The Only Solution Is a Walled Garden

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The essay is about the spectre of robots taking over our jobs. He wants to marshal the power of ai to fight hutulu o moluk in a battle of ike gotlik gozila or skin kong, or whatever. But remember, as he's framed, it has been to this point that there is no solution unless you have a walled garden and a gardener. That's like the closest i can get to like what hes e.

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.