Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
[Note: Stay to the end if you want to hear about possible changes in the Parrot Room (that do not involve checkmarks)] You don’t miss your parrot til the beak runs dry. Bob’s harrowing encounter with Bret Weinstein. How the Weinsteins created the IDW. Has the magic door to centrism opened up? Bob and Mickey both have issues with wokeness, they’re just different issues. Mickey foolishly tries to define wokeness. NPR’s closing strategy. The Democrats put a price on saving democracy and it’s not eight dollars. Is a unity government a government that stands for nothing? Bob unveils Elon’s master plan (hint: it involves wokeless trucks). What would Ross Perot do? Everybody should debate Michael Beschloss. Ready Player One: Why not the Boboverse? Sex in the metaverse. The metaverse and drugs: better together. Bob defends Zuckerberg’s massive metaverse investment. Is Zuck just too far ahead of his time? The comforting news about AI is BS. John Tierney takes a victory lap. Can people migrate to an alternate Twitter universe? How Noam Chomsky stunted Bob’s intellectual growth. Why AI won’t vindicate Chomsky’s language theories. Bob’s shockingly clear theory of how AI works. Why did Biden send the Venezuelans back? How the flying nun flew. The weirdest way the Democrats could win. Trump’s cognitive empathy insight. A call for feedback about a possible change in Parrot Room format.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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