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Ep 331: Gurwinder Bhogal Examines Human Nature

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Problem With Human Hubris

Amitai Etzioni: I think hubris is human nature. It's very, very hard to be humble all the time. But what we can do is we can strive to try and be humble all of the time. He says people tend to engage in confirmation bias far more now than they ever have been able to before. And this leads to a lot of belief cocooned from being wrong or having consequences for your beliefs online that you don't really pay attention to.

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