Very Bad Wizards

Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords

Sep 21, 2021

01:50:55

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Is There a Human Nature Under Capitalism?

03:38

Education Reform

03:05

We're Not Just Self Interest Maximizers

02:50

Introduction

2min

I'm Resigning, I Wanted You to Fire Me, but You Guides Won't Fire Me

4min

The Crying About It That Drives Me Crazy Buttis

2min

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

2min

Is This the Normal Show?

2min

Issirye, the Absurdity, Ye

2min

The Joke Bomber

1min

It's a Roast

2min

Bob Saggett's 'Tight Five'

2min

10.

Donald on J Lenno - Is He the Greatest Late Night Host?

3min

11.

What's Like Different About Mac Donald?

2min

12.

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

2min

13.

I, Like, He Would Never Say It

2min

14.

I Don't Know if It's a Good Reason to Believe in God or Not.

2min

15.

Women Are Just as Funny as Men

2min

16.

Is There a Quintessential Norm Thing?

2min

17.

The Joke Is Quintessential

2min

18.

Better Help on Line Therapy

3min

19.

Very Bad Wizards - Welcome Back!

4min

20.

Do You Want to Do a Meditation on Molok?

2min

21.

Trans Libertarian Bloger Deardre McLasky

2min

22.

What Is Marks Saying?

4min

23.

What Do You Think of the Transhumana?

4min

24.

The God of the Deity Molock - A Review

2min

25.

The Inevitability of Non Optimization

2min

26.

Education Reform

3min

27.

What if I Just Saw a Didn't Play Ball?

2min

28.

Is There a Human Nature Under Capitalism?

4min

29.

We're Not Just Self Interest Maximizers

3min

30.

The Prisoner's Dilemma

2min

31.

The Fragileness of the Responses

2min

32.

Do You Know if You're Screwing Over Another Person?

3min

33.

Nord VPN - The Best Streaming Service in the World

3min

34.

What's the Dream Time Since Enlightenment?

3min

35.

Is It a Sign of a Certain Kind of Civilization and Progress?

2min

36.

I Have Such Mixed Feelings About Nickland

3min

37.

Scott Alexander, Nick Land, and the Golden Era

2min

38.

The Only Solution Is a Walled Garden

3min

39.

Is It a Mistake to Think That Evolution Cared About Happiness Licke of Humans?

3min

40.

I'm a Trans Humanist, I'd Like to Rule the Universe

3min

41.

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

2min

42.

Is There a Mystic?

2min

43.

Is This the Most Bloodless Form of Mysticis That You Can Imagine?

2min

44.

The Call to Action

2min

45.

The Problem of Finite Resources

2min

46.

The Long Termism People Are There Is Like a Comfort

3min

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.

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