Donald on J Lenno - Is He the Greatest Late Night Host?

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Jona Lake: It's very hard to kind of know who he is, like, deep down. He peppers it with such outright lies that his whole thing is two truths and a lie. The truth only emerges as is communicated by the sentiment of what he's saying o some the spirit of what he’s saying are true things. That's why the best of them are funny.

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.