Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.1	What's problem? We should be playing God. God creates all that equal.
0:21.8	But once they get out of the womb, he starts playing favorites.
0:24.2	The lady on his phone says,
0:30.2	they do our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:40.2	Who are you?
0:42.2	Who are you?
0:44.2	I'm very bad man.
0:46.2	I'm a very good man.
0:48.2	Good man.
0:50.2	Just a very bad wizard.
1:14.2	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. Dave, the philosopher, Peter Begozian,
1:21.2	has resigned from Portland State because of the retaliation he faced while standing up to
1:27.0	illiberal ideologies.
1:29.0	If I remember correctly, you were pretty hard on the conceptual penis hoax.
1:32.8	Do you want to take this moment to apologize?
1:34.8	I saw this.
1:44.8	I've probably seen a few times where somebody has pointed to our interview with James Lindsay
1:53.2	as the turning point in his career.
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