About this episode
Derek Thompson joins Tim Miller to discuss the moral implications of politics, AI, and various crises facing America and the world.
Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immorality. And the Dems are currently in a bit of a moral dilemma of their own over the latest Platner revelations, given the moral imperative of having a Senate that obstructs Trump’s worst policies. Questions of morality also surface with AI, particularly if we allow machines to do the thinking for us. Plus, the Dems need a Wemby, an American debt crisis seems inevitable, the global fertility crisis may be too hard to fix, and why is the English-language world the most unhappy? Derek Thompson joins Tim Miller. show notes “The Next Level” pod will be out later today Derek’s piece on vicemaxxing Derek on the great AI cost panic The “Plain English” pod, hosted by Derek “Mere Christianity,” by C.S. Lewis “Pluribus”
People in this episode
Host: Tim Miller
Guest: Derek Thompson
Topics covered
- Trump's corruption
- moral dilemmas
- AI ethics
- American debt crisis
- global fertility crisis
- political commentary
Keywords
- Trump
- corruption
- morality
- AI
- debt crisis
- fertility crisis
- politics
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Mere Christianity, Pluribus
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