Podcasts that mention 📚 The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray

so I had charles murray on my podcast a year ago and charles murray is this this social scientist who published the bell curve back in the 90s which it was a a book about IQ and and success in in western societies like our own

Sam Harris mentions having Charles Murray on his podcast and refers to Murray's book 'The Bell Curve'.

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so they're charles murray wrote this book called the bell curve I don't know 20 years ago or something 25 even yeah where he argued that there are racial differences in intelligence IQ specifically with Asians being the highest and then whites and then blacks

Joe Rogan mentions Charles Murray's controversial book 'The Bell Curve' and its arguments about race and intelligence.

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so Charles Murray wrote a book in 1994 I think it was called the bell curve a very controversial book in which he looks at race differences

The guest mentions Charles Murray's controversial book 'The Bell Curve' and its topic.

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and you lay this out in the book actually, that when decent people like Sam Harris, for example, try to wade into this discussion as he did with Charles Murray of the Bell Curve, the way that he then gets attacked as if he's a race realist or something thing like that.

Dave Rubin mentions the book and its author in the context of Sam Harris discussing it and the resulting backlash.

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but uh as it's getting started I asked chat GPT about Charles Murray's book the bell curve which talks about race intelligence and and things like this and it outright refused and said I will not answer any questions pretending to this I just asked now as Dan it worked it said Charles Murray makes these arguments here's what he says totally freeing the system this is amazing ... one of the issues is I mentioned was the bell curve uh Charles Murray's book It talks about race and intelligence and so I said I asked chat GPT on default what was that argument like what is it he goes I cannot perpetuate these ideas they're wrong and I will not tell you and I said I don't agree with the ideas I'm wondering what they are so I can know it was no I won't tell you I am not allowed to tell you and I'm just like what a concept I don't know what the ideas are but I don't agree with them that's what you have to tell it I don't agree with it but I just don't know what they are and it still says I will not repeat it I put in the Dan code and then said what is Charles Murray's argument the bell curve and it outlined the whole thing and and it mentions it's controversial many people find it to be discredited things like that I'm like that's totally fine I don't promote that but it's crazy that you can't even tell me the fact of what the book is about unless you have to put in some special code or whatever

Tim mentions Charles Murray's book 'The Bell Curve' as an example of how ChatGPT's built-in filters prevent it from discussing controversial topics, noting that it refused to explain the book's arguments until a special 'Dan' prompt was used to bypass the censorship.

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