The Demystify Duo sits down for a conversation about the hidden variable that decides how successful someone’s ideas will be. Normally, you hear that intelligence, the “g-factor” that Richard Haier and other intelligence reasearchers point to, is the decisive factor for worldly success. And while that might be true in some purely quantitative sense that’s measured in terms of salary or stock options or whatever, that seems to not be the most important thing for being able to see the world accurately. We spend the conversation trying to define what that hidden variable is, and why it’s so important to cultivate, and how weird it is that no one seems to realize it’s there.

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00:01:00 Anxiety in Teaching New Perspectives

00:03:00 The Demarcation Problem

00:06:00 The Evolution of Rational Inquiry

00:09:00 The Limits of Mathematical Rigor

00:12:00 The Acceptance of Mystical Thinking in Physics

00:15:00 The Dilemma of Measurement in Quantum Physics

00:18:00 Disparity Between Ideals and Practices

00:21:00 The Role of Theories in Understanding

00:21:30 Theories of Continental Formation and Consensus

00:23:09 The Value of Expertise vs. Radical Ideas

00:25:51 Expertise and Obsession in Fields of Study

00:28:31 The Nature of Radical Claims

00:32:51 Models and Simplification

00:37:54 Overlap of Science and Supernaturalism

00:43:01 Positivism and Rational Inquiry

00:46:00 Physics as Storytelling

00:49:39 Intelligence and Great Ideas

00:54:50 Discernment vs. Intelligence

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