023: Guns, Political Will, Motivated Reasoning

TW: Mention of suicide. Dial 988 if you need help.

MiLo is toughing out a premature Tucson heat wave, so we start with some commiseration about Arizona summers. Then we talk about immigration and gun control and how small, highly-energized minorities prevent progress on these issues. Finally, we discuss the problem of motivated reasoning and then reasoning in general as it relates to both humans and AI.

Mentioned in this episode

Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

A wild saga of getting hired at Walmart and then trying (unsuccessfully) to quit, by Magena Heart

Crazy moment where a guest accidentally shoots himself in the leg on Mike D’s podcast:

Rhodes & Rose - One Job:

High Conflict by Amanda Ripley

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu)

Rebel Wisdom “Sensemaking” series with Daniel Schmachtenberger and others

White Paper on the reasoning ability of leading AI platforms

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