Today’s podcast features the brilliant and singular Mills Baker. Formally, he’s the Head of Design at Substack, where we met, and also fallibilist, New Orleanian, and OG blogger extraordinaire.

Among other things, we discuss:

* Is the “literacy crisis” real?

* The case for reading novels

* Why humans are not just fleshy LLMs

* Parenting for a post-AGI world

* Why Mills didn’t become a full-time writer

* Girardian scapegoating

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