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War Room Lounge v151: Between drinking and burning, I don't need another vice in my life.

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Covfefe 19 said:
yeah my parents watched him on vhs like a million times i agree it was mostly coke running that ship back then
let me substitute Williams for prime Kinison
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Saw him live in 93ish , he was just ok , Carlin was way better
 
luckyshot said:
Hmm... I think there is always nuance to be added. For example, when experts don't reach consensus, or when a field of knowledge is emergent, it is difficult to know whom to trust. Still, the basic thesis that experts get things right far more often than laypeople seems pretty self- evident to me.
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I agree with that! But the proper detection of expertise is underanalyzed imo. For example in the presentation it was made to seem obvious that there were experts on coronavirus that weren't being listened to due to bias, politics etc - which is certaintly true - but no mention that this event has called on the expertise of virologists, epidemiologists, public health experts, economists, politicians and more, who may not be aligned on their recommendations. Furthermore, experts in one domain are often tempted to stretch their authority into an adjacent domain, even though medicine and epidemiology are not the same, for example (Nichols actually defended physicians giving nutritional advice in the presentation, and I've seen more than enough of that done poorly to know a nutrition science PhD would be preferred).

I don't think radical skepticism is the proper response, but I think the barriers to finding the truth for the average Joe can certainly lead to it, and that needs to be acknowledged for public communication to improve.
 
now im down a sam kinison rabbit hole and laughing my ass off :)

 
irish_thug said:
Impressive. Thor was a pretty big dude back in the day. He did about half my Tattoos. Why on earth did you get into a scrap with Thor? Are you a Nazi? Cause Thor hates Nazis.
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He worked at way cool on yonge street right?
 
Tycho Brah said:
I agree with that! But the proper detection of expertise is underanalyzed imo. For example in the presentation it was made to seem obvious that there were experts on coronavirus that weren't being listened to due to bias, politics etc - which is certaintly true - but no mention that this event has called on the expertise of virologists, epidemiologists, public health experts, economists, politicians and more, who may not be aligned on their recommendations. Furthermore, experts in one domain are often tempted to stretch their authority into an adjacent domain, even though medicine and epidemiology are not the same, for example (Nichols actually defended physicians giving nutritional advice in the presentation, and I've seen more than enough of that done poorly to know a nutrition science PhD would be preferred).

I don't think radical skepticism is the proper response, but I think the barriers to finding the truth for the average Joe can certainly lead to it, and that needs to be acknowledged for public communication to improve.
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Overall I'm a Nichols fan but this doesn't surprise me as he does try to claim to be an authority on topics he really isn't.

His expertise seems to be on the Cold War and Nat/Sec

But I saw him tweet about being a political scientist (and maybe he technically is) to assert who will and won't do well in the general election without any real analysis backing up his positions.
 
irish_thug said:
Impressive. Thor was a pretty big dude back in the day. He did about half my Tattoos. Why on earth did you get into a scrap with Thor? Are you a Nazi? Cause Thor hates Nazis.
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He was way bigger and after he dropped me only a lucky head butt allowed me to get a bit better of it before it was broken up. LOL obviously not, wrong place/wrong time. We both got kinda pushed into it and he was cool afterwards.
 
Covfefe 19 said:
cosbys reputation is garbage now

Carlin
robin williams (late 80's 90's live at the met etc)
dave chappelle (modern era)
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Williams is clearly a lower tier, even though he's a favorite of mine. Cosby's rep has absolutely nothing to do with his skill and his contributions as a comic for those several decades.

Chappelle is the heir to Pryor if he wants it. (and side note, Murphy was NEVER heir to Pryor, not even close)
 
Gandhi said:
He was way bigger and after he dropped me only a lucky head butt allowed me to get a bit better of it before it was broken up. LOL obviously not, wrong place/wrong time. We both got kinda pushed into it and he was cool afterwards.
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Was that when he was still drinking? I only crossed paths with him a few times before he quit.
 
irish_thug said:
I was listening to a bit of Williams the other day, I struggled to find the funny. It was basically cocaine in human form talking into a mic
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There was a lot of that with him, but I love the crazy style and the references he machine guns out there. One problem I have with him is that only his style was original, not his material. I was disappointed when I learned that he wrote basically none of his jokes. Pryor has some of the same problem for me. Not that he was a thief - he wasn't - but he had a lot of help.
 
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