Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss building your own boot camp, the impact of a new ant species on lion hunting behavior, and the concept of micro beef sushi. They also explore topics like recognizing signal and noise, the challenges of equalizing competition, and the contagious nature of courage.
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Kelly the Dolphin
Kelly, a dolphin, gamed her trainers' reward system by hiding trash and fish.
She maximized fish rewards by breaking trash into pieces and luring birds.
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Natural Games
Even without explicit rules, beings are built to detect and exploit game dynamics.
Formalized games neutralize advantages, revealing individual skill differences.
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Outside Academia
Raising awareness about scientific issues outside of academia can be more effective than within.
Bret Weinstein achieved more success discussing mouse telomeres publicly than academically.
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In this 212th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss how to build your own boot camp, with principles including the courage cascade, flak over the target, recognizing the distinction between signal and noise, random vs systematic error, “the room is not the room,” OODA loops, and keeping separate track of analytics and morals. Also: how a new ant in Africa has forced lions to change how and what they hunt. And: microbeef sushi.
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Kamaru et al 2024. Disruption of an ant-plant mutualism shapes interactions between lions and their primary prey. Science, 383(6681): 433-438: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg1464
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