My Chat with Cognitive Scientist Dr. Hugo Mercier - On Human Reasoning (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_519)
The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad
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The Evolution of Communication
In your most recent book, it's Epist, I love that term, Epistemic Vigilance. And then you also link it to Gallibility, give us the main theme of the book and then we can jump from there. So again, starting from an evolutionary point of view, there's this kind of well-established theory of the evolution of communication. The issue is that if you're not talking about cells in an organism or maybe you can abuse in a p-hive that have pretty much kind of aligned genetic interests, then you will have conflicts. Even within a family, the interests, like the fitness interests are not perfectly overlapping.
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