What's Our Problem? w/ Tim Urban
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My friend Tim Urban, author of one of the most important books of the last 50 years, What's Our Problem? We dove straight into the deep end—discussing the three existential threats facing the West.
From there we segued into the urgency of clear writing and habits of thought to the role of reasoning and truth-seeking in the age of AI. Then we explored the question on everyone's mind: Is Western society collapsing before our eyes?
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