Homo sapiens
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2019 by Celeste Headlee · across every show →
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Feb 5, 2019
Headlee: Evolutionary biology makes humans naturally poor listeners
“Listening is really hard. I'm not saying that to make you feel better, although I hope it does make you feel better. It's not hard because of our smartphones. It's not hard because we're distracted. It's hard because human beings, the species homo sapien does …”
Jul 2, 2019 neutral
Haidt: Humans evolved for group combat and confirmation bias, not truth-seeking
“If you're a homo sapien, you evolved for group combat, you evolved for confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. We're not really evolved to be academics or scientists searching for a truth in an unbiased way. We evolved to basically, you know, CYA and win in…”
Aug 4, 2026 bullish
Jacobs: Kurzweil is probably right that human-technology merger will create new species
“Ray predicts a singularity whereby technology becomes more intelligent, more capable than humans, and we merge with technology, that we use so much technology in our own bodies, with wearables, and nanobots, and so forth, that, and AI, and outsourcing our memo…”