03:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464
04:00 JF Gariepy’s advice to the new streamer
39:30 How do you develop a good epistemic network? https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/posts
1:00:00 The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
1:08:00 Communicating facts vs enhancing relationships
1:13:00 Lex Friedman and company should get their needs met through playing Baldur’s Gate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur’s_Gate
1:15:30 What is a grifter? Many gurus have an adaptive form of insanity.
1:22:00 Andrew Huberman’s reluctance to promote vaccines
1:25:15 Ep 46: The Problem of Intelligence – IQ and Its detractors (Guest: Nathan Cofnas), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j5RdZ0NVTU
1:32:00 East Asians tend to be racist
1:39:00 Do you optimize for truth or for networking? https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/posts
1:53:00 Who is Peal Davis? https://www.the-sun.com/news/9085607/pearl-davis-who-female-andrew-tate/
1:54:00 Hero systems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146534
2:12:45 Are We Heading Towards World War III? David Goldman and Andrew Latham, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnRKgmSpQk0
2:17:10 China unhappy about the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2:18:00 Strategic defeat in Israel for Biden White House, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strategic-defeat-in-israel-for-biden-white-house/id1442883993?i=1000637703012
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