Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Bob demands that Mickey hoard drugs. Why is Alan Alda Leon Wieseltier’s hero? The key to boomer life is avoiding the ‘Fuck it’ moment. Bob and Mickey don’t even pretend to understand the Ethereum merge. Mickey pretends to understand the quantum threat to crypto. The two public health screwups behind polio’s comeback. Did Bill Gates screw up global covid policy? Bob tells Mickey everything he wants to know about effective altruism and longtermism in under two minutes. The danger of politicizing the Epstein client list. Bob and Mickey’s instant commentary on Breathless. Eric Schmidt warns that China may bury us. Bob reacts dismissively. Mickey’s China worry is not the same as Schmidt’s China worry. Will AI replace your local artist? Do we want to drain the world of brains? A fancy Italian word for Roger Federer. Mickey’s high hopes for contrarianism from the Washington Post’s ed board. Biden splits with Obama on charter schools, Cuba. Keep kicking the Iran can down the road. Free speech, Twitter, and the queen. Does it make a difference if we’re motivated by envy instead of greed? You can never get enough of the Madonna-whore complex. Commenters on Mickey’s homeless pervert style, Bob’s appalling Excedrin ignorance, and Wireless Anal Beads II.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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