Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Our pavement problem. Bob got something wrong. Conservatives still think they’re being shadowbanned. Don’t let Elon Musk buy Substack. Tesla’s fake video. Are Republicans really going to keep Ronna McDaniel? Bob probes Mickey for intimate party details. Will transracialism destroy Wokism? Reagan’s welfare queen was also the queen of racial non-binaryism. Bob’s trans locker room shock. Mickey’s naked co-ed swimming. Bob’s Esalen fail. Bob’s network profanity shock. The Catholic view of Top Gun: Maverick. With a name like schmucks, it’s gotta be bad. Is Bari Weiss the new Marty Peretz? Bob isn’t backing off his Bari Weiss critique. Harvard fellowship withdrawal withdrawn. Neera Tanden caved to the Israel lobby and praised Ben Smith’s Mickey takedown—she has no friends on this podcast. After affirmative: some optimistic scenarios. The SATs measure something—Is it bullshit? Will AI recognize how impoverished and empty its life is? Why would robots put us in gooey pods? Mickey thinks ‘The End of the Line’ is surrender. David Crosby was right about Triad. Were Sonny & Cher good? ‘While better cellists languish…’ Why colleges are like AI. Who killed the Maidan protesters? China suppresses gloomy sentiments—fuck that! Varieties of separatism. White Lotus [SPOILER CITY]: Mickey’s review. Bob gets his gun but doesn’t. The problem with prosecuting Alec Baldwin. Sundance becomes a safe zone. Raw milk outlaws. Commenters on ChatGPT, technological stagnation, etc.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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