Adam Becker: belief

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…And yet within this community, it's it's an idea that people feel they have to take seriously a lot of the time even though there's nothing serious there. Yeah. I I wanted to touch on that because there there are folks in this community that have been making these arguments. I I'm not sure where came from. Maybe it was Tim Knickerbrew, but there's folks like Emily Bender and and sorry. Emily Torres as well. And to to be honest, the the discourse has been really bad. So a lot of folks just think that they're arguing in bad faith and then they just dismiss what they're saying. And that's why I feel that we've been able to have a great conversation because we're we're just talking about it from a technical point of view. We haven't really been I mean, I'm I don't know much about social science. But do do do you think that you know, why is there such an impedance mismatch? Why is it so difficult to have this conversation rationally? Oh, man. I mean, I think that I mean, that's a good question. I mean, it's 1 of the things I was hoping to try to address with my book. I think Could could I give you 1 example? So so like Sure. Yeah. Give me an example. So so, you know, I've I've seen presentations from Timnit, and she's very quick to go to, you know, you're racist, basically, and eugenics and all of this kind of stuff. And it is quite it's quite heavy going. It's quite scary stuff. And and so maybe we should just start there. So is is that part of the problem? Is it just because it's a little bit kind of too intense?…

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