Gurwinder Bhogal — Certainty is the Death of Thought (EP.155)
Infinite Loops
English - April 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBInvesting Business Entrepreneurship Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Gurwinder Bhogal is a writer and programmer who writes about the myriad ways in which technology and psychology conspire to fool us and how we can withstand the covert assault on our senses.
Gurwinder is known for his epic Twitter ‘Megathreads’ which set out a series of powerful concepts for understanding the world.
He joins the show to discuss our tendency to narrativize information, how to overcome the bandwidth tax, why Wikipedia is the world’s largest source of misinformation, and MUCH more!
Important Links:
Megathread: Feb 11, 2022 (62,000 likes)
Megathread: March 18, 2023 (most recent)
Gurwinder's Substack
Gurwinder's Twitter
The Toxoplasma of Rage
Show Notes:
AI, the Encyclopedia Disinformatica, and cultivating a garden of Mithridates
Capturing the nuance between dishonesty and lying
The Toxoplasma of Rage
Overcoming the bandwidth tax
Brandishing the golden hammer; why we can’t comprehend large numbers
Tribalism & intersubjectivity
The purity spiral
Are we facing a lost generation?
We are programmed to like complex explanations
Narrativizing information
“Certainty is the death of thought”
Climbing the thinking ladder
MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
Talking to Strangers; by Malcolm Gladwell
Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies; by Tim Urban