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On Communities of Knowledge, Virtue Signalling, & Sacred Values vs. Consequences with Steven A. Sloman (Author of 'The Knowledge Illusion')

Scaling Knowledge

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The Politics of Knowledge

I'm curious with the political extremes where you found that on the political extremes, there's a certain type of person that has like very educated. Could you elaborate on that research? I wonder if you're thinking about Dan Ta-Hans work. He has shown that people who have higher numeracy, you know, think about it as people who are more reflective and perhaps more intelligent. They tend to engage in more confirmation bias than people who are less reflective and intelligent,. Less have less lower numeracy. That's his work. Yeah. And then sort of one of my final like more open-ended questions is how do you think knowledge grows over decades, over centuries? Well, you

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