Alex O'Connor
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2,073 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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You're going to see who's better at that particular dance.
You have no idea what would happen if you gave them a week to think about your point, consult their resources and respond to you properly.
And so I think that the sweet spot is somewhere in between those.
Let's not take a week to respond, but let's not be like snapping back with quips.
But having said that, a lot of people are quick to say like, oh, like I don't do debates because they're not about getting to truth.
Like I do debate sometimes because they're fun.
Yeah.
They're fun and they are interesting and you do bring up interesting points and they do become these spectacles and they do bring people into like thinking about these issues and that's quite fun.
But you have to recognize that that's what you're doing such that afterwards, if it goes really well, you go, great, oh, cool, fun, I won.
But it's like if you win a chess match or something, you're like, oh, sweet, cool.
Anyway, like let's play again sometime, you know, and you might lose next time.
That's the attitude you have to have.
If you become convinced that you're like Magnus Carlsen because you won one chess match, even if you are Magnus Carlsen, like that only means you're good at chess, you know?
No playing pop music in like fancy restaurants.
Anything else.
Something that's suitable to the environment.
I wrote a piece on this recently.
It's my least favorite thing about the world is the fact that it's not just fancy restaurants.
It's like you go into like a nice cafe or you go into even like a hotel lobby or something.
And you think about how much...
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