We can say a lot of things about Donald Trump, but I do believe he did something that even those of us who think outside the box might have imagined was impossible.

I don't think we're going to vote the Fed out of existence, for instance.

Well, it's an interesting moment to say that, but we could obsolete the Fed out of existence.

How dark and bad is the idea of mandating people to do something that's against their bodily autonomy?

Pandemic radicalized me on this front.

It throws people for a loop because they're thinking, oh, it's religion versus science.

Like, actually, no, religion is

a technology. If Dawkins were to recognize the error that he is making, that results in his

own work being vastly more important than it is. Public property is basically an oxymoron.

There's no accountability mechanism built into that. But with private property, you do have this responsibility.

You don't take care of that asset. Well, you're not going to have a thing to have rights to.

Well, I suspect I disagree with you here because...

I'm very curious.

We're kind of like, I guess, setting the frame for this long meandering conversation

we're about to have.

But I am deeply curious about where incentives meet human evolution, right? Because this just seemed seemed to this does seem to be the one

area that we can actually engineer for ourselves and steer our evolution to some extent

and now incentives is a very broad term i don't know you know obviously there's things like

linguistic relativity right the language you speak informs the thoughts you can create.

You know,

where are the product of the five people we spend the most time with,

the cultures you're engaged in and culture at you.

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