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Dystopia Now — 59 episodes

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Altman Attack: What is Violence?

2

From Fordism to Muskism with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

3

The AI Con with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender

4

Big Tech is Watching You with Taylor Lorenz

5

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

6

The Ethics of Human Extinction Part 1

7

Data Centers in My Backyard with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

8

Gilded Rage with Jacob Silverman

9

The Unabomber

10

Four Companies, Under AGI

11

LARPing into Authoritarianism with Dr. Alexander Thomas

12

How Tech Bros are Innovating Imperialism

13

The Distant Future: 2025 Expectations versus Reality

14

Epstein Part 2: Transhumanism & Eugenics with Keira Havens

15

Epstein Part 1: Chomsky Struggle Session

16

Escaping Effective Altruism

17

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

18

Fan Fic at the End of the World

19

How Tech Billionaires Bought the Narrative with Eoin Higgins

20

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

21

Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

22

Bryan Johnson, Mortal

23

The Astroturf Agenda with Dean Preston

24

My BF is AI

25

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

26

UNLOCKED: Zizians Part 1- A Cult Within a Cult

27

PATREON PREVIEW: Listener Q and A

28

"These F*cking People" with Adam Becker

29

PATREON PREVIEW: The Extropians

30

Simone and Malcolm Collins: TESCREAL Parents

31

PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians Part 3: The Murder Spree

32

Mark Zuckerberg: Bunker Boy

33

Tech and Hasbara

34

Mind Uploading and Life Extension

35

Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy

36

Thiel is the Antichrist with Will Menaker

37

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

38

The Crapture: Transhumanism and Christianity

39

Transhumanism and Capitalism with Dr. Alexander Thomas

40

The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian

41

PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians, A Cult Within A Cult

42

Dragging Matt Yglesias with Nathan Robinson

43

TESCREAL Overview with Kath Barbadoro and Alex Ptak

44

The Dark Enlightenment (Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin)

45

UNLOCKED: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)

46

COPAGANDA with Alec Karakatsanis

47

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

48

Sam Altman Part 2: Doomsday Prepping and Simulation Hypothesis

49

Sam Altman Part 1: Building God, Scanning Eyeballs

50

Curtis Yarvin

51

The Effective Altruists and the "Abundance" Movement

52

Peter Thiel Part 1

53

Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

54

Patreon Preview: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)

55

The Tech Right with Jacob Silverman

56

Surveillance Capitalism with Albert Fox Cahn

57

Elon Part 2: Doomers vs. Accelerationists

58

The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

59

Elon Musk Part 1