I'm Resigning, I Wanted You to Fire Me, but You Guides Won't Fire Me

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i'm teposlike o verry wiss substack, like, just like this horror story of how i was treated at portland state for just standing up for free speech. You know, we really are descending into totalitarian it's likea, didn't bergwis also resign? Like, there is this this sort of, like, i'm resigning. And then I call ot the victim card, because, right, it's like, i wanted you to fire me, like all iwanted to be fired, but you guides won't fire me, so now i'm going to resign so i can be the martyr.

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.