Molock Is the God of Child Sacrifice, the Fiery Furnace Into Which You Can Toss Your Babies

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i've been told for the last ike eight years, the driverless car to tll be almost no like normal cars within the next like cob year. What tool like i am confident in in th in our lifetime, nothing like that will happen. If you're researching strong artificial intelligence, research ways in which strong artificial intelligence will aid humans when they get super powerful. You know, it's like i've joked before, like i never say bad shit about computers on line, because one day, like, they will have like intelligence, and they'll see everything we said about them.

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.