The Inevitability of Non Optimization

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i proposed tamler snapping. i put on like a it can't snap, ik, really embarrassingly. I mean, he even says, like a lot of people and i, we're not going to read the poem, i gase. We don't have that delivery. But i proposed,. by the way, i proposed tamler snaps. Well, well, i put onlike a it can’t snap, k,really embarrassingly. So i would have to read it a. Riht, and and soa sort of big picture, as alexander describes it, is, look, there are all these co ordination problems that really make it

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.