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#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Theory of Close Calls

Theory of close calls says that people typically miscategorize the events in their life where something almost went wrong. So if we map that onto compiled code discussion as a computer science person I find that very compelling. civilization is now producing these events that are major disasters but they're not existential scale yet. They're very serious errors that we can see and I would argue that the pattern is you discover that we are involved in some industrial process at the point it has gone wrong.

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