Next up is my good friend Tim Irving from Wait But Why I asked him to do this as a favor

He gets a huge speaking fee. I said we have no budget

He said jayga I think it's 7500 ticket. I said I have no budget. I stole it all um and

And he has the number one talk in the history of Ted on YouTube my pal Tim Irving

You said something yesterday at Ted Nate Silver when after about when eight one poker and he was like you're not all I'm gonna take away your speaking fee and I was like the fuck speaking fee

All right, so the title of my talk is Tim talks about politics and other things that are probably a bad idea to talk about in front of all these people

Um and

I want to start with why am I even writing about politics? I don't like politics

I like writing about the science and tech in the future and procrastination and things that interest me

um

But as I'm thinking about the future and all this awesome stuff that we could have I started to have a bad feeling

I I think of society kind of like a giant organism

And this is how I always grew up assuming that society was like is like a big grownup but when I looked around

It looked more like a poopy pants six-year-old who dropped its ice cream

Um, and I feel like this is what a lot of people are kind of getting at in these talks, you know, we're talking about

Um kind of all this crazy polarization and you know mobs and all that and to me

I just look out and I see this I see I see kind of reverting and people are acting like they're in middle school and like

You know, we can't communicate and and what's going on? So I I started putting my mind to this now what what was the problem?

And the problem is already complicated and I'm not gonna try to get into the whole thing today

But I think that what we can do is uh have a better framework to talk about the problem

Um, I think that we are very constrained to this one-dimensional axis

It's like a straight jacket in our conversations

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