Is It a Sign of a Certain Kind of Civilization and Progress?

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Nick lands like gono ye, which is something that he is criticising. But he says that we are gnon is shorthand for nature, and nature is god, or nature, or nature is God, but it's reversed. And so we should like, its essentially social darwinism. It seems like its making the same exact point mistake that social dar Darwinism does. This means our society is denying natural law,. So civilizations that do that tend to decline. If you don't work, you die. The wages, you know, stick to the devil, you know what i'm sayin' here? You're going to die either wayt - cot a

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.