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Dystopia Now — 75 episodes
Criti-hype and Consciousness (ft. Dr. Alexander Thomas)
E"Empire of Orgasm" with Ellen Huet
EAI Safety Hits the Mainstream
EThe Heir to SBF: Leopold Aschenbrenner and the collapse of Situational Awareness ft. Mary Houlihan
EMedical Skepticism & More with Alaina Bamfield
EEnshittification and Reverse Centaurs: Cory Doctorow on How Tech Platforms Took Over the Economy
ETechnology and Palestinian Liberation with Stanford SJP
Bickering Over Galaxies: "AI 2040" and the Pursuit of Cosmic Utopia
EUNLOCKED: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout
Why Life on Mars Would Probably Suck
EProtopia Futures (ft. Monika Bielskyte)
EPope Leo's Anti-AI Encyclical
An Independent for Nebraska (ft. Austin Ahlman)
Florida Man Runs for Congress as a Democratic Socialist (ft. Oliver Larkin)
PATREON PREVIEW: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout
Of Dawkins and Data Centers
Altman Attack: What is Violence?
EFrom Fordism to Muskism with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
EThe AI Con with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender
EBig Tech is Watching You with Taylor Lorenz
EUnderstanding the U.S. Blockade on Cuba with David Ramírez Álvarez
The Ethics of Human Extinction Part 1
EData Centers in My Backyard with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Gilded Rage with Jacob Silverman
The Unabomber
EFour Companies, Under AGI
ELARPing into Authoritarianism with Dr. Alexander Thomas
EHow Tech Bros are Innovating Imperialism
The Distant Future: 2025 Expectations versus Reality
EEpstein Part 2: Transhumanism & Eugenics with Keira Havens
EEpstein Part 1: Chomsky Struggle Session
Escaping Effective Altruism
EAlgospeak, Vibes, and Post-Rats with Adam Aleksic (Etymology Nerd)
EFan Fic at the End of the World
EHow Tech Billionaires Bought the Narrative with Eoin Higgins
EIs Saving Shrimps Effective Altruism? w/ Guest Comedian Josh Gondelman
EPeter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures
Bryan Johnson, Mortal
The Astroturf Agenda with Dean Preston
My BF is AI
Patreon Preview: The Vox Writer w/ Eugenics Fanfic (Effective Altruism in Media)
UNLOCKED: Zizians Part 1- A Cult Within a Cult
PATREON PREVIEW: Listener Q and A
"These F*cking People" with Adam Becker
PATREON PREVIEW: The Extropians
Simone and Malcolm Collins: TESCREAL Parents
PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians Part 3: The Murder Spree
Mark Zuckerberg: Bunker Boy
Tech and Hasbara
Mind Uploading and Life Extension
Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy
Thiel is the Antichrist with Will Menaker
Pro-Natalism, Anti-Natalism and Efilism with Briahna Joy Gray
The Crapture: Transhumanism and Christianity
Transhumanism and Capitalism with Dr. Alexander Thomas
The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian
PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians, A Cult Within A Cult
Dragging Matt Yglesias with Nathan Robinson
TESCREAL Overview with Kath Barbadoro and Alex Ptak
The Dark Enlightenment (Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin)
UNLOCKED: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)
COPAGANDA with Alec Karakatsanis
Q & A Part 1 -- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Sam Altman Part 2: Doomsday Prepping and Simulation Hypothesis
Sam Altman Part 1: Building God, Scanning Eyeballs
Curtis Yarvin
The Effective Altruists and the "Abundance" Movement
Peter Thiel Part 1
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
Patreon Preview: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)
The Tech Right with Jacob Silverman
Surveillance Capitalism with Albert Fox Cahn
Elon Part 2: Doomers vs. Accelerationists
EThe Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
EElon Musk Part 1