DarkHorse Podcast DarkHorse Podcast with Daniel Schmachtenberger & Bret Weinstein
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Feb 11, 2021 
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The Junkification Of Everything
- Bret calls the modern pattern 'junkification': distilled hyper-stimuli across domains hijack circuits without delivering the ancestral benefits.
- He links junk food, porn, social media and superficial culture as parallel distortions undermining wellbeing.
Manufactured Demand Breaks Markets
- Daniel explains manufactured demand breaks classical market symmetry by letting suppliers scientifically manipulate consumer desire.
- He claims split-testing and behavioral optimization create artificial wants that undermine market-based collective intelligence.
Reboot Open Society At Culture Level
- Daniel argues rebooting open society must begin with cultural sense-making, not top-down technocratic fixes.
- He believes shared epistemic culture and dialogue are prerequisites for binding both state and market incentives.