"our operating system for humans is essentially an  emotional one and the ruling emotion is fear the   idea that you can censor misinformation is a relic  of the 20th century you can't censor an avalan..."

"well hello everyone it's Jim O'Shaughnessy with  yet another infinite Loops I am literally one of   the luckiest guys on the planet because  I get to talk to some of the smartest   most switched on pe..."

"I think it was quite new but because I started  doing it in 2020 and started doing these Mega   threads of Concepts and they were very popular  back then um since then they're not as popular   as they..."

"something that I'm really interested in because  I've experienced it firsthand and basically it's   this idea that somebody writes an article and  asserts something without any evidence at all   and t..."

"is that information gets repeated often um you  know you'll get some it could be technical of   any form it could be uh it could be a retweet  on Twitter or it could be somebody uses another   informa..."

"wasn't the only sort of instance of this happening  during Iraq war also there was the 45-minute claim   as well which was that Saturday was saying could  um ready a sort of a chemical attack within 4..."

"um you know A diversity and equity and inclusion  Specialist or whatever you know like uh is   basically just saying that you can determine  how racist someone is by one of these tests so   this is ju..."

"agree with you more one of the core principles of  propaganda 101 is repetition repetition repetition   and it hijacks our human OS our human operating  system because that was the way that most of al..."

"um I don't think so um because I've I've  kind of I've been experimenting with AI I   think AI is probably gonna increase the amount of  misinformation in the world rather than reduce it   um because ..."

"the statistical makeup of the the letters in this  in the sentence using things like Zips Zips law   um but those are have already been gamed there  they can be gained quite easily because the   probl..."

"by governments and by uh activists to  create huge amounts of misinformation   um but I actually think this is a good thing  I don't think this is a bad thing at all   um and I mean I'll probably have..."

"invade and when they uh destroyed his kingdom  he tried to commit suicide when the Romans were   coming for him by drinking poison but the poison  had no effect on him so he was he found himself in   ..."

"turn the internet into it's going to turn it into  a giant encyclopedia disinformatica and we are all   gonna have to just do our own research we're going  to have to use the internet actively rather ..."

"uh one of the better science fiction books  from my perspective called the fifth science   um and he's got a line in there called a narrative  collapse and and he said when a world becomes   hyper con..."

"and uh I think it was Malcolm Gladwell uh who  wrote a book about how we humans default to belief   because it's societally and evolutionarily  a really good thing to do right if we don't   default to..."

"kind of cynical they became which is I think one  of the interesting reasons why you see many of the   a former totalitarian countries embracing  uh much more aggressive Freedom if you will   um but o..."

"often you can tell whether something is biased  by the use of qualitative terms you know and   superlatives and and adjectives and all that  kind of stuff but with this Russell conjugation   the you c..."

"articles that are essentially the same the word  choices will be pretty much the same apart from   just a few here and there so you know if you  you could for instance have one in one article   you'd ..."

"mean I think that is the main source of media bias  I do believe that it's something called poultering   where a journalist will be able to essentially  deceive you without technically telling a lie a..."

"example back to racism for a minute it has been  you in when I was young to I'm 62 okay so I was   born in 1960. um when I was young calling somebody  a racist was like one of the worst things that yo..."

"it's one of the sort of issues I think is is that  when when the New York Times for instance puts the   word racist in a headline it just makes people  want to read it and not just um not just people ..."

"Will Mock it on Fox News and he'll introduce that  article to his audience and then they'll go online   and talk about it so it's like nowadays you know  there's a there's a great race called um uh wh..."

"some of it you know they could free up some  of the bandwidth by delegating tasks to AI   um I think this is something that should  probably be taught to people from a very   young age how to delegate..."

"we're moving in a situation we're moving  towards uh this kind of trajectory now where   the Sundowns the vicissy tunes of Life have less  of an impact on an individual because though they   can be de..."

"are no longer being expended on cut and paste  type activities that have uh honestly if you   look at human history occupied a great deal  of our time and attention um it also is one   of the reasons ..."

"really facing a situation where people who through  no fault of their own that's very important no   fault of their own are going to have to come up  to speed and it's going to be like older people   ..."

"one that I love and I'm going to bring it in here  because it it just fits right now is the the idea   of a golden Hammer which is intellectuals uh  who get cult like followings uh they they they   fe..."

"uh but it's again it's part of our human makeup  right we we suck at exponential functions we just   we we can't rock them because like with your  average human mind it goes one two three a lot   and ..."

"heuristics that we use now to sort of try and  shrink the numbers down um which is the only way   we can comprehend them we can only comprehend them  by you know we might have to compare something to ..."

"society and social organization um you know we  were mentioning tribalism again evolutionarily   speaking uh you gotta understand tribalism because  it was a massive part of all of human history up   ..."

"are you thinking objectively or subjectively  I think that one of the big problems in the   world and in communication is often formed by  people not understanding whether they're being   objective or..."

"you have power over others okay that's great but  if you have self-control you're much mightier   and then he finally ends it with you know if if  you gain your happiness from others you might be   co..."

"I think that this really harks back to our tribal  past because you know as you pointed out people   want to belong to a tribe right and one of  the ways that people belong to a tribe is by   having t..."

"convince themselves that Pol Pot really was you  know the kind of uh Messiah essentially who was   going to fix everything and you know bring  everything back to year zero and completely   equalize so..."

"prediction about human beings um because it it's  just so it's just much better than this kind of   idea that humans are rational actors you know and  you know they kind of always do the right thing  ..."

"meant you were dead because in Paul Potts Cambodia  it was year zero as I'm sure you're familiar with   is it uh yeah and and and the the one thing that  just is troubling to me is that historically a..."

"[ __ ] where everybody's trying to be more uh pure  be more morally pure by you know denouncing the   The Outsiders denouncing scapegoats more than  everybody else so you know you see this you   see t..."

"and also I think it explains Twitter Echo  Chambers to a certain extent as well uh   where people want to Signal their commitment  to the tribe and Signal how pure they are   um and in doing so they m..."

"generation that fought World War One The Lost  Generation because so many men died in that   war which was a pointless and you know well  all war is mostly pointless however but that   one was particu..."

"old way of looking at the world the default to  honesty or the default to believing other people   Etc whether given this new environment uh in  which we have pretty much made the case I think   succe..."

"um because well it is something I do think about  I do share your uh more optimistic view that   um that the various Generations  working together uh can do that   um one of the other things though th..."

"a coin but here's what's fascinating and why I use  this example quite a bit when they're brought out   they're together and they first turn to Smith  who's getting 85 percent of his guess is right   ..."

"extent where we tend to prefer elaborate stories  as explanations rather than systems and and   these so I think because they're easier to kind of  grock you know um we're sort of we're storytelling  ..."

"the short term I'll be ultimately right now if  you're wrong and you put your money in it has   an expiration date and it goes to zero you were  wrong now you could be right in the future with   a sim..."

"just take some random you know if you just by  chance just read about that then that will create   thoughts in your mind which will make you want to  read more about it at a later date because your   ..."

"um and I think that Curiosity and humility go  hand in hand I think that they help each other   um you know that when you're sort of humble  that makes you curious because the humility   makes you rea..."

"certainty with which he makes pronouncements he  he gets things wrong a lot and he the reason he   gets them wrong is because he has no humility  and he doesn't appear to have much heuristic   I mean ..."

"not something I have to worry about every time  I go to bed at night but but the fact is if if   you can frame things more as a Continuum more  as a well what the probabilities would suggest   would b..."

"Flat Earth societies are uh Heaven's Gate Cults uh  are all of the conspiracy theories that you that   are so popular on social media and and one of his  ideas is can can we have a space where people ..."