Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Unnerving Consequences of Being Weird
I want to know if you think that the sort of some weird preoccupations may have led us to be overconfident, may be about our role there. Dave mentioned about the Mueller liar thing that disturbed him and he found that deeply unsettling and he hoped it wasn't true. He says, and I'm reading now, that the idea that I can only perceive reality through a distorted cultural lens was unnerving. For me, the notion raised all sorts of metaphysical questions is my thinking so strange that I have little hope of understanding people from other cultures? Can I mold my own psyche or the psyches of my children to be less weird to think like the rest of the world? If
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