Alex O'Connor
speaker
2,073 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
Alex O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Everyone has ego, everyone.
But if you have two people who recognize that, try to mitigate it, and try to give it a backseat to having a good conversation, it's kind of just no longer a debate, almost by definition.
Well, people do, and I do debate sometimes, but I don't enjoy them.
They're also extremely expensive time-wise, because you have to prepare.
It's like preparing for an exam.
You don't know what's going to come up.
If they score a point that you weren't ready for, it's going to be embarrassing.
That is fun.
It's sport.
Look, there is nothing wrong with sport.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
It's fun, but you have to know that that's what you're doing.
Debates are like boxing matches, you know?
They will sometimes tell you who the better boxer is.
They might not even tell you who the better boxer is.
They'll tell you who boxed better in that match, but it won't tell you who the better boxer is overall, and it definitely won't tell you who the better fighter is.
You have no idea what would happen if they met in a bar, no holds barred, and they were able to use intelligence and weapons and call their friends and stuff like that.
You have no idea what would happen.
Similarly,
Somebody in a debate, it's like a sparring match.
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