Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Google AI has nothing on the parrot. Do you need a body to have feelings? If the AI has consciousness, why should it be anything like ours? Is someone trying to kill Ghislaine Maxwell? Are we sure there aren’t other Epsteins out there? A Dave Weigel take that everybody missed. Prog Rock isn’t that bad. The Bolt may be ugly, but it’s got a great personality. Richard Spencer is a moderate now—and on the market. MBS vs. PGA at US Open. Did Elon Musk just endorse shadow banning? John Ellis on how historians destroyed Biden’s presidency: We name the guilty man. Bob’s bad NYT headline of the week. Child tax credit update: Romney does the Right thing, but Mickey’s still paranoid. Mickey asks: Wherein lies the greatness of Yuval Levin? Mickey vetoes Bob’s story idea for this week’s newsletter. Consciousnesspalooza: Bob touts and then explains his grand theory of consciousness; Mickey deems grand theory disturbingly neoliberal; the theology of simulations. The hitch in Glitch in the Matrix. Is college no fun anymore? Godel’s fears. Bob’s book cannot be reduced to a Joe South song—Not, we tell you! 100 parrots can’t be wrong.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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