I've Promised You Asaga, and I've Promised You Mac Donald

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i've promised you asaga, nor mac donald, who was cancelled by saturnight live. He just kept piling them on to the point where its, it was almost absurd. The whole joke was, o j has nothing to do with this, but, like, he's guilty. And so he was fired. i gues, we're ging t talk a little bit about him right now. Yes. Let's talk ye.

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.