Matt McCusker
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721 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Matt McCusker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like when it's like an AI person, I don't know what, just innately, I'm kind of like, ah, fuck, that's weird.
Yeah, literally, that's such a good way to put it because that is kind of the feeling I get where I'm like, it's not a real fucking, and it's just a subtle, almost unconscious thing where I'm like, that's not a real person and I get like a really uneasy, weird feeling.
I haven't been able to identify the feeling.
It's a corpse feeling.
Yeah, you don't enjoy – I mean that's the big thing too, which – like you were saying, the free-based capitalism thing where there's like – obviously, yeah, if you want to write books, you say, well, yeah, I'm going to write them.
I'm going to sell them.
But then there's like – there's the joy inherent in the task itself where it's like if you just outsource all the work and try to get all the money, it's like, hey, the thing's not – I don't think –
probably won't be good or like groundbreaking in any sense but it's also like you know when you write a book aside from like selling there's like the external rewards of selling a book but there's so many internal rewards to things that people now just like try to completely over like if you're a carpenter and you build a barn it's like yes you can sell your barn but you've also gained the skills you have the pride you can like feel the wood and everything and it's like i think everyone lacks there's a there's a really good book about that um
This guy Alistair McIntyre, he was a philosopher in, like, the 80s.
Got real into, like, Aristotelianism, virtue.
Like, this is the kind of thing that's been fucking me up lately.
Dude, Alistair McIntyre's After Virtues.
I think it's... I had to read a book basically summarizing the book.
It's one of those dense things written by a giant fucking genius guy.
But, dude, he goes through all this stuff.
Basically, he's saying our...
Our modern morality is just like a broken, chaotic jumble of all of these different things that we use as almost like snakeskin to kind of just get our way so we can gain external rewards.
It's pretty fucked up.
But, dude, it's true because he was saying like back a long time ago, as far as I can tell, a long time ago, it was like you had the virtues.
And they were just more so about like how to excel as a human being across.
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