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    #121 Welcome to the Noble Psy-Op (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    #121 Welcome to the Noble Psy-Op (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

    In this 121st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

     

    This week, we discuss the newly published Together trial on the efficacy of Ivermectin in treating Covid, and the media’s response to said publication. We discuss mass formation, as detailed in Mattias Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism (not “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” as Heather said during the podcast; that is the name of Hannah Arendt’s 1951 tome). We discuss the left’s eagerness to be on the side of science, when it suits them, and we mention Solzhenitsyn. And we discuss the need for evidence-based medicine.

     

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    Mentioned in this episode:

     

    Reis et al 2022. Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19. Published 3-30-22 in NEJM (the “Together trial”): DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2115869

     

    Analysis of the Together trial: https://ivmmeta.com/#togetherivm

     

    And another: Phil Harper: The Can’t Add TOGETHER trial: https://philharper.substack.com/p/the-cant-add-together-trial?s=r

     

    And another: Alexandros Marinos: https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1510087867178971148?s=20&t=4J-uY8tXETqMcXgrjcHvyw

     

    And another: Chris Martenson: https://twitter.com/chrismartenson/status/1509518451458691075?s=20&t=Py5D1lbBuqcLC8DQOCE2AA

     

    The English translation of Mattias Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, is available for pre-sale now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1645021726

     

    The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt: https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Totalitarianism-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0156701537

     

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    David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

    David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
    David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM question-answering system that beat the top humans in the world at the game of Jeopardy. He is also the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Elemental Cognition, a company working engineer AI systems that understand the world the way people do. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon. Here's the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode): 00:00 - Introduction 01:06 - Biological vs computer systems 08:03 - What is intelligence? 31:49 - Knowledge frameworks 52:02 - IBM Watson winning Jeopardy 1:24:21 - Watson vs human difference in approach 1:27:52 - Q&A vs dialogue 1:35:22 - Humor 1:41:33 - Good test of intelligence 1:46:36 - AlphaZero, AlphaStar accomplishments 1:51:29 - Explainability, induction, deduction in medical diagnosis 1:59:34 - Grand challenges 2:04:03 - Consciousness 2:08:26 - Timeline for AGI 2:13:55 - Embodied AI 2:17:07 - Love and companionship 2:18:06 - Concerns about AI 2:21:56 - Discussion with AGI