Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy E375. How to Find Truth When Everything Feels Fake - Michael Shermer
AI Turned A Photo Into A Dancing Video
- Shermer shows a photo of him and Steven Pinker turned into a dancing video by Grok to illustrate easy AI manipulation.
- He uses the example to show how realistic AI-generated media already is.
Belief Shapes Real-World Outcomes
- Beliefs drive actions; false political beliefs can produce self-fulfilling and dangerous outcomes.
- Understanding causal chains between rhetoric and behavior matters for public safety.
Question Extremes And Steelman Positions
- Ask probing, specific questions to test extreme claims and force clarity from interlocutors.
- Use steel-manning to restate positions before challenging them and find common ground.
Michael Shermer returns for a fascinating conversation about the crisis of truth in our polarized, AI-driven world. He and Bridget discuss the fate of print magazines, shrinking attention spans, the challenges of discerning reality amid deepfakes, misinformation, and Shermer’s new book Truth: What It Is, How To Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They cover political violence, ICE controversies, the power of belief to shape actions (and self-fulfilling prophecies), human gullibility, the replication crisis in science, evolving views on religion and morality, divorce, guns, the relationship between truth and trust, and what happens to truth when trust in public institutions has been eroded.
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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast
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