Supplementary Materials 8: Lab Leak Discourse, Toxic YouTube Dynamics, and the Metaphysics of Peppa Pig
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We stare into the abyss and welcome darkness into our souls as we discuss:
- Feedback on the Žižek episode
- Middle Aged Men's Health Update
- Alina Chan and the newest round of Lab Leak Discourse
- Discourse Surfing Pundits
- Alex O'Connor cornering Jordan Peterson on the resurrection
- The philosophical and Marxist implications of Peppa Pig
- Potential Alternatives to Hipster Christianity and New Atheism
- Andrew Gold's Heretics Channel and Toxic YouTube Dynamics
- Editorializing and Responsible Criticism
- Balaji Srinivasan's Waffling Defence of Huberman
- The 'Elite Defector' Pose
- Verbal Fluency vs. Substance
- Heterodox and Anti-Vaxx Incentive Structures
- James Lindsay's most recent idiocy
- Desperate Call to Action
Links
- Alina Chan's NYT Article on the Lab Leak
- Our episode addressing Alina and Matt Ridley's points with relevant experts
- Jordan Peterson's Podcast: Navigating Belief, Skepticism, and the Afterlife | Alex O'Connor @CosmicSkeptic | EP 451
- Andrew Gold - Heretics: EXPOSED: I Didn't Show THIS in Viral 'Woke' Debate with Eni Aluko (4K)
- Balaji's huge Twitter thread defending Huberman
- Summary of Huberman's Math Meme
- Top Earning Substacks
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary materials with me Chris Kavna, anthropologist of sorts and him, Matt, microphone |
| 0:38.0 | attacker and moonlighting psychologist. You might not hear the signs of the microphone banging, but if you don't, it's only because they've been removed in post. |
| 0:50.0 | So, yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm going to try hard. I'm going to do my Chris. I'm gonna leave it alone. I'm gonna leave it alone. |
| 0:56.3 | You're like the Zeejack of microphone banging. You know Zeejack is touching his nose and snuffling and what that and you are molesting your |
| 1:05.2 | microphone in between ticks it's all it's all sort of in post you guys think he's smooth not |
| 1:11.6 | naturally it's all. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm not. I'm not. |
| 1:16.0 | I am a mobile person. |
| 1:17.0 | I do fidget. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm mercurial, Chris. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm mercurial. How do you feel about the ZZCEke episode? |
| 1:22.0 | How is the feedback? I haven't looked yet. |
| 1:25.0 | ZZIC. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, ZZIC. |
| 1:29.0 | Reddit's become too big. There's too many people on it, there's too many posts, I see 80 replies and it's too much for me. |
| 1:36.5 | So give me the distilled version. Do people like it? Do people agree? |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, people like it. |
| 1:41.1 | Do people like it? The feedback was generally positive. It wasn't one of the, you know, explosive episodes. |
| 1:49.0 | Good. But predictably, the arts and humani philosopher types. |
| 1:55.0 | Oh, oh yes, of course they would make these elementary errors |
| 2:00.0 | in analysis and whatnot. |
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