Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Should Mickey have popped the pill? Why the parrot isn’t live. Reckless Zelensky. Bob fails to pull a Cheney. Debt deal make-believe. What does AI look for in a pet (Asking for a friend)? New Epstein name! Leon Botstein’s ‘I’m so pathetic’ defense. Bob’s adventures in fundraising. Bob has a Bluesky invite, Mickey doesn’t. When bot friends go wrong. Awful jobs department: training a large language model. Bob claims he’s smarter than 12 Monkeys. Chef Andres and the complex flavor loophole. Does flossing turn you on? Robert Putnam says Greta Thunberg will save us. The long history of The Lonely Crowd. When GPT decodes GPT, watch out. Don’t tell Donald Trump about the State Department pronouns. Bud Light is more masculine than you could possibly imagine. Reshuffling the hosts on the Foxtanic. “Fuckered”: a useful new word. Yes, there are young Parrot Roomers. Mickey on why Bob should listen to Peter Thiel. A 12 Monkeys interpretation too wild even for Mickey. Robert Reich’s (and Mickey’s) model of inequality breaks down. Tyler Cowen’s terrifying optimistic view of AI’s impact. Mickey hasn’t given up on a border catastrophe.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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