Ed Zitron
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65 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Professor Cal Newport, an astrophysicist and author of More, Everything Forever.
Adam Becker, fellas, welcome back to the show.
Thanks for having us.
either be two hundred thousand words or a hundred words long.
Oh, maybe it's not the worst
Alright, give me a perfect matrix of Zitron is complete.
Well, today though, this was inspired by your wonderful piece, Cal in New York Times, about the rationalists.
And we are going to start very simple.
Who are these people and why are they suddenly notable?
Oh God.
I mean
My uh my standard response when people ask me this is, you know, well, I I could write a whole book about it and I did, and uh and you know, I'm not gonna get into the same level of detail I do in the book, but like basically this is something that was spawned out of transhumanist message boards and email lists in the nineteen nineties.
And what is transhumanist?
Yeah, that's a good question.
Um, transhumanists, uh, I guess the the shortest good definition I could give you is transhumanists are people who don't want to be human anymore.
They want to use m machines and especially computers to basically escape human bodies and solve the problem of death.
Okay.
Yeah.
So those guys.
Yeah, normal shit.
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