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Catching up with my first Jewish guest
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Catching up with my first Jewish guest

with Mordechai Ben-Emet (WRP #111)

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I catch up with a very special guest:

, the intrepid Zoomer lad who last April distinguished himself as the very first Jewish guest I ever had on the pod to discuss the JQ and other topics.

This was a fascinating convo because unlike the older edgelord-adjacent Jewish guys who followed MBE in subsequent months (shout-out to frens

), Mordechai was actually an Yglesian Liberal from the Northeast who passionately supported Palestinian interests and sort of pooped his pants when I suggested men should be able to ask out their female coworkers.

But like I and anyone who listened to that episode predicted last April, MBE has since moved significantly to the right, becoming a heterodox cultural libertarian type open to HBD (though currently he’s in more of an exploratory state of ideological flux and is overwhelmingly focused on AI policy).

In this episode I interview Mordechai about his recent intellectual development, his Birthright trip to Israel last summer, and various other topics on his mind.


Topics include:

  • How edgy Substacks like The Walt Right helped break MBE’s cultural leftism

  • Why Mordechai has come to accept HBD

  • If you have a high enough verbal IQ you can convincingly argue for basically any position using cherrypicked studies and flexible epistemic goalposts

  • Does anyone actually follow the “Scientific Method” in practice?

  • It’s extremely midwit / Reddit to deny the intellectual value of dreams

  • How moral foundations theory is pushing MBE to question his longtime EA

  • Why Effective Altruism is intellectual catnip to autistic Jews

  • Utilitarianism as a mechanism for cyclical Talmudic debate

  • Walt argues it would be easy to call Bentham’s Bulldog a white supremacist for prioritizing shrimp over black peepo

  • Is shrimppoasting a way for autistic Jews to be edgy?

  • Extreme anti-catastrophic longtermism vs. singularity accelerationism as an internal Utilitarian debate without any clear answer

  • Is voluntary human extinction via dopamine traps more dangerous than AGI?

  • Walt is envious of MBE for being the perfect age when AI gets good

  • Just how asymmetric will a post-AGI world be?

  • MBE predicts AI will cause a temporarily proliferation of bullshit jobs

  • What status hierarchies will predominate in a post-scarcity world? Sports? Art? Religious faithfulness?

  • Zoomers who care about their religion *really* care about their religion and are generally a lot more extreme than Millennials were

  • The social scene on MBE’s campus

  • Are the majority of Zoomers just sitting around jacking off?

  • The Zoomer sex recession

  • Why Zoomers have such insane variance in their levels of maturity / agency

  • Roughly a third of MBE’s classmates don’t have drivers licenses

  • The case for deferring the age of maturity to 21 or 25—will this inevitably happen over time? People seem to be physically / emotionally aging more slowly.

  • Everyone talks like a teenage girl these days

  • Is it valuable to bully people for not achieving certain life milestones?

  • AI radically increases the appeal of asymmetric strategies

  • Should high IQ + openness people overtly promote asymmetric maximalism for their own benefit or try to protect normies from themselves?

  • Typically you can tell someone’s temperament from their face

  • It’s better for elites if normies are dopamine cows who can be exploited

  • What’s better for women—bad men or cats?

  • Incels despise nothing more than an ascended incel

  • Walt argues most autistic intellectual types come into their masculinity relatively late in life and shouldn’t refer to themselves as incels before 25

  • Why MBE cares less about Palestine now

  • How MBE’s Birthright trip to Israel alienated him from his Jewish identity

  • Does

    ’s Palestinian heritage give his pro-Israel stance power?

  • Why ChatGPT thinks Richard Hanania is Jewish

  • Walt explains why Trump should rip off the bandaid and evacuate the Pallies

  • Are there still turdworldists marching around MBE’s campus?

  • Does AI make everything else not matter?

  • Why MBE is only voting based on AI policy going forward

  • How each major party is currently situated on AI policy

  • How will the subsequent political realignment play out?

  • When will national security hawks get involved in AI policy?

  • Walt argues olds won’t take AI seriously until some AGI steals $100 mil

  • Art hoes countersignal AI capabilities and stick their head in the sand about it because they wrongly think it will insulate their own status hierarchies

  • Walt reveals that his Palestinians on Mars story was written by Claude

  • Is it too late to control the proliferation of AI?

  • Walt argues the only post-scarcity jobs will be content farmer and hooker

  • MBE and Walt theorycraft about how to grift off Nazi vs. Jew dynamics

  • Jews don’t really take right wing antisemitism seriously anymore

  • Did the Alt Right have anything to do with Jews getting less hypocritical about Zionism vs. WN? Walt wants to mythologize that chronology either way.

  • Walt feels far more influential today than he was in 2016

  • Substack is where all the interesting conversations are happening

  • How MBE views Jews in relation to White people

  • MBE admits the existence of Jewish dual loyalty and ethnic nepotism but he and Walt agree both of these things aren’t really an issue

  • These days Jewish guys don’t fetishize Aryan shiksas like in the twentieth century but rather Asian broads or high caste Indian girls

  • Are East Asian and Indian Zoomer guys still materially less sexually successful than their White counterparts?

  • How often does MBE’s Jewish identity come up in casual banter etc.?

  • His experience being friends and roommates with a Palestinian kid

  • The fast rightward shift of young minority men

  • Has MBE ever observed Ashkie girls being insecure about their ethnic features?

  • How being a romantic and an artful misogynist go hand in hand and how that differs from being an unsophisticated chud misogynist

  • MBE is starting to fantasize about taking the WBE route

  • Optimizing your life around being hot to girls will prevent you from ascending a masculine status hierarchy and earning genuine respect from other men

  • Walt explains the complicated answer to whether or not he believes in God

  • Should Walt convert and become a rabbi like Eric Cartman?

  • Do Ashkenazim look down on Sephardim and Mizrahim?

  • Do Jews actually see converts as properly Jewish?

  • Walt argues most antisemitism is performative at this point

  • When Walt thinks of “Jews” he thinks of his edgy Substack frens and the art hoes he’s personally dated, not really normie Jews

  • Walt wants to write an article where he goes to a synagogue and complains that Jews are as boring as Nebraskans

  • Everyone enjoys playing up their stereotypical characteristics

  • Walt enjoys racism as a romantic / mythological way to fight the homogenizing libtard grey mush impulse of modernity

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