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4 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Just got sucked down a rabbithole of TikTok live videos, and my soul died. It's over, there's no hope.
I took screenshots so I won't think I had some fever dream tomorrow. It's the most batshit crazy stuff ever, if this is the metaverse, it's worse than anything in the Mad Max universe.
My theory that most of the world would be reduced to some slobbering existence in an oral-culture backwater, while a minority would remain textual enough to actually function (and actually help architect the oral ghetto) seems to have gathered more evidence.
Analog reality will be the ultimate luxury, and the metaverse the poor man's soup.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
3 Dec
Part 1 of my rollicking interview with @nfergus is finally out!

We discuss his new book 'Doom', his doubting atheism and love for Christian choral music, how many children to have, why elites seem so deficient now, and whether we'll beat the Chinese.

thepullrequest.com/p/niall-fergus…
@nfergus Historians are the discerners (or designers) of grand narrative arcs, and I asked Niall if our (post) Christian society can survive as a mostly atheist one. We both were rather skeptical.
@nfergus I proposed Judaism as a countervailing example of a religion that's both a binding social glue, and which doesn't require a very personal and hard-to-fake faith.

That too has some issues.
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2 Dec
My latest for Pull Request!

The Smollett case, which is now going to trial (and which many are selectively forgetting) is a timely illustration of the psychological phenomenon driving us all crazy (and exacerbated by the Internet): cognitive dissonance.

thepullrequest.com/p/on-cognitive…
I open the piece with an embarrassing personal example: I accidentally walked into the women's locker room at a gym years ago. My mental model of the world was utterly wrong, but I somehow rationalized the incoming data before *finally* realizing my error and skedaddling.
My comical example is a micro-version of a much bigger phenomenon: every nation, community or political faction has an organizing narrative that collides often with an inconvenient reality, traumatizing believers who feel severe anguish. Somehow, the narrative must be rescued.
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28 Nov
We're going pretty hard on the Pull Request @getcallin show this week. THREE WHOLE SHOWS!

First up is @mikeeisenberg, Israeli VC and author of 'Tree of Life and Prosperity', on tonight at 9pm!

callin.com/room/michael-e…
@getcallin @mikeeisenberg His book is an interesting parallel between the key readings of the Torah and the very worldly life of venture capitalism...and just modernity more broadly.

amzn.to/3xAxRVQ
@getcallin @mikeeisenberg Then on Tuesday at 7pm Pacific we're having author and editor @bungarsargon on to discuss her new book 'Bad News', as well as co-hosts @balaji (again) and @AshleyRindsberg.

callin.com/room/batya-ung…
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
27 Nov
Wonder if the world is finally ready for my “CDOs are good actually” take.

Have we all healed enough yet?
This was sparked by reading a crypto-hater’s take that crypto was the new CDO as

1. CDOs are bad,
and
2. they somehow went away as crypto will (they did not)

As long as we have sophisticated credit markets, we’ll have CDOs in some form.
What does Wall Street do?

It takes one type of risk that the economy produces and transforms it, via financial engineering, into another type of risk the capital markets actually want.

You’d think those two would be matched, but in a modern economy they often are very much not.
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23 Nov
Paul Skallas (@PaulSkallas), AKA the LindyMan, is a plagiarist.

His last post is cut-and-paste theft of my verbatim tweets, and a thin rehashing of ideas I've been posting about for a while.

Let's look at the evidence, shall we?

(Free link below.)

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/0cb/0cb5d4e345…
From my tweet:

From my tweet:

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23 Nov
On the one hand, plagiarism is a somewhat legacy sin in a world of remix and retweet culture, and true original authorship was a textual culture convention.

On the other, still kind of stings when someone literally rips your stuff word for word.
Should I bust the person?
Ok, I'm DM'ing to get his side. We are all God's creatures.
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