Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Pro Publica’s giving SBF’s money back—Why not Semafor? SBF goes free—Is this the case against cash bail? Is anyone on the left really defending SBF?—Help Mickey out here. Another Mickey prediction: Big ballot harvesting scandal (on the right, he hopes). Elon denies his own election. Mickey asks, “Why is cocaine illegal again? It’s not fentanyl.” Mickey says the root cause of homelessness is the root cause of most of our other troubles. Mickey foresees 10 million new migrants—Can anything stop this surge? Bob reminisces about his days in El Paso. Why can’t we call white people part of the underclass? Bob unveils his candidate for asshole of the year (you’ll be shocked!). Yes, the US used biological weapons on North Korea. Why Bob is raising his estimate on Covid lab leak from 50 percent to 80 percent. Bob calls Mickey’s crazy China theory crazy. Should the US intervene in Haiti? Mickey predicts Republicans will go soft on abortion. Is Princeton’s administration going anti-woke? (Bob called it!) The key role of bullshit at Harvard and in Silicon Valley. Why the lack of alien visitors should worry us. Is the Mars escape really an escape? The Severance-Twitter connection. What’s worthwhile in the Twitter files? Bob applauds Kissinger concern. Bob and Mickey try to un-shadow-ban the parrot. When Mickey says “Old Horses” he really means “Slow Horses”.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day
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