Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And in a few minutes, we're going to hear from Tyler Austin Harper, writer for The Atlantic who's been on here a few times. We're going to talk about Mondani and the meaning of the sort of way that the left has interpreted those results. We talk about Trump's intimidation of the media and this settlement with CBS and the

case against the Des Moines Register, Bernie Sanders, going on Joe Rogan. And then we also talk about

hobbies, one of my favorite topics. So we'll get to that in a second. But before we do, let me

empty my notebook. A couple of things here. I'll start with things that are non-ploid. Oh, we also talk about

Diddy, by the way, with Tyler, which that news basically came just as we were starting to record.

But I'll empty my notebook here. I have a bunch of things from over the weekend and last week that I've

just been accumulating, some newsy, some not. One is my use of chat GPT. I've been

like sharing a little bit more about how I use it. And one person helped me finagle the settings on

GPT. And I think if you have a certain level of GPT, I use pro, but I'm not sure if the levels below

pro have this. You can actually go in and give it instructions in the

settings. And what I've done is giving it instructions to be less sycophantic. So like if you

notice like chat GPT is a little too agreeable sometimes, I've put in the following and my friend

gave me this language. Be extremely accurate. Recommend things I wouldn't realize I would benefit from.

Call out my

misconceptions and tell me when I'm wrong. For personal matters, you can be encouraging,

but give me brutal honesty, never sycophancy. So that was her language. Love that language.

I've been using it and I've noticed a pretty marked difference and a level of clarity and honesty

that GPT usually doesn't share. So I'll do more of this because I know so many of you are using these tools. And I found that I've been able to really integrate GPT into my life in ways that really help in certain ways. And so I'll be sharing those things out. The second thing is I've been reading this book. I'm basically done with it now called The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis, who's been on the podcast before, and I hope to have her on

to talk about this book. It is incredible, this book, and great writing, really funny. It's essentially

a history of geniuses and the concept of genius. And it's interesting, both because the thesis is provocative.

And at various points, I agree and disagree with the thesis.

I'm largely convinced by her overall argument, which is this idea of genius has created

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