Common Interest / Fandom Episodes
July 2, 2024
S6E14 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- 🎵 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. --- *Search Categories*...
June 25, 2024
S6E13 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Making predictions is tough, especially about the future. -Niels Bohr Chris & Kayla put the L in TESCREAL. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science /...
June 18, 2024
S6E12 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- 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 humani…
June 11, 2024
S6E11 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- This podcast is Bayesd. Chris & Kayla update all of their priors about LessWrong and decide if it's a cult, or just weird. --- *Search Categories*...
June 4, 2024
S6E10 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- The Territory is not The Map. Chris & Kayla fall out of a coconut tree and continue their discussion of LessWrong. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science /…
May 28, 2024
S6E9 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Have not you read The Sequences? Chris & Kayla do their first ever CoJW topic revisit and discuss an online community dedicated to Rationalism. --- *Search Categorie…
May 21, 2024
S6E8 - The Future of Humanity: Plus
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- 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 wa…
May 14, 2024
S6E7 - The Future of Humanity: Prelude
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human? - David Zindell Chris and Kayla take the next steps on the path of the unfolding season...and the u…
Nov. 21, 2023
S5E11 - The Full Circle (Death Cafes)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. -Albert Camus Chris and Kayla contemplate that one thing that joins us al…
Oct. 24, 2023
S5E10 - The Secret Knowledge (Theosophy)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself. -Plato Chris and Kayla attend class at another small local group... whose presence & influence is worldwide & ubiquitou…
Aug. 1, 2023
S5E6 - The Hams & Their Eggs (the LA Breakfast Club)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- FVNEM? FVNEX? Kayla and Chris get up at the crack of dawn to try and solve a cryptogram from 1925. --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoi…
July 4, 2023
S5E5 - The Collective's Legacy (Objectivism's reception & effects)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno Chris tries to land this Ayn Rand plane in an objectivel…
June 20, 2023
S5E4 - The Collective's Architect (Ayn Rand's life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- Who is Ayn Rand? Chris and Kayla try to answer this ocean of a question, exploring the many rivers and tributaries that feed it. --- *Search Categories* Anthropologi…
June 6, 2023
S5E3 - The Collective's Dogma (Objectivist beliefs)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- I am evolving and it’s so damn beautiful. -Anonymous Chris ponders the philosophical orb with Kayla, and finally comes out as a cultist himself. Objectively speaking. …
May 9, 2023
S5E2 - The Ecstatics & their DJ (Ecstatic Dance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? --- The body says what words cannot. --Martha Graham Kayla and Chris explore the roots of human bonding...set to music. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; New Reli…