Chris Hayes
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And so let's just like talk about the first part first a little bit and like whether, you know, I think you had one line in there that your, the book was an attempt to find some peace on this front. Did you find any for people?
And so let's just like talk about the first part first a little bit and like whether, you know, I think you had one line in there that your, the book was an attempt to find some peace on this front. Did you find any for people?
And so let's just like talk about the first part first a little bit and like whether, you know, I think you had one line in there that your, the book was an attempt to find some peace on this front. Did you find any for people?
You wrote this Elon thing. I'd write this down. He wrote in 2022 that, where is it? Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me generate a lot of clicks. Will try my best to be heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization. He wrote that in 2022. How'd that go?
You wrote this Elon thing. I'd write this down. He wrote in 2022 that, where is it? Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me generate a lot of clicks. Will try my best to be heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization. He wrote that in 2022. How'd that go?
You wrote this Elon thing. I'd write this down. He wrote in 2022 that, where is it? Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me generate a lot of clicks. Will try my best to be heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization. He wrote that in 2022. How'd that go?
On kind of the receiving of attention side of this, I was intrigued by the point about babies, right? That we get attention immediately, that in other animals, like, you know, babies don't need attention quite as much, you know? Have you ever watched, by the way, have you ever watched like a litter of pigs nursing? I don't think I have. You watch a lot of weird shit. I did notice in the book.
On kind of the receiving of attention side of this, I was intrigued by the point about babies, right? That we get attention immediately, that in other animals, like, you know, babies don't need attention quite as much, you know? Have you ever watched, by the way, have you ever watched like a litter of pigs nursing? I don't think I have. You watch a lot of weird shit. I did notice in the book.
On kind of the receiving of attention side of this, I was intrigued by the point about babies, right? That we get attention immediately, that in other animals, like, you know, babies don't need attention quite as much, you know? Have you ever watched, by the way, have you ever watched like a litter of pigs nursing? I don't think I have. You watch a lot of weird shit. I did notice in the book.
You also were like, I've once watched carpet being cleaned for hours.
You also were like, I've once watched carpet being cleaned for hours.
You also were like, I've once watched carpet being cleaned for hours.
You watch it while you do other stuff? Or is it just you and your mind looking at carpet cleaning videos?
You watch it while you do other stuff? Or is it just you and your mind looking at carpet cleaning videos?
You watch it while you do other stuff? Or is it just you and your mind looking at carpet cleaning videos?
So then this leads to the more grown-up problems, which is the thing that really resonated with me, which was an attention-recognition paradox. Yeah. And you write about how a lot of the people that are ruining our society right now have been unable to navigate the attention-recognition paradox, but I think it's something that all of us deal with. So talk about that a little bit.
So then this leads to the more grown-up problems, which is the thing that really resonated with me, which was an attention-recognition paradox. Yeah. And you write about how a lot of the people that are ruining our society right now have been unable to navigate the attention-recognition paradox, but I think it's something that all of us deal with. So talk about that a little bit.
So then this leads to the more grown-up problems, which is the thing that really resonated with me, which was an attention-recognition paradox. Yeah. And you write about how a lot of the people that are ruining our society right now have been unable to navigate the attention-recognition paradox, but I think it's something that all of us deal with. So talk about that a little bit.
Oh, my God. Do you feel that? I feel it in a big way. No, this is what I literally had to do. I was doing therapy about because I was like โ You write at length in the book about famous people reading their comments. And you admitted to the fact that you once searched Chris, not once, but at one time in your life before you dealt with us, you had searched Chris Hayes. It was like name searching.
Oh, my God. Do you feel that? I feel it in a big way. No, this is what I literally had to do. I was doing therapy about because I was like โ You write at length in the book about famous people reading their comments. And you admitted to the fact that you once searched Chris, not once, but at one time in your life before you dealt with us, you had searched Chris Hayes. It was like name searching.