The Demystify Duo sits down for a conversation about the hidden variable that decides how successful someone’s ideas will be. Normally, you hear that intelligence, the “g-factor” that Richard Haier and other intelligence reasearchers point to, is the decisive factor for worldly success. And while that might be true in some purely quantitative sense that’s measured in terms of salary or stock options or whatever, that seems to not be the most important thing for being able to see the world accurately. We spend the conversation trying to define what that hidden variable is, and why it’s so important to cultivate, and how weird it is that no one seems to realize it’s there.
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00:01:00 Anxiety in Teaching New Perspectives
00:03:00 The Demarcation Problem
00:06:00 The Evolution of Rational Inquiry
00:09:00 The Limits of Mathematical Rigor
00:12:00 The Acceptance of Mystical Thinking in Physics
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00:18:00 Disparity Between Ideals and Practices
00:21:00 The Role of Theories in Understanding
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00:25:51 Expertise and Obsession in Fields of Study
00:28:31 The Nature of Radical Claims
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00:37:54 Overlap of Science and Supernaturalism
00:43:01 Positivism and Rational Inquiry
00:46:00 Physics as Storytelling
00:49:39 Intelligence and Great Ideas
00:54:50 Discernment vs. Intelligence
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