There's no pretence that you're really going to get insight into the real norm mac donald. He just peppers in these like, random, o, kind of obvious lies. But then he also says things that don't fully make sense. So you don't know what really is, like, what part of him is really being expressed and reflected. And yes, that's very different from most, from a lot of stand up comics,. anything conicand i think that that, you know, we've talked about thisu part of what we really like about certain setof comics is that they are authentic at they they really do making themselves somewhat vulnerable with their sharing.
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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