Thank you for this great episode! Simone was a really interesting guest even by the very high standards of this podcast.
She overall made some great points, but I was confused by her response to the "would you ban TikTok" question. She seemed to be arguing that we don't need to ban TikTok because it acts as a form of natural selection. Wouldn't it be catastrophic if you applied this logic to every social ill? Should China just allowed everyone to become opium addicts? They saw a corrupting product and put a stop to it. After the government's intervention, China went from having 27% of its male population being addicted to opium to the current negligible %. Obviously, China is better of having done that.
Since you mentioned IQ shredders, Spandrell has started visiting podcasts recently (Medgold and something else like Bloody Satellite or w/e). I think he'll have some interesting things to say. He's @spandrell3 on twatter.
Isn’t the problem with The New Season that you go and everybody is not that hot? The A+ people don’t need it and won’t go. The culture that forced the very hot to hang out with losers was Slave Morality winning in Brian’s terms.
Thank you for this great episode! Simone was a really interesting guest even by the very high standards of this podcast.
She overall made some great points, but I was confused by her response to the "would you ban TikTok" question. She seemed to be arguing that we don't need to ban TikTok because it acts as a form of natural selection. Wouldn't it be catastrophic if you applied this logic to every social ill? Should China just allowed everyone to become opium addicts? They saw a corrupting product and put a stop to it. After the government's intervention, China went from having 27% of its male population being addicted to opium to the current negligible %. Obviously, China is better of having done that.
Since you mentioned IQ shredders, Spandrell has started visiting podcasts recently (Medgold and something else like Bloody Satellite or w/e). I think he'll have some interesting things to say. He's @spandrell3 on twatter.
Isn’t the problem with The New Season that you go and everybody is not that hot? The A+ people don’t need it and won’t go. The culture that forced the very hot to hang out with losers was Slave Morality winning in Brian’s terms.