What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?
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Re education, are there many people out there that aren’t aware that the SAD (standard American diet) is grossly unhealthy? Serious question.
Of course Trump could make it ‘cool’ for a certain type of person to care. But it’s hard to imagine him taking the advice himself.
wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 15:15 last edited by@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Re education, are there many people out there that aren’t aware that the SAD (standard American diet) is grossly unhealthy? Serious question.
the extent to which it is? Sure, I guess in fact that most people underestimate the pipeline to T2 diabetes, and the severity of that disease. The conversation was very helpful for me about that.
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wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 15:18 last edited by jon-nyc
If you’re interested in the general topic of wellness and diet, or as he puts it ‘health span’ (as distinguished from lifespan) seek out Peter Attia, either his book Outlive or his podcast. You’ve probably seen him on others podcasts.
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If you’re interested in the general topic of wellness and diet, or as he puts it ‘health span’ (as distinguished from lifespan) seek out Peter Attia, either his book Outlive or his podcast. You’ve probably seen him on others podcasts.
wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 15:20 last edited by@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
If you’re interested in the general topic of ‘health span’ (as distinguished from lifespan) seek out Peter Attia, either his book Outlive or his podcast. You’ve probably seen him on others podcasts.
Yes he does the rounds on Rogan and all those people. These weren't new ideas to me, but this reiteration seemed helpful.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 12:57 last edited by
Just starting this, The Rest is History podcast did a 5 part series on Nelson.
First episode is here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nelson-hero-of-the-seas-part-1/id1537788786?i=1000677103653
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In last week’s Econtalk podcast, Russ Roberts interviewed Marc Andreesen on the future of AI.
It’s the optimistic take you rarely hear. Worth checking out.
Andreesen has a bird’s eye view on developments in the area, since he’s the cofounder of Andreesen-Horowitz he hears pitches basically every day from the extremely smart people with new ideas in the field.
wrote on 16 Dec 2024, 13:23 last edited by@Jon said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
In last week’s Econtalk podcast, Russ Roberts interviewed Marc Andreesen on the future of AI.
It’s the optimistic take you rarely hear. Worth checking out.
Andreesen has a bird’s eye view on developments in the area, since he’s the cofounder of Andreesen-Horowitz he hears pitches basically every day from the extremely smart people with new ideas in the field.
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wrote on 16 Dec 2024, 13:25 last edited by
I listened to that whole episode.
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wrote on 16 Dec 2024, 19:46 last edited by
Just finished an interesting true crime show
Father Wants Us Dead
https://fatherwantsusdead.com/
Link to videoIn 1971, a mild-mannered accountant and Sunday school teacher from New Jersey meticulously murdered his wife, mother and three children. John List left behind a letter explaining his horrific deeds and disappeared to start a new life. Now, two award-winning journalists go inside the mind of the killer, uncover new details about the doomed family and the twisted crime that took their lives, and take you along on the unbelievable 18-year quest to bring this father to justice.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 03:18 last edited by jon-nyc
On The Dispatch Podcast Steven Hayes interviews David Patreaus about Syria, Taiwan, Mexico, and even the NJ drones.
Highly recommended. The guys knows his shit.
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wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 03:07 last edited by
Latest EconTalk is a conversation between two libertarian economists - ok one libertarian and one lapsed libertarian who now considers himself a conservative - talking about the prospects of DOGE. Interesting throughout.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 23:01 last edited by
Great one on one interview with Boris Johnson on The Dispatch podcast.
Jamie Weinstein is joined by former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss his relationship with Donald Trump, the U.K. "grooming gangs," and his new book, Unleashed.
The Agenda:
—Jeremy Vine: My Boris Johnson Story
—Comparing Reagan and Trump
—Johnson’s relationship with Trump
—Elon Musk and the U.K.
—The U.K. grooming gangs
—“Superpower of soft power”
—Johnson’s alleged deal with Ukraine and Russia
—Putin and Zelensky
—Johnson on Queen Elizabeth II
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 18:02 last edited by
Two good ones over the past couple of days.
Bari Weiss's (Honestly) with Amy Chua. I've read both her Tiger Mom book which I thought was excellent along with her follow-up Triple Package which detailed why some cultures are more successful than others. Chua is on the law school faculty at Yale - and guess who was one of her students - a certain Vice-President...
Ross Douthat does a decent interview with Steve Bannon. It's a good discussion - interesting to hear his views on GWB, Trump and Musk.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 20:12 last edited by
Interesting. Also NYT hosting Bannon and (a few weeks ago) Curtis Yarvin on their podcast would have been unthinkable even a year ago.
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Interesting. Also NYT hosting Bannon and (a few weeks ago) Curtis Yarvin on their podcast would have been unthinkable even a year ago.
wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 20:36 last edited by@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Interesting. Also NYT hosting Bannon and (a few weeks ago) Curtis Yarvin on their podcast would have been unthinkable even a year ago.
Bannon wasn't the crazy guy sometimes portrayed. It's good to see DEI being appropriately applied.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 20:39 last edited by
Thanks for the recommendation. I listened. I agree Bannon is not crazy. He seems coherent and principled. One does not have to agree with his principles. He's too hard line nationalist for my taste. I have no issue with H1Bs. Bannon did deny any connection with culture regarding quality of tech workers. He blamed the H1Bs simply on the fact that those workers are cheaper. I'm not entirely sure that's the case. Maybe at some companies, but I doubt at the big tech ones. I think they pay their H1B engineers the same as the native ones.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I listened. I agree Bannon is not crazy. He seems coherent and principled. One does not have to agree with his principles. He's too hard line nationalist for my taste. I have no issue with H1Bs. Bannon did deny any connection with culture regarding quality of tech workers. He blamed the H1Bs simply on the fact that those workers are cheaper. I'm not entirely sure that's the case. Maybe at some companies, but I doubt at the big tech ones. I think they pay their H1B engineers the same as the native ones.
wrote on 2 Feb 2025, 00:32 last edited by@Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
I agree Bannon is not crazy. He seems coherent and principled.
They still put him in jail.
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wrote on 2 Feb 2025, 00:33 last edited by
Ted Kaczinsky was principled too.
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wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 17:34 last edited by
The most recent Sam Harris podcast has Niall Ferguson schooling Sam on some of the positives of the Trump Presidency as well as a realistic assessment of where the US stands in the world - i.e. lacking in fiscal strength and unable to address the myriad challenges it faces. Really well done.
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wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 17:49 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Feb 2025, 17:51
Schooled? He had replies, I'll grant you that. But honestly maybe 75% of Ferguson's replies were simple whattaboutisms. Occasionally there would be a broader point to the whattaboutism, (e.g., we've left allies in the lurch before) but most were pretty weak in terms of any broader point being made.
And many of his defenses seemed really inconsistent. Example - when Sam asked his opinion about Trump's plan for ethnically cleansing Gaza, Ferguson mentions that if you read Art of the Deal (which I actually did back in the 80s), Trump likes to stake out a maximalist, even crazy position at the start of a negotiation, so when he finally proposes a more sane option that's still a big win, it gets accepted. Ok fair enough. But Sam asks 'then why give away all the important concessions Putin wants before we even sit at the table? Ferguson changes the subject.
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wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 18:07 last edited by
I will again point out for the god knows how many'eth time that there is nothing wrong with "whataboutism" arguments, and in fact they are exactly what are called for to combat arguments that make claims about "this political side is especially bad/scary because X". An equal and opposite whataboutism about X logically nullifies such arguments. Of course in any given specific, the whataboutism might be weak, but they have to be judged individually rather than as a class. There is nothing wrong with the class.
And it goes without saying that they are employed relentlessly by both sides of any argument here, often by the same people who will dismiss them as a class of argument when others use them.
You will not find "whataboutism", by that name or any other, in any list of formal logical fallacies.
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wrote on 2 Mar 2025, 18:29 last edited by
Fair enough but they are the argument of a partisan, not an historian. He should be fully capable of discussing current events in their own terms.
