I sat in the living room while they recorded this chat... you do NOT want to miss it. I'm so excited this is finally premiering!! And, also, everyone needs to read his book, Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1, it's AMAZING (there's a three-chapter preview on Devon's website)

How did I miss this one? Very happy to see this collab, excited to watch.

"I'm readin btw the lines...this sounds like a missile" 😂

"Looking for natural intelligence and finding human stupidity," I'm just gonna quote this whole episode.

I used to be primarily interested in literary analysis when I was younger, Cormac McCarthy's unparalleled, Melvillean treatment of the form, and usage of anti-metaphor, was practically the most brilliant thing I've ever engaged with. Postmodernism has absolutely no place in politics, but very much has a place in literature, in my opinion. Edit: McCarthy also transcends postmodernism.

If the author / engineer / opinionator gig doesn't work out, he'd do well as a basso profundo opera singer. His voice, wow!

Whoa! Theft of Fire!?What!?! Did not expect this. LET’S GO!

"Intelligence sort of rly means, I don't know how you did that," tbh is among the more intelligent things I've ever heard said.

Another great guest Benjamin. I am slightly less black-pilled after listening to it. And as a bit of a cranky old fart myself, I really liked his attitude.

Can't wait to read this guy's fiction. Big fan of hos medium/long form tweets.

"Author, Engineer, Opinionator".... I like that! [Kitty embarks on mission to scrub entire interwebz of this saying then to coin it myself on "Joe Rogan Annual Furrball Extravaganza Podcast" that is _next_ on my list to get happening 🐈

Makes sense that an AnCap is good at writing fiction.

Excellent interview!

So what IS the best metaphor for AI art? I'm in the "blender of stollen goods" camp myself -lol!

The limits of money, for the US, is the part that EVERYONE in this space gets wrong. The short answer is, assume there practically ARE no such limits for our historically anomalous country, and the REAL problem is just that the ppl are getting robbed.

The difference between a "disagreeable person" and a Karen is that a disagreeable person embraces critique of their own thoughts and ideas and a Karen doesn't. A Karen is disagreeable just to be disagreeable.

Cool workflow,.similar to mine

FOURTH COMMENT SAYS HALF AN HOUR? We'll see what happens. Maybe this will learn me why I followed this guest on Twitter at some point, but don't read most of his tweets…🤔

This guy is great. I may just buy his book. His X posts are top notch.

States btw Florida and Texas, without Googling, I can almost do this: Louisiana because New Orleans, Mississippi because it's way down there, and I swear to God there's definitely one more. *Alabama goddamit, yeah it's way down there.

There are countless things wrong with crypto (lol, 'countless'). With that said, firstly I rly like the soap, vote, jury, ammo boxes thing, and also this episode is excellent overall.

33:00 - gender is a construct, and it’s turned on its creators. Creators: No we didn’t mean that kind of construct!

Ah, Boomer here....not a socialist....not an emotional decision maker....so I resent the description of the collective assessment of my generation. I am for individual freedoms and individual responsibility. Wasn't a hippie and am appalled by radical progressivism. Just sayin'. I would also argue that it is the elites of each generation that are the problem, not the generation they identify with.

I keep saying, immigration reform is just as important as the populists think, but completely halting immigration during an unprecedented manufacturing buildout and smaller native Zoomer bottleneck, would be much worse than the populists realize.

The word artificial is not very helpful to achieving an understanding that humans don’t own complex problem solving. Is ours the “real” intelligence? Well, it it’s something humans can do. Consider that birds can fly “for real.” Do we say humans “artificially” fly? No, because it is irrelevant. Humans fly much faster and farther than any bird. We anticipate analogous achievements with machine learning. Maybe we should call it supersonic intelligence.

A bit of pushback re: feminism and gender ideology. He says that feminism is not a cohesive movement or ideology, or is at least ill-defined, then almost immediately and broadly says feminism created gender ideology, and that isn’t ironic that the child is eating the mother and isn’t that a shame. Yet we know that a lot of (most?) early gender “pioneers” were men- Hirschfeld, Money, e.g. Women, which most feminists are, are conflated with gender ideologists (likely due to recency bias), the latter of which have a fair number of men (pedophilic men at that) in their ranks. The take is either genuinely underinformed or sensationalized, i.e., appeal to “feminism is cancer”.

I like Devon - he is right on about the right and conservatism - its leaders need a desperate overhaul .. or else they will keep losing

I already like this guy. My dad was an engineer computer for forever. I like how he comes into these things we think about