682 - Longspermism (11/21/22)
Added 2022-11-22 04:08:34 +0000 UTCWe catch up with World Cup news, engage in some vile orientalism about Qatar, and take a look at American colleges and universities partnering with gambling sites to wring some more profit out of their students and sports programs. Then, an in-depth reading series on a Peter Thiel-aligned movement of eugenics, biological optimization, βsecular Calvinism,β and more dubious effective altruism, all wrapped up in one couple and their plans to out-breed the world.
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hi iβm hubuji
ClaytonLightfoot
2023-10-29 11:29:42 +0000 UTCCredit card companies do have booths set up at orientation and in student unions π
Carol Marg
2022-12-01 15:38:30 +0000 UTCExcellent episode, boys. I could listen to Matt yell at us about Calvinism all day.
Marina Hanna
2022-11-29 23:17:39 +0000 UTCi love matts rant about the absolution of heroism
Anabelle DeClement
2022-11-29 19:17:10 +0000 UTCYall got to start putting these article links in the show notes
Justin Buell
2022-11-28 01:26:31 +0000 UTCOf course they will. The shocking thing about these people is how little they understand children and people in general. If our children commit to have 8 children for a mere 11 generations, we will outnumber humanity! What could go wrong?!? And they will all be exactly like us, preserving memes like the dying embers of a once great civilization.
John Williams
2022-11-27 12:01:10 +0000 UTCIf you enjoyed this episode read Hyperion by Dan Simmons
2022-11-26 14:16:43 +0000 UTCits gonna be so fucking funny when all of elon musks 30 children grow up to be failsons and destroys whatever wealth he leaves behind trying to turn the human brain into a mobile app or something
2022-11-26 04:29:47 +0000 UTCbut yeah, the fascist obsession with genetics and its inability to reconcile "supermen" with high explosive autocannons is a bottomless well of comedy. Going to Ukraine to preserve the white race and then you run into a BMP. whoops
Doug Cartel
2022-11-25 23:05:29 +0000 UTCDoes anyone remember Kissinger claiming AI was the biggest threat to humanity? they got to him already and he's probab;y been spreading that cancer all over.
Doug Cartel
2022-11-25 22:07:14 +0000 UTClove to doom my huge son before he's even born by deciding to name him Deus Ex Machina
Doug Cartel
2022-11-25 21:52:34 +0000 UTCWill, thanks for the catharsis. I read that article a few days ago and I really needed to hear some other people tear it apart. These people do not appear to experience being human in any way that feels familiar to me.
Laura
2022-11-24 22:36:45 +0000 UTCIt's so strange how these self styled genius think they're the first to stumble upon these really basic eugeno-capitalist concepts that have been scraped to death for the last hundred years. Like if these brainiac racecar drivers did any homework, they'd go 'oh this has been answered a thousand times before. I should do something else'
Aaron Dinga
2022-11-24 20:01:50 +0000 UTCWe really need to stop letting billionaires read Dune
Aaron Dinga
2022-11-24 19:38:44 +0000 UTC
