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#40 — Complexity & Stupidity

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Education and Learning Makes You Smarter

i want you to recapitulate part of here because i just found it fascinating. But i'm in particular interested in the boundary line you drew between biology and culture, and the way in which culture is a machine for increasing our intelligence. Then you at some point express some real fear that we are producing culture or stewarting our institutional intelligence in a way that is actually making us biologically or personally less intelligent. So you just get us there at this point. Thishm, a little bit of a lengthy narrative. I tryin compress it. I'l make it a least complex as possible. And stupidity is a set of rules that we use to ensure that the problem will be

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