Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Sometimes a basketball is just a basketball. Was Biden’s Kabul drone strike a case of wagging the dog? Bob rants about Blob domination of cable news. Mickey (somewhat self-servingly) dramatizes why California is such a tough nut for conservatives to crack. Why are millennials so lonely? Bob’s US Open dilemma resolved. The three biggest holes in the Las Vegas shooting story. Crowdsourcing Mickey’s dating app profile. Why did Trump appoint so many people who hate him? Mickey tries to find daylight between Bob and Ezra Klein. Steelmanning vs. playing Notre Dame. How YouTube is worse than Facebook, speechwise. Biden’s monoclonal antibodies coup. Given that we’re all biased, how should we behave? Mickey tries to think of mainstream things Trump might say that would cost him his base, fails. Minor Jeffrey Epstein update. Did Elizabeth Holmes have good intentions? Did #Resistance media help foster vax skepticism? The weirdest take on the quantum measurement problem (and Mickey’s toothpick solution). The Dixie Chicks weren’t really cancelled. Commenters on Soros’s motives, Trump’s anti-Blobbism, the Evergreen State story, etc.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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