Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If the rastering goes through and it changes, the time changes between the pixels is fast enough.
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That you interleave it or you can't make the discrimination.
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And so the same thing's going on with that.
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And I think one of the beautiful things about it is when he talks about it, when you make it much slower, much faster, it changes the way in which you experience it and the conclusion you make about what really is going on.
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And this now makes me think of it, it's operating just like a lot of other illusions are until you figure out how to interpret what you're seeing and how.
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So when I go, you know, the whole bent stick thing that someone like was talked about, like in early science days, the stick actually isn't bent.
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It just looks like it's bent because refraction of the water and stuff like that.
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It's not that you can't understand that it still looks bent.
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in one sense, but your account for what it is is different.
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Once you inquire into it, and this is my last point, is that that kind of ability to probe what's actually going on by asking lots of questions is Dennett's whole point about the richness of the world outstrips our ability to have it be simulated.
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So this exact kind of way of framing it is why I think it's really good to end our review on Douglas.
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Because I mean, I can't think of a better example of saying, look, things can be really just bad.
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but there is a idea, a core idea that is the unifying, in fact, infusing and motivating notion about what it means to be in America and means to be an American that Douglas is holding on to.
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And to say that for someone who is not a citizen, who is subject to arguably some of the most egregious oversight in the founding of America, to say that there's still the notion, the idea that is something to be grown into and that arguably the country is strong enough to endure that.
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And I think, Wes, you're right, that in the end, he thought that it wasn't going to endure it except through violence in that case.
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But that, I think, for me, is the salient question, right?
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The notion that it's corrupt all the way down is just not true.
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If that's true, then everything just has to get thrown away, and Douglas is completely wrong, okay?
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arguing for that?
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I thought you were arguing against it.
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