Trans Libertarian Bloger Deardre McLasky

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"There was a kind of criticism that we got that i think it's fair. We really didn't talk about, a the any alternatives to capitalism specifically communism," he says. "Why is it thatever? There's only three communist nations left, and they failed in what, you know, why capitalism is so much better?" 'I just wanted to talk about those papers and whether they resinated'

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.