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The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Checkmate, is an exploration of the inner workings of a conspiracy. How do the participants find a way to work together? How does the psychology of risk and trust intertwine?

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Is it okay to lie in service of a noble cause? Is it okay to support someone else's lie if that lie benefits you? Where do those lies lead? Should we give in to unreality in order to create a better world for ourselves? These questions are asked in ep 152 of Truth Unrestricted.

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The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. This particular episode, Free For All, is a unique examination of democracy. Is it all a dream? Is it justifiable to tell populist lies to become powerful if you intend to use that power to free people from tyranny? These are the questions discussed in ep 151 of Truth Unrestricted.

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The Prisoner was a television program in the UK during the late 1960s. The surreality created by its esthetic has allowed much speculation about its meaning even now 6 decades later. I examine this from the perspective of the conspiratorial mind in ep 150 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Existence Bias is a philosophical concept that explains some of the fundamental behaviour of all known conscious beings. How does that relate to AI and do we think AI will prefer to exist? This question is discussed in ep 149 of Truth Unrestricted.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19857000/
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cZPgDKjRXmstfEeAt/three-tricky-biases-human-bias-existence-bias-and-happy-bias#:~:text=Existence%20bias%20would%20influence%20someone%20to%20grant%20more%20value%20to,decreased%20numbers%20of%20sentient%20individuals.
Behind The Bastards - Sam Bankman-Fried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9tDihgEn2k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/

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Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. Here is part 1 of my effort to do this with Matthew Remski. Part 2 of 2.

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Conspiratorial thinking can happen to anyone. When it happens to the people others rely on to lead them out of the darkness it needs to be criticized with vigour. Here is part 1 of my effort to do this with Matthew Remski.

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When Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created the character of Superman in the 1930s they had a specific vision. Has that vision been maligned for other purposes? Is it possible to view the character through the lens of the reality maligned? We answer these questions in ep 146 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Who and what are the globalists? Why are they talked about so often by people who push conspiracy ideation? And why haven't they provided a list? Does anti-globalism even make any sense? These questions are all answered in ep 145 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Television has changed the world. Has it been for the better or for the worse? Were any of these changes intentional or were they incidental? How has the capitalist marketplace intertwined itself with television? All of these questions are discussed in the 1976 classic film Network.