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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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00:00 Has the tide turned against Elon—and against Twitter? 12:55 Elon accuses Fauci of funding research that killed millions 26:42 Bob sees signs that the “Twitter files” journalism is biased 40:24 Why now might be a good time for Ukraine diplomacy 44:51 Parrot Room preview: SBF news; breaking down the nuclear fusion breakthrough; the AI alignment problem; China’s coming COVID explosion; TikTok backlash gains traction; Elon’s growing Tesla problems
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded December 16, 2022.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
0:08.4 | Hi, Mickey. |
0:10.4 | Hey, Bob. |
0:11.9 | Oh, look, it's a picture of Barry Weiss. |
0:13.7 | You know, I just approvingly retweeted her, something I thought I'd never do. |
0:18.5 | I know. |
0:19.8 | I didn't expect that from you. |
0:21.5 | Everybody's being a big, big person. |
0:23.2 | That's a very big of you. |
0:24.3 | And it's big of her to tweet this thing criticizing Elon Musk for banning these accounts, |
0:31.5 | which seems to be the story of the hour, maybe not of next hour. |
0:35.4 | But not to harsh your buzz or berries, but is it big of her |
0:41.6 | or is it just a sign of the extent to which the tide has turned against Elon Musk? |
0:46.6 | Has the tide so turned that it is in her interest to position herself at some distance from me. |
0:55.3 | I mean, maybe we should read the tweet in case people haven't. |
0:58.6 | Maybe we should recap what's happened for people. |
1:02.1 | Okay. |
1:03.6 | Anyway, just quickly, her tweet that I approve and you retweeted is the old regime at |
1:07.4 | Twitter governed by its own whims and biases, governed by its own whims and biases, and it sure looks |
1:13.8 | like the new regime has the same problem. I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists who |
1:19.7 | were reporting on a story of public importance should be reinstated. Of course, Barry Weiss is one of |
1:24.4 | two court scribes for, I mean to put it maybe more cynically than it should be put |
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