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Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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How Do We Slow Down in an Accelerating World?

Carl Safina: I'm thinking about this in terms of everything that you've just said links to the conversation I had with Jeffrey West in Episode 35 talking about cities as social reactors with a ratcheting crisis innovation loop. And then in Episode 7 with Rajiv Sethi on how we end up falling back on stereotypes and other cognitive crutches, he says. So there's this balance here. How do we slow down enough in an accelerating world in order to both manage being able to adapt to the rapid pace of things at one level but also the network latencies that occur from it trying to like address things at scale?

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