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#80 – Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works

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Dan Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge.

You can find links and a transcript at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes/williams.

We discuss:

  • If reasoning is so useful, why are we so bad at it?
  • Do some bad ideas really work like ‘mind viruses’? Is the ‘luxury beliefs’ concept useful?
  • What's up with the idea of a ‘marketplace for ideas’? Are people shopping for new beliefs, or to rationalise their existing attitudes?
  • How dangerous is misinformation, really? Can we ‘vaccinate’ or ‘inoculate’ against it?
  • Will AI help us form more accurate beliefs, or will it persuade more people of unhinged ideas?
  • Does fact-checking work?
  • Under transformative AI, should we worry more about the suppression or the proliferation of counter-establishment ideas?

You can get in touch through our website or on Twitter. Consider leaving us an honest review wherever you're listening to this — it's the best way to support the show. Thanks for listening!

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Content provided by Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti, Fin Moorhouse, and Luca Righetti. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti, Fin Moorhouse, and Luca Righetti or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://staging.podcastplayer.com/legal.

Dan Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge.

You can find links and a transcript at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes/williams.

We discuss:

  • If reasoning is so useful, why are we so bad at it?
  • Do some bad ideas really work like ‘mind viruses’? Is the ‘luxury beliefs’ concept useful?
  • What's up with the idea of a ‘marketplace for ideas’? Are people shopping for new beliefs, or to rationalise their existing attitudes?
  • How dangerous is misinformation, really? Can we ‘vaccinate’ or ‘inoculate’ against it?
  • Will AI help us form more accurate beliefs, or will it persuade more people of unhinged ideas?
  • Does fact-checking work?
  • Under transformative AI, should we worry more about the suppression or the proliferation of counter-establishment ideas?

You can get in touch through our website or on Twitter. Consider leaving us an honest review wherever you're listening to this — it's the best way to support the show. Thanks for listening!

  continue reading

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