Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.

Steve and Katherine discuss:

0:00 Introduction

1:15 Katherine’s early life and background

21:52 Mass shootings, Manifestos, Nihilism, and Incels

59:35 Trad values, Sex negativity vs Porn and Fleshlights

1:28:54 Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter

1:33:00 TikTok

1:41:41 Adderall

1:44:07 AI/GPT impact on writers and journos

1:49:30 Gen-X generation gap: are the kids alright?

References:

Katherine’s Substack: https://defaultfriend.substack.com/

“Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made”: https://contra.substack.com/p/mass-shootings-and-the-world-liberalism

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (Superfocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.