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Low vs High Culture, legacy vs new institutions, WWE, & Lex Fridman w/ Aarthi and Sriram
01:27:11
0:00 Intro 1:10 Sponsor (Secureframe) 3:10 Has Aarthi always been more based than Sriram? 6:40 Attribution 10:10 Legitimacy 14:30 Brokenism vs Institutionalism 19:40 Attention as influence 26:00 Should Twitter eliminate trending topics? 28:30 Antonio’s cultural elitism 32:00 Low vs High culture 41:50 Who are the elites? 51:10 WWE & Kayfabe 1:01:45 Lex Fridman 1:11:10 Andrew Huberman 1:19:00 Bryan Johnson 1:21:00 Lindy 1:24:00 Against a la carte beliefs
Thank you Secureframe for sponsoring (Use "Moment of Zen" for 20% discount) and Rob Perla, Natalie Toren, and Molly Mielke for production/art direction. The Cognitive Revolution, AI podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waii0i1bBFY https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution/id1669813431 Twitter: @moz_podcast @sriramk (Sriram) @aarthir (Aarthi) @Dwr (Dan) @Antoniogm (Antonio) @Eriktorenberg (Erik) |
Feb 04, 2023 |
E6: The AI moment, AI vs crypto: a heated debate with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, and Nathan Labenz
01:58:17
0:00 Preview of the debate 0:30 Sponsor 1:00 Nathan introducing our new upcoming AI podcast, The Cognitive Revolution 3:45 Flo’s take on the AI moment and AGI 8:20 Amjad’s take on the AI moment 15:00 Is chatGPT a step function change? 23:45 AI’s effect on coding 34:40 Amjad believes AI is underhyped 35:00 Bounties 53:15 What AI companies should VCs invest in? 57:30 Antonio/Flo pre-debate 1:00:15 “All knowledge work will be automated in 20 years” 1:01:00 Antonio’s AI skepticism 1:05:20 the inflection point is a jump in generality 1:06:00 Who will capture value, incumbents or startups? 1:14:30 Segue into AI and crypto 1:20:00 Flo’s crypto skepticism 1:23:40 Antonio and Flo HEATED DEBATE 1:26:30 Dan tries to calm everybody down 1:27:00 Dan’s crypto perspective 1:29:30 Antonio’s crypto perspective 1:31:50 Amjad’s Bitcoin maximalist view 1:34:55 Amjad’s hilarious rant on crypto ponzis 1:38:00 Dan and Amjad debate Bitcoin/Ethereum 1:40:00 AI vs Web 3 brawl 1:52:32 Amjad’s AI predictions |
Jan 29, 2023 |
E5 w/ The Realignment on Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics
01:04:34
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Jan 21, 2023 |
E4: USA vs Europe, Zeihan & Fukuyama, Reforming institutions vs starting new ones, and why we started "Moment of Zen"
01:25:49
0:00 intro and sponsor 1:20 introductions (who the f are we?) 3:00 Antonio introduction 5:12 Dan introduction 6:50 Farcaster 10:10 Erik introduction 12:30 the life of the mind vs the life of the founder 16:00 Being in the arena as a requisite to comment 18:30 Why is the podcast named “Moment of Zen”? 20:20 Erik is the Johnny Appleseed of group chats 23:30 Group chat culture 26:55 Reforming institutions vs building new ones 29:30 Antonio’s intellectual evolution 30:40 Europe is behind, but Antonio prefers it 31:40 Antonio feels like a teetotaler who runs a bar 32:50 LARPs 34:00 Explaining Fukuyama 37:50 What’s the best functioning institution today? 39:10 Richard Hanania 42:30 We don’t have a grand unifying projects anymore 45:00 Should the China threat be the unifying narrative? 48:05 Taiwan 49:56 Explaining Zeihan 1:00:20 When shit hits the fan, what country do you flee to? 1:02:40 Why doesn’t Prince Harry get a paternity test? 1:04:00 Europe vs America 1:08:20 Dan is bullish on Europeans, bearish on Europe 1:11:20 “Everything except the startup scene is better in Europe” 1:15:19 Why is the US public sector so much worse? 1:21:35 Why are we doing this show? 1:22:32 “How about we just don’t get canceled?” 1:23:55 Teasing upcoming guests 1:24:34 Erik’s favorite ex-convict? |
Jan 14, 2023 |
E3 w/ Amjad Masad on AGI as religion for nerds, history as a series of conspiracies, and religion as a foundation for raising your kids
01:45:25
0:00 - Antonio’s circumcision 1:20 - The future of Replit 6:30 - The future of coding 9:46 - The Steve Jobs Blackpill 12:00 - Will AGI lead to the death of humans? 18:13 - AGM thinks AGI dystopia is bullshit, religion for nerds 21:12 - Why is there a human need for “end of times” theory? 23:20 - Climate science is unsettled 25:55 - AGM swears he has no idea who Curtis Yarvin is (Who is Curtis Yarvin? - editor) 26:25 - Dan wrestles with the guilt of bringing another human into this cold, ugly world 27:00 - Amjad’s counter-narrative to the AGI dystopia narrative 29:30 - How can AI become consciousness if we don’t know what consciousness is? 32:15 - “AGM do you want to share your story with an AI girlfriend?” 32:58 - Amjad’s Palestinian background and his identity crisis 37:00 - Redpill moments 39:17 - The media never lies 40:35 - Russel Conjugation 41:50 - Comparing Islam and Judaism 43:44 - Judaism isn’t about faith, it’s about practice 51:00 - Transhumanism vs Ludditism 51:50 - Was The Unabomber a left-wing or right-wing nut? 55:15 - Ludditism never works, you can’t roll technology back 57:00 - Antonio’s redpilling 58:30 - Raising a family with or without religion 1:04:40 - Dismissing religion is the classic midwit meme 1:07;20 - History is a series of conspiracies 1:15:00 - Modern day true conspiracies 1:21:05 - “Are the frogs gay?” 1:22:50 - Why does truth matter? 1:30:40 - Prediction Markets 1:36:30 - The only places where truth matters: wars, elections, and markets |
Jan 08, 2023 |
E2 w/ Marc Andreessen on Elon, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand Year Empire
00:49:37
00:00 - Intro 1:00 - Unpacking the famous SBF quote 4:00 - Introducing Joe Henrich’s “WEIRD” 6:15 - Introducing Tom Holland’s “Dominion” 7:10 - Nietzsche’s criticism of Christianity 8:45 - Christianity’s inversion of morality 11:40 - Is Wokeness the logical conclusion of Christianity? 15:00 - The Christ narrative as the central narrative 16:20 - Are there any alternatives to WEIRD - Is WEIRD taking over the world? 17:20 - Antonio’s circumcision 20:30 - Why we can’t have Nietzschian morality in TV shows 24:30 - Kanye, Trump, Elon 26:30 - Introducing James Burnham and the rise of professional managerial class 31:30 - How Elon is a threat to the PMC 34:00 - Can other countries resist WEIRD? 38:30 - What would Balaji say about the case for America? 41:50 - Balaji’s Network State 43:20 - is social media going to fragment? 46:35 - America is consistent with the process of evolution 48:20 - We need more cleaving of the elites Thanks to Secureframe for being our first sponsor. Sign up at secureframe.com and mention "Moment of Zen" for 20% off |
Dec 30, 2022 |
Moment of Zen E1 w/ Marc Andreessen on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/Chat GPT
01:03:14
(0:00) All-in Tribute (1:15) What happens to SBF? FTX = Enron + Theranos (5:00) History of collapses in crypto (8:10) DeFi/Web3 actually works (11:35) Redemption arc for SBF/Caroline? Comparing with other frauds (15:37) In an alternate universe, what could FTX have become? Steelmanning FTX the business (22:30) What’s going to happen to Twitter? (24:20) How would we advise Elon? (25:20) Is controversy good for Twitter? (26:10) The killer app for Twitter is to dunk on your enemies (26:40) Bull case for Twitter (34:00) Tech civil war? The fight for free speech (40:15) Future of AI - open vs closed? (45:10) Intersection of AI and crypto (53:00) Role for gov’t regulation (58:50) 2023 Predictions Dan Romero: www.twitter.com/dwr Antonio Garcia Martinez: www.twitter.com/antoniogm Erik Torenberg: www.twitter.com/eriktorenberg Marc Andreessen: www.twitter.com/pmarca Thanks to Rob Perla and Molly Mielke for production |
Dec 27, 2022 |