Episode #1274
Nicholas Christakis
Books mentioned
The Butchering Art
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:22:29
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The Book of Five Rings
Mentioned by Nicholas Christakis · at 02:19:45
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Nicholas Christakis is a Yale sociologist and physician whose research examines social networks, behavior, health, and longevity. He and Joe Rogan discuss free expression, ideological conflict, evolutionary roots of cooperation and morality, gene-culture coevolution, and societal questions involving incarceration, the death penalty, CRISPR, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, and sex robots.
What they talked about
- The Yale Halloween costume controversy and free speech
- Debate as a principle vs. institutional force
- Vaccine skepticism and winning the battle of ideas
- Evolutionary origins of friendship and love
- The concept of human self-domestication
- Gene-culture coevolution and genetic adaptation
- CRISPR gene editing and unintended consequences
- Future of AI and questions of human worth
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