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'''Eric:''' I'm just curious for, so first of all, I've taken your advice and Tim Ferriss's and Joe Rogan's and started this podcast. You were actually the first person I sat down with, but I had so little idea what I was doing that we blocked out the windows. We had an uncomfortable table in front of the face. The feng shui was completely off. | '''Eric:''' I'm just curious for, so first of all, I've taken your advice and Tim Ferriss's and Joe Rogan's and started this podcast. You were actually the first person I sat down with, but I had so little idea what I was doing that we blocked out the windows. We had an uncomfortable table in front of the face. The feng shui was completely off. | ||
'''Sam'' We had an Adams family podcast. Exactly. so we're, we're trying things, I'm learning a little bit. But first of all any, anytime you want to flip the tables on me, I'm game to what is top of mind for you at the moment or should we, should, I can go into some topics that I'm curious about? | '''Sam:''' We had an Adams family podcast. Exactly. so we're, we're trying things, I'm learning a little bit. But first of all any, anytime you want to flip the tables on me, I'm game to what is top of mind for you at the moment or should we, should, I can go into some topics that I'm curious about? | ||
'''Eric:''' 00:01:42 Whatever you want to go. This is your show. Okay. So one of the things that I'm starting to think about is doing a little bit of retrospective work, trying to think about where our world, our country is. We're going into another electoral cycle. And I just think this is the most bizarre age imaginable. It doesn't behave like any previous time. And I hear that we're at peak this and peak that, but I don't see any signs of the, what I increasingly see is the incoherence slowing down. Are you also perceiving a world that is kind of intellectually unraveling or are you seeing new kinds of formations that give you the idea that something is actually filling the voids that have been opening up when it comes to coherence? Well, we'll, I, I worry that this is a kind of cognitive delusion to think that the time you're in is always sort of newly chaotic or incoherent or you know, civilizations on the brink in some new way in your time. But I, but I, I'm taken in by it in Arcata be kidding, man. This has never happened. No, no, this is, this is, but there's gotta be some name for this where it's just, you know, it's, it's | '''Eric:''' 00:01:42 Whatever you want to go. This is your show. Okay. So one of the things that I'm starting to think about is doing a little bit of retrospective work, trying to think about where our world, our country is. We're going into another electoral cycle. And I just think this is the most bizarre age imaginable. It doesn't behave like any previous time. And I hear that we're at peak this and peak that, but I don't see any signs of the, what I increasingly see is the incoherence slowing down. Are you also perceiving a world that is kind of intellectually unraveling or are you seeing new kinds of formations that give you the idea that something is actually filling the voids that have been opening up when it comes to coherence? Well, we'll, I, I worry that this is a kind of cognitive delusion to think that the time you're in is always sort of newly chaotic or incoherent or you know, civilizations on the brink in some new way in your time. But I, but I, I'm taken in by it in Arcata be kidding, man. This has never happened. No, no, this is, this is, but there's gotta be some name for this where it's just, you know, it's, it's | ||