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An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein

The Joe Walker Podcast

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How to Detect a Congruent Person

There are two different types of conformity there's like informational conformity so they're taking a shortcut and then there's like reputational conformity. Often I guess when we conform it's for like a mixture of both but I'm just like picturing you in Solomon Asher's experiment and imagining Eric Weinstein disagreeably announcing the correct answer, he says. So have you developed any like conversational tricks or heuristics to quickly detect whether someone is the sort of person who would pass the ash conformity test? "I don't deal well with these circumstances at a social level because I just don't understand how everyone's going along with each other"

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