Episode 74: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison
Very Bad Wizards
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The Value of Believing in Free Will Increases Cheating
i think that anybody who is trained in this stuff takes these studies and claims as as sort of a dent in getting to the truth, rightli? I mean, i'm setting aside just implicit incompatible asm that that this assumes a, that's not sexed up, but it's a pretty sweeping claim, you know. And so they'll say a you know, socrates is a man. All men are mortala. Free will makes people cheat, you know, whatever, whatever. That's not how scientific findings should be treated. They can't form the basis of a logical argument like that because when you're valuating the truth of these scientific claims, you have to take
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