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We Are Not Saved — 507 episodes · page 1 of 6
Everyone is Counting on a Civilization-Level Deus ex Machina
After the Fall - What We Should Have Done in the '90s?
Does Not the Line Always Go Up?
Whither Writing (A Ten-Year Retrospective)
The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Let Him Have Thy Legos Also - [Essay]
The Desecration of Man - Say No to Nietzsche
Four Books on the End (Or at Least the Plateauing) of Civilization
Do Not Go Gentle - State Provided Death is Incoherent
Annihilation – A (Very French) Biography of the "Last Man"
Picky How Modernity Completely Screwed Up (Part LXVII)
Last Branch Standing - Honey Badger References and Case Analysis
Four Short Classics for the Lazy Pseudo-Intellectual
Against the Machine - Steelmanning Modern Luddism
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - More Palestinian Sadness
Plagues upon the Earth - You're Not Sufficiently Horrified
Phenomena - Why Must It Always Be a Spoon?
Four Books of Speculative Fiction About Christian Damnation
Unshrunk - Medication, Red in Tooth and Claw
Three Books About Roman Stoicism or Lack Thereof
Grand Strategy In Life [Essay] (w: review of 33 Strategies of War)
Meta-Competition and the Downfall of Civilization [Essay]
Eugenics and Other Evils - Chesterton Was Right Everyone Else Was Wrong
Three Books With Some Variation of the Word "Fly" in the Title
HeartMath Solution - A Sugary Pseudoscience Soufflé
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Radical Markets - I Mean Really Radical
Gemini Goes Insane — How Should I Update? [Essay]
Goliath's Curse (and the Agents of Doom!)
Knowing Our Limits - Epistemology Without Bayes
A YA Series, a First Contact Novel, and a Startup Book Walk Into a Bar—Pursued by Wolves
The Origin of Politics - Kibbutzim, Chimps, and Children
A Case for Latter-Day Christianity - (i.e. A Case for the Christianity of Mormons)
Taking Religion Seriously - Can You Get to Belief Purely Through Reason?
Children of Mars - Sid Meier's Civilization Lied
Origins of Efficiency - The Glories of the Modern World
The New Testament in Its World - A Brief, Thousand-Page Intro
Superbloom - Volume 23 in the "Social Media is Awful" Series
We Belong to the Land - The Best Palestinian Making His Best Case
Five Fictional Books In Search of a Common Thread
The Kid Stays in the Picture - A Story of Old "New Hollywood"
A Short History of England - What Gives a Country Its Soul?
The Wager - A Real Life "Lord of the Flies"
Daily Laws - Measured Microdoses of Machiavellian Manipulations
Saga of the Forgotten Warrior - Larry Correia Without Guns (Mostly)
Romancing Opiates - Working With British Prisoners Makes One Grumpy
The Unaccountability Machine - Once Again It's Somehow All Milton Friedman's Fault
The Future of Truth - I'll Be Honest It Doesn't Look Great
The Mind Reels - Bipolarity Raw and Unfiltered
Drink Your Way Sober - Blocked (Receptors) and Reported (Sobriety)
Replay - Groundhog Day in Novel Form, Sadly Without Any Groundhogs
What Fresh Hell Awaits Us When SEO Is Replaced With AIO?
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith - Don't Mess With the Strong Nuclear Force!
Age of Diagnosis - Words Have Power! (said the podcaster)
Inner Excellence - The Fine Line Between Cliche and Coaching
Damnable Tales - Spooky Stories for Long Nights
Game Wizards - Epic Rap Battles of History Gygax v. Arneson
Progressive Myths - Some of the Things You've Been Told Are Wrong
The Bushido of Bitcoin - How Chivalry and Sound Money Will Save Us
Does Your Assessment of AI Risk depend on Your Answer to Fermi's Paradox?
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - Yudkowsky at his Yudkowskiest
Grant - A Brilliant General Constantly Deceived by His "Friends"
Chasing My Cure - A Catastrophe of Chaotic Castleman's Crises
The Dhammapada - The Eighth Oldest Wisdom Book
A Primer for Forgetting - But Is It a Primer for Repairing?
Ignition! - Explosion? The Exciting World of Rocket Science
The Warlord Chronicles - "King" Arthur With More Mud and Less Radiance
The Tyranny of Metrics - Measure Your Way to Misery
Can a Society Be Too Focused on the Law?
Breakneck - Hegelian Engineering
Shorting the Grid - The Complicated World of Power Generation
Strange New World - Try to Imagine 2022 in 2012
Cryptomania NFTs, Hope, Fraud, and Parents
Glee, "Freaky Friday", and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Things Fall Apart - Colonialism and Flattening
Remain in Love and Embrace Hatred - A Biography
Regretting Motherhood - Soft Antinatalism
How Fast Is Technology Moving? Is That Even What We Should Be Measuring?
The Rules of the Game - That Game Being Massive Naval Combat Between Great Powers
Cheap Sex - Marketplaces and Those Who Have Given Up on Shopping
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] - True Freedom
Everything Is Tuberculosis - Well Not Everything, But More Than You Suspect
Gerontocracy as a Supernormal Stimulus
Forgotten Victory - Maybe the British Were Lions Led By Lions?
Crisis Zone - What Did I Just Read?
Noticing An Essential Reader (1973-2023) - Sailer, Not As Scary as You Think
Collapse of Complex Societies How Long Do We Have Left?
[Review] Apple in China - Is China Playing a Longer Game Than the US?
A Meta-tative Episode
Writing in the Age of AI Errors, Eccentricity, and Ego
Short Fiction Reviews: Volume 4
Israel vs. Hamas vs. Kriss vs. Legibility
Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 7
What Our Last War With China Can Teach Us About Our Next One
Reviews of (Mainstream) Religious Books Volume 2
Why Write a Book About:Against Superforecasting?
The Terrors of Immortality
Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 6
Horses in 1925 = Children in 2025
Short Fiction Book Reviews- Volume 3