Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Mickey demands more time to talk about the child tax credit. The Bob Dylan lyric Trump forgot to repeat in his announcement speech. Sam Bankman-Fried extravaganza: friend of Semafor; Polyamorous?; his emissary to the Right; Bob explains how the scam worked; Did he discredit Effective Altruism? And what is Effective Altruism, anyway? Michael Lewis and the movie rights. Maggie Haberman and no movie rights. Errol Morris and the CIA’s acid test. The Mondale aide who destroyed the world. Mastodon isn’t that bad, says Bob. Can Elon wall off Twitter’s town square. Do “ballot algorithms” exist? “Never say ‘but’”—but… Bob fails to charm Bret Weinstein—or Bret Weinstein’s wife. Mickey’s Mayorcas conspiracy theory. Donald Trump, Ambassador to Extraterrestrials. Bob saved from Area 51. When Toyota decontented. Maybe Bret Weinstein really was screwed out of credit for a brilliant idea. How Twitter could be subject to the First Amendment—the theory Mickey really should write up. Locker room interlude. Mickey’s trend of the week: the staging of news. Dersh off the hook. Near death experiences. Does LSD kill the ego or the superego or what? The case of Christopher Reeve. Everything’s looking up for Biden. Elon Musk, social Darwinist. Commenter’s psychoanalysis of Bob and Mickey scarily accurate. Can AI write a Parrot Room theme song?
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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