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We are living through the most prosperous age in human history, but we are hurtling toward destruction. People are more listless, divided, and miserable than ever, and our civilization faces numerous existential…
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Most people do not realise what will happen when they cross the divide- they've already accepted a story about who's on the other side, and have already decided that the other is frightening, delusional and dangerous. In truth, we are all confused. This era is nothing if not confusing. We all see some things with clarity, we all see some things upside down, and we all have blind-spots.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
Fundamentally, we must slow-down the process of change. We should recognise that most change is not progress- and therefore, it is in our interests to slow down without interfering too much with actual solution making.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
You need one strong relationship in your life to remain sane. You need a relationship that doesn't depend on digital transmission! You need somebody who you understand deeply, who you can talk to directly, who can give you a reality check when everything coming through your computer and phone is bewildering.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
We have layer upon layer of novelty, and today we are in an era of hyper-novelty. The rate of change of the novelty we face is so fast that it has outstripped our evolutionary capacity to keep up.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
The thing that makes us so unique is that we, unlike most every other species, have no niche. A niche is an opportunity which a species exploits- and our niche is niche switching. We move from one niche to another, even without major changes to our physical biology.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
At a point, we developed language sophisticated enough to transmit abstract ideas with precision from one mind to another. That enables high quality parallel processing of problems such that we literally have emergent cognition. When people gather, they talk about difficult puzzles they face, and the product of their thinking exceeds the sum of their individual capacity to reason through it.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
Fundamentally, we must slow-down the process of change. We should recognise that most change is not progress- and therefore, it is in our interests to slow down without interfering too much with actual solution making.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
We are in an era of hyper-novelty. The rate of change of the novelty we face is so fast that it has outstripped our evolutionary capacity to keep up.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
We live downstream of a very high-quality tool for manipulating each other in a collaborative way, which has been augmented by the perverse incentives surrounding manipulating each other in a hostile way. The explosion in the number of people who are interacting with each other has- today- made the problem effectively unsolvable.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
At a point, we developed language sophisticated enough to transmit abstract ideas with precision from one mind to another. That enables high quality parallel processing of problems such that we literally have emergent cognition. When people gather, they talk about difficult puzzles they face, and the product of their thinking exceeds the sum of their individual capacity to reason through it.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
The thing that makes us so unique is that we, unlike most every other species, have no niche. A niche is an opportunity which a species exploits- and our niche is niche switching. We move from one niche to another, even without major changes to our physical biology.
— Bret WeinsteinEvolutionary biologist and podcaster known for critical COVID-19 vaccine commentary
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