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Thank you for this great episode! Simone was a really interesting guest even by the very high standards of this podcast.

She overall made some great points, but I was confused by her response to the "would you ban TikTok" question. She seemed to be arguing that we don't need to ban TikTok because it acts as a form of natural selection. Wouldn't it be catastrophic if you applied this logic to every social ill? Should China just allowed everyone to become opium addicts? They saw a corrupting product and put a stop to it. After the government's intervention, China went from having 27% of its male population being addicted to opium to the current negligible %. Obviously, China is better of having done that.

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Since you mentioned IQ shredders, Spandrell has started visiting podcasts recently (Medgold and something else like Bloody Satellite or w/e). I think he'll have some interesting things to say. He's @spandrell3 on twatter.

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Isn’t the problem with The New Season that you go and everybody is not that hot? The A+ people don’t need it and won’t go. The culture that forced the very hot to hang out with losers was Slave Morality winning in Brian’s terms.

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