Putting philosophy talks at a music festival is one of those ideas you come up with to try and sound smart, cool, and edgy, but as a high schooler who has never done drugs nor been to a live show before.

Anyway I went through the lineup summaries on the wikipedia page, two notes:

1. No Jay Shetty! His particular brand of grift philosophy and thinly veiled clout chasing would fit in exactly at this sort of event. Then again, this festival might actually be beneath him, as he hangs out with hollywood a-listers.
2. The lineup noticeably hits its turning point into a nosedive when they start hosting Pinker in 2018.

I checked the link, the thread elaborates a bit more:

to which my understanding is: this is absolutely true as well.

You're welcome!

The pundits in question are Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein. More accurately speaking they are liberals.

They think leather jackets are cool but don’t know why, and have never been challenged on their fashion choices. Fuckers need a good mugging to change their ways.

gibberish.awful.systems, to form GAS

what we are best at here at HN

It’s always bootlicking with this crowd jfc

e/vac

something something ethical consumption something something under capitalism

I don’t recognise this ABBA song, must be a deep cut (jk)

??? Zack is a “I think you should leave” character

(Numbers added by me for easier back references)

Examples of epilogenics

1) Selecting an embryo for lower disease risk, higher intelligence, or some other trait good for both the individual and society
2) Gene editing for the purposes listed above
3) Choosing an attractive spouse

Examples of things that are not epilogenics

4) State-sponsored sterilization of people deemed “unfit”
5) Rules against marriage of family members such a siblings and cousins
6) Things people think of as eugenics even though they are often bad for genes (i.e. genocide)

• 1 with the qualification of “good for… society” is just 4) with extra steps. 2) is just 1).
• For 3), unless everyone you are dating never wears makeup/grooms themselves in any way, you probably aren’t looking at much genetic influence. You are probably instead just selecting for socioeconomic bracket, which is totally not what any of this is about, right?
• For 5), is the implication is that the OP thinks anti-incest laws are eugenics and therefore bad and therefore should be abolished???
• 6 Aella definitely googled “things that are bad for genes” with voice to text, got back “regular washing” and took that to heart

Other:

• I didn’t know the “eu” in “eugenics” came from greek.
• Now I’m thinking about that whole “eudaimonia” thing from a while back. Every time it pops up in my head I think “Eudaimon now dog!” I wonder how YTMND is doing these days.