There’s a New Tariff In Town: The 271st Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

Tariffs, Trump, AI, nature, and science. Are the tariffs insane, or brilliant? Will Trump actually bring manufacturing back to the U.S.? How are the “reciprocal tariffs” calculated, what game is everyone playing, and how long will it take to know who wins? Then: AI marches us further into the Cartesian Crisis; can we restore our humanity? Scientific American claims that too much nature is bad for you (it’s not), and finally, some words from County Highway, and why we should consider being quiet and listening to Aslan.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Tucker Carlson & Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1908204378613248067

Jeffrey Sachs – Trump is uniting the world against the U.S.: https://x.com/AskBabaDog/status/1908232709417402724

Ross Perot in 1992, and the “giant sucking sound:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRr60nmDyu4&t=1s

Balaji on “nuking supply chains,” quote-tweeting Flexport’s graph of the formula used to generate “reciprocal tariffs”: https://x.com/balajis/status/1907645443221463105

AI alignment on tariffs: https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292

AI turns images into full-body animations: https://x.com/minchoi/status/1907799412094427205

Scientific American warns against spending too much time in nature: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-spent-in-nature-is-good-for-your-brain-but-an-excess-can-negate-these/

Zagnoli et al 2022. Is Greenness Associated with Dementia? A Systematic Review and Dose–Response Meta-analysis. Curr Envir Health Rpt 9: 574–590: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40572-022-00365-5

County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com

Ralston College’s Sophia Lectures: https://www.ralston.ac/events/the-sophia-lectures-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-Heying

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Welcome
00:02:03 Sponsors: CrowdHealth, Pique’s Nandaka, Sundays
00:11:49 Tariffs
01:12:54 AI: What the hell happens to evidence?
01:24:34 Touch Astroturf
01:37:30 “No Time for Words”
01:43:03 Closing
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