200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Nuclear Bomb of Cognitive Science
In the next episode you'll see how a late night madcap trip to Walgreens to buy crocks and tube socks combined with marijuana grow lights inside Pascal's attic. A divisive photograph of a perceptually ambiguous dress led two researchers to build the nuclear bomb of cognitive science out of socks and crocks. And what they learned from that research led to his new theory which he calls surf pad which stands for whenever you combine substantial uncertainty with ramified or forked priors or assumptions you will get disagreement.
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