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The Bliss of Confirmation Bias: — w/ Covfefe Anon

About this episode

Covfefe Anon returns to Plausibly Deniable to discuss the bliss of confirmation bias: how to engineer a viral take, why the edit may be the native medium of the 21st century, and why Angry Birds might be the most fascist movie ever made. Lukas, Saila and Covfefe review films they have not seen, explain why ironic criticism only makes its targets cooler, and consider whether Confirmation Bias is actually a better name for the podcast.

The conversation also covers Ryan Gosling, Barbenheimer, James Bond, public-domain superheroes and AI remakes, Joe Biden and the death of the presidency, girl-avatar growth hacks, GPUs and matrix multiplication, phonics and grade inflation, business-school arbitrage, solo-podcast psychosis, radicalized wives, Twitter jannies, boomer game, hair-loss hopium, live-editing reality, friendship simulators, freedom of association, and the “blood diamonds attack” on crypto.

Chapters

  1. 00:00 How to Engineer a Viral Take
  2. 01:02 Intro and Sponsors
  3. 01:48 Reviewing The Odyssey Without Watching It
  4. 05:15 Spoilers, Millennial Slop, and the Last Shared Culture
  5. 10:40 Meta-Level Lying, LARPing, and Intrigue-Maxing
  6. 17:24 Ryan Gosling’s Drive and the Single-Mom Concession
  7. 20:28 Barbenheimer and the Fascism of Angry Birds
  8. 24:03 Ryan Gosling vs. Angry Birds and the Communist Sequel
  9. 30:00 James Bond Rides Bitch
  10. 32:55 Public-Domain Superheroes and AI Remakes
  11. 34:11 Activated Charcoal and the Final Original Podcast Episode
  12. 37:12 Patrick Bateman, Starship Troopers, and Failed Irony
  13. 39:44 GEOBODEN and Joe Biden’s Final Act
  14. 42:58 The Presidency Is a Puppet Show
  15. 46:49 The Edit Is the Native Medium of the 21st Century
  16. 50:02 One Reader and Ninety-Nine Edit Watchers
  17. 52:09 How to Manufacture a Viral Take
  18. 54:46 The Girl-Avatar Growth Hack
  19. 58:39 GPUs Accidentally Built Superintelligence
  20. 1:02:14 Schooling, Phonics, and the End of Reading
  21. 1:07:11 Harvard Sells Credentials, Not Education
  22. 1:12:03 Business School, Bar Prep, and Clicker Arbitrage
  23. 1:15:36 Solo Podcasting Causes Mental Illness
  24. 1:17:34 Candace Owens and the Radicalized Wife
  25. 1:22:20 Men Lead, Women Follow, and Soy Turns You Into a Deer
  26. 1:24:09 Should We Rebrand as Confirmation Bias?
  27. 1:26:30 Emotional Programming and Mental Illness as a Defense
  28. 1:29:18 The Brain-Damage Loophole
  29. 1:33:27 Mom Gets Banned and Twitter Jannies Get Rich
  30. 1:38:22 Boomer Opportunity Stories and “May I Meet You?”
  31. 1:42:46 Hot-Girl Signaling, Hair-Loss Hopium, and Recycled Tweets
  32. 1:46:15 Broken Twitter Search, Outsourced Editing, and Dog Clickers
  33. 1:49:48 Live-Editing Reality and the Ex Who Shrunk Seven Inches
  34. 1:52:33 The Bliss of Confirmation Bias
  35. 1:55:08 Friendship Simulators and the Blood-Diamonds Attack
  36. 1:58:54 Freedom of Association and Memetic Stink
  37. 2:02:20 Outro: Should We Rebrand?

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