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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Religiosity

Stephen Landsberg had this book called Big Questions, where he argued that if you look at the revealed preferences of a lot of people who claim to believe, they don't really believe. We behave in a certain way in society because part of it is mimetic. And we have a lot of us who claim not to believe exhibit belief. Huh, because we feel that gap in other ways, perhaps we choose other delusions and no, I think it's hard not to.

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