizations | |
| 22:41 | The bomb, "twin nuclei problem", and dangerous tech | |
| 27:23 | Mistake theory Vs conflict theory | |
| 33:50 | AI drone weapons | |
| 36:43 | The Senescence of Civilization | |
| 37:51 | Social media is a democracy killer | |
| 41:54 | Reward circuits and asymmetric power of big corp over the individuals | |
| 46:15 | Casual sex Vs committed relationship | |
| 51:14 | Hobbesian view and dialectic of progress | |
| 52:54 | Group and lineage selection | |
| 55:17 | Parasitic human behaviour and force transparency | |
| 57:51 | We live in a sea of bullsh*t | |
| 59:43 | Markets and manufactured demand |
1:00:00 to 2:00:00
| Time | Topic | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1:05:19 | Markets, states, and the people | |
| 1:10:10 | Civilizations fail to oppression or chaos | |
| 1:13:38 | Corruption and powerful actors | |
| 1:15:45 | Conspiracy is the emergent property of the incentive dynamics | |
| 1:17:01 | Public choice theory | |
| 1:18:30 | Voting is a failure mode | |
| 1:23:21 | Fixing democracy | |
| 1:25:31 | Trade offs - fastest and bluest car | |
| 1:34:00 | Trade off agreements on indefinite long timescales | |
| 1:36:55 | Markets and incentives | |
| 1:39:26 | Government funding Vs venture capital | |
| 1:43:31 | Innovation under duress | |
| 1:46:42 | What is the basis of warranted trust? | |
| 1:47:39 | Fact checkers | |
| 1:51:01 | First, second, and third person epistemics | |
| 1:54:53 | Long term synthesis | |
| 1:57:36 | What to optimize for... The thing that is worth optimizing for is not measurable |
2:00:00 to 3:00:00
| Time | Topic | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2:02:37 | Superintelligent AI or something else | |
| 2:05:21 | George Washington wisdom - Comprehensive education of the people, then post WW2 restructuring | |
| 2:09:21 | Maintain and progress | |
| 2:12:12 | A government that works | |
| 2:15:25 | Left and Right, virtuous cycle | |
| 2:18:31 | Education in an automated world | |
| 2:21:23 | Wealth inequality | |
| 2:24:31 | Predictable responses of people | |
| 2:26:54 | Issues of first principle thinking people | |
| 2:30:48 | Being confronted with conflicting information, such as lab leak and flat earth | |
| 2:39:26 | Failure modes of reasoning and disagreeing with consensus | |
| 2:45:11 | Black box of scientific method | |
| 2:48:14 | Blockchain science | |
| 2:49:55 | Sustainability of systems and reversibility | |
| 2:57:27 | Conservatives and conservation |
3:00:00 to End
| Time | Topic | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 3:02:11 | Christianity, Islam, and Judaism | |
| 3:05:11 | Are we f**ked? | |
| 3:08:52 | Grateful for Evergreen | |
| 3:10:12 | Wrap up |