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Interview with Matt Johnson on Christopher Hitchens

Decoding the Gurus

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The Reality of Free Speech

I feel like I feel like the technology has led us to a situation where maybe those old liberal ideals feel a little bit naive. If you could pump out really compelling propaganda via GPT-4 and just distribute it 100,000s of times more rapidly than it can be distributed now, is that free speech? I mean, I just don't, that's not what Mill was envisioning when he was making the case for unfettered free speech. So I think that's absolutely right. You just have to deal with the reality as it confronts you. It did bother me to see people so willing to shout him down or shout down like Christine Offsommers or all the usual

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