listened to the @GlennLoury / @charlesmurray podcast tonight. it raised my opinion of Murray and made me feel bad about making a QT shitpost of one of his tweets the other day even though it wasnt at his expense. hes quite dignified.
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what was particularly impressive was the way he took a question, struggled with his response, said he didnt know--all of this happening in real time and very clearly, his mind -> speech process is unusually tight and then five minutes later he came up with a response
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the response incidentally was quite plausible. super interesting watching him go from "I think I have an idea" to "actually I have no idea" to "ok here is a systematic explanation", all out loud step two felt especially like intellectual honesty. he didnt bullshit
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his speculation which I found compelling was basically white flight but at the state level which imo might already be happening and would probably lead to a separating equilibrium good fun bleak stuff
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he floated this as a sign that things were going quite badly w.r.t. race and specifically cited it as a sign of a major white backlash against woke shit, even if its unspoken
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