105 - Gurwinder Bhogal - Our Human Capacity for Self-Deception
Two for Tea Podcast
English - October 10, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 77.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Follow Gurwider on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal
You can find all Gurwinder’s Areo articles here:
https://areomagazine.com/author/gurwinderbhogal/
Articles referenced here:
How Not to De-Radicalize a Twitter Neo-Nazi - Areo:
https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/28/how-not-to-de-radicalize-a-twitter-neo-nazi/
Alex Jones Was Victimized by One Oligopoly. But He Perpetuated Another:
https://quillette.com/2018/09/30/alex-jones-was-victimized-by-one-oligopoly-but-he-perpetuated-another/
The Best Cure for Fake News is Fake News - Rabbit Hole:
https://rabbitholemag.com/the-best-cure-for-fake-news-is-fake-news/
Further References
You can find all the articles published as part of Areo’s free speech fortnight here: https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1394704394189479939?s=20
My interview with Ayishat Akanbi:
https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/63-ayishat-akanbi-styles-of-identity
Ayishat’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Ayishat_Akanbi
My article on the involuntary nature of belief: Can We Make Ourselves Believe? A Letter Exchange - Areo:
https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/18/can-we-make-ourselves-believe-a-letter-exchange/
I misspoke during the podcast. The original letter exchange was between Peter Boghossian and Maarten Boudry: Unbelievable: Can You Believe Something You Know is False? - letter.wiki:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/22
Bret Weinstein - YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5N_uAqApEUIlg32QzkPlg
AARON Z. LEWIS:
www.aaronzlewis.com
Timestamps
3:09 Fake news
11:55 Learning and heuristics, signalling, status games
18:08 Social media, virality and the oligopoly of perspectives
33:43 Listening as a persuasive technique
51:26 Conspiracy theories as a spandrel, mithridatism of false information, why it should be freedom of opinion, not freedom of information, how do we solve the problem of conspiracy theories?
57:38 The lab leak hypothesis and the mainstream echo chamber
1:02:18 The Woozle effect
1:10:08 Hypernovelty
1:13:43 Predictive coding