Issirye, the Absurdity, Ye

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"I don't get worked up by celebrity, you know, when michael k. Williams died from the wire," he says. "But then nor there was, weirdly, i wouldn't have necessarily predicted this, it was weirdly different." His level of issirye, the absurdity, ye, which is why i think he's so universally beloved,. I'm sad in the way that i'm sad where a lot of other celebrities that i love died.

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.