Moment of Zen Ep 7 w/ Aarthi and Sriram

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Episode 7 w/ guests Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan
Listen on Apple | Spotify | Youtube

Show Notes (timestamps link to Youtube).

• The episode begins with by introducing our guests. Aarthi and Sriram are ex-Meta, ex-Twitter, and cohosts of The Good Time Show. The question remains, has Aarthi always been more based than Sriram?

• 6:40 Antonio and Sriram have disagreed on countless topics. What do they agree on? The concept of Attribution - which Antonio defines as “causal Truth”.

• 10:10 Legitimacy. Sriram recommends you read Vitalik’s piece Legitimacy is a Scarce Resource.

• 14:30 Brokenism vs Institutionalism Key piece to read here is Alana Newhouse’s piece Brokenism from Tablet. (

• 26:00 Should Twitter eliminate trending topics?

• 32:00 Central discussion of Low vs High culture - what characterizes the split between mass appeal versus elite approval.

• 41:50 Who are the elites?

• 51:10 WWE and Kayfabe.

• 1:01:45 Thoughts on Lex Fridman.

• 1:11:10 Thoughts on Andrew Huberman.

• 1:19:00 Thoughts on Bryan Johnson.

• 1:21:00 Lindy (a recurring theme).

• 1:24:00 Against a la carte beliefs.

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