Today Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss the potential, problems, pitfalls, and philosophy of criticism and skepticism.
This episode was recorded on November 4th, 2022.
Read more: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/11/21/episode-100-a-skeptics-guide-to-skepticism
Other episodes mentioned in this episode:
Episode 1 – Tether: A Stable Discussion
https://youtu.be/mo4ISzWRyqw
Episode 41 – Craig Steven Wright is a Crier and a Flawed (Individual)
https://youtu.be/QZOrJh7_3tg
Other resources mentioned in this episode:
Mike Masnick's Twitter
https://twitter.com/mmasnick
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Bennett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BennettTomlin
Cas' Twitter: https://twitter.com/CasPiancey
Bennett's Newsletter: https://TheFUDLetter.com/
Cas' Blog: https://thecaspiancey.medium.com/
Bennett's Blog: https://bennettftomlin.com/
Bennett's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfqVyMNHmkF3hZOIfYhZxqQ
Timestamps:
00:00 Why be skeptical?
4:06 Occam's Razor
5:40 Unfounded Skepticism and Elon Musk
6:58 Owning your mistakes
12:51 Adversarial skepticism and nonsense
13:53 Tether and Skepticism of Skepticism
18:52 Skepticism as investor's defense against exploitation
22:45 Weaponized skepticism
26:20 Skeptics get scammed
27:20 Conspiracies are hard to pull off
27:58 it is good to trust
28:35 Conspiracy theories
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