The Problem of Finite Resources

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The problem is the problem of finite resources. There will always be zero sumness to the resources that we have. And i don't see why computers wouldn't also a. Well, nobody. But, like, even with theresources that we have, we fuck it up. Is, i know, were ination. It's funny, because we started this by saying, like, the criticism of marks, that he wasn't applying the same sort of critical a scrutiny to communist a society as he was to capitalism.

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.