Chris and Matt have their models exploded, the maps ripped up, and their minds blown as the Gurusphere expands into exciting new territory.
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02:47 Chris Williamson blows our minds!
08:57 Content Predator psychology and motivational posting
12:28 Balancing the Scales
14:07 Eric Weinstein the master of Rorschach Tweets
20:26 Modern Sages Reunited: Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan
24:29 Open-Minded Joe Rogan
34:26 Maybe prescriptions are actually bad!
37:38 Andrew Gold expands into Race & IQ
46:47 4 Warning Signs of Radicalism
56:45 Monomaniacal Fixation vs. Pluralism
01:05:26 Rejoinder: What if it is a diagnostic?
01:09:43 Lex wants to join DOGE
01:10:31 Lex's next world leader interview: Modi
01:14:57 Matt's Final Thought: People contain multitudes
01:16:57 Outro
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In this episode, Matt finally gets his revenge on Chris by dragging him deep into the eccentric world of Chris Langan—the self-proclaimed possessor of a 200 IQ and creator of The Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe, yet another grand unifying theory of everything. Langan presents himself as an intellectual titan, offering mathematical, social, religious, and philosophical insights so profound that mere mortals can barely grasp them.
Prepare to have the mysteries of the universe, God, anti-God, angels, and demons unveiled. Consciousness, determinism, and free will? All finally explained. But that’s not all—somehow, it all connects to globalist plots, election conspiracies, vaccines, UFOs, and, of course, the devil pulling the strings.
Join us for conservative pundit Michael Knowles’ therapy session with one of his idols-a man who reassures him that he is a very smart boy and that his fundamentalist Christian beliefs are, in fact, completely correct.
If you thought Eric Weinstein was something, imagine him cranked up to 12. That’s Chris Langan...
Also... get ready for Matt's double down on his Aussie food takes.
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In this episode, Matt and Chris take a look at a recent developmental psychology paper on the social evaluation of young babies. Do they display a preference for agents who are nice to others or could they care less at the babbling age? This is a large-scale, multi-lab, preregistered replication effort of a rather influential paper so it ticks all of Chris' Open Science boxes, but how does Matt react? Is he stuck in his pre-replication crisis paradigms? Join us to find out and along the way find out about baby Matt's psychotic tendencies, how cats feel about cucumbers, and how Matt narrowly escaped being eaten by a big ol' crocodile.
Paper Reference: Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., ... & Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581.
Original Study: Hamlin, J. K., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2007). Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature, 450(7169), 557-559.
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00:00 Introduction
00:59 Matt's Close Shave with a Crocodile
03:15 Discussion on Crocodile Behavior
05:13 Introduction to the Academic Paper
06:18 Understanding Registered Reports
07:49 Details of the Replication Study
12:07 The Many Babies Study
18:23 Challenges in Developmental Psychology
20:35 Original Study and Replication Efforts
26:27 HARKing and the QRP problem in psychology
34:24 Discussing the Results
36:58 Exploring the Red Ball Experiment
39:38 Forest Plot Analysis
41:19 Infant Preferences and Social Evaluation
43:24 Failure to Replicate the Original Study
47:06 Exploratory Analysis and Moderators
50:03 Interpretations and Implications
54:21 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Behavior
58:34 Prosocial Evolutionary Speculation
01:05:10 Psychopathic Baby Matt
01:06:28 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections
01:11:20 Comparative Psychology on Snake Hatred!
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We immerse ourselves in the Dark Side of the Gurusphere and come out forever altered by what we've seen and praying for an escape from this demon-haunted world.
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Reverse Culture Shock in Australia
11:01 Tim Tams and Food Progress
12:14 Russia Today endorses Lex's statements on Zelensky
19:20 Elon Musk's Controversial Gesture
38:31 Destiny's (Most Recent) Controversy
01:02:12 Bryan Johnson vs. Andrew Huberman: Civility Insights
01:14:21 Sacriligeous Sycophancy: Bill Ackman and Sam Altman
01:15:55 Jonathan Pageau's Stargate Theories
01:26:52 Escaping the Demon-Haunted World
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