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#55 - Tim Urban of Wait But Why

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The Cryonics of Selection Bias

The idea is that it's specifically the clash of ideas that the dust settles and truth is left, right? So with cryonics, like I said, I'm gonna read one side. And so if I'm reading now on the news, the news is hopeless to get an objective source. It's just, if you just treat it like one of the attorneys, it's fine, it's serving its role. The problem is when people treat it like the grand truth, like this objective truth. Instead, but what I find is when I read, I've become through this post and I'm not gonna stop now.

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