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Moment of Zen Ep 9 w/ Noah Smith

PLUS: MoZ bingo, highlighting YouTube comments, homework for episode 10 and show notes.

Feb 26, 2023
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Hello,

We were thrilled to see a fan create Moment of Zen Bingo! Our favorite: “Antonio Calls BS”.

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You can mint your very own bingo card here

And we can all but guarantee Antonio will call BS in the next episode…

BTW, we look through every YouTube comment - yes, both the positive and negative ones - we thank you and appreciate the constant feedback! In doing so, we wish to continue highlighting the good, the be better and the funny.

The Good

The Be Better

The Funny

The next episode of Moment of Zen will drop on Saturday, February 25th. Our guest will be Amjad Masad, founder of Replit.

If you want to open a few browser tabs in advance of our next episode to prepare:

  • “We’re All Gonna Die” with Eliezer Yudkowsky (Bankless Podcast)

  • Replika AI had a busy week amidst the backlash in response to the bans on certain erotica content:

    • Our sister podcast The Cognitive Revolution interviewed the founder of Replika, Eugenia Kuyda

    • Packy McCormick dropped “Love in the Time of Replika” on Not Boring

    • A Reddit user’s breakdown of our interview with Eugenia

  • Tyler Cowen explains “How and Why is Conquest’s Second Law true?”


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Show Notes (timestamps link to Youtube)

  • 0:00 Intro

  • 1:50 Sponsor

  • 2:15 What determines a country’s success

  • 6:00 Chinese collapse?

  • 8:35 Why does Ukraine matter?

  • 13:30 Can America be isolationist?

  • 20:20 Are we in a Cold War with China?

  • 25:45 Unpacking the new right

  • 35:44 The future of wokeness

  • 41:40 How Noah finds meaning in life (petting rabbits)

  • 44:20 Noah defends his liberalism

  • 53:00 American cope

  • 57:00 Why American infrastructure sucks

  • 1:01:00 Fake liberals

  • 1:06:30 Why California is a one-party state

  • 1:15:00 Tech’s political shift

  • 1:20:00 Noah’s advice to tech people

Full episode below. Moment of Zen is still evolving and we want to know what is most valuable to you. What do you want us to talk about or share in this newsletter? Leave us a note in the comments.


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