Signs You Might Be a Conspiracy Theorist, Ethereum Scams, A.I. Psychos, Robot Cognition, and Kanye! |110|
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It's a Conspiracy! A rash of recent "scientific" studies about what makes conspiracy theorists tic have been hitting the news lately. Why? Well, we could say it's a conspiracy to try and debunk conspiracy theorists and conspiratorial thinking, but then that just proves we're conspiracy theorists prone to conspiratorial thinking. As if that's a bad thing. John nearly falls for an Ethereum scam, but escapes at the last minute. Probably because he used his conspiratorial thinking to question the scam, natch! Kanye West (or is that Yeezus) tweets, "Question Everything". Hmm... great minds think alike. ;-) An A.I. bot named Norman that's a real psycho, which leads us into a discussion of robot cognition, and life, the universe, and everything. The future's gonna get weird.       
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