Apr 13, 2023
Gurwinder Bhogal is a writer and
programmer who writes about the myriad ways in which technology and
psychology conspire to fool us and how we can withstand the covert
assault on our senses.
Gurwinder is known for his epic Twitter ‘Megathreads’ which set out
a series of powerful concepts for understanding the world.
He joins the show to discuss our tendency to narrativize
information, how to overcome the bandwidth tax, why Wikipedia is
the world’s largest source of misinformation, and MUCH more!
Important Links:
-
Megathread: Feb 7, 2020 (53,000 likes)
-
Megathread: Feb 11, 2022 (62,000 likes)
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Megathread: March 18, 2023 (most recent)
- Gurwinder's Substack
- Gurwinder's Twitter
-
The Toxoplasma of Rage
Show
Notes:
- Megathreads & the Woozle
effect
- AI, the Encyclopedia
Disinformatica, and cultivating a garden of
Mithridates
- Capturing the nuance between
dishonesty and lying
- The Toxoplasma of
Rage
- Overcoming the bandwidth
tax
- Brandishing the golden hammer;
why we can’t comprehend large numbers
- Tribalism &
intersubjectivity
- The purity spiral
- Are we facing a lost
generation?
- We are programmed to like complex
explanations
- Narrativizing
information
- “Certainty is the death of
thought”
- Climbing the thinking
ladder
- MUCH more!
Books
Mentioned:
- The Fifth Science; by
Exurb1a
- Talking to Strangers; by Malcolm
Gladwell
- Tao Te Ching; by Lao
Tzu
- What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies; by Tim Urban