Show 3024 Learn Liberty Playlist. Ideological Robots, Can Cops Search Your Cell Phone?, Why Thieves Hate Free Markets, Top Three Common Myths of Capitalism, Top Three Myths about the Great Depression and the New Deal, Smoking Bans, The Broken Window Fallacy, Are the Poor Getting Poorer?   Are You An Ideological Robot? - The Ideological Turing Test https://youtu.be/6z7y7FLhYGE Learn Liberty Published on Nov 20, 2017 A lot of people don’t really understand their ideological opponents. Here’s how to test whether you are the exception. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wg LEARN MORE: The Requirements of Persuasion (video): Prof. Brandon Turner talks with Dave Rubin about how we can have more meaningful conversations with our ideological opponents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weiQc... Shaming Someone Doesn't Change Their Mind (video): So you want to fight prejudice and change people’s minds? Cultural scientist Alana Conner explains why shaming people does not help persuade them to consider new ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qU7K... Why You Should Tolerate Wrong Opinions (video): Dave Rubin and Prof. Brandon Turner discuss why we should practice tolerance and defend free speech for even those ideas that we can be sure are 100% wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5zIY... TRANSCRIPT: Available at: http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/ar... LEARN LIBERTY: Your resource for exploring the ideas of a free society. We tackle big questions about what makes a society free or prosperous and how we can improve the world we live in. Watch more at http://www.learnliberty.org/.     https://youtu.be/IRnHme0ESzI Can Cops Search Your Cell Phone? | Learn Liberty Learn Liberty You’re at a party. The police show up. The next thing you know, a cop is asking to see your cell phone. What do you do? Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/1HVAtKP. If you don’t know your rights, you could be putting yourself - and your future - at risk. In this must-see video, Professor Josh Blackman details the ways in which recent court rulings have been defining and limiting the boundaries of cell phone content searches. Your life is in your phone. Know how to save it.   Why Thieves Hate Free Markets - Learn Liberty Learn Liberty Many believe that market economies create a dog eat dog environment full of human conflict and struggle. Learn more: http://lrnlbty.co/1izBCmC To Prof. Aeon Skoble, the competition in markets does not create conflict, but rather, encourages people to cooperate with one another for mutual benefit. For instance, suppose a thief steals a suit from Macy's. If Macy's knew who the thief was, one could argue that Macy's has an incentive to keep this information from their competitors. By withholding information about the thief, it would make it much less likely that thief would get caught while robbing Macy's competitors. However, in the real world, competitors share information about theft with one another, creating a valuable information network. Competitors share information because it is in all of their mutual interest to crack down on theft. If a business chooses to ignore the information network, they lose out on valuable information. The example above is just one of many examples where competitors have a strong incentive to cooperate with one another. In a certain way, we're all merchants who trade with one another. We all individually depend on networks of reputation and trust to own a car, own a home, and have a job. In a world of competition and scarcity, we are not only capable of cooperating with one another, but we frequently do. These voluntary systems of social cooperation, often called organic or spontaneous orders, are not planned from the top down by enlightened rulers. Rather, they emerge overtime as individuals interact with one another. These spontaneous orders are all around us, and include important things like language, fashion, internet memes, prices in a market, and law. Going back to the suit thief, it may very well