"When you devote your entire career just t antagonizing like a big group of people, you have to expect some pushback," he says. "The fickleness of the h the people who who push and are surprised at the push back is just, it's like that the nauseating part, ye" He adds: "It's the crying about it that drives me insane."
David and Tamler wind their way through the long-requested “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander, a comprehensive account of the coordination problems (personified by Allan Ginsberg’s demon-entity Moloch) that lead to human misery and values tossed out the window. Does Alexander’s rationalist conception of human nature ignore the work of VBW favorites like Joe Henrich and Robert Frank? Is he a little too friendly to the neo-social Darwinism view of some guy named Nick Land? And oh no, why does he have to go transhumanist at the end?! Plus, we talk about the unique comic vision of Norm Macdonald and why we loved him.
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