[graphov]

To be precise, he says "there might be as many as three revolutionary nobel-quality ideas". And yes, their family indeed have a lot of brainpower, so I don't even see it as such a big exaggeration or boasting.

TBH all I see in this twitter account and the podcast is just crapping on people by nitpicking innocuous and respectful phrases or claims and trying to make them look like a proof of some grave moral fault. I don't really want to engate with this sort of content anymore, especially via my poor keyboard, sorry. And as another user wrote in the comment - why listen to this second hand stuff - just open The Portal or The Dark Horse podcasts and listen to the Weinsteins (and Heather) themselves - I GUARANTEE you, you'll learn much more than from those twitter accounts, especially if you have different opinions. On evolution, economics, physics, governance, and much much more.

But I'm still open to having a chat over voice/video, given how different our sources (and I guess opinions too) are we can have an interesting enriching conversation if we manage to have a respectfull constructive disagreement. Timezone-wise I'm in Europe.

[kgarten]

Sorry, don't agree with you on the brain power part. Can't see what they achieved or did in their perspective fields that's so great. I feel they are overselling themselves ... Compared also to other intellectuals I don't agree with (e.g. Pinker).

I would recommend you to listen a bit to Jeremy Scahill, and especially also Amy Goodman. She's an institution to me ... Just awesome work for all the years: https://www.democracynow.org/

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/intercepted/ The intercept got quite a bit heat recently, yet Jeremy is still just awesome (always to the point and careful in his analysis).

They are much more in line with my political bias. Yet honestly I find they make much more sense (and use a much more precise and easy to understand sentence structure/argumentation line).

[kgarten]

Sounds great. I'm a bit busy the next two weeks ... :S I'm in Asia Pacific right now. Will sent you a mail this week. Happy to talk to you.

I listened to Dark Horse a couple of times and really don't liked what I heard ... leading me also to post this podcast episode. Later, I was checking in with Majority Report. Most of the time Seder is unbearable to me, yet he makes some good points against the podcast and the IDW (Weinstein's, Harris etc.).

I grew up in the German hacker bubble. It's very positive about Antifa and generally anarchy, knowing my biases :)

Really like hackernews for the conversations here as well.