I'm listening to Ezra Klein on the Tyler Cowen podcast discussing "The Abundance Agenda". What a fucking nightmare. Is Klein really going to masquerade some kind of soft, data-driven Neoconservatism as a new liberal paradigm? Fundamentally, what are Klein's beliefs about social hierarchies?

Listening to Christof Koch on Sean Carroll's podcast. No shade on Koch, but after hearing him talk about consciousness for an hour, I feel like he's elucidated approximately nothing. There is truly a surplus of super-experts cooking in this kitchen, which only ever turns out hamburgers.

Just putting it out there. It's the beginning of a new period in the Vivid calendar.