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Dystopia Now — 67 episodes

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UNLOCKED: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout

2

Why Life on Mars Would Probably Suck

3

Protopia Futures (ft. Monika Bielskyte)

4

Pope Leo's Anti-AI Encyclical

5

An Independent for Nebraska (ft. Austin Ahlman)

6

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

7

PATREON PREVIEW: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout

8

Of Dawkins and Data Centers

9

Altman Attack: What is Violence?

10

From Fordism to Muskism with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

11

The AI Con with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender

12

Big Tech is Watching You with Taylor Lorenz

13

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

14

The Ethics of Human Extinction Part 1

15

Data Centers in My Backyard with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

16

Gilded Rage with Jacob Silverman

17

The Unabomber

18

Four Companies, Under AGI

19

LARPing into Authoritarianism with Dr. Alexander Thomas

20

How Tech Bros are Innovating Imperialism

21

The Distant Future: 2025 Expectations versus Reality

22

Epstein Part 2: Transhumanism & Eugenics with Keira Havens

23

Epstein Part 1: Chomsky Struggle Session

24

Escaping Effective Altruism

25

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

26

Fan Fic at the End of the World

27

How Tech Billionaires Bought the Narrative with Eoin Higgins

28

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

29

Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

30

Bryan Johnson, Mortal

31

The Astroturf Agenda with Dean Preston

32

My BF is AI

33

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

34

UNLOCKED: Zizians Part 1- A Cult Within a Cult

35

PATREON PREVIEW: Listener Q and A

36

"These F*cking People" with Adam Becker

37

PATREON PREVIEW: The Extropians

38

Simone and Malcolm Collins: TESCREAL Parents

39

PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians Part 3: The Murder Spree

40

Mark Zuckerberg: Bunker Boy

41

Tech and Hasbara

42

Mind Uploading and Life Extension

43

Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy

44

Thiel is the Antichrist with Will Menaker

45

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

46

The Crapture: Transhumanism and Christianity

47

Transhumanism and Capitalism with Dr. Alexander Thomas

48

The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian

49

PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians, A Cult Within A Cult

50

Dragging Matt Yglesias with Nathan Robinson

51

TESCREAL Overview with Kath Barbadoro and Alex Ptak

52

The Dark Enlightenment (Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin)

53

UNLOCKED: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)

54

COPAGANDA with Alec Karakatsanis

55

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

56

Sam Altman Part 2: Doomsday Prepping and Simulation Hypothesis

57

Sam Altman Part 1: Building God, Scanning Eyeballs

58

Curtis Yarvin

59

The Effective Altruists and the "Abundance" Movement

60

Peter Thiel Part 1

61

Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

62

Patreon Preview: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)

63

The Tech Right with Jacob Silverman

64

Surveillance Capitalism with Albert Fox Cahn

65

Elon Part 2: Doomers vs. Accelerationists

66

The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

67

Elon Musk Part 1