The Joke Is Quintessential

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It's not totally clear why it's funny or what's funny about it, like, i has that a kind of norm absurdism. It's also like poignant and like, you know, existentat and existential despair. The more i learn about this this hitler guy, yes, i like him. I think norm cdud just deliver jokes like a he would say - s le majors is thelee majors. That's whow he is ewith or lee majors e only.

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.