Greg Lukianoff

It's one of the reasons why we're also aware of the replication crisis.

It's one of the reasons why we're also aware of how shoddy our research is, how much our expert class is

arrogant in many cases, but people don't want to live in a world where they don't have people that they respect and they can look at.

And I think what's happening, possibly now, but will continue to happen, is people are going to establish themselves as being high integrity, that they will always be honest.

I think you are establishing yourself as someone who is high integrity.

where that where they can trust that person a fire wants to be um you know the institution that people can come to is like if it's free speech we will defend it period and i think that people need new uh uh need to have authorities that they can actually trust and i think that if you actually had a stream that maybe people can watch in action but not flood with you know stupid cancel culture stuff or dumb cat means where it is actually a serious discussion bounded around rules

No perfect rhetorical fortress, no efficient rhetorical fortress, none of the BS ways we debate.

I think you could start to actually create something that could actually be a major improvement in the speed with which we come up with new, better ideas and separate truth from falsity.

It's pretty damn impressive.

What's your overall take?

I mean, I'm mostly impressed.

That sounds healthier than most environments.

Yeah.

Yeah, and that basically, you know, you get the little cards for nope, wrong, nope, wrong.

Yeah, and I think actually you can make it a little bit fun by you get a limited number of them.

You know, it's kind of like you get three whataboutism cards.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, the whole thing, the whole journey with Coddling the American Mind began with me at the Belmont Psychiatric Facility in Philadelphia back in 2007.

I had called 911 in a moment of clarity because I'd gone to the hardware store to...

make sure that when I killed myself that it stuck.