Nice conversation between Jonah Goldberg and Luke Burgis about his book The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion.

Three things that stuck out toward the end:

• Jonah’s anecdote that quality time with your kids is overrated and quantity time is underrated
• Jonah also mentions two categories of thinking: stuff that pops in my head and I immediately want to write about it, and stuff that I think about and care about so much that I don’t want to write about it, or at least have a much harder time writing about it. Yes! And I’ve been thinking a lot lately/for the last couple years about how much of this falls into things that writing should and should not be used for.
• Given the negative responses to Magnifica humanitas on the topic of AI, it was nice to hear some praise from Burgis here:

  He was wise not to weigh into the specifics. And some people were like, “Ah, you should have said more specifically about AI.” Paragraph 99 is the most important one in the encyclical, which is [where] he talks about the difference between machines and the human person. It’s an encyclical about the human person. It’s about anthropology. It’s not really about AI.