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We Are Not Saved — 508 episodes · page 5 of 6
How Much Ruin Is in a Nation?
Review Bad Blood (Theranos)
Pornography and the Time Horizon of Uncertainty
Random Stuff Tossed Together at the Last Minute
Humanity on the Cusp of Eternity
Divorce Is Better Than Murder
Fermi's Paradox The Mistake of Dramatic Timing and Other Errors
The 100th Episode
Things We Cannot Get Wrong
Crime in 2018 (Or Why Are There so Many Homeless People?)
Skin in the Game, Survival & Religion
Religion vs. Atheism vs. Transhumanism vs. Apathy
Antinatalism and Happiness vs. Survival
Should All Incels Be Killed Immediately or Just Banished Forever?
Nuclear Power and Winning through Intolerance
Steven Pinker and the Fragility of Enlightenment
Aryans, and Errors, and Indo-Europeans, Oh My!
Mormon Transhumanists, so Close, but yet so Far
Further Lessons in Comparing AI Risk and the Plan of Salvation
More Searching for Narrative in Horrible Child Sex Rings
Ten Child Sex Abuse Rings in Search of a Narrative
Inequality Is Violence the Great Leveler?
The Trend of Transgender Identity (Part 2)
The Trend of Transgender Identity (Part 1)
The Terrible Power of Tiny Trends
The 2018 Edge Question of the Year
How I Almost Became a Communist
Speech as Censorship
Dispatches from my Death Bed
Commentary on Moloch (Now With More Fermi's Paradox)
Predictions Revisited for 2018
75 Solutions to Fermi's Paradox but Still Missing Mine
More on the Harrasocaust? Or is it the Pervnado?
The Madness of the Crowds and Sexual Harassment
Review of "Rationality AI to Zombies" Religion as a Framework
Review of "Rationality AI to Zombies" Rationality vs. Antifragility
How Do We Solve the Problems We Create?
Is Facebook More Like a Newspaper or a Video Game?
The Difficulties of Mormon Diversity
Speculative Attempts to Complicate Through History
The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items
The Long Swing of the Political Pendulum
The Depressing Limitations of Salvation Through Science
Cargo Cults and the Mormon Conception of God
7 Crazy Ways Conservatives Are Secretly Just Centrists
DACA and How Even Moderates Are Conservative
Making Sure the Culture War is Fought Fairly
The Trend of Sexualizing Children
A Potpourri of Pedantry
Remind Me What The Heck Your Point is Again?
Returning to Mormonism and AI (Part 3)
Returning to Mormonism and AI (Part 2)
Returning to Mormonism and AI (Part 1)
The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope
Is Social Media Making Unrest Worse?
The Cultural War and The Overton Window
Which Side is Really Losing in Politics?
Straddling Optimism and Pessimism; Religion and Rationality
The Derbyshire Standard and the Stability of Nations
Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli?
Job Automation, or Can You Recognize a Singularity When You're In It?
Catastrophe or Singularity? Neither? Both?
Time Preference and the Survival of Civilizations
Children, Overpopulation and Tommy Boy
Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress
A View From Inside the MTA Conference
Bonus MTA Podcast
A Different Take On Pascal's Wager
What's the Best Way to Reduce Sexual Violence?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Global Warming?
But What if We're Wrong?
Doom vs. Optimism
Why I Hope the MTA Is Right, but Also Why It's Safer to Assume They're Not
Building the Tower of Babel
Picking Apart Immigration
Fermi's Paradox and the Dark Forest
Fermi's Paradox and the Movie Interstellar
Godzilla Trudges Back and Forth
The Religion of Progress
How to Save Humanity
Predictions (Spoiler No AI or Immortality)
Reframing Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Are We Bad At Infrastructure
The Change Hurricane Are we Polish Jews in 1937 or East German's in 1988?
Is This Election Different?
Freedom of Religion in 2016
I Don't Know If Everything Will Be Okay My Thoughts On the Election
The Value of Free Speech
Scott Adams and What Counts as Censorship
And There Was Silence in Heaven...
Taking Democracy for Granted
Artificial Intelligence and LDS Cosmology
The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse
Not Intellectuals Yet Not Idiots
Hillary Clinton and the Criteria of Embarrassment
The Harvest is Past
The Secular Answer To Fermi's Paradox
Fermi's Paradox As a Proof of the Existence of God
Is it finally time to start thinking about voting third party?