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We Are Not Saved — 508 episodes · page 4 of 6
Some Brief Thoughts on Buying Pieces of the Future (Or What Some People Call Investing)
Books I Finished in August (of 2020)
Justice, Mercy, Data, Evidence, BLM and QAnon
Digging Into the Data on Right Wing Extremism
Books I Finished in July
Picking an End Point for the Revolution
Liberalism vs. Critical Race Theory (A Distressing Lack of Pragmatism)
Traffic Lights and Modern Epistemology
Books I Finished in June
Things Are More Complicated Than You Think (BLM)
Elon Musk and the Value of Localism or What We Should Do Instead of Going to Mars
Don't Make the Second Mistake
Books I Finished in May
My Final Case Against Superforecasting (with criticisms considered, objections noted, and assumptions buttressed)
COVID What Does Victory Look Like?
Books I Finished in April
Review: Sex and Culture, or Greatness Through Sexual Frustration
Pandemic Uncovers the Limitations of Superforecasting
Worries for a Post COVID-19 World
Books I Finished in March - Part 2 Capsule Reviews
Books I Finished in March - Part 1 The Decadent Society
The Fragility of Efficiency and the Coronavirus
Meditations on Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
All Eschatologies Are Both Secular and Religious
Books I Finished in February (Plus a Conference I Attended)
"The Good Place", Brain-uploading, and Eschatology
Churchills, Hitlers, and Hedonists
Books I Finished in January
Don't Don't Fear the Filter
We're All Montezuma, and the Europeans Are Always Just Around the Corner
Predictions Looking Back to 2019 and Forward to 2020
Books I Finished in December
Pornography and the End of the World
I Finally Figure out What I Want to Be When I Grow Up An Eschatologist
Books I Finished in November
If We Were Amusing Ourselves to Death in the 80s, What Are We Doing Now?
Immigration, Caplan and Buckets
The End of Productive War
Books I Finished in October (Including a Graphic Novel On Immigration)
The Blind Spots of Atheism
Post Christianity
The Pendulum
Books I Finished in September
How Does the Bloodshed Start?
The Solution to Conflict is More Conflict
Are Modern Deviances Innovative or Catastrophic?
Books I Finished in August
Is There a Utopia out There After All?
Normalization of Deviance and the Modern World
The Rise of a Civic Religion
Books I Finished in July (With One Podcast Series)
Leaving the Earth 50 Years After Apollo
Punctuated Equilibrium and Memetic Accumulation
Worrying Too Much About the Last Thing and Not Enough About the Next Thing
Books I Finished in June of 2019 (With One Podcast Series)
How Do We Adapt to Things?
Traditions Separating the Important from the Inconsequential
Review- Upheaval Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
The Top of the Curve
Books I Finished in May (With One from April)
Potpourri of Abortion Commentary
Horses, Rollaboards and Nukes
The Unwinnable Battle Over Abortion
Review: Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Are Democrats Trapped by the Immigration Issue?
AI Risk Might Be More Subtle Than We Expect
What I Got Wrong in 2016
The Cholesterol of a Healthy Society
2020 and the Quest to Defeat Trump
What is Going On?!?!?
The Overemphasis on Love and Tolerance (Religious)
Low Doses of Harm
Chemo as a Metaphor & Metaphors in General
Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress [Repost]
A Psychological Hygiene Hypothesis?
Twisted Incentives
A New Sort of Monopoly
Democracy on the Downhill
Start Here
Technology, Transit Systems and Uncharted Territory
How Do We Win?
The Data of History (Years vs. HEYs)
2019 Predictions and Trends
Five Stories of Enlightenment and Edification from My Misspent Youth
Fighting Fires the Wrong Way
How Do You Determine the Right Level of Suffering?
The Great Silence (Philosophy and Fermi's Paradox)
Stubborn Attachments vs. The Vulnerable World and Fermi's Paradox
Slate Star Codex and Providing Intellectual Cover
Is the World Coming Together or Splitting Apart?
China and the Strangeness of Civilizations
Jockeying for Control of the Airliner
What Should We Worry About?
Age of Em Races and Rain
Modern Monetary Theory It's the Inflation, Stupid!
Objectivity Ford and Kavanaugh
The Founders, Civility and Godzilla
Is War Necessary?
Burning Man, Dreamtime and Dragons
The Conspiracy Against Gawker Things Have to Be More Than Just True to Be Newsworthy