Women Are Just as Funny as Men

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i think both you and i agree that the art form of comedy isth one of the best things humans have done as a species. Soaso, let me ask you, name five s ano, name people i know in my life. And enor yheu're funny. They're constantly like, cooking anda a hathey're bat it. Ma silerius, liketit's this terrible. Anyway, we lost our great comedian. We lost somebody who was ne just pique, pique, ye, i'm pure, like, just like his own thing.

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.