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David and Tamler wind their way through the long-requested \\u201cMeditations on Moloch\\u201d by Scott Alexander, a comprehensive account of the coordination problems (personified by Allan Ginsberg\\u2019s demon-entity Moloch) that lead to human misery and values tossed out the window. Does Alexander\\u2019s 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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Links:

• Norm Macdonald\'s Roast of Bob Saget
• Norm Macdonald\'s Moth Joke - YouTube
• Meditations On Moloch | Slate Star Codex
• Slate Star Codex - Wikipedia \\u2014 astralcodexten.substack.com