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What would Pierre Poilievre do as Prime Minister? How could Poilievre resolve his Trump-like rhetoric with a political need to oppose an expansionist Trump agenda? And what will Poilievre's most enthusiastic supporters do if he loses?

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Blendr News is a Canadian online alternate media outlet striving to become the next major interpreter of the world for those dissatisfied with the Liberal Party of Canada. In this episode, I check in with one of their videos to see how it compares with reality.

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Fried Kemper's Obituary
https://beechwoodottawa.ca/en/services/john-joachim-kemper

Verlie Kemper's marrige announcement
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-verlie-margaret-kemper-marr/64281628/

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Is the left creating their own populist movement to counter the right? Is it possible that it's happening by happenstance rather than by design? Do we need to be aware of the shape of our resistance lest it create bigger problems?

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Do you want Canada to join the US? If so, why? And if you won't say, why not?

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Poker as Life: Bluffing
There can exist a situation in information logic where a person knows something (usually that they themselves are lying) that they imagine no one else could possibly know. And in this way they manufacture a high level of confidence when asserting that a specific thing is true. It might be very interesting to examine this situation as a direct comparison to the "bluff" as used as a strategy in poker.

Bluffing might be the single best known part of the game of poker. Everyone knows it happens there a lot but I wonder if we imagine it happening there to a larger degree than in practice. The images people get about poker are often from some Hollywood movie in which a tense moment has an uncertain outcome and when the conclusion happens it comes out in the hero's favor. In this way we will be very likely to assume that bluffing is the entirety of poker when in actuality this is merely the part that is easiest to tell a visual story about.

Humans lie to each other all the time. Humans also tend to know that other people are lying to them and attempt to discover other people's lies. We do this on an intuitive level and attempts to describe this process with words very often leads to people being very visibly wrong. But when you don't know that other people have at least *some* skill in this, have temporarily forgotten, or have convinced yourself that you have covered it up in some way, this can greatly increase the likelihood of someone finding an opportunity to lie. Usually this is done for some imagined gain (which doesn't have to be monetary).

Pam Hemphill Lying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWlaW3aOl2Y

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Is AI conscious? How could we tell? Is AI dangerous? Can we trust AI? Could AI come to trust us?

Stephen Mather is the co-host of the Matter Over Mind podcast which discusses quantum physics and psychology by turns.

https://open.spotify.com/show/3MfsQEbW0lvHic5UHYOREt

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/matter-over-mind/id1788940184

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What level of political compromise should politicians on the left be comfortable with when attempting to curb the excesses of the right? Can the less extreme participants trust the more extreme and, if so, to what extent?

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Can football be rigged? Could the Super Bowl have been rigged? Why? Why not? What would it take for it to have been rigged? What would it take for someone to believe it had been rigged?

This episode was made for youtube and contains video clips that are described verbally in the episode. For the full visual experience you can find the YouTube version of this episode here:

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Does science slowly "eat away" at spiritual ideas? Does the exactness and thoroughness of modern science stifle spiritual belief? Do people attempt to re-engage with spiritual beliefs by first casting themselves and their ideas against science?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenchantment

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Building language for the Disinformation Age.

Evidence Aversion is about the propensity or likelihood that a person who engages with unreal beliefs will work to avoid being exposed to evidence and ideas that would contradict their beliefs. But the fact that they know what to avoid tells us something about where they think reality divides. They aren't simply discovering the world. They are actively working to manufacture it in their minds and they consciously avoid ideas that could shatter their illusions.