Why Even Try? The 322nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

About this episode

In this episode, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss the value of knowledge and the implications of going to the moon amidst the challenges posed by AI in education.

On this, our 322nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cartesian crisis, whether going to the moon is valuable, and college in the age of AI. Before the ads, we discuss the nature of knowledge, and whether paying attention all the time, to all the things, can backfire and make a personal less capable of comprehension. Later: why go to the moon? An op-ed writer at The Guardian says there’s no point—there’s nothing to see, no one to talk to. We discuss the value of science—not just in ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying

Topics covered

• Cartesian crisis
• value of going to the moon
• college in the age of AI
• nature of knowledge
• attention and comprehension

Keywords

• science
• value of science
• AI
• education

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Books & works: Evolutionary Lens

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