Guru Survivor 2025
Added 2024-12-11 04:14:52 +0000 UTCIf you have listened to the Christmas Special you know the deal but to recap:
There is an island with enough supplies for ONE TEAM to survive. Each team is comprised of THREE gurus and a Decoder. Matt, Chris, and Dan selected their teams, considering things like survival skills, specialist knowledge, and combat abilities.
We turn to you now to decide who wins the inaugural 2024 Guru Survivor challenge (and to suggest your alternative teams in the comments below).
Who will be the Lord of the Gurus whenst the smoke clears?
Comments
I select Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson and David Sacks. I'll collaborate with the other teams to undermine them, which I'm sure they can appreciate the irony of.
Jacob_3BP
2024-12-14 20:19:09 +0000 UTCEach team has one member who would be quickly murdered by the other two (Nassim, Scott Adams, and Dr. K, respectively) and of the remainder, Team (anti) Science would win. As for whether Sabine or Huberman would individually survive… hard to say. Different strengths and weaknesses but I think Sabine would have a certain cold German efficiency that would see her through, especially if Hubermann tries to pull his bro science lothario charms on her.
Daniel Reed Miller
2024-12-14 00:17:20 +0000 UTCMatt and Taleb would either bond or fall out hard over statistics
John S Durst
2024-12-13 03:08:48 +0000 UTCDestiny and Dawkins would be my picks too, both bloody-minded but rational. Dawkins biology knowledge useful too
John S Durst
2024-12-13 03:00:12 +0000 UTCThat's why he's so deadly!
Alex H
2024-12-13 01:30:21 +0000 UTCDefinitely team science. If I could pick my own team, it would be Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow, Huberman. Pretty sure Oprah's security team would locate us within a week and secretly protect/feed us. Huberman is there to ward off any Scott Adams sneak attacks the first week.
Trees
2024-12-12 17:48:25 +0000 UTCIs Dr. K an MD or a PhD? I feel like having him on would be a no brainer if it's the former. Still, voted for Matt, the only team with skin in the game
Quietscheentchen
2024-12-12 17:23:52 +0000 UTCProud of the boys for not going with the Harem strategy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Mikhaila Peterson, and maybe a Brene Brown.
Sam Offutt
2024-12-12 15:11:07 +0000 UTCRefreshing to hear Chris and Matt say flat out that they just really hate him. Rightly so!
Dries T.
2024-12-12 13:57:19 +0000 UTCGod, Chris' bewildering selection of Scott Adams made me revisit the episode, and it's so incredibly on point. Fucking hell that guy's an insufferable insincere asshole!
Dries T.
2024-12-12 13:56:31 +0000 UTCTeam Science Saboteurs will probably start with a campfire sing-along, but at least one will be dead by the end of the week. Probably Huberman by Sabine with a fork, for being fucking insufferable, Matt laughs and gets pissed in the foreground, Taleb is just shitting about with plants in the jungle. Team Spiritual Evolution instantly split. Dan just laughs at Brett's hat for an hour straight, then him and Eleizer make an entire tabletop RPG, with figurines, on the other side of the island, eventually dying of starvation. Brett and Dr.K attempt to psychoanalyse one another, and manage to bring about the heat death of the universe by suicide, so it can stop listening to them. Team Devious Love are 100% coming out of this an incredibly dysfunctional polycule.
Matt
2024-12-12 10:08:53 +0000 UTCMatt and Dan's teams will end in someone murdering someone. Love is the answer ......
Anjan Sarkar
2024-12-12 03:09:05 +0000 UTCThat Spiritual Evolution team is legitimately hilarious and potentially actually quite effective. You'd have Bret Weinstein, who probably annually takes Heather against her will into the Amazon to survive off foraging for 40 days anyway just to feed his ego, pairing with Dr. K who also has no doubt walked off into a jungle and emerged 6 months later spiritually transformed. Then they'd have Eliezer Yudkowsky building a robot to assist in their survival, or deeming the endeavor pointless given the impending AI apocalypse and would just write Harry Potter fan fiction to pass the time.
Milquetoast Ramen
2024-12-12 01:33:21 +0000 UTCdont kink shame. Chris won’t be around to fill that role 🙃
Par
2024-12-12 00:24:35 +0000 UTC@professor mittens if we’re going for chaos alone, imagine: Scott Adams, Hasan, and destiny. If there was limited food, this might be a good strategy because they would undoubtedly kill each other very quickly lol
Par
2024-12-12 00:13:55 +0000 UTCBut that’s cheating. Chris specified they have to be the bad gurus ;) Also, even when I try my hardest, I can’t even imagine Dawkins uttering the phrase “fuck it, Yolo” 😆 I suspect it’s the sort of thing that if he ever did, he would instantly combust and turn into a black hole
Par
2024-12-12 00:11:27 +0000 UTCyeah but Scott Adams will sabotage the entire group.
professor mittens
2024-12-11 21:20:03 +0000 UTCTeam ‘Fuck It YOLO’ ft Destiny, Dawkins and Dibble
Nicholas Williams
2024-12-11 21:14:15 +0000 UTCIsn’t Taleb just a semi - fat guy in his sixties?
Marfolini
2024-12-11 20:25:24 +0000 UTCI like Jamie Wheal and so based on this alone, I have a totally unfounded view that he could probably climb trees and drop coconuts on all the gurus. Less of a team victory than a moral one.
Cate Kneale
2024-12-11 18:48:39 +0000 UTCI think from the pure violence angle, the pumping iron bros Huberman and Taleb would probably have enough to bludgeon everyone else to death. But, if physical liquidation could be averted long enough, then Eric, Dr K and Yudkowsy's interminable blether could well force everyone else to commit suicide rather than listen to another never-ending stream of self-regarding gibberish. So I backed Dan's team for their ability to drive the others insane first
Paul Bowman
2024-12-11 17:52:44 +0000 UTCOh dear, you’d be dead very fast
Molly Bretthauer
2024-12-11 17:49:48 +0000 UTCJoe Rogan hunts elk with a bow. He might hunt you but until then, you'll definitely have that all meat diet covered. Plus you'll never forgot to get vitamin D.
Adam Sher
2024-12-11 17:05:26 +0000 UTCImagine being stuck with Taleb. He'd just be calling you a fucking idiot the whole time
JackG
2024-12-11 15:59:22 +0000 UTCJocko, Peter Attia and Jordan Peterson in the vain hope that Jocko would get so mad about Jordans ranting, that he would get rid of him somehow :)
teethgrinder
2024-12-11 15:57:07 +0000 UTCThe three decoders plot to kill the six gurus. Problem solved.
Don Schaffner
2024-12-11 14:57:58 +0000 UTCI'd have taken joe rogan and Andrew tate to kick the piss out of the other teams and Destiny as a third to morally justify it Out of this lot though I'd say team Lex!
Charles Coatsworth
2024-12-11 14:41:50 +0000 UTCBill Maher, Dave Rubin and Douglas Murray. Zero survival skills, but Bill Maher would make the other two uncomfortable by constantly bringing up anal sex. It would be the only configuration that would allow for some peace and quiet.
Marfolini
2024-12-11 12:40:41 +0000 UTCI’m getting Triangle of Sadness vibes regarding Sabine
Paul Hanrahan
2024-12-11 10:40:32 +0000 UTCI think that Huberman would unironically be best at surviving in the wild + he would just charge the whole team with negative ions and make them immune to disease or sth. But Sabine Hossenfelder would probably just wander around the island talking about how the survival efforts are failing, because everyone is wasting their time trying to hunt when it's obvious that we should all just be planting potatoes.
Jakub Tomaszewski
2024-12-11 10:06:47 +0000 UTCGiven that Peterson views fire as a predator, it's probably best he wasn't picked for any of the teams
April Fair
2024-12-11 09:54:43 +0000 UTCIs jocko not considered a bad guru? because he is the clear pick
DemonicDreamer
2024-12-11 08:30:08 +0000 UTCI’d just ride solo on Goggins’ back like a parasite, eating whatever he leaves behind
Robert O
2024-12-11 07:38:18 +0000 UTCMy team: Peter Attia (a doctor), Jordan Peterson (a cook), Hasan Piker (a pirat whisperer)
aneladgam_varelse
2024-12-11 07:27:43 +0000 UTCI vote for Team Spiritual Evolution. Bret will have genius ideas informed by biology and survival of the species, Yudkowsky and his sense of doom will alert them to danger, dr K knows a lot about primitive (ancient) medicine and diet and is after all a doctor.
aneladgam_varelse
2024-12-11 07:26:52 +0000 UTCEric is waiting for the call you guys! Doesn’t matter what team, he has got his jacket on!
H H
2024-12-11 07:22:43 +0000 UTCYou’ve all missed a trick, should have picked Rogan, Huberman and jocko willink. The key point is to keep the gurus from the same guru orbit so they all get along and then pick the most survivalist ones.
michael r
2024-12-11 07:18:11 +0000 UTCBret probably has the most immunity to tropical illnesses from all his field work so in that way he's an asset. But before that would ever matter he'd come up with a stupid idea he thought was genius that gets him and his teammates killed. Lex would try to have conversations with the other teams and find a way they could all survive--then be murdered. So it has to be Matt's Team Science. Not because they're smarter but because the other teams have huge liabilities.
Daniel
2024-12-11 06:51:51 +0000 UTCOh god this seemed like a no-brainer to me but after voting i'm in the minority. Lex and Chris would be carrying the team while unfortunately Andrew and Sabine would doom the other team with confusing strategies and drama. (Sorry Matt). And goes without saying that Bret would poison everyone on team 3. 🤣
Max
2024-12-11 05:58:38 +0000 UTCI had never heard of Yudkowsky and then two consecutive podcasts were discussing him, this one and Hard Fork.
Jay
2024-12-11 05:49:32 +0000 UTCScott Adams is the only guru so far where you felt like the Decoders really just (justifiably) hated the guy.
Jay
2024-12-11 05:47:33 +0000 UTCMatt's team has superior social cohesion I feel, plus combined skillset. Matt how much thought have you put into this
Z
2024-12-11 05:33:32 +0000 UTCGlad to see Chris going for the underrated Jamie Wheal pick, but why, why Scott Adams 😭🤣
Z
2024-12-11 05:32:01 +0000 UTCChris wtf is that team, got wounded bird, morale black hole, and sense making third wheel! Matt is biohacked and stacked, and got Nassim running on pure rage
Jeremiah
2024-12-11 05:26:49 +0000 UTCNothing personal Chris, as Matt said "Sabine know how make fire"
Jack
2024-12-11 04:51:17 +0000 UTCTeam “Backing Into Jungian Thought”: Peterson, Dawkins, Harris
Douglas Strauss
2024-12-11 04:47:08 +0000 UTCTeam science with Nassim will dismember and eat the other teams.
HustleTron9000
2024-12-11 04:31:44 +0000 UTCDo the right thing, folks
Daniel Gilbert
2024-12-11 04:16:34 +0000 UTC
