The Power of Desire

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"Sex dolls in Houston and all of a sudden we're on deep space nine" "I struggle to see Why it is a bad thing to genetically engineer something that? that feels the same agency Upon deciding right no nothing nothing compulsory nothing Undesired they they feel what we feel when they calculate what they want to do," says Westworld creator Evan Rachel Wood. 'If you say body a sex robot and really we're talking about sex dolls that might have some basic things programmed into its speed...that seems like I can't shake the intuition that that's fucked up'

What better way to celebrate our 150th episode than to bring back our favorite guest – Paul Bloom! We riff on a series of topics: the new “grievance studies” hoax, sex robot brothels, perverse desires, and perverse beliefs. Then we get a little navel gazey (OK maybe more than a little) and talk about podcasting as a form of media and discussion, good teaching, and what we’ve learned about our listeners and ourselves. (Note: the audio may sound a little echoey towards the end because of how far we’ve crawled up our own asses.) This was a fun one, enjoy!

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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