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This episode...Download – TorrentThe world's population has sky-rocketed from under 1 billion to around 8 billion in only several hundred years? Should we be worried? Overpopulation has become a huge concern among TED talk enthusiasts and social engineer, but is it more than a meme?We survey the classical views of population growth and its limits starting in Malthus's Principle of Population and how and why his assumptions have been overridden by technological development. Regardless, the 1960's saw a resurgence in Populational Control thinking and the "Zero Population Growth" movement, based in the popular work The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, but also disputed by the optimistic Julian Simon.Still, one of the more novel issues is that of Behavioral Sinks in modern societies: Industrial economies that are so well off that they population ceases wanting to reproduce or continue normal human life. Modern man is becoming more like the pampered rats in John B. Calhoun's famed Mouse Utopia experiments.Readings and LinksNote that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.The Mouse Population Sink – "Population Density and Social Pathology" by John B. Calhoun"An Essay on the Principle of Population" by Robert Malthus"Does saving more lives lead to overpopulation?", a video by Bill GatesThe Population Bomb by Paul ErlichThe Ultimate Resource by Julian SimonThe Resourceful Earth by Julian Simon and Herman KahnTimecodes00:00:00 TED Talk attendees HATE him! 00:01:15 Conspiracies and Georgia Guidestones 00:02:38 Today's readings 00:04:15 Why should population growth be bad? 00:06:54 Malthus and the French Revolution 00:09:43 William Godwin as an Osterich 00:13:13 Malthuses Principles of Population 00:15:50 Carrying Capacity and Well-being 00:17:05 Aside on Supply Curves 00:20:25 Malthus didn't age well. 00:23:48 Soycialism: Utopian and Soyentific 00:25:02 Marginalism 00:27:31 The Mouse Metaverse and Population Collapse 00:31:15 Economic Fragility 00:33:40 GMOs and monoculture 00:35:36 Mortality Comments 00:36:55 Birth control 00:40:30 Decline of White People 00:43:19 BS Jobs: A YouTube hit. Donations 00:47:20 Paul Ehrlich as Lazy Mathusianism 00:51:57 Antinatalism 00:55:27 The Ehrlich-Simon Bet 00:57:40 The Resourceful Earth and the Ultimate Resource 01:03:03 The Greater Population Problem in the Mouse MetaverseMore...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentYou can't roast people too badly for being "antiwork" when most jobs are simply useless nowadays. Surveys have shown that around half of people report either their job is totally useless, or that it's unclear to them if there is any social benefit to their work whatsoever. How has this happened? Why do people put so much effort into what is, in effect, play work.We talk about David Graeber's article, book and concept of Bullshit Jobs, jobs so inane that even the people working them can't justify their existence. This brings up economic questions of hyper-production, the Consoomerist economy, post-scarcity and of course the alleged panacea of Universal Basic Income (UBI).At the root of all of it is a public-private plastic economy based on easy and highly inflationary money, which strips people of savings and keeps people working like good wagies from cradle to the grade on jobs that exist just to keep the fake economy going. Comments on the psychological effects of Bitcoin and hard money included.Readings and LinksNote that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.Very funny Antiwork R*dditor appears on Fox NewsThe original Bullshit jobs article"Why It's Bad to Have High GDP"Timecodes00:00:00 The Fake Economy 00:01:09 Virgin antiwork Redditor vs. Chad Fox News 00:03:01 David Graeber's BS Jobs 00:06:08 An example of a BS job in the German military 00:08:09 How many people have fake jobs? 00:09:22 Is it just a government problem? 00:16:12 The Coofvid Lockdown and "Non-essential workers" 00:18:31 Defining Modern Wageslavery and on "Employees" and Time 00:22:52 The anatomy of BS job types 00:25:30 Goons and Cigarette Ads 00:27:09 Fake non-software jobs 00:30:25 This is NotRelated.xyz 00:31:38 LONG Donation reading 00:46:12 The culture of Wagecuckery and Hyperproduction 00:49:50 Graeber and the Wagie mindset 00:50:17 Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Post-Scarcity 00:53:18 UBI and the Wagie Uprising 00:56:28 The Inflation Run 00:59:09 Should I care about inflation? 01:00:06 Life in a deflationary economy 01:02:19 What are BS jobs in the inflationary economy? 01:04:38 Would Graeber agree? 01:06:01 Inflation as theft 01:07:07 Why high GDP is bad 01:09:36 The example of the Bitcoiner mindset 01:10:54 Will gold and Bitcoin destroy the economy? Yes. 01:13:38 Hard Money and Bullsh*t Jobs: The Endgame 01:15:09 Fake Anarchism and UBI 01:16:20 Comments on Left and Right Anarchism 01:18:18 Closing Notes, including *important* RSS updates!More...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentKarl Popper, known for his concept of falsifiability in the philosophy of science, also was a somewhat influential political thinker in his time. Popper endorsed what he called "the Open Society," a liberal democratic society based on abstract and depersonalized material connections, instead of direct social relationships.This vision was particularly influential on one of Popper's now famous students, George Soros, who would go on to use his significant wealth won in financial markets to found the Open Society Foundation, a significant source of funds for leftist political agitation and pressure in America and Europe. Soros's worldview has somewhat departed from Popper's, with an emphasis on what Soros calls reflexivity, the principle that in human domains, our theories of world affect the world itself.More...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentKnown history is less than 1% of the time humans have inhabited earth, and thus most of our past survives only in the partial evidence of myth, genetics and badly decayed archaeological remains. In particular, mythology is not just a collection of arbitrary stories, but as the authors of Hamlet's Mill argue, it is a long-lost theoretical language used to store astronomical and scientific knowledge.While we all know that myth can store relevant information in a memorable format, it can also embed very specific details of a preexisting system of knowledge also attested in archaeoastronomy, even in well-known sites like Stonehenge, the "neolithic calculator" which shows astronomical knowledge far more precise than that of any average person of today.The reason the earliest philosophical and religious mythology seems absurd or opaque to us is partially because it is speaking in a jargon which has been lost, like alchemy or primeval sciences. In the right context, we can see a long tradition of knowledge preserved from at least the Stone Age.Readings and LinksNote that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth (Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend)The Origins of Scientific Thought: from Anazimander to Proclus, 600 B.C. to 300 A.D. (Giorgio de Santillanna)Stonehenge: A Neolithic Computer (Gerald Hawkins)Learn the Ancient Babylonian Math System! (YouTube video series)Timecodes0:00:00 Issuing an Extension on Human Prehistory 0:02:24 An Argument from Plausibility for R*ddit Soyentists 0:05:17 Constant Emergence of Civilization 0:06:31 Myth as the Science of Prehistory 0:07:44 I hate Hamlet's Mill. 0:10:12 Which came first: the Planets or the Gods? 0:11:50 Astronomical Myths in India and the Vedic Tradition 0:15:28 On Al-Biruni and his bad pronunciation 0:18:00 Mythology as technical language 0:20:40 Hamlet's Mill and the Precession of the Equinox 0:23:15 Hamlet and his story and Cosmic Mill 0:27:15 Hyperdiffusionism 0:30:24 Donations https://donate.notrelated.xyz 0:31:21 On podcast length and density again 0:33:15 Why .ogg instead of .mp3? 0:36:08 Thor Heyerdahl 0:38:40 The Polynesian discovery of America, physical and genetic evidence 0:43:16 Aboriginal Australians discover America in prehistory. 0:50:20 On Denisovans and Homo erectus 0:51:55 Diversion on Solutreans in Europe 0:53:50 On alchemy and technical language 0:56:19 Hipparchus and Babylonian astronomy 0:57:25 Ancient Memes we use every day 0:59:50 How many degrees are in a circle? 1:01:20 Babylonian Math https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85CdeBmQZ2QiCEnPQn5KQ6ov 1:03:51 Full development of science in prehistory 1:04:25 Panini's Ashtadhyayi and its deductive predecessors 1:06:52 The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly 1:08:41 The Cosmos and Ancient Astronomy 1:09:49 Stonehenge as a Neolithic Calculator 1:12:25 Poverty Point 1:13:12 Closing on the Precession of the EquinoxesMore...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentIn one fell swoop, Egyptologist David Rohl has posited a change in Egyptian chronology that takes both Greek mythical history and the stories of the Bible out of idle lore and into historical plausibility.By cutting and rearranging some 300 years of "dark ages," Rohl suggests that there is no gap between the legendary times of the Trojan War and the later historical Dorian Invasion. He also posits that very specific Biblical stories, such as the sojourn in Egypt, Exodus, the conquest of Canaan and the Kingdom of Israel have ample historical evidence if we start looking in Egypt's Middle Kingdom Period.Note also that you can now support Not Related! by donating at donate.notrelated.xyz. Monthly pledges will only be charged at the start of the month if two episodes have been released in the previous month.Readings and LinksNote that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.The Lords of Avaris (David Rohl)Exodus: Myth or History? (David Rohl)Patterns of Evidence (an Evangeliboomer apologetical documentary series on the Bible which in part features Rohl's revised chronology)Timecodes0:00:00 Introduction 0:00:45 Not Related! Is Back! (https://notrelated.xyz) 0:01:23 Rohl's New Chronology: Antidote to Mediocrity 0:03:46 The Boring Side of Chronology (Dating Pharaohs) 0:04:42 The History of the Historicity of Bible 0:06:19 The Story of Genesis in 30 Seconds 0:07:00 Genesis DEBOONKED? Traditional Chronology 0:08:56 Hebrew Israelites in the Middle Kangdom 0:10:43 Joseph's House 0:12:24 Bahr Yussef and the Sad Pharaohs 0:14:53 Evidence of Exodus and the Hyksos 0:16:46 Jericho 0:18:00 Biblical Minimalism and "Critical" Scholarship 0:23:03 Amarna Letters, Saul, David, Jonathan 0:25:35 Boomer Documentaries 0:27:44 No Risk Not Related! Funding (https://donate.notrelated.xyz) 0:29:42 Not Related! Size 0:30:35 Wittgenstein's TLP and Philosophical Investigations 0:31:30 t'Hooft as Chomsky and Amateur Spirit in Science 0:34:44 Graham Hancock and rigor 0:35:56 Marija Gimbutas and the Mother Goddess and Chalice and Blade 0:38:21 Soyence and "Skeptics" 0:39:55 Greek Mythology and the Trojan War 0:46:11 The Greek Dark Age and Greek Lineages 0:50:40 The Lords of Avaris, the Greeks and Hyksos 0:56:08 Greek Myth as Egyptian History 0:58:53 Cadmus, the Greek Alphabet and Hieroglyphs 1:04:47 Is the Aeneid just fan-fiction? 1:07:59 My personal assessment 1:12:15 What's to come in Not Related!More...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentThe Word became flesh and dwelt among us.Christian theology has a mostly dusty and forgotten belonging among the Pagan philosophy of the Greek east and the early Roman Empire. While Platonic, Hermetic and Gnostic thought all reinforced or butted heads with the Early Church, Stoic thought provides some of the most important vocabulary used in the Bible, particularly by John the Evangelist.This viewpoint presents Jesus as not the incarnation of Logos, the rational order of the universe itself, but also as the Stoic ideal. The plan of Christ is to reunite man with God's order, in the same way that Stoics attempted to submit to divine Logos.More...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentPaul Feyerabend argued for 'Epistemological Anarchism': that in order to do truly good science, one can't rule out alternative methods, ad hoc hypotheses, mythology, religion and wishful thinking. Using the example of Galileo, he shows how science's greatest strides are made by deliberately being "unscientific" in the way that court scientists tend to think nowadays.Epistemological Anarchism is a total rejection of the so-called "demarcation problem": the attempt by early 20th century philosophers to distinguish "science" from other realms. It overturns the assumptions of logical positivism and returns us to the conception of knowledge held by antiquity, the scholastics, the Renaissance and everyone else: science can't rule out its perceived opponents by technicality or it would have also undermined the very "pseudoscientists" that developed us our scientific conceptions of today.Readings and LinksNote that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.Against Method (Paul Feyerabend)Conjectures and Refutations (Karl Popper)The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)"The importance of recognising fringe science" (Gerald t'Hooft)More...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

This episode...Download – TorrentThe long-awaited second season begins.What will it have in store? We'll find out soon. Be sure to consoooom previous episodes if you're new as some new episodes, while no doubt highly edifying on their own, will build off of previous episodes.Remember that question-donations are read at the mid-episode break. You can donate at donate.notrelated.xyz. I also welcome suggestions for subjects to cover.More...The Not Related! website: notrelated.xyzDonations will be read in the middle of each episode: donate.notrelated.xyz

Delve into the world of faulty academic statistics and discover the 'Null Ritual,' a problematic practice plaguing research. The hosts dissect the significance of p-values and their mishandling, revealing how this binary approach has transformed into a cult-like reverence. You'll learn about the conflicting views of statisticians like Fisher and Neyman, and how their ideas morphed into a confusing ritual that promotes misleading results. Uncover the consequences of p-hacking and the alarming trend of false findings in published research.

Explore the dramatic shifts in our understanding of human prehistory, challenging the Out-of-Africa narrative with new archaeological discoveries. Discover hidden genetic lineages, Neanderthal seafaring, and advanced construction in Bruniquel Cave. The podcast dives into the psychological appeal of single-origin theories, while recent evidence suggests widespread habitation across Asia and the Americas much earlier than once thought. Get ready for a deep dive into our complex and intertwined evolutionary story!