Chapter
The Evolutionary History of Human Quirks and Behaviours
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Over time, quirks and behaviors that were not effective at survival or reproduction have been competed out of the gene pool. Many of the psychological and physical features that have arisen throughout our species' history would be amazing for people to have in modern discourse but many platforms today are built to incentivize argument production, not argument evaluation.
Clips
The guest highlights how our current discourse is not built for evaluating arguments, and that instead of focusing on pointing out other people's bad decisions, we should focus on building an environment in which to evaluate reasoning.
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Reasoning
Summary
The guest highlights how our current discourse is not built for evaluating arguments, and that instead of focusing on pointing out other people's bad decisions, we should focus on building an environment in which to evaluate reasoning.