What if I Just Saw a Didn't Play Ball?

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i think he thinks like that's a way to try to deal with this problem. Like the essay is, the status quo is unacceptable. So, like monarchy is at least a way of trying to defeat mollock, right? I mean, just letting mollock eat you up isn't acceptable. According as i see it, according to this piece, what what i like about these pointse these examples.

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.