Based Camp - September 15, 2023


A Deeper Dive Into the Alt-Right Femboy Catgirls with with Brian Chau


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

177.23303

Word Count

7,835

Sentence Count

287

Misogynist Sentences

31

Hate Speech Sentences

50


Summary

Brian Chow is a senior policy fellow at the Alliance for the Future (AFT) and host of the excellent podcast From the New World. In this episode, we talk about the alt-right catboys of the internet, and why they have a problem with anime.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This episode specifically was in part an excuse for me
00:00:04.940 to interrogate the love lives of my Zoomer friends.
00:00:09.060 I am on the older side of the Zoomers.
00:00:12.340 And yeah, I basically asked, I asked around,
00:00:16.160 I asked all three of the alt-right Catboys
00:00:18.920 that I know in real life.
00:00:23.020 Yeah, and basically tried to get a kind of just all,
00:00:28.920 like we were talking about a kind of summary of their love lives.
00:00:35.500 People were very happy to offer, you know,
00:00:37.860 these kind of predilections, being into,
00:00:40.120 especially a certain type of anime girls.
00:00:41.880 I feel like there is, if you talk about a real life person
00:00:46.100 who you're attracted to,
00:00:47.680 I think there's this soft idea of civil rights law
00:00:50.620 coming after you, or people you know,
00:00:53.700 who feel, who are like similar in appearance,
00:00:56.520 feeling uncomfortable with that.
00:00:57.920 And that's something that Zoomers kind of want to avoid.
00:01:01.260 But the same is not true for anime girls.
00:01:04.600 So it's almost considerable.
00:01:05.840 This is like this kind of weird post-sexuality thing.
00:01:09.700 Would you like to know more?
00:01:11.020 Well, hello.
00:01:11.820 We are super excited to have a VIP guest with us today,
00:01:15.040 Brian Chow.
00:01:15.880 He is first and foremost, in our minds, of course,
00:01:19.400 and from the past quite a while,
00:01:21.700 the host of the amazing podcast, From the New World.
00:01:24.460 Really good long listen if you are looking for something good
00:01:27.980 to listen to, to learn from.
00:01:31.160 Amazing interviews.
00:01:32.380 But more recently, Brian has become a senior machine learning policy fellow
00:01:36.960 at the Alliance for the Future,
00:01:38.800 something that we shall talk about in another episode with him.
00:01:42.020 But today, I think we're going to get into something really interesting.
00:01:45.380 Brian, do you want to kick us off here?
00:01:47.240 Right, so I was listening to another great podcast,
00:01:52.280 Basecamp, with Simone and Malcolm Collins.
00:01:56.620 Yeah, so I listened to an episode that you guys did on your own about,
00:02:02.060 it was one of the ones about Zoomer sexuality.
00:02:04.580 And I thought, I have so many takes on this.
00:02:07.300 And I'm not populating my sub stack with my Zoomer sexuality takes.
00:02:11.520 Maybe like the paid feed.
00:02:12.880 But, you know, there's so many other things that I'm working on right now
00:02:17.000 that I just want to be more,
00:02:18.840 I just want the sub stack to be more laser focused on.
00:02:21.680 The podcast is more laser focused on.
00:02:23.160 More serious.
00:02:24.220 Yeah, you're high culture.
00:02:25.660 We're low culture.
00:02:26.540 Serious, okay.
00:02:27.320 Yeah, yeah, we will be talking about that eventually.
00:02:30.200 And yeah, I thought this was a great venue to talk about it.
00:02:33.820 I think that we have, you know, some similarities,
00:02:35.960 some disagreements probably.
00:02:37.800 But I do think that there's just not enough,
00:02:40.140 there's just not enough like horizontal exploration of this idea, right?
00:02:44.800 This idea of kind of changing the axis,
00:02:50.140 changing how people interpret sexuality,
00:02:52.920 the kind of like default narrative.
00:02:54.260 This is the theme of my podcast often.
00:02:57.020 So there's this kind of default narrative.
00:02:58.600 And this is like orthogonal to like the actual thing that's happening.
00:03:01.300 I think the episode, of course, that really, really struck through to me
00:03:07.260 was the one about, I think, like submissive and dominance.
00:03:10.600 But also, you know, also, this wasn't, this was actually after,
00:03:16.420 this was released after I reached out to you guys,
00:03:18.800 but also the one on alt-right cat girls.
00:03:21.300 That is a very, very important topic of our generation.
00:03:24.400 No, it's such a thing is that the concept of the alt-right cat girl
00:03:28.500 I keep seeing and the, as the right has,
00:03:32.780 because it used to be like the left was sex positive
00:03:35.180 and the right was sex negative to some extent.
00:03:37.840 And now the left has totally seeded any,
00:03:41.240 any manifestation that is sex, sex positive for men.
00:03:47.180 You know, if I'm, if I want my Overwatch to have, you know,
00:03:51.160 sexy tracer butt, that is a right-wing idea,
00:03:54.760 which is really interesting.
00:03:56.120 Right, it's the ball, it's the barstool conservatives, right?
00:04:00.840 It's the, yeah, yeah, the, the party of, the party of horny men
00:04:04.660 and also the people who hate horny men the most.
00:04:07.000 Yeah, I think that's a good description of the Republican Party.
00:04:09.800 Although, you know, although some of the, some of the,
00:04:12.860 the, the right, the right-wing elite, you know,
00:04:15.120 are coming around to it.
00:04:16.580 Have you guys talked about Bronze Age Pervert on the show?
00:04:19.420 No.
00:04:19.600 I'd love for you to go deeper.
00:04:22.380 Yeah.
00:04:22.800 Okay, okay.
00:04:23.920 So, yeah, so Bronze Age Pervert is this,
00:04:27.000 very hard to describe in one sentence.
00:04:29.340 His, his philosophy is Nietzsche and bodybuilding.
00:04:35.160 Done, easy.
00:04:36.420 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:36.700 You describe him as like a poet.
00:04:38.620 He's much more interested in conveying poetry
00:04:41.360 and an aesthetic than specific ideas
00:04:43.900 in a way that is really interesting
00:04:46.660 and a new art form that works within the online medium.
00:04:49.840 Yeah, it's very practiced affectation.
00:04:52.780 Yes, but I fear that sometimes people confuse
00:04:56.740 what he's saying with a systematically
00:04:59.440 and internally consistent world perspective,
00:05:02.160 which it's not.
00:05:03.080 It's an aesthetically consistent moral perspective,
00:05:05.880 but not really a logically consistent moral perspective.
00:05:09.880 Right, right.
00:05:10.460 I mean, this is something that I try to do as well.
00:05:12.940 There's, you know, there's,
00:05:14.440 if you look at the history of it,
00:05:15.900 there's, you know, political theory,
00:05:17.140 you know, there's like Hobbes' long treatises
00:05:20.020 on, you know, how to run a state
00:05:22.620 and the role of the citizen within the state.
00:05:25.440 And, you know, that's one thing.
00:05:28.020 I think that, you know,
00:05:29.140 other than autistic theory nerds,
00:05:31.080 very few people are going to read anything like that.
00:05:33.580 Maybe for your political science class,
00:05:35.220 you know, maybe there are like kids
00:05:36.640 who are sitting through their political science class
00:05:38.600 who are listening to this.
00:05:39.660 And then there's, on the other hand,
00:05:43.920 these kind of like fully affective manifestos.
00:05:47.900 And usually the way that I see it bridged
00:05:50.480 is I see people giving like Straussian interpretations
00:05:54.220 of basically artworks or of culture,
00:05:58.220 of different approaches to these things.
00:06:00.460 And using that as a way to create something
00:06:03.520 that is normative,
00:06:07.020 that is creating some sort of logical order,
00:06:10.720 but without necessarily committing to,
00:06:13.640 you know, the kind of legalism
00:06:15.120 of someone like Hobbes.
00:06:17.900 I think that's the goal of the Bronze Age mindset.
00:06:20.580 It's a lot more obvious if you look at,
00:06:23.080 for example,
00:06:23.620 I think Christopher Rufo is a good example of this.
00:06:26.300 Yeah.
00:06:26.640 Of someone who is,
00:06:28.240 like Christopher Rufo supports specific policies,
00:06:31.440 I'm not sure he has like a consistent political theory,
00:06:35.220 you know,
00:06:35.520 like a theory of how the world works,
00:06:37.940 how the political system should works
00:06:39.500 in the same way that,
00:06:41.020 you know,
00:06:41.300 like classical liberalism
00:06:42.600 or, you know,
00:06:43.600 like Burkean conservatism is a political theory.
00:06:46.620 It's very different from that,
00:06:47.980 but he does have both an aesthetic
00:06:49.580 and, you know,
00:06:50.240 at least like a direction
00:06:51.340 or a combination of things
00:06:52.640 that he's trying to accomplish.
00:06:54.380 Yeah.
00:06:54.880 Well, I'd love to hear
00:06:55.800 what's your thesis
00:06:56.880 on how gender and sexuality are changing,
00:06:59.320 personally.
00:07:00.580 Right.
00:07:00.960 So there's just like a huge dominance shortage.
00:07:04.140 Right.
00:07:04.320 You just see this.
00:07:05.340 You see this everywhere.
00:07:06.280 Actually,
00:07:06.720 I'm not sure like how everywhere you see this.
00:07:09.640 Right.
00:07:09.860 But this was in part,
00:07:12.400 like this episode specifically
00:07:14.100 was in part an excuse for me
00:07:17.580 to interrogate the love lives
00:07:19.820 of my Zoomer friends.
00:07:21.640 I am on the older side of the Zoomers.
00:07:24.440 I have many,
00:07:25.040 you know,
00:07:25.380 many friends.
00:07:26.360 Some of them,
00:07:26.840 I assure you,
00:07:27.580 are good people.
00:07:29.560 And yeah,
00:07:30.260 I basically asked,
00:07:31.620 I asked around,
00:07:33.400 I talked about,
00:07:34.580 you know,
00:07:35.440 what issues we were going to discuss.
00:07:36.760 I asked all three of the alt-right catboys
00:07:39.700 that I know in real life.
00:07:43.880 Yeah.
00:07:44.760 And basically tried to get
00:07:48.080 a kind of gestalt,
00:07:49.820 like we were talking about,
00:07:51.900 a kind of summary
00:07:53.380 of their love lives.
00:07:55.120 and,
00:07:56.820 you know,
00:07:58.020 my,
00:07:58.180 my old advice,
00:08:00.440 my old advice
00:08:01.780 to my fellow Zoomers
00:08:03.600 was just,
00:08:04.640 you know,
00:08:05.100 it's actually very similar
00:08:06.180 to something that you talked about
00:08:07.400 in,
00:08:08.480 in,
00:08:08.740 in your book
00:08:09.360 that,
00:08:10.160 you know,
00:08:10.520 10Xing the number of people
00:08:11.940 you interact with
00:08:13.420 does,
00:08:14.300 accomplishes the same thing
00:08:15.620 as making yourself
00:08:16.660 10X more attractive.
00:08:18.100 Right.
00:08:18.400 Like the chance of finding someone,
00:08:21.140 the chance of finding someone good
00:08:22.800 is,
00:08:23.420 is the same
00:08:24.100 if you,
00:08:25.040 if you do both of those things,
00:08:26.380 right?
00:08:26.880 If you're,
00:08:27.240 if you're specifically looking
00:08:28.360 for one person
00:08:29.080 who is,
00:08:29.540 you know,
00:08:29.660 compatible with you.
00:08:30.980 So before you say no,
00:08:32.540 I want to make way
00:08:33.400 to predictions
00:08:33.980 so that you can correct me
00:08:35.080 where I'm wrong
00:08:35.680 or where I think
00:08:36.960 Gen Z is.
00:08:38.220 And I want you to like,
00:08:39.360 from your interview,
00:08:40.080 this is where you're totally off.
00:08:41.960 So one is,
00:08:43.180 or maybe there's more
00:08:43.980 than two things.
00:08:44.620 Basically,
00:08:45.020 they're not having sex
00:08:46.100 or they're moving more
00:08:47.300 in a direction of asexuality
00:08:48.940 or post-sexuality
00:08:50.540 that there's,
00:08:51.640 there is more conservatism,
00:08:53.720 but not in ways
00:08:54.680 that you would expect.
00:08:55.760 It's not,
00:08:56.440 oh,
00:08:56.480 we should go back
00:08:57.180 to the old ways
00:08:58.420 or the traditional ways
00:08:59.400 or religious ways,
00:09:00.300 but more like
00:09:01.100 men and women
00:09:02.260 are quite different.
00:09:03.780 Maybe we should bring back
00:09:05.320 monogamy,
00:09:06.880 you know,
00:09:07.080 like things are really bad
00:09:08.120 right now,
00:09:08.680 but then also like
00:09:10.160 extreme levels of,
00:09:11.520 relationship nihilism.
00:09:13.720 Like,
00:09:14.000 not if it matters,
00:09:15.120 I'm going to be alone forever.
00:09:16.400 Like the same,
00:09:17.280 the same thing
00:09:17.860 that millennials experienced
00:09:19.060 with wealth.
00:09:20.300 Like,
00:09:20.740 I'm never going to be able
00:09:21.480 to afford a house
00:09:22.320 or I'm never going to
00:09:22.920 not have student debt.
00:09:24.300 Gen Z is going through
00:09:25.760 with,
00:09:26.480 with sex
00:09:27.340 and relationship
00:09:28.300 and marriage.
00:09:29.060 Well,
00:09:29.500 I'm never going to get married.
00:09:30.940 I'm never going to have a spouse.
00:09:31.920 I'm never going to have kids.
00:09:32.980 So where,
00:09:33.940 where am I wrong here?
00:09:35.860 Yeah,
00:09:36.020 the relationship
00:09:36.860 humorism
00:09:37.500 is definitely
00:09:38.520 a real thing.
00:09:40.440 That,
00:09:40.880 that is almost
00:09:41.620 100% right.
00:09:43.400 There are people
00:09:44.120 I know
00:09:44.560 who have
00:09:45.060 a kind of
00:09:45.520 conservative disposition
00:09:46.940 who are
00:09:48.280 basically like,
00:09:51.080 well,
00:09:51.900 I'm not going to
00:09:52.740 find a trad wife
00:09:53.620 anyway,
00:09:53.980 so might as well,
00:09:55.260 you know,
00:09:55.780 do hookups
00:09:56.340 or whatever.
00:09:57.220 Hmm.
00:09:57.420 that is a real thing.
00:10:00.020 I do think it is
00:10:00.860 a real
00:10:01.560 and very common thing.
00:10:03.540 I should say
00:10:04.300 for the audience,
00:10:05.040 you know,
00:10:05.340 that this doesn't matter
00:10:06.140 a lot.
00:10:06.840 It is mostly,
00:10:07.840 you know,
00:10:08.040 like college educated
00:10:09.100 people,
00:10:10.340 probably like
00:10:11.100 more,
00:10:13.020 more Asian,
00:10:13.900 but not like that Asian.
00:10:16.100 But,
00:10:16.560 but yeah,
00:10:16.860 you know,
00:10:17.400 what you would expect
00:10:18.800 on like
00:10:19.600 an MIT-ish campus,
00:10:21.580 right?
00:10:22.300 Or not,
00:10:22.760 you know,
00:10:22.940 not MIT specifically.
00:10:24.060 So continue.
00:10:24.760 I want to hear specifically.
00:10:25.980 So you interviewed
00:10:26.520 three people.
00:10:27.660 What did they say?
00:10:28.200 Oh,
00:10:28.300 I interviewed a lot
00:10:28.900 more than three people.
00:10:29.880 I interviewed a lot
00:10:30.420 more than three people.
00:10:31.400 Yeah.
00:10:31.880 So the number one thing
00:10:33.040 when it comes to
00:10:33.680 the other topic,
00:10:35.660 right,
00:10:36.100 which is this kind of,
00:10:38.060 I don't think
00:10:38.600 it's a conservatism.
00:10:40.220 It's a kind of
00:10:41.660 porn addiction.
00:10:42.920 I don't know.
00:10:43.580 It's,
00:10:43.980 I think,
00:10:45.800 Simone,
00:10:46.140 when you were on
00:10:46.700 my podcast,
00:10:47.580 you talked about
00:10:48.520 the best alternative
00:10:49.760 to no agreement
00:10:51.820 or something like that.
00:10:53.100 Yeah.
00:10:53.300 for people in relationships.
00:10:55.300 So the best alternative
00:10:56.380 to a negotiated offer,
00:10:57.980 essentially,
00:10:58.460 like,
00:10:59.100 what are you going to do
00:10:59.540 if you don't get a deal?
00:11:00.700 That's,
00:11:01.040 that's what it seems like.
00:11:02.160 A lot of people are just,
00:11:03.560 you know,
00:11:04.660 it's a very happy equilibrium
00:11:06.240 for them to just be
00:11:07.720 like jerking off to porn.
00:11:10.200 That's their,
00:11:11.040 you know,
00:11:11.280 that's their main
00:11:12.120 way to consume
00:11:14.300 sexuality.
00:11:15.720 And they really,
00:11:16.840 there are a lot of people
00:11:17.780 who,
00:11:18.780 you know,
00:11:19.020 just know like all kinds
00:11:20.180 of crazy things,
00:11:21.660 know all kinds of,
00:11:22.900 you know,
00:11:23.140 tricks in order
00:11:24.080 to pleasure themselves
00:11:25.080 who really have
00:11:27.540 no relationship
00:11:28.420 experience whatsoever.
00:11:29.940 Maybe they've done
00:11:30.520 hookups or something
00:11:31.140 like that.
00:11:31.820 But this is a very,
00:11:32.600 this is a very common
00:11:33.480 thing that happens
00:11:34.900 where I think
00:11:36.480 they'll log on
00:11:37.460 to an internet forum.
00:11:38.500 They have,
00:11:38.900 they're like people
00:11:39.480 with no social skills.
00:11:41.540 And I do mean
00:11:42.700 like none.
00:11:44.340 This is not
00:11:45.120 an exaggeration.
00:11:46.000 And they'll log on
00:11:46.660 to like these internet forums
00:11:47.760 and just talk to,
00:11:50.260 just talk to like
00:11:51.000 strangers online.
00:11:51.860 That's their default,
00:11:52.620 right?
00:11:52.780 You know,
00:11:53.300 you,
00:11:53.720 you,
00:11:54.040 you go on Stack Overflow
00:11:55.140 to solve your
00:11:56.340 computer science problems.
00:11:57.820 I thought you said
00:11:58.300 to solve your
00:11:58.900 relationship problems.
00:11:59.920 I'm like,
00:12:00.200 this is something.
00:12:01.700 Yeah.
00:12:02.140 Yeah.
00:12:02.380 So people are going,
00:12:03.640 people are going
00:12:04.360 on Reddit forums
00:12:05.280 and,
00:12:06.140 and like Twitter,
00:12:07.160 x.com,
00:12:08.320 you know,
00:12:08.840 yeah,
00:12:09.240 they're going
00:12:11.740 on the
00:12:12.040 appropriately named
00:12:12.960 x.com to ask
00:12:14.360 for their
00:12:15.600 relationship advice
00:12:17.660 and mostly getting,
00:12:18.760 you know,
00:12:19.480 substitutes for
00:12:20.180 relationship advice.
00:12:21.600 That I think
00:12:22.160 is the trend.
00:12:24.020 Yeah.
00:12:24.300 Well,
00:12:24.460 okay.
00:12:24.660 So here's a question
00:12:25.440 I have.
00:12:26.080 So in my generation
00:12:27.500 and I'm wondering
00:12:28.500 if this is part,
00:12:29.240 because we talk about
00:12:29.980 how people are changing
00:12:30.800 biologically,
00:12:31.840 but,
00:12:32.600 and we talk about
00:12:33.420 failed relationship markets,
00:12:34.920 but I think one thing
00:12:36.420 that's,
00:12:36.880 that's not talked
00:12:37.720 about enough
00:12:38.680 is that in my generation,
00:12:40.140 our primary social networks
00:12:41.800 were our in-person
00:12:42.820 friend networks.
00:12:43.880 And therefore the primary
00:12:45.700 thing that motivated me
00:12:47.240 to sleep around a lot,
00:12:48.300 like I slept around a lot,
00:12:49.600 like in person
00:12:50.300 when I was younger,
00:12:50.880 it was not actually
00:12:52.720 getting to sleep
00:12:53.540 with people.
00:12:54.620 It was the way
00:12:55.780 my peer network
00:12:56.820 saw me
00:12:58.000 because I was sleeping
00:12:59.520 with lots of people.
00:13:00.500 And I wonder
00:13:01.340 if the breakdown
00:13:02.780 of in-person
00:13:03.540 social networks
00:13:04.760 has removed
00:13:06.300 a lot of the motivation
00:13:07.600 for real
00:13:09.500 sexual encounters
00:13:10.440 versus just
00:13:11.060 masturbation.
00:13:12.520 Yeah,
00:13:13.140 I think so.
00:13:13.880 It's like an
00:13:14.560 asocial thing.
00:13:16.420 Definitely,
00:13:16.920 I think,
00:13:17.620 you know,
00:13:17.880 less than,
00:13:19.400 less than the decline
00:13:20.840 in like actual sex,
00:13:21.940 I think it's like
00:13:22.440 the decline
00:13:22.880 in talking about sex.
00:13:24.780 It's just like,
00:13:25.220 you know,
00:13:25.560 like exers
00:13:26.280 and boomers
00:13:28.040 would talk to me
00:13:28.900 about how
00:13:29.480 there's a kind of
00:13:30.280 like implicit
00:13:30.700 status hierarchy,
00:13:32.160 especially among men.
00:13:33.180 Maybe it's not,
00:13:34.240 I don't think
00:13:34.760 it's the same
00:13:35.200 with women
00:13:35.600 of,
00:13:36.880 you know,
00:13:37.040 there's pressure
00:13:37.860 to lose your virginity.
00:13:39.240 There's pressure
00:13:40.020 to sleep around.
00:13:42.980 And I have never
00:13:44.860 experienced that.
00:13:45.740 I think most of the people
00:13:46.680 I talk to,
00:13:48.300 there's no pressure,
00:13:50.140 especially,
00:13:50.920 I think actually
00:13:51.580 this is a thing
00:13:54.420 that I feel like
00:13:55.180 is very wrong
00:13:56.120 and maybe very dependent
00:13:57.380 on selection bias.
00:13:58.800 But I feel like
00:13:59.320 there's almost more
00:14:00.040 of a pressure
00:14:00.440 for women than men
00:14:01.340 among Zoomers.
00:14:02.200 To have sex.
00:14:03.200 At least among
00:14:03.960 the ones that I
00:14:04.820 talked to.
00:14:05.900 Yeah.
00:14:06.700 You could please
00:14:08.000 elaborate on that.
00:14:09.040 Yeah.
00:14:10.700 So,
00:14:11.520 I mean,
00:14:12.560 I think with most men
00:14:13.520 it's just neutral.
00:14:14.480 There is a kind of,
00:14:15.580 you know,
00:14:16.220 basically
00:14:17.080 completely,
00:14:18.340 you know,
00:14:19.620 biological desire.
00:14:22.340 People have innate desires.
00:14:23.920 That's not,
00:14:24.380 I don't think that's changed.
00:14:25.760 But as a kind of social force,
00:14:27.580 I don't think it's,
00:14:28.600 it exists.
00:14:29.260 Or if anything,
00:14:30.660 there are,
00:14:31.360 it is almost discouraged
00:14:32.520 to talk about it
00:14:33.460 among men.
00:14:35.800 Whereas among women,
00:14:37.700 I think there is,
00:14:39.360 it is much more
00:14:40.100 high variance,
00:14:41.040 I would say.
00:14:41.540 There are definitely,
00:14:42.220 you know,
00:14:42.440 families that are much
00:14:43.160 more conservative
00:14:43.720 about this,
00:14:45.220 especially immigrants.
00:14:46.520 But I think like
00:14:47.060 among white women,
00:14:48.640 it is among the few
00:14:51.600 that I talked to.
00:14:53.260 And I want to say,
00:14:54.560 you know,
00:14:54.720 this is not that large
00:14:55.660 of a sample size.
00:14:56.380 So I'm like,
00:14:57.580 I'm 95% sure
00:14:59.060 it's like sample size
00:15:00.140 or like selection bias problems.
00:15:03.240 Both of them said,
00:15:04.500 but both white women
00:15:05.460 who I talked to,
00:15:06.780 like Zoomer white women,
00:15:08.120 said that they felt encouraged
00:15:09.780 to do such a thing.
00:15:11.680 Not like strongly,
00:15:12.540 you know,
00:15:12.900 like you must,
00:15:14.120 you know,
00:15:14.380 you're the most alpha
00:15:15.340 if you sleep with a lot of people.
00:15:17.080 But,
00:15:17.480 but you know,
00:15:18.040 that this is a good
00:15:19.620 and healthy thing
00:15:21.000 to do in your life.
00:15:22.540 Yeah.
00:15:22.800 I think probably a better way
00:15:23.660 to think of it was women
00:15:24.280 is this is how you're not
00:15:25.280 cast out of the group.
00:15:27.380 This is how you're normal.
00:15:30.620 Or is that wrong?
00:15:31.380 I would say so.
00:15:32.360 I would say so.
00:15:33.340 Yeah.
00:15:34.260 That's one way
00:15:34.940 to think about it.
00:15:35.900 How do they think
00:15:36.620 about deviant sexuality?
00:15:38.400 The people you talk to,
00:15:39.340 especially the right wing Zoomers,
00:15:41.240 I find very interesting
00:15:42.040 how they think about
00:15:42.800 deviant or weird sexuality.
00:15:45.580 The right wing Zoomers,
00:15:47.020 I would say that more in general,
00:15:48.340 there's like a blurring of the line.
00:15:49.880 It's not very,
00:15:51.100 they're almost not aware
00:15:52.400 that it's deviant sexuality
00:15:54.380 or what specifically
00:15:56.180 do you mean here?
00:15:56.980 Do you mean homosexuality?
00:15:59.000 No, no, no.
00:15:59.600 So cat girlism,
00:16:00.720 I find is the,
00:16:02.540 I mean,
00:16:02.880 that's the totem
00:16:04.320 that we were raising
00:16:05.040 in that podcast
00:16:05.780 was this idea
00:16:06.580 that cat girlism
00:16:07.460 is a quote unquote
00:16:08.720 deviant sexuality,
00:16:09.740 but every guy thinks
00:16:11.520 anime cat girls are cute,
00:16:12.760 you know?
00:16:13.480 And so it's not actually
00:16:15.020 a deviant sexuality.
00:16:16.360 And that's why
00:16:17.160 it's become this totem
00:16:18.660 for the portion
00:16:20.300 of the right
00:16:20.820 that's trying to reclaim
00:16:21.800 male sexuality.
00:16:22.780 But I wonder how
00:16:24.660 other people,
00:16:25.940 you know,
00:16:26.060 whether it's femboyism
00:16:27.000 or anything else,
00:16:28.680 how they're interacting.
00:16:30.960 Is there anything
00:16:31.800 where they're like,
00:16:32.400 this is bad sexuality
00:16:33.480 and this is good sexuality?
00:16:35.000 Or is it just like
00:16:36.000 all good sexuality?
00:16:37.540 Or is it just like sexuality?
00:16:39.100 Is this like black muck
00:16:41.020 that's ruining everything?
00:16:42.620 Yeah.
00:16:42.760 There is no understanding
00:16:44.520 that an attraction
00:16:45.640 to cat girls
00:16:46.640 is unhealthy in any way.
00:16:48.500 This is something
00:16:49.320 that is accepted
00:16:51.120 as normal
00:16:52.600 and ordinary.
00:16:53.760 It's not,
00:16:54.480 you know,
00:16:54.680 every person,
00:16:56.380 every guy I talk to
00:16:57.260 is into cat girls.
00:16:58.780 But this is just,
00:17:00.040 you know,
00:17:00.460 this is not seen
00:17:01.580 as some kind
00:17:02.260 of weird thing now.
00:17:03.660 And I think
00:17:04.180 the same thing
00:17:05.000 is true
00:17:05.720 for a lot of similar
00:17:07.120 kind of,
00:17:07.660 you know,
00:17:07.980 soft fetishes,
00:17:09.060 quote unquote.
00:17:10.020 Right.
00:17:11.120 Both among men
00:17:13.060 and women,
00:17:13.780 I think.
00:17:14.620 You know,
00:17:14.740 people still,
00:17:15.680 people,
00:17:16.480 you know,
00:17:17.120 still consider it
00:17:17.980 like a different thing.
00:17:19.320 You know,
00:17:19.540 I think like Zoomer,
00:17:21.460 even like Zoomer conservatives
00:17:22.600 are fine with someone
00:17:23.880 being gay or lesbian,
00:17:24.760 but they still notice it
00:17:25.680 as like a different thing.
00:17:27.100 You know,
00:17:27.380 like it wouldn't be like,
00:17:28.520 oh,
00:17:28.760 oh,
00:17:28.920 that's like very unremarkable.
00:17:30.360 And now that I know
00:17:30.860 that my friend
00:17:31.400 is like gay or lesbian.
00:17:32.480 No,
00:17:32.780 but like people will
00:17:34.600 have that.
00:17:35.400 Right.
00:17:35.780 And I think this is also
00:17:36.980 reflected in how,
00:17:38.320 you know,
00:17:38.440 easily they would mention
00:17:39.260 these things to me.
00:17:40.360 You know,
00:17:40.540 they're also,
00:17:41.260 this is a kind of
00:17:41.940 selection bias as well
00:17:43.060 of like people,
00:17:44.340 you know,
00:17:45.060 maybe not mentioning to me
00:17:46.420 like more extreme things.
00:17:47.980 But people were very happy
00:17:49.060 to offer,
00:17:49.900 you know,
00:17:50.400 these kind of predilections
00:17:51.800 being into,
00:17:52.660 especially a certain type
00:17:53.560 of anime girls.
00:17:54.460 I feel like there is,
00:17:55.820 if you talk about
00:17:56.600 a real life person
00:17:58.640 who you're attracted to,
00:18:00.240 I think there's this
00:18:00.940 soft idea of civil rights law
00:18:03.160 coming,
00:18:03.940 coming after you.
00:18:04.920 If,
00:18:05.140 or people,
00:18:05.760 you know,
00:18:06.220 who feel,
00:18:06.960 who are like similar
00:18:07.960 in appearance,
00:18:09.060 feeling uncomfortable
00:18:09.780 with that.
00:18:10.900 And that's something
00:18:11.840 that Zoomers kind of
00:18:12.540 want to avoid,
00:18:13.780 but that's the same
00:18:14.840 is not true
00:18:15.420 for,
00:18:15.860 for anime girls.
00:18:16.840 So,
00:18:17.200 so it's almost
00:18:17.720 considerable.
00:18:18.400 This is like,
00:18:18.740 this is like,
00:18:19.060 this kind of like weird
00:18:19.840 post sexuality thing
00:18:22.040 that you're talking about.
00:18:22.900 I agree.
00:18:23.740 That's like the right way
00:18:24.380 to frame it.
00:18:25.420 That's really interesting.
00:18:26.980 So let me,
00:18:28.100 give me like one more
00:18:29.420 like highly quotable sentence.
00:18:31.620 It's,
00:18:32.220 you know,
00:18:32.600 it is the separation
00:18:34.460 of attraction
00:18:36.340 and physicality.
00:18:37.720 That's what I think it is.
00:18:40.120 Elaborate on that
00:18:40.900 statement a bit.
00:18:42.000 Sorry.
00:18:42.200 So,
00:18:44.180 okay.
00:18:44.560 So,
00:18:44.680 so I'll tell
00:18:45.180 one very funny
00:18:46.700 case study
00:18:47.460 of,
00:18:49.420 so you probably
00:18:50.340 have heard this,
00:18:51.100 you know,
00:18:51.260 this is more of a thing
00:18:52.180 among progressive circles,
00:18:53.420 but people will talk
00:18:54.680 about,
00:18:55.040 you know,
00:18:55.300 sexuality versus
00:18:56.400 romantic attraction.
00:18:57.840 Right.
00:18:58.600 And I'm not sure
00:18:59.360 like how serious
00:19:00.800 of a thing this is.
00:19:01.600 For example,
00:19:01.940 some people will say
00:19:03.360 they're like asexual
00:19:04.900 but biromantic.
00:19:06.440 Right.
00:19:06.580 And will your audience
00:19:09.260 know what that means?
00:19:10.280 I don't know.
00:19:10.600 This is a thing
00:19:11.080 that left-wingers
00:19:11.660 will all know
00:19:12.060 what it means
00:19:12.620 because it's pretty
00:19:13.340 common among them.
00:19:14.660 But it's basically
00:19:15.320 someone who has
00:19:16.160 no sexual attraction
00:19:17.260 does not want
00:19:17.820 to have sex
00:19:18.340 with people in general
00:19:19.800 but wants to date
00:19:22.120 and be softly affectionate
00:19:23.860 with both men and women.
00:19:25.560 Mm-hmm.
00:19:26.020 Mm-hmm.
00:19:26.860 And this,
00:19:29.200 I think,
00:19:29.400 is the clearest example.
00:19:31.520 There's also,
00:19:32.500 there's also someone
00:19:33.260 who I talked to
00:19:33.980 who is basically gay
00:19:35.700 in terms of,
00:19:36.880 you know,
00:19:37.540 sex acts
00:19:38.140 but is like romantically
00:19:39.380 attracted to women.
00:19:41.060 Hmm.
00:19:42.480 And I do think this is,
00:19:44.100 I do think this is
00:19:45.280 increasingly common.
00:19:46.000 I don't think it's
00:19:46.480 extremely common.
00:19:47.460 It's mostly still men
00:19:48.520 who are, you know,
00:19:49.480 attracted to women
00:19:50.220 both romantically
00:19:50.900 and sexually
00:19:51.480 and vice versa.
00:19:52.520 I don't think it's
00:19:53.100 extremely common
00:19:53.860 but it's,
00:19:55.320 it is definitely
00:19:56.500 becoming more of a thing.
00:19:58.520 Yeah.
00:19:58.840 So to this end,
00:20:00.060 I feel like I have
00:20:00.780 a lot of Zoomer friend
00:20:02.320 who I've talked to
00:20:03.360 about this sort of thing
00:20:04.300 and of the right-wing ones,
00:20:07.060 I have seen
00:20:07.840 basically zero homophobia.
00:20:10.380 I have seen
00:20:10.740 no uncomfortable
00:20:11.700 with gayness at all
00:20:13.120 in the right-wing Zoomer audience.
00:20:14.620 Is that something
00:20:15.260 you've noticed as well
00:20:16.020 or have you seen any real?
00:20:17.760 Among IRL people,
00:20:18.880 yeah.
00:20:19.340 Among online posters,
00:20:21.360 no, no.
00:20:22.700 Direction.
00:20:23.680 That's just,
00:20:24.300 I don't know,
00:20:24.880 tradition.
00:20:25.120 That's just online posters.
00:20:26.560 Yes.
00:20:27.860 But even then,
00:20:30.380 I think it's,
00:20:31.220 you know,
00:20:31.540 the kind of archetype
00:20:33.160 of a southern dad
00:20:34.280 who would believe
00:20:34.940 so strongly
00:20:35.680 in his faith
00:20:36.980 and that,
00:20:37.380 you know,
00:20:38.060 homosexuality is evil
00:20:39.480 that he would separate
00:20:40.340 off his son,
00:20:42.120 his gay son
00:20:42.900 or lesbian daughter
00:20:43.740 from the family.
00:20:45.320 I don't think
00:20:45.780 it's that kind
00:20:46.840 of homophobia.
00:20:48.240 It's kind of like,
00:20:48.900 it's like the,
00:20:49.400 like the,
00:20:49.820 like race shitposting
00:20:52.300 stuff
00:20:53.060 where,
00:20:54.100 you know,
00:20:54.480 they'll be very happy
00:20:55.600 to say,
00:20:56.360 you know,
00:20:56.640 look at these
00:20:57.440 separate crime rates,
00:20:58.880 you know,
00:20:59.360 or even to go further
00:21:00.780 to that,
00:21:01.320 right,
00:21:01.520 to say like
00:21:02.380 prescriptive things
00:21:03.340 about race
00:21:03.980 and like what policies
00:21:04.980 they would want
00:21:05.820 or like encouraging,
00:21:07.140 you know,
00:21:07.580 segregation practice.
00:21:09.180 But in terms of,
00:21:09.800 if that person had
00:21:10.640 a black friend
00:21:11.420 or a gay friend,
00:21:12.120 I think it would be
00:21:12.920 not too different
00:21:14.020 than,
00:21:14.560 you know,
00:21:14.700 the rest of Zoomers.
00:21:15.600 They would basically
00:21:16.140 be fine with it.
00:21:17.380 And you do see this
00:21:18.500 with the exception,
00:21:20.120 the accepting of people
00:21:21.260 like Dave Rubin
00:21:22.180 or of,
00:21:23.220 who is the very famous
00:21:24.180 trans conservative person?
00:21:26.380 Oh gosh.
00:21:27.600 Well,
00:21:27.960 I,
00:21:28.240 I'd say,
00:21:29.340 Caitlyn Jenner,
00:21:29.600 Caitlyn Jenner.
00:21:30.780 Well,
00:21:31.140 she's not conservative,
00:21:32.500 but there was,
00:21:33.360 you know,
00:21:33.700 there was airing
00:21:34.660 of her as the person
00:21:36.120 who would finally
00:21:36.880 defeat Gavin Newsom.
00:21:38.440 Oh.
00:21:39.020 Governor of California.
00:21:40.220 Yeah.
00:21:40.380 I missed that.
00:21:42.900 Well,
00:21:43.140 it was not that serious.
00:21:44.880 I don't think
00:21:45.240 she's had a chance,
00:21:46.680 but you know,
00:21:47.220 this,
00:21:48.000 the,
00:21:48.240 the even mere
00:21:49.040 acceptance of it
00:21:50.020 is,
00:21:51.000 you know,
00:21:51.980 it's,
00:21:52.340 it's a sign that like
00:21:53.120 that kind of
00:21:53.840 psychological disposition
00:21:55.760 at least is gone.
00:21:57.840 Well,
00:21:57.920 so I get the impression
00:21:58.640 that it is very much
00:22:00.000 a post-sex world
00:22:01.060 where it doesn't matter anymore.
00:22:02.860 It's like highly virtual.
00:22:04.380 Like you alluded to it
00:22:05.820 being somewhat divorced
00:22:06.700 from physicality.
00:22:08.100 You know,
00:22:08.240 a lot of it more has to do
00:22:09.220 with just the experience
00:22:10.280 you're having online,
00:22:11.120 which suggests that
00:22:12.300 when we actually can
00:22:13.420 get much more
00:22:14.440 realistic AI
00:22:16.960 boyfriends and girlfriends
00:22:18.180 that like people
00:22:19.560 are going to go for that
00:22:20.680 because it's probably better
00:22:22.200 than what you're going to get
00:22:23.060 from a human
00:22:23.620 that you have to accommodate
00:22:24.480 in annoying ways.
00:22:26.160 Yeah.
00:22:26.300 Yeah.
00:22:26.420 Like the most beautiful flowers
00:22:27.980 are the most fake,
00:22:28.800 right?
00:22:29.020 Yeah.
00:22:29.320 Right.
00:22:29.600 Yeah.
00:22:30.020 It is very much.
00:22:31.880 Yeah.
00:22:32.240 This is,
00:22:33.380 I don't know.
00:22:35.240 You,
00:22:35.440 you can also almost see
00:22:36.400 this in existing behavior,
00:22:37.480 right?
00:22:38.040 If you think of what's,
00:22:39.120 what's stopping an AI
00:22:40.340 from being like an
00:22:41.440 OnlyFans operator,
00:22:43.020 right?
00:22:43.800 Pretty much nothing,
00:22:45.620 pretty much just the quality
00:22:47.360 of like how well
00:22:48.560 it can craft text messages
00:22:50.300 and artificially generated
00:22:51.820 porn,
00:22:52.620 right?
00:22:52.740 That is the limiting factor.
00:22:54.080 You know,
00:22:54.460 basically there's no
00:22:55.900 qualitative factor
00:22:57.100 stopping AI from becoming
00:22:59.200 an OnlyFans model right now.
00:23:00.660 It is only like
00:23:01.320 the question is
00:23:02.160 in the past,
00:23:03.620 it was just,
00:23:04.340 will we get a generation
00:23:05.900 of people that's okay
00:23:07.540 with that?
00:23:08.340 Because if you were,
00:23:09.420 I think to take the majority
00:23:10.840 of the millennial generation,
00:23:12.980 Gen X,
00:23:13.360 anyone before they'd be like,
00:23:15.280 well,
00:23:15.500 it has to be a human.
00:23:16.520 If it's a human,
00:23:17.060 that's how I know it's good.
00:23:18.280 But I think that we finally
00:23:19.200 got to a generational point
00:23:20.980 where there isn't an assumption
00:23:22.840 that human is better.
00:23:24.080 And that there's
00:23:24.760 like a pretty big
00:23:26.260 unmooring
00:23:27.380 from IRL socialization
00:23:30.040 and like IRL relationships.
00:23:32.200 And since we interact
00:23:33.700 with even our closest
00:23:34.640 carbon-based friends,
00:23:37.260 like digitally mostly,
00:23:38.640 there's just less
00:23:39.220 of this feeling like
00:23:40.280 you need to prioritize
00:23:41.680 carbon relationships.
00:23:43.980 It is not only
00:23:45.920 the separation
00:23:46.700 but the inversion
00:23:47.680 of online
00:23:48.560 and real life.
00:23:50.440 I am.
00:23:51.640 This is one of the trends
00:23:52.980 that I'm most confident on
00:23:54.000 actually
00:23:54.360 in terms of
00:23:55.740 so this is
00:23:58.800 the operational question
00:23:59.940 of would you prefer
00:24:01.200 to have
00:24:02.520 either a romantic
00:24:03.560 or sexual relationship
00:24:04.700 with someone
00:24:06.220 you already know
00:24:07.100 or like a stranger online?
00:24:09.560 And I think it's been
00:24:11.220 going in the direction
00:24:12.440 in terms of
00:24:13.120 sexual relationships.
00:24:15.160 It's been going
00:24:15.960 in the direction
00:24:16.560 of prefer online
00:24:17.640 for some time.
00:24:20.000 But the thing
00:24:20.820 that was very surprising
00:24:22.020 to me
00:24:22.340 was the same
00:24:22.860 is true
00:24:23.140 for romantic relationships
00:24:24.300 where
00:24:25.720 what I think it is
00:24:28.640 is I think that
00:24:29.240 the kind of
00:24:29.720 female type
00:24:30.940 social interaction
00:24:31.960 of having friends
00:24:34.000 for the purpose
00:24:34.660 of being accepted
00:24:35.420 into the group
00:24:36.220 that is the norm
00:24:38.220 which itself is
00:24:39.220 I don't know
00:24:40.480 if you would disagree
00:24:41.320 but I think
00:24:42.940 which itself
00:24:43.900 is a kind of
00:24:44.520 masturbatory version
00:24:45.840 of having real friends
00:24:47.120 where
00:24:48.460 you know
00:24:49.000 you have
00:24:49.680 you have
00:24:50.580 the aesthetics
00:24:51.780 of friendship
00:24:52.440 you know
00:24:52.800 you go
00:24:53.480 you hang out
00:24:54.240 even like
00:24:55.060 real life interactions
00:24:56.080 are like this
00:24:56.660 but membership
00:24:58.340 in the friend group
00:24:59.160 is not actually
00:24:59.980 based on any kind
00:25:01.120 of loyalty
00:25:01.600 or any kind
00:25:02.360 of personal traits
00:25:03.940 but rather
00:25:04.520 a kind of
00:25:05.400 you know
00:25:05.740 kind of conformity
00:25:06.680 where
00:25:08.240 that is
00:25:09.120 also
00:25:09.960 leaning towards
00:25:11.800 the male type
00:25:12.580 of friendship
00:25:13.140 now
00:25:13.520 where
00:25:14.640 that ends up
00:25:15.360 or I don't know
00:25:15.900 maybe it was always
00:25:16.520 like this
00:25:16.860 the male type
00:25:17.460 or like
00:25:17.920 this is the dominant
00:25:19.080 form of friendship
00:25:19.860 between men
00:25:21.360 and women
00:25:21.780 like
00:25:23.080 men
00:25:24.120 men will consider
00:25:25.060 their female friends
00:25:25.980 the same way
00:25:26.760 women will consider
00:25:27.760 their male friends
00:25:28.560 the same way
00:25:29.740 there is no distinction
00:25:31.020 between like
00:25:31.760 the female type
00:25:32.640 friendship pattern
00:25:34.080 and the like
00:25:35.320 intersex
00:25:35.860 or that might not
00:25:37.220 be the right word
00:25:37.820 but like
00:25:38.140 the friendship
00:25:39.360 between men
00:25:39.900 and women
00:25:40.260 there's no distinction
00:25:41.380 between that
00:25:42.160 and female
00:25:43.560 to female
00:25:44.060 friendships
00:25:44.680 but hold on
00:25:45.440 because that's a
00:25:46.160 that's like a
00:25:47.420 an extreme divorce
00:25:49.080 of like bronze age
00:25:50.160 pervert
00:25:50.740 ideology
00:25:52.000 right
00:25:52.340 because he's talking
00:25:53.260 about the need
00:25:53.940 for male only spaces
00:25:55.020 and that even
00:25:55.880 male to male
00:25:56.580 relationships
00:25:57.200 are screwed up
00:25:57.980 if they are in
00:25:58.660 the presence
00:25:59.160 of a female
00:25:59.980 because she ruins
00:26:00.900 the dynamic
00:26:01.420 and that we need
00:26:02.040 to bring back
00:26:02.960 male only spaces
00:26:04.240 so that men
00:26:04.920 don't lose
00:26:06.120 their minds
00:26:06.580 and do stupid
00:26:07.320 stuff
00:26:07.920 and can actually
00:26:08.900 be great again
00:26:09.920 so I feel like
00:26:10.920 there's some tension
00:26:11.920 present day men
00:26:12.580 are like
00:26:13.040 too quote unquote
00:26:14.740 gay
00:26:15.060 or like
00:26:15.380 what we would
00:26:16.260 call like
00:26:16.560 sissies
00:26:16.940 right
00:26:17.660 I think like
00:26:19.140 it's
00:26:19.800 it's in accordance
00:26:20.680 with
00:26:21.120 with bronze age
00:26:22.460 pervert thought
00:26:23.260 it's
00:26:24.080 so where
00:26:25.140 where it doesn't
00:26:25.700 matter
00:26:26.020 if there are
00:26:26.720 women or men
00:26:27.440 like where gender
00:26:28.080 doesn't matter
00:26:28.700 is where like
00:26:29.840 society is too
00:26:31.140 sissified in the end
00:26:32.360 and like
00:26:33.360 only
00:26:33.820 only male spaces
00:26:36.240 only really matter
00:26:37.300 if you've got
00:26:37.940 super masculine men
00:26:38.960 is that it
00:26:39.660 or like
00:26:40.540 dominant style
00:26:41.580 men
00:26:42.080 I think it's more
00:26:43.280 of you should
00:26:43.860 consider it more
00:26:44.480 revolutionarily
00:26:45.280 right
00:26:45.560 if this is the way
00:26:46.540 that like men
00:26:47.040 are engaging
00:26:47.580 in like mixed
00:26:48.260 sex social groups
00:26:49.960 then you know
00:26:51.160 there needs to be
00:26:51.860 a revolution
00:26:52.300 there needs to be
00:26:53.160 the bronze age
00:26:53.680 pervert revolution
00:26:54.500 you know
00:26:54.820 that's what he
00:26:55.860 would say about this
00:26:56.720 I would imagine
00:26:58.300 well not if
00:26:59.680 they're engaging
00:27:00.160 that way
00:27:00.480 because their
00:27:00.920 biology has changed
00:27:02.140 yeah not if
00:27:02.860 they're engaging
00:27:03.240 that way
00:27:03.560 because they know
00:27:04.100 they have no
00:27:04.540 shot at all
00:27:05.280 maybe men
00:27:06.220 lose their
00:27:06.700 mind in the
00:27:07.320 presence of
00:27:08.020 women
00:27:08.480 not true
00:27:09.580 right
00:27:09.840 they do have
00:27:10.500 a shot at all
00:27:11.240 this is the
00:27:12.400 other thing
00:27:13.280 is so there
00:27:14.280 are there
00:27:15.260 are there
00:27:15.920 are studies
00:27:16.400 the headline
00:27:17.460 of this study
00:27:18.800 and replication
00:27:20.200 attempts of
00:27:20.960 this study
00:27:21.480 is something
00:27:22.680 like 50%
00:27:23.560 of men
00:27:24.020 would like
00:27:24.760 sleep with
00:27:25.460 with a woman
00:27:26.140 with a woman
00:27:26.840 who just asked
00:27:27.620 him on the
00:27:28.400 street
00:27:28.660 oh yes
00:27:29.360 as opposed to
00:27:30.220 around 5%
00:27:31.120 of women
00:27:31.520 right
00:27:32.060 but the other
00:27:32.960 thing that they
00:27:33.780 ask in that
00:27:34.740 study is
00:27:35.360 would you go
00:27:36.040 on a date
00:27:36.660 with the person
00:27:37.300 who who
00:27:38.240 randomly asked
00:27:39.000 you on the
00:27:39.880 street
00:27:40.200 and for
00:27:41.680 for single
00:27:42.420 men
00:27:42.740 it is
00:27:43.480 the first
00:27:44.140 number was
00:27:44.540 also for
00:27:44.940 single men
00:27:45.380 and women
00:27:45.720 the the
00:27:46.440 first number
00:27:47.120 for single
00:27:47.700 men
00:27:48.020 was something
00:27:48.820 like 70%
00:27:49.860 or and
00:27:50.700 number for
00:27:51.420 women was
00:27:52.000 50%
00:27:52.700 and you know
00:27:54.080 maybe maybe
00:27:54.540 this is not so
00:27:55.120 surprising to you
00:27:55.940 right maybe this
00:27:56.580 is you know
00:27:56.940 just common
00:27:57.320 sense for
00:27:57.740 you but
00:27:58.800 I think
00:28:00.560 every single
00:28:01.100 zoomer I've
00:28:01.560 talked to
00:28:01.840 about this
00:28:02.180 except for
00:28:02.600 one guy
00:28:03.080 who's into
00:28:03.500 evo psych
00:28:04.040 who has
00:28:04.360 seen specifically
00:28:05.460 this study
00:28:06.140 before was
00:28:07.080 just like utterly
00:28:07.720 floored that
00:28:08.300 like 50%
00:28:09.000 of women
00:28:09.400 50% of
00:28:10.420 single women
00:28:11.000 would say
00:28:11.400 yes
00:28:11.700 well but how
00:28:12.320 attractive was
00:28:12.960 the confederate
00:28:13.600 I haven't seen
00:28:14.240 this this
00:28:14.900 that is like
00:28:16.760 100 if the
00:28:17.700 confederate is
00:28:18.260 an eight or
00:28:18.960 higher yes
00:28:19.940 if the confederate
00:28:20.680 is an eight or
00:28:21.260 below no
00:28:22.640 I think this
00:28:24.080 study was done
00:28:24.560 a while ago
00:28:25.160 and I don't
00:28:25.620 think that this
00:28:26.100 is true anymore
00:28:26.860 in fact I
00:28:28.300 would even
00:28:29.140 go so far
00:28:29.580 as to argue
00:28:29.940 that men
00:28:30.540 in today's
00:28:31.140 environment
00:28:31.560 have a woman
00:28:32.140 when I'm
00:28:32.560 going to ask
00:28:32.840 them to have
00:28:33.180 sex with
00:28:33.560 them I
00:28:34.020 think that
00:28:34.600 50% of
00:28:35.420 zoomers would
00:28:35.840 probably say
00:28:36.280 no to the
00:28:37.240 woman to the
00:28:38.040 woman with
00:28:38.680 the prop
00:28:39.020 whoa I
00:28:41.020 think they're
00:28:41.400 far more timid
00:28:42.500 than you
00:28:42.780 imagine
00:28:43.140 no
00:28:44.480 disagree
00:28:45.060 no maybe
00:28:47.360 so like the
00:28:48.520 really cursed
00:28:49.220 stat would be
00:28:50.000 like if you
00:28:51.460 see like an
00:28:52.060 inversion between
00:28:53.040 like willing to
00:28:53.980 have sex and
00:28:54.660 willing to go
00:28:55.140 on a date
00:28:55.600 that is
00:28:57.860 that would be
00:29:00.620 interesting but
00:29:01.120 yeah we we we
00:29:02.040 we should see
00:29:02.600 replications of
00:29:03.560 the study
00:29:04.040 I'd love to see
00:29:04.900 replications of
00:29:05.660 the study this
00:29:06.220 would be
00:29:06.480 but with
00:29:06.840 confederate
00:29:07.460 zero to ten
00:29:08.440 ratings that
00:29:09.360 none of this
00:29:10.140 matters if you
00:29:10.880 don't have that
00:29:11.480 just none of it
00:29:12.240 matters because
00:29:13.200 that I think
00:29:13.820 that's the really
00:29:14.380 key thing that
00:29:14.880 has changed
00:29:15.740 which is that
00:29:16.940 we've we've
00:29:17.600 switched to
00:29:18.580 relationship markets
00:29:19.680 that are extremely
00:29:20.440 visually based
00:29:21.380 and that we've
00:29:22.360 conditioned a
00:29:23.320 huge volume of
00:29:24.400 people to
00:29:25.360 select sexual
00:29:26.300 partners based
00:29:27.460 on only physical
00:29:28.840 appearance and
00:29:29.980 whereas in the
00:29:30.680 past it used to
00:29:31.540 be like oh
00:29:32.500 well we're both
00:29:32.980 in the model
00:29:33.420 train club together
00:29:34.440 or whatever I
00:29:35.340 like your jokes
00:29:36.180 or you're really
00:29:36.820 smart and you
00:29:37.740 know the people
00:29:38.400 were able to
00:29:38.940 compete in many
00:29:39.620 different arenas
00:29:40.640 whereas now it's
00:29:42.040 a swipe and it's
00:29:42.900 an image and I
00:29:44.020 think that that
00:29:44.880 well and also
00:29:45.560 then I feel like
00:29:46.440 social media filters
00:29:47.260 have also completely
00:29:48.080 thrown off people's
00:29:48.920 perception of
00:29:50.240 of attractiveness and
00:29:51.240 we've discussed this
00:29:51.900 in other episodes
00:29:52.680 where you might
00:29:53.460 you might think
00:29:54.480 that someone is
00:29:56.380 is like a five
00:29:58.180 you know out of
00:29:58.940 ten like
00:29:59.620 attractiveness wise
00:30:00.620 but if you compare
00:30:01.220 them to an actual
00:30:01.940 general population
00:30:03.040 like in their nation
00:30:04.060 they'd be more like
00:30:05.500 a six or a seven
00:30:06.400 but because of
00:30:07.440 online perceptions
00:30:08.980 of what beauty
00:30:09.620 is you know
00:30:10.400 there's this there
00:30:11.080 was like a sort
00:30:11.680 of meme a little
00:30:12.320 bit earlier like
00:30:13.720 maybe two weeks
00:30:14.260 back of Margot
00:30:15.220 Robbie who stars
00:30:16.760 in the Barbie
00:30:17.380 movie being a mid
00:30:18.900 like that she's
00:30:20.500 middling that
00:30:21.240 that Margot Robbie
00:30:22.300 the the human
00:30:23.780 actress selected
00:30:24.900 to be Barbie
00:30:25.800 is middling
00:30:27.840 in attractiveness
00:30:28.640 so I just feel
00:30:29.200 like she's not an
00:30:29.800 anime cat girl
00:30:30.560 that's that is
00:30:31.900 her problem
00:30:32.540 yeah you
00:30:33.400 yeah and it's
00:30:34.360 what I think
00:30:34.980 it's really
00:30:35.300 disappointing
00:30:35.600 that every day
00:30:36.600 Simone
00:30:37.000 you're not
00:30:38.160 an anime girl
00:30:38.900 I'm so sorry
00:30:40.200 I'm so sorry
00:30:41.720 I'll get cat ears
00:30:44.580 I promise
00:30:45.340 as soon as we
00:30:46.080 can grab them
00:30:46.760 on
00:30:47.160 oh god
00:30:48.940 you know
00:30:49.700 you two are
00:30:50.160 honorary zoomers
00:30:51.160 thank you
00:30:52.240 well we saw
00:30:53.000 we were in New
00:30:53.680 York yesterday
00:30:54.280 walking around
00:30:54.920 with our boys
00:30:55.560 and I was
00:30:57.140 thinking about
00:30:57.700 I don't even
00:30:58.160 know what the
00:30:58.600 next generation
00:30:59.240 of what kids
00:30:59.880 are today
00:31:00.400 and they have
00:31:01.100 to be something
00:31:01.480 beyond zoomers
00:31:02.220 but there was
00:31:02.700 a furry kid
00:31:03.300 walking around
00:31:03.960 just had a tail
00:31:04.760 you know
00:31:05.220 we're like
00:31:05.720 you know
00:31:06.360 someone like
00:31:06.980 we're with
00:31:07.580 another parent
00:31:08.080 she's like
00:31:08.540 oh it's like
00:31:09.440 a kid
00:31:09.800 like maybe
00:31:10.180 seven years
00:31:10.700 old or something
00:31:11.500 he's just like
00:31:12.400 full out wearing
00:31:12.840 a furry tail
00:31:13.380 that's not a
00:31:13.900 sexual thing
00:31:14.520 you know
00:31:14.800 no well
00:31:15.380 I mean
00:31:15.720 it could be
00:31:16.140 a proto-sexual
00:31:16.720 thing
00:31:16.920 who knows
00:31:17.300 but whatever
00:31:17.680 many people
00:31:18.240 just identify
00:31:18.900 as furries
00:31:19.500 it's you know
00:31:20.080 there's
00:31:20.380 there's
00:31:20.840 it's a complex
00:31:22.100 world
00:31:22.400 I mean
00:31:22.680 it's one of
00:31:23.340 the problems
00:31:24.020 that we have
00:31:24.540 is when
00:31:25.060 sexual communities
00:31:26.580 become aesthetic
00:31:28.760 communities
00:31:29.740 so when I was
00:31:31.080 young
00:31:31.380 I would identify
00:31:32.320 as like
00:31:33.000 goth
00:31:33.620 right
00:31:33.940 like I hung
00:31:34.560 out and dressed
00:31:35.180 like a goth
00:31:35.760 because people
00:31:36.220 older than me
00:31:36.980 who I thought
00:31:37.420 were cool
00:31:37.960 I knew
00:31:38.360 hung out
00:31:38.780 and went
00:31:39.040 to goth
00:31:39.680 things
00:31:39.980 I wish we had
00:31:40.700 more photo proof
00:31:41.440 of this
00:31:41.980 but I think
00:31:43.500 that we
00:31:44.200 live in a world
00:31:45.560 now
00:31:46.240 where young
00:31:47.000 people
00:31:47.580 can see
00:31:49.340 sexual
00:31:50.380 communities
00:31:51.640 like furries
00:31:52.580 for example
00:31:53.360 and begin
00:31:54.440 to identify
00:31:55.380 with those
00:31:56.160 communities
00:31:56.820 in the same
00:31:58.660 way that
00:31:59.320 in my
00:31:59.840 generation
00:32:00.320 people
00:32:00.680 identify
00:32:01.120 with
00:32:01.460 goths
00:32:01.920 or punks
00:32:02.500 or something
00:32:02.960 like that
00:32:03.640 and I don't
00:32:04.800 know if I
00:32:05.580 think that's
00:32:06.040 healthy
00:32:06.160 I don't think
00:32:06.680 that's healthy
00:32:07.120 I think
00:32:07.380 that's bad
00:32:07.600 so you can
00:32:08.140 think of
00:32:08.520 goths as
00:32:09.060 an early
00:32:09.700 version
00:32:10.260 of shitposting
00:32:11.980 right
00:32:12.200 and as we
00:32:12.840 know
00:32:13.020 the long
00:32:13.580 arc of
00:32:14.020 history
00:32:14.460 bends
00:32:15.640 towards
00:32:16.320 shitposting
00:32:17.340 everything
00:32:17.800 becomes
00:32:19.160 shitposting
00:32:19.920 it becomes
00:32:20.500 signaling
00:32:21.500 part of
00:32:22.260 part of
00:32:22.860 the community
00:32:23.400 by kind of
00:32:24.640 the radical
00:32:25.500 refutation
00:32:26.800 of everything
00:32:27.580 else
00:32:27.980 that exists
00:32:28.980 and
00:32:30.040 yeah
00:32:30.640 one of the
00:32:31.660 things that I
00:32:32.780 like to do
00:32:33.260 every once in a
00:32:33.920 while
00:32:34.140 I think it's
00:32:34.740 like very
00:32:35.100 healthy
00:32:35.400 to do this
00:32:36.420 is to look
00:32:37.220 at like an
00:32:37.600 empirical result
00:32:38.360 in the world
00:32:38.860 and think
00:32:39.260 what if
00:32:40.040 this is what
00:32:40.760 people want
00:32:41.500 how would I
00:32:42.020 change my
00:32:42.400 thinking
00:32:42.700 if God
00:32:43.440 came to me
00:32:43.940 and told me
00:32:44.340 like oh
00:32:44.700 this is just
00:32:45.460 what people
00:32:45.880 want
00:32:46.260 and you know
00:32:47.660 we're talking
00:32:48.260 about this
00:32:48.700 divorce
00:32:49.220 of
00:32:51.260 kind of
00:32:52.160 sex
00:32:52.640 like sex
00:32:53.480 acts
00:32:53.880 from
00:32:54.920 you know
00:32:55.840 the actual
00:32:56.320 identification
00:32:56.980 and what
00:32:57.640 people actually
00:32:58.260 think of
00:32:58.680 themselves
00:32:59.100 and what
00:33:00.060 people actually
00:33:00.740 it's like the
00:33:01.680 divorce of
00:33:02.260 like sexuality
00:33:03.000 as a meme
00:33:03.840 from sexuality
00:33:04.700 as like a
00:33:05.400 physical
00:33:05.700 interaction
00:33:06.320 I think that's
00:33:07.920 a great way
00:33:08.380 of putting it
00:33:09.120 yeah
00:33:09.380 it's conceptual
00:33:10.560 I just like
00:33:10.800 wonder
00:33:11.080 what if this
00:33:12.500 is just
00:33:12.760 what people
00:33:13.140 want
00:33:13.500 you know
00:33:14.060 what if
00:33:14.760 this is
00:33:15.040 just a
00:33:15.340 revealed
00:33:15.600 preference
00:33:16.120 like we
00:33:17.260 just didn't
00:33:17.600 have the
00:33:17.900 technology
00:33:18.340 we didn't
00:33:18.700 have the
00:33:19.000 internet
00:33:19.280 you know
00:33:19.960 we didn't
00:33:20.200 have the
00:33:20.620 cat girls
00:33:21.240 we didn't
00:33:22.180 have exactly
00:33:22.840 exactly
00:33:23.280 actually I
00:33:24.160 think we
00:33:24.540 had anime
00:33:25.060 cat girls
00:33:25.540 in the
00:33:25.840 90s
00:33:26.600 right
00:33:26.820 there were
00:33:27.280 like Sailor
00:33:27.740 Moon gags
00:33:28.220 with the
00:33:28.500 cat ears
00:33:28.920 but yeah
00:33:29.680 yeah we
00:33:30.020 most of
00:33:30.560 America
00:33:30.940 you know
00:33:31.420 we're not
00:33:31.940 exposed to
00:33:32.600 the cat
00:33:32.960 girls
00:33:33.220 and now
00:33:33.600 that they
00:33:33.860 have been
00:33:34.280 they simply
00:33:34.680 like the
00:33:35.060 cat girls
00:33:35.400 more
00:33:35.760 yeah
00:33:36.460 we're just
00:33:37.080 there will
00:33:37.660 be no more
00:33:38.180 sex
00:33:38.500 there will
00:33:38.820 only be
00:33:39.160 the cat
00:33:39.500 girls
00:33:40.020 before we
00:33:41.200 wrap up
00:33:41.580 this episode
00:33:42.100 I love
00:33:42.480 were there
00:33:42.920 any other
00:33:43.300 insights
00:33:43.700 you got
00:33:44.020 from these
00:33:44.340 people you
00:33:44.740 were interviewing
00:33:45.260 because I
00:33:45.620 really appreciate
00:33:46.280 that you
00:33:46.600 went on
00:33:46.840 and did
00:33:47.180 that and
00:33:47.580 I know
00:33:47.820 our audience
00:33:48.300 you know
00:33:48.640 a lot
00:33:49.300 of them
00:33:49.460 have very
00:33:49.800 little
00:33:49.980 connection
00:33:50.380 to what's
00:33:50.680 going on
00:33:51.020 in Zoomer
00:33:51.460 world
00:33:51.740 right now
00:33:52.360 what's
00:33:53.320 going on
00:33:54.280 I think
00:33:57.240 yeah guys
00:33:57.960 are afraid
00:33:58.460 to approach
00:33:59.740 girls
00:34:00.160 they're afraid
00:34:00.680 to be
00:34:00.960 affectionate
00:34:01.620 they're just
00:34:02.720 too neurotic
00:34:03.380 you know
00:34:04.060 this isn't
00:34:04.700 this is
00:34:05.060 unrelated
00:34:05.420 to this
00:34:05.980 stuff
00:34:06.240 but I
00:34:07.020 was at
00:34:07.360 I was at
00:34:07.840 University of
00:34:08.920 Austin
00:34:09.260 I was at
00:34:09.760 you know
00:34:10.360 Barry Weiss's
00:34:11.060 University
00:34:11.640 yeah yeah
00:34:12.180 our school's
00:34:13.900 partnered with
00:34:14.420 theirs
00:34:14.660 okay awesome
00:34:15.520 awesome
00:34:15.880 so this
00:34:17.400 so this is a
00:34:18.400 group of
00:34:18.960 people this
00:34:19.460 is a group
00:34:19.920 of around
00:34:20.460 like 40
00:34:21.080 kids
00:34:21.580 specifically
00:34:22.620 selected
00:34:23.300 to be you
00:34:24.560 know the
00:34:25.260 fear in the
00:34:26.000 fearless pursuit
00:34:27.160 of truth
00:34:27.840 I shouldn't I
00:34:28.960 shouldn't say
00:34:29.360 this I'm like
00:34:30.240 skeptical of
00:34:30.880 that you know
00:34:31.780 that I do
00:34:32.660 think I talked
00:34:33.380 to one of
00:34:33.900 the the people
00:34:34.980 who did the
00:34:35.460 admissions I
00:34:36.440 think it's
00:34:36.760 pretty legit
00:34:37.380 so I think
00:34:38.940 this might
00:34:39.420 actually be you
00:34:40.300 know to the
00:34:40.960 topic of taking
00:34:41.760 these things
00:34:42.480 seriously you
00:34:43.540 know these
00:34:43.920 might actually
00:34:44.520 be like the
00:34:45.220 40 students
00:34:45.900 in the
00:34:46.860 the US or
00:34:47.880 or among
00:34:48.680 the application
00:34:49.320 pool who
00:34:50.180 was who
00:34:51.380 were most
00:34:52.200 in the
00:34:52.800 fearless pursuit
00:34:53.440 of truth
00:34:53.960 but you know
00:34:55.840 they were just
00:34:56.220 extremely agreeable
00:34:57.620 that they were
00:34:58.520 they were really
00:34:59.080 afraid to set
00:34:59.700 up you know
00:35:00.160 very strong
00:35:00.960 binaries of
00:35:02.460 disagreements
00:35:03.400 in the class
00:35:04.320 and this was
00:35:04.680 something that
00:35:05.060 was noticed
00:35:05.400 by a lot
00:35:05.820 of the other
00:35:06.240 the the
00:35:07.020 older the
00:35:07.640 older professors
00:35:08.340 instructors
00:35:09.020 so on
00:35:10.200 that you
00:35:10.600 just didn't
00:35:11.020 get that
00:35:11.500 kind of you
00:35:12.120 know Lincoln
00:35:12.880 Douglas
00:35:13.220 style debate
00:35:14.620 I don't mean
00:35:15.480 like the format
00:35:16.120 but that kind
00:35:16.640 of like clash
00:35:17.140 of ideals
00:35:17.640 just didn't
00:35:18.740 happen
00:35:19.040 people were
00:35:19.960 people were
00:35:20.380 just like very
00:35:20.960 neurotic
00:35:21.400 and I think
00:35:22.640 that's you
00:35:23.160 know that's
00:35:23.900 the prevailing
00:35:24.600 trait of Gen Z
00:35:25.560 that's that's
00:35:26.660 how it rolls
00:35:27.120 I think that's
00:35:27.860 really interesting
00:35:28.360 because when you
00:35:28.880 look at
00:35:29.400 traditional British
00:35:30.360 education
00:35:30.900 like I'm
00:35:31.580 thinking about
00:35:32.040 how a young
00:35:32.800 British gentleman
00:35:33.420 was was educated
00:35:35.020 you know he was
00:35:35.940 pretty low on
00:35:36.820 what we might
00:35:37.580 consider technical
00:35:38.640 knowledge but
00:35:39.660 what he did
00:35:40.320 spend a huge
00:35:41.740 portion of his
00:35:42.860 upbringing doing
00:35:43.560 is is is
00:35:44.540 debate
00:35:44.940 elocution
00:35:45.980 and also
00:35:46.900 just like
00:35:47.280 really getting
00:35:48.100 good at
00:35:48.880 even like
00:35:49.400 spicy debate
00:35:50.300 like when you
00:35:50.760 even see
00:35:51.220 yeah
00:35:52.500 like they're
00:35:54.560 like there's
00:35:54.820 no spice
00:35:55.380 we need to
00:35:55.720 import more
00:35:56.260 spice from
00:35:56.740 India
00:35:57.040 but I think
00:35:57.980 really we
00:35:58.420 punish we
00:35:59.400 punish people
00:36:00.180 for deviating
00:36:01.740 we punish people
00:36:02.500 for arguing
00:36:03.220 then they're
00:36:03.480 called disagreeable
00:36:04.280 they have you
00:36:04.800 know they have
00:36:05.360 emotional problems
00:36:06.600 you know they're
00:36:07.320 they're picking
00:36:08.360 fights so I
00:36:09.260 think maybe
00:36:09.920 what we've done
00:36:10.740 is we've
00:36:11.640 neutered an
00:36:12.420 entire generation
00:36:13.460 or several I
00:36:14.420 think probably
00:36:14.920 both millennials
00:36:15.640 and Gen
00:36:17.380 Gen Zers from
00:36:18.500 the ability to
00:36:19.380 do that just
00:36:19.820 years of
00:36:20.440 conditioning where
00:36:21.100 every single
00:36:21.840 time they
00:36:22.920 pushed back
00:36:23.600 they got
00:36:24.260 slapped a
00:36:24.780 little on the
00:36:25.180 face I mean
00:36:25.900 what do you
00:36:26.200 think yeah
00:36:27.640 almost definitely
00:36:28.680 I do think
00:36:29.900 you know like
00:36:30.540 love I think
00:36:31.960 even millennials
00:36:32.540 will relate to
00:36:34.100 to people
00:36:35.020 saying you know
00:36:35.700 like teachers
00:36:36.140 saying if you
00:36:37.220 don't have
00:36:37.540 anything nice
00:36:38.080 to say say
00:36:38.640 nothing at all
00:36:39.320 yeah you know
00:36:40.140 which is just
00:36:40.920 you know so
00:36:42.980 incredibly stupid
00:36:44.340 there's never
00:36:45.200 been a reward
00:36:45.740 for pushing back
00:36:46.620 or being a
00:36:47.120 little spicy
00:36:47.620 you know what
00:36:48.020 I mean
00:36:48.320 yeah yeah
00:36:49.520 or even just
00:36:50.600 not active
00:36:51.140 punishment
00:36:51.540 I think like
00:36:52.460 male male
00:36:53.480 social norms
00:36:54.220 will naturally
00:36:54.960 naturally reward
00:36:56.500 that but
00:36:57.820 oh but I
00:36:58.700 don't know if
00:36:59.040 we've allowed
00:36:59.500 for male social
00:37:00.420 norms even
00:37:01.120 you know
00:37:01.460 exactly
00:37:02.220 there's like
00:37:03.480 constant unending
00:37:04.600 interference in
00:37:05.940 the educational
00:37:06.560 system with
00:37:07.460 inter-male
00:37:08.620 communication
00:37:09.440 patterns
00:37:10.080 or even
00:37:10.860 just well
00:37:11.240 even just
00:37:11.660 male dimorphic
00:37:12.540 behavior like
00:37:13.260 being energetic
00:37:14.240 oh well we
00:37:14.960 need to medicate
00:37:15.660 that stop
00:37:16.260 moving in your
00:37:16.800 chair you know
00:37:17.340 what I mean
00:37:17.720 yeah yeah
00:37:18.740 ADHD like
00:37:19.660 BAP needs to
00:37:20.560 add a new
00:37:21.300 chapter about
00:37:22.100 the ADHD
00:37:22.720 meds that
00:37:23.480 that's you
00:37:24.140 know they're
00:37:25.700 already talking
00:37:26.360 about like the
00:37:26.940 seed oils
00:37:27.540 the ADHD
00:37:28.140 meds that's
00:37:29.100 much much
00:37:29.620 bigger deal
00:37:30.080 than the
00:37:30.400 seed oils
00:37:30.840 yeah this
00:37:31.580 this UATX
00:37:32.580 thing you went
00:37:33.080 to was that
00:37:33.460 in the last
00:37:33.900 few months
00:37:34.420 yeah yeah
00:37:35.420 it was like
00:37:35.860 the summer
00:37:36.140 we were actually
00:37:37.220 supposed to run
00:37:38.480 that but
00:37:39.080 Simone said we
00:37:39.800 didn't have the
00:37:40.280 bandwidth to do
00:37:41.060 it we could
00:37:42.000 have been
00:37:42.260 that particular
00:37:43.460 do that would
00:37:45.560 have been
00:37:45.920 we would have
00:37:47.300 made it spicier
00:37:48.020 people know
00:37:49.540 more about
00:37:50.000 our physical
00:37:50.620 lives okay
00:37:51.840 wait I have
00:37:53.200 to hear this
00:37:53.700 how would you
00:37:54.240 what would be
00:37:55.760 the four courses
00:37:56.820 you would run
00:37:57.420 we're partnered
00:37:58.680 with them at
00:37:59.180 the Collins
00:37:59.580 Institute we've
00:38:00.860 been trying to
00:38:01.320 do the younger
00:38:02.280 kids stuff they
00:38:03.720 want to and so
00:38:04.560 we were talking
00:38:05.100 with them about
00:38:05.620 this and we
00:38:06.540 were supposed
00:38:06.880 to do the
00:38:07.520 the recruitment
00:38:08.280 and the setting
00:38:09.080 this up and
00:38:09.680 there was some
00:38:10.020 other guy and
00:38:11.240 we just we got
00:38:12.100 to this point
00:38:12.680 where we really
00:38:13.400 wanted to do it
00:38:14.380 but we just did
00:38:15.380 not have the
00:38:16.160 time between
00:38:17.000 trying basically
00:38:18.800 what we said is
00:38:19.440 we want to get
00:38:20.320 rid of any
00:38:21.020 distractions we
00:38:22.120 have until the
00:38:22.620 Collins Institute
00:38:23.180 is alive which
00:38:24.320 is our high
00:38:24.780 school system
00:38:25.440 because just if
00:38:26.780 somebody can't
00:38:27.420 fix the high
00:38:27.880 school system the
00:38:28.500 country is doomed
00:38:29.220 so there's a lot
00:38:30.740 of cool opportunities
00:38:31.680 like this that
00:38:32.500 would have raised
00:38:33.360 our personal prestige
00:38:34.640 and would have
00:38:35.420 allowed us to
00:38:35.980 interact with a
00:38:36.600 lot of young
00:38:37.000 people that are
00:38:37.820 like important
00:38:38.620 like you but
00:38:39.820 then you know
00:38:40.540 we're also already
00:38:41.420 doing stuff with
00:38:42.180 like teal fellows
00:38:42.980 and stuff like
00:38:43.700 that and I feel
00:38:44.560 like one of the
00:38:45.620 weird things that
00:38:46.560 I've noticed
00:38:47.000 especially with
00:38:47.720 young people is
00:38:49.460 whatever program
00:38:51.140 that we're engaged
00:38:52.180 with whether it's
00:38:52.800 future forum or
00:38:53.840 uatx or teal fellows
00:38:55.480 or whatever it's
00:38:56.880 all the same
00:38:57.560 people yeah it's
00:38:58.560 just a circle yeah
00:38:59.420 I don't know
00:39:00.940 there are only like
00:39:01.900 10,000 intellectually
00:39:03.700 free young people
00:39:04.700 in the world or
00:39:05.440 something I don't
00:39:06.040 know not even
00:39:06.420 intellectually free
00:39:07.260 desiring to be
00:39:08.580 intellectually free
00:39:09.220 to your point
00:39:09.760 Brian they weren't
00:39:10.440 there necessarily
00:39:11.520 it is just the
00:39:13.600 people who are on
00:39:14.260 Twitter like that
00:39:15.760 I think is the
00:39:16.240 actual funnel that
00:39:17.480 the nexus of all
00:39:18.660 of this you know
00:39:19.500 if you're listening
00:39:20.080 Elon you know
00:39:21.540 the nexus of all
00:39:22.800 this is just is just
00:39:23.980 kids who are on
00:39:24.680 Twitter you know
00:39:25.760 that that's the
00:39:26.560 reason why you
00:39:27.620 know VC Twitter
00:39:28.900 or like VC people
00:39:30.460 and ML people
00:39:31.260 and you know
00:39:32.900 the classical
00:39:33.840 liberals and you
00:39:35.240 know the cat
00:39:36.340 girls are all
00:39:37.920 are all in the
00:39:38.680 same place it's
00:39:39.260 all just a circle
00:39:40.020 because it's all
00:39:40.760 just it's all just
00:39:41.440 Twitter yeah it's
00:39:44.000 interesting that you
00:39:44.740 say that the world
00:39:45.520 seems so small
00:39:46.680 after a certain
00:39:47.500 point right but
00:39:48.860 it just is right
00:39:50.120 this is also
00:39:50.780 something that I
00:39:51.380 realized after you
00:39:52.960 know going to
00:39:54.300 to DC and trying
00:39:55.360 to set up something
00:39:56.280 that like all of
00:39:57.620 the people who
00:39:58.840 are doing anything
00:40:00.340 interesting not
00:40:01.540 not like literally
00:40:02.200 all of them but
00:40:03.460 they're all people
00:40:04.120 who I like organically
00:40:05.340 encountered doing
00:40:06.520 the podcast before
00:40:07.620 that you know so
00:40:08.580 context for the
00:40:09.420 audience like I did
00:40:10.580 not talk about I
00:40:12.640 might like my day
00:40:13.560 job was in machine
00:40:14.240 learning engineering
00:40:14.920 I did not want to
00:40:15.900 talk about anything
00:40:16.860 related to machine
00:40:18.420 learning on the
00:40:19.160 podcast I was just
00:40:20.080 like sick of it for
00:40:21.960 for the longest time
00:40:23.380 until I like stopped
00:40:24.780 doing that as my
00:40:25.720 main job and I
00:40:27.340 interviewed like you
00:40:28.780 know John
00:40:29.360 Escones James
00:40:30.280 Poulos Sam
00:40:31.660 Hammond it was just
00:40:32.440 like all of the
00:40:33.440 people doing like the
00:40:34.340 most interesting
00:40:35.120 machine learning
00:40:35.780 policy stuff in DC
00:40:36.900 right now are I
00:40:38.360 mean James is not
00:40:38.980 in DC but all the
00:40:40.160 people doing the
00:40:40.740 most interesting
00:40:41.280 machine learning
00:40:41.840 stuff in DC or
00:40:42.980 in like adjacent
00:40:43.700 circles were people
00:40:45.560 who were on the
00:40:46.440 podcast for
00:40:47.200 unrelated reasons
00:40:48.560 no I mean you're
00:40:51.860 right that's just
00:40:52.500 what we've noticed
00:40:53.160 as well the world
00:40:53.980 smaller than people
00:40:55.260 think it is and
00:40:56.040 and you know
00:40:56.960 sometimes I look at
00:40:57.680 our listener numbers
00:40:58.580 and I'm like wow
00:40:59.300 they look like really
00:41:00.180 small and then
00:41:01.500 I'll talk to some
00:41:02.320 you know I don't
00:41:02.780 know random
00:41:03.360 whatever like VC
00:41:04.500 or billionaire I
00:41:05.220 didn't know and
00:41:05.760 they're like oh I
00:41:06.340 watch every episode
00:41:07.260 of your show and
00:41:08.140 I'm like that's
00:41:09.360 weird because only
00:41:10.520 like 4,000 people
00:41:11.760 watch but I assume
00:41:15.060 it's the same with
00:41:15.640 you right like it's
00:41:16.720 it's it's weird and
00:41:17.820 sad actually this
00:41:19.220 brings us to
00:41:19.720 something that
00:41:20.120 Simone was doing
00:41:20.740 where she was going
00:41:21.320 to YouTube and
00:41:21.940 she goes okay how
00:41:22.720 do we get big what
00:41:23.500 did the big channels
00:41:24.300 look like and so
00:41:25.500 she went to look at
00:41:26.380 all of the biggest
00:41:27.160 channels and what
00:41:28.700 was it that you
00:41:29.220 said about them
00:41:29.980 that it looked like
00:41:31.640 it was primarily
00:41:32.560 targeting lobotomized
00:41:34.660 audiences I mean not
00:41:36.120 really no it was it
00:41:36.860 was primarily targeting
00:41:37.680 people who were as I
00:41:39.980 said to Malcolm so low
00:41:41.400 on Maslow's hierarchy
00:41:42.400 of needs they just
00:41:43.160 didn't really have
00:41:43.620 bandwidth for anything
00:41:44.380 that's not that's
00:41:46.200 not more engaging
00:41:47.660 than a three stooges
00:41:50.240 skit which is modern
00:41:51.760 edition and in
00:41:52.860 culturally relevant
00:41:53.720 contexts if that
00:41:54.800 makes sense so
00:41:56.260 so I was talking
00:41:57.400 to someone who
00:41:58.020 had a lot of
00:41:59.400 experience writing
00:42:00.360 newsletter headlines
00:42:01.300 and he was like
00:42:03.600 exactly this the
00:42:04.740 overlap between the
00:42:06.740 people who I don't
00:42:11.480 know there are like
00:42:12.460 common there are like
00:42:13.540 examples of this so I
00:42:14.580 don't want to be like
00:42:15.260 too absolutist about
00:42:16.200 this but the overlap
00:42:17.420 between what you would
00:42:18.500 do to get a mass
00:42:20.020 audience and what you
00:42:21.720 would do to get you
00:42:22.760 know like a successful
00:42:23.860 like policy wise
00:42:24.820 successful audience
00:42:25.880 is very very close
00:42:28.240 to zero yes yeah
00:42:30.140 yes the the exception
00:42:32.360 might be like I
00:42:33.300 don't know Tucker
00:42:33.840 Carlson and he is
00:42:35.340 like highly online now
00:42:36.420 right like he's on
00:42:37.320 Twitter now the place
00:42:38.860 you know the place
00:42:39.600 where it all it all
00:42:41.200 goes yes he might
00:42:43.540 have been the last
00:42:44.200 one he might have
00:42:45.120 been the last
00:42:45.720 intersection between
00:42:47.060 normie popularity
00:42:48.300 and actual and
00:42:51.200 actual interesting
00:42:52.100 things going on yeah
00:42:54.200 that's hard to say
00:42:55.000 but outlook not
00:42:56.160 good I'm very
00:42:57.160 scared but this was
00:42:58.660 so fun no we as
00:43:00.780 as we all I think
00:43:01.660 discover more as
00:43:02.860 AI also gets better
00:43:03.920 especially we need to
00:43:05.020 touch base on this
00:43:06.100 topic again and see
00:43:07.180 where we've gone
00:43:08.060 further because I
00:43:08.840 feel like relationships
00:43:10.600 and interpersonal
00:43:12.120 dynamics are going to
00:43:13.260 go further off the
00:43:14.340 rails the more
00:43:16.060 advanced AI gets so
00:43:17.920 let's come back to
00:43:19.340 I think it's just
00:43:20.480 reveal preferences
00:43:21.280 you know this is
00:43:22.240 something that I
00:43:22.720 said you know you
00:43:23.520 should start doing
00:43:24.580 as a kind of like
00:43:25.500 healthy thought
00:43:26.120 experiment but once
00:43:27.200 you start doing it
00:43:27.920 as a healthy thought
00:43:28.560 experiment I think
00:43:30.000 your your world
00:43:31.160 model becomes
00:43:32.400 increasingly tilted
00:43:33.760 in that direction
00:43:35.060 and and I think
00:43:36.840 that's just been
00:43:37.460 like just in the
00:43:38.680 past few in the
00:43:39.680 past few years even
00:43:40.480 just proven to be
00:43:41.220 more correct like
00:43:42.560 you should assume
00:43:43.320 that people want
00:43:44.440 the things that
00:43:45.180 they take for
00:43:46.220 themselves I don't
00:43:47.980 know if that is
00:43:48.700 like controversial
00:43:49.400 but but but
00:43:51.140 people don't do it
00:43:51.800 enough that checks
00:43:53.200 out that checks
00:43:54.080 out we've loved
00:43:55.000 chatting with you
00:43:55.780 have a spectacular
00:43:57.600 day and listeners
00:43:59.760 please check out
00:44:00.460 his podcast yeah
00:44:02.340 that is the from
00:44:03.140 the new world
00:44:03.600 podcast and you
00:44:04.540 can find it at
00:44:05.180 from the new dot
00:44:06.220 world yes that is
00:44:08.000 where everything lives
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