What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?
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Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Link to videoI think it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we all are to be privy to such conversations. When I was a kid, I thought there were ivory tower intellectuals who were so much smarter than me. But here they are, presenting themselves, intentionally, talking about the leading edge of their thoughts, and lo and behold they are people just like you.
Not just like you, if you're a progressive. So sad, too bad. But there are literally no public intellectual conversations on the 'progressive' side of the cultural conversation. You can have your Jon Stewarts. He's as close as you'll get.
Education is extremely important.
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Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Link to videoI think it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we all are to be privy to such conversations. When I was a kid, I thought there were ivory tower intellectuals who were so much smarter than me. But here they are, presenting themselves, intentionally, talking about the leading edge of their thoughts, and lo and behold they are people just like you.
Not just like you, if you're a progressive. So sad, too bad. But there are literally no public intellectual conversations on the 'progressive' side of the cultural conversation. You can have your Jon Stewarts. He's as close as you'll get.
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Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Link to videoI think it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we all are to be privy to such conversations. When I was a kid, I thought there were ivory tower intellectuals who were so much smarter than me. But here they are, presenting themselves, intentionally, talking about the leading edge of their thoughts, and lo and behold they are people just like you.
Not just like you, if you're a progressive. So sad, too bad. But there are literally no public intellectual conversations on the 'progressive' side of the cultural conversation. You can have your Jon Stewarts. He's as close as you'll get.
@Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Here's your bit of medical trivia. This podcast, at least in the early parts, talks about anxiety and the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve (cranial nerve #10) is the farthest reaching nerve from the brainstem (the medulla). In fact, the etymology of the name, "vagus", has as its root, the same basis as "vagrant," or wanderer. Unique among the nerves exiting the brainstem, the vagus goes all the way down to the GI tract.
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Just as a dumb question...How much impact on the general public do podcasts have?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Jolly said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Just as a dumb question...How much impact on the general public do podcasts have?
I have been exposing myself to the ideas of the world's most intelligent, thoughtful, and well-studied people, since the advent of the podcasts. At least my personal feed, is entirely devoted to that. It's just reality, and astonishing, and rather disheartening, that this is how humans can sound. They're actually almost all Jewish. It is what it is.
But I am not your average person. Most podcasts are garbage.
But the internet, which is the abstract of my podcast feed, allows for this.
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@Jolly said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Just as a dumb question...How much impact on the general public do podcasts have?
I think pretty small effect. I use for an example the forum thread about the Fox News hosts. Tucker Carlson replaced person B who replaced person A, who I think were very very popular when they were on Fox News. Both person A and B have podcasts? They may be quite popular, but do not have the same overall recognition or impact as they did before when they were on TV.
A lot of the people you mention here, I have never hear of before.
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This is an amazing conversation. I'd never heard of this guy, Balaji Srinivisan. He's a general partner at Mark Andreesen's venture capital business. Actually they remind me of each other, listening to them. He's got fascinating things to say about so many things. Health care, the FDA, crypto and its applications and importance, the future and past of humanity, too many to remember after one listen. It's an over 7 hour conversation. Among other things, the guy is clearly tireless. It did convince me that I should probably get off my butt and invest in bitcoin.
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On the latest Dishcast, a very interesting conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Chris Stirewalt, who was fired from Fox News for “committing journalism” on election night of 2020 and calling AZ for Biden.
They barely mention that, though. It’s mostly a long and informed lament about the deterioration of US media over the last 25 years, left and right, and what the myriad causes have been.
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Haven't started this yet, but it looks interesting.
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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This guy, named Nathan Cofnas, a Philosophy professor at Cambridge, is especially strong in his deconstruction of wokeism. Strong in that he simplifies to what I would consider irrefutable and obvious, if one actually thinks about it. His claim is that the denial of genetic differences between races, or in other words the axiom that all groups are genetically equal cognitively, necessarily leads to wokeism. He goes as far as to claim that explanations around bad cultures are "silly", a claim which he never substantiates in the discussions I've listened to, but which he implies there is plenty of evidence for. Of course the evidence for an IQ difference between racial groups is overwhelming, and he makes the obvious point that anybody familiar with the data does not dispute it. They only pretend to, or they are morons. He takes issue with the Heterodox Academy, a group of academics founded ~10 years ago, with a charter to be able to think and discuss such things out loud. As it turns out, The Heterodox Academy still treats genetic IQ differences as third rail. He names names regarding primary offenders, among them famous free thinking public intellectuals like Jonathan Haidt and John McWhorter. He wrote this piece about it.
https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed
Heterodox Academy responded:
A couple podcast conversations with Cofnas:
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Link to videoThe only other legitimate academics this fearless in the face of the social death penalty around these issues are Amy Wax and Charles Murray. Not even Glenn Loury is willing to go as far, though he's willing to talk to these people, and respects their views.
But yes, there is a reason the genetic IQ thing is the ultimate taboo in western cultures. That taboo is the lynchpin of all the social power the left accumulates. If the real explanation is disallowed, any number of curated fake explanations, which just so happen to accumulate power to one political group, can be invented and forced onto the public via propaganda that nobody dares deny.
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@George-K said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Also, where does Peterson buy his clothes???
Gallifrey.
It all started 20 years ago, when somebody introduced Doctor Jordan Peterson, and everybody's response was 'Doctor Who?'
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Enjoyed this conversation with Mo Gawdat, an ex-Google executive and now author and speaker. He's been thinking about AI since before it was cool to think about AI. He goes so far as to recommend people not have kids for a couple years, if they're thinking about it. Just to see how things are going to turn out in the near term. I think that advice is probably over the line of sensible, myself. But the interview is pretty good.
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Enjoyed this conversation with Mo Gawdat, an ex-Google executive and now author and speaker. He's been thinking about AI since before it was cool to think about AI. He goes so far as to recommend people not have kids for a couple years, if they're thinking about it. Just to see how things are going to turn out in the near term. I think that advice is probably over the line of sensible, myself. But the interview is pretty good.
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Just finished listening to this:
"Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding."
The "currency" was/is called OneCoin. I had actually never heard of her or the currency. Came across her name when I saw that she is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List. So, went down the internet rabbit hole to learn more about her and came across this BBC podcast.
Quite interesting and informative. But, as is the case many times in real life, it does not come to a neat conclusion.
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I've been listening to the 'You'll hear it' podcasts, covering jazz, mostly piano, which I don't play. I love the way these guys talk about music.
Here's one, but there's tons of them
Link to videoanother interesting one...
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Bret Weinstein has a fellow Ivermectin truther on his podcast today, for a three hour conversation about his guest's book, about how Ivermectin was unfairly judged by intentionally fraudulent science. This settles one question I had, about whether Brett had silently retreated from his Ivermectin support. Apparently not. His guest has a cadence one typically sees in salespeople, where he uses the other person's name constantly. "Bret" this and "Bret" that, before every declarative statement about how the big pharma fix is in.
