Cult or Just Weird
Join Chris & Kayla on their journeys of humor, discovery, and the absurd as they try to answer the question... is it a cult, or just weird?
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The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
-William Gibson
Chris & Kayla finally land the plane on this whole TESCREAL situation.
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anthropological; internet culture; science/pseudoscience
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POV: the Serenity Prayer, but with shoulds instead of cans.
Chris & Kayla attempt to tie the knot between Transhumanism and Eugenics.
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Science / Pseudoscience; Anthropological; Destructive
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Eugenics
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No idiot knows that he is an idiot. As a rule, those of small intellectual equipment are so sure of themselves that they are eager to make the race over in their own image.
-Clarence Darrow
Chris & Kayla enjoy dunking on one of history's worst ideas.
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Science / Pseudoscience; Anthropological; Destructi...
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I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. -Nelson Mandela
Last week was context... this week we get juicy.
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Business; Society & Culture; Common Interest/Fandom
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Effective Altruism & Longte...
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
We tackle the final three letters of the TESCREAL acronym, and fight about the future.
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Effective Altruism ...
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. - Eden Ahbez
Two episodes in one to grapple with the origins of a cosmic concept, and its future among the stars.
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Science / Pseudoscience
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Russian Cosmism and modern Cosmism
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Time isn't the only thing the FDA is killing. - ACT UP slogan
Chris & Kayla grapple with the intense nuance presented by the Church of Perpetual Life and the Life Extension Foundation.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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How could I enjoy a yacht if I know we're all going to die and disappear?
- Bill Faloon
Chris & Kayla head back to Church to learn more about the man behind the curtain.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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Aging and Death can be Optional...We Choose Life & Health.
Chris & Kayla head to church to learn how the Creator wants us to live forever.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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🎵 it's like 10^58 motes 🎵 when all you neeeed is a torture 🎵
Chris & Kayla discuss the third & final piece of Émile Torres's interview.
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Making predictions is tough, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
Chris & Kayla put the L in TESCREAL.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies. - Sam Altman
Chris & Kayla talk about the future of humanity, in the long term.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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This podcast is Bayesd.
Chris & Kayla update all of their priors about LessWrong and decide if it's a cult, or just weird.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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The Territory is not The Map.
Chris & Kayla fall out of a coconut tree and continue their discussion of LessWrong.
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Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience;
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Have not you read The Sequences?
Chris & Kayla do their first ever CoJW topic revisit and discuss an online community dedicated to Rationalism.
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What would you say you... do... here?
Chris dunks on a doofy website for 40 minutes straight; it is also possible we learn some things about Transhumanism along the way.
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Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Chris and Kayla talk about a theory that underpins everything we'll cover this season.
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Anthropologic...
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Being cryopreserved after death is the second-worst thing that could h...
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