I'm a Trans Humanist, I'd Like to Rule the Universe

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i'm a trans humanist. I really do want to rule the universe. But and the current rulers of the universe, mollarc, gnon, whatever, they all want us dead. And i think we need to take their place. We need to stop this force, this just force that is part of human life in the environment that we live. That's what we need to fight. So he says, people will accuse this view of huborous, like, and he says it's actually anti huborous. To expect to wall a garden where god can't get to you and hurt you. Well, at least that's an actionable strategy. The other way is pure

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.