Denial of Death Is Like a Book That Mark Maron Turned to to Deal With It

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Mark marin, as he sometimes does, gets about as much out of him that's real norm as you can get. He rolled with the ups and downs of like, being an actor and comic as well as anybody could. But then he did have these little bits of darkness, like about eath,. which again, makes it especially sad that this is the way where it turns out.

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.