yes… and fats! yummy yummy fats

I was very very close to namedropping her here, definitely the last time I had this feeling

yeah, it was strange for the piece to not hit a traditional "new yorker eurostep" and give the historical context, acting instead as if this is the first moment people have given this subject serious thought

yes, have to go broader

completely agree, it was too narrowly circumscribed on the company and their circle. i would've preferred a version that abandoned the "i visited a place" mag structure and just surveyed the landscape of thinkers on the topic (and i think he would do a good job at that)

i didn't find it all that handwavey tbh, and in general i enjoyed it more than writing that treats "learning" and "thinking" and "minds" as if they were crystal-clear concepts we fully understand in ourselves

i agree the "private" "scratchpad" thing was bizarre to drop in passing, without serious examination. but i think the piece as a whole was about as philosophically serious as you could expect a general interest magazine to get

that's true, and probably, in the long run, using platforms like this all day will make us crave the one over the other

the context....may surprise you

that's fair, i just read the gideon lewis-kraus article and found it to be curious about the fart-sniffers' work without being credulous, he leaves open the possibility that it *is* meaningful without stuffing it down the reader's throat

frank ramsey didn't die for this

it‘s close. he was 1 and she was 2 in worldwide streams last year

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on top of all that, one of the last pop musicians doing anything worthwhile with the album format which my boomer listening habits appreciate

yeah, it’s a bummer. i was hoping there’d be a more elegant option but maybe there isn’t