Nathan J. Robinson

The question is whether or not her characterization of Abdul El-Sayed's or sort of openness to these plans is accurate or not.

And I know that Nathan Robinson over at Current Affairs did a follow-up interview with Abdul, and he believes that Abdul stuck the landing on this.

And to your point earlier, David, I do agree that pushing candidates on this over and over again is useful.

We've seen Troy Jackson going back to Maine be asked again and again at these town halls about whether or not he still believes Gaza is a genocide after it was reported that his establishment advisors were telling him to back off of that position.

Hey, this is Max from UNFTR, and it is my great pleasure to welcome my longtime friend and now collaborator, Nathan Robinson, editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine, as he would say.

That's my, that's the best Nathan Robinson that I can, I can channel.

We are introducing something very special today.

It is a unique collaboration between our organizations.

And while he publicly claims to be agnostic about whether Claude actually has feelings [laughs], attendees came away with the strong impression that he believes Claude is a person.

Nathan J. Robinson.

Hell yeah.

You may find the idea of AI as having rights or mental health to be just an abs- as absurd as thinking that an answering machine or thermostat or video game character could have rights.

Perhaps I should, 'cause it contains gems like this.

But, um, no, Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs sent it to me, and he was like, "What, what if you write something that sort of contests the meaning of this act that occurred on December 4th, 2024?" Because they're certainly contesting it, so.

Hmm.

So I, I'm almost done.

Right.

You're just, like, throwing numbers out there, right? Uh, you know who actually had a good critique of Scott Alexander, too, on similar lines is, um, Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs.

Oh.

Yeah.

He, um... 'Cause l- Scott Alexander had, like, basically arg- he was arguing with himself about, uh, like, what a leftist would say, right? And he's, like, going back and forth.

He's like, "Okay, so a leftist might say...

And here's my response," right? And Nathan Robinson's like, "At no point did you ever a- like, ask another human what they think," right, "and what their arguments are.

You're just having an argument with yourself so that you win."

And I write about this in this article that I have coming out in Current Affairs.

It's a personal narrative that Nathan Robinson, the editor-in-chief there, asked me to write.

about my time up on Capitol Hill and about some of the bureaucratic resistance that we faced, about some of the issues that we've had, but also some of the triumphs and the strategy that goes into creating a product that has been consumed the way ours has.

And what I wrote about is that when you get someone of that stature or of that level of notability to tag you as a student reporter, you get a ton of traffic.

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Coleman said something on Twitter that really resonated with me.

He was responding to Nathan Robinson, who's a very leftist commentator who writes, he's the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs, which is a wonderful magazine if you're interested in kind of like lefty progressive intellectualism.

And Nathan said, I noticed none of Nicole Hannah-Jones' critics try to answer the basic question she wrestled with, which is, why should my daughter get to go to a better school than other people's kids because I work for the New York Times? And Coleman responded, because it's a ridiculous question.

Why should my daughter eat healthier food than the average person? Why should she breathe cleaner air than people living in Beijing and Mumbai? The answer to all such questions is because I love her and I can provide something better, period.