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Dystopia Now — 75 episodes

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Criti-hype and Consciousness (ft. Dr. Alexander Thomas)

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"Empire of Orgasm" with Ellen Huet

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AI Safety Hits the Mainstream

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The Heir to SBF: Leopold Aschenbrenner and the collapse of Situational Awareness ft. Mary Houlihan

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Medical Skepticism & More with Alaina Bamfield

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Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs: Cory Doctorow on How Tech Platforms Took Over the Economy

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Technology and Palestinian Liberation with Stanford SJP

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Bickering Over Galaxies: "AI 2040" and the Pursuit of Cosmic Utopia

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UNLOCKED: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout

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Why Life on Mars Would Probably Suck

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Protopia Futures (ft. Monika Bielskyte)

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Pope Leo's Anti-AI Encyclical

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An Independent for Nebraska (ft. Austin Ahlman)

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Florida Man Runs for Congress as a Democratic Socialist (ft. Oliver Larkin)

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PATREON PREVIEW: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout

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Of Dawkins and Data Centers

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Altman Attack: What is Violence?

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From Fordism to Muskism with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

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The AI Con with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender

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Big Tech is Watching You with Taylor Lorenz

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Understanding the U.S. Blockade on Cuba with David Ramírez Álvarez

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The Ethics of Human Extinction Part 1

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Data Centers in My Backyard with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

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Gilded Rage with Jacob Silverman

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The Unabomber

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Four Companies, Under AGI

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LARPing into Authoritarianism with Dr. Alexander Thomas

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How Tech Bros are Innovating Imperialism

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The Distant Future: 2025 Expectations versus Reality

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Epstein Part 2: Transhumanism & Eugenics with Keira Havens

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Epstein Part 1: Chomsky Struggle Session

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Escaping Effective Altruism

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Algospeak, Vibes, and Post-Rats with Adam Aleksic (Etymology Nerd)

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Fan Fic at the End of the World

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How Tech Billionaires Bought the Narrative with Eoin Higgins

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Is Saving Shrimps Effective Altruism? w/ Guest Comedian Josh Gondelman

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Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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Bryan Johnson, Mortal

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The Astroturf Agenda with Dean Preston

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My BF is AI

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Patreon Preview: The Vox Writer w/ Eugenics Fanfic (Effective Altruism in Media)

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UNLOCKED: Zizians Part 1- A Cult Within a Cult

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PATREON PREVIEW: Listener Q and A

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"These F*cking People" with Adam Becker

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PATREON PREVIEW: The Extropians

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Simone and Malcolm Collins: TESCREAL Parents

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PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians Part 3: The Murder Spree

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Mark Zuckerberg: Bunker Boy

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Tech and Hasbara

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Mind Uploading and Life Extension

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Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy

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Thiel is the Antichrist with Will Menaker

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Pro-Natalism, Anti-Natalism and Efilism with Briahna Joy Gray

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The Crapture: Transhumanism and Christianity

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Transhumanism and Capitalism with Dr. Alexander Thomas

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The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian

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PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians, A Cult Within A Cult

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Dragging Matt Yglesias with Nathan Robinson

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TESCREAL Overview with Kath Barbadoro and Alex Ptak

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The Dark Enlightenment (Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin)

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UNLOCKED: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)

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COPAGANDA with Alec Karakatsanis

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Q & A Part 1 -- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Sam Altman Part 2: Doomsday Prepping and Simulation Hypothesis

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Sam Altman Part 1: Building God, Scanning Eyeballs

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Curtis Yarvin

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The Effective Altruists and the "Abundance" Movement

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Peter Thiel Part 1

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Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

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Patreon Preview: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)

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The Tech Right with Jacob Silverman

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Surveillance Capitalism with Albert Fox Cahn

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Elon Part 2: Doomers vs. Accelerationists

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The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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Elon Musk Part 1