Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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Evidence policy
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13 published records
01 / belief
“I think that nature has oppressed men and women terribly, and that men and women have struggled together valiantly to scrape out some possibility of security and happiness from that.”
02 / belief
“I think 40 percent of the people who live in Toronto were foreign born, and the city is doing extraordinarily well.”
03 / belief
“I think that’s a huge mistake for someone who’s an evolutionary biologist because human religious thinking is a human universal.”
04 / uncertainty
“I don’t know enough about the Quranic take to make any intelligent commentary on that.”
05 / evaluation
“One of the things I think — who knows if this is true, because things are changing so rapidly, I’m not sure that we are more polarized than we were five years ago — but I think that one of the things that’s happening is that the illusion of polarization is being driven by the death of the mainstream media because these new media forms have emerged: video killing television; podcast killing radio; the net, for written content, killing print journalism.”
06 / evaluation
“The reason that I’m able to speak fluently, I would say, and to lecture the way I do is because I spent a tremendous amount of time writing.”
07 / recommendation
“One of the things that we want to do is accredit people for serving as tutors because part of the process of getting educated in our online system will be educating other people.”
08 / evaluation
“The first problem we ran into was that — because the original idea was to build an online university — but as soon as we started thinking about that deeply, we thought, “Well, that’s like building a horseless carriage.”
09 / commitment
“You just don’t know it.” And I actually believe that’s the case because I don’t think that you have the option of being not religious.”
10 / evaluation
“Some of them are of very high quality because the Russians kept the intense training characteristic of late-19th-century European art academies open throughout the entire 20th century.”
11 / prediction
“One of the things I was interested in for the longest period of time was in the processes whereby you might maintain your cognitive function because — I don’t know if you knew this — but your fluid intelligence declines linearly from the age of 20 onward.”
12 / preference
“And I never came across anybody who had a deeper understanding of narrative than Carl Jung. So his work was unbelievably influential for me, partly because it was through Jung that I started to understand the metaphysics of the idea of the sovereignty of the individual, which I think is the great Western idea, that the fundamental perceptual — what would you say?”
13 / commitment
“Well, we don’t know what the problem is, so the first thing we’re going to do is have a very long discussion about what the problem might be.”