Best of TRIGGERnometry: What Should We Be Talking About?
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Which overlooked societal issue opens the episode answers segment?
But before that, we have our final question, which is, what's the one thing we're not talking about as a society, but we really should be? This is going to be a controversial one. I don't know if I should really say it.
I'm going to mess up the optimistic note that we tried to end on.
Hmm. That's a good question. I think it's that thing. Oh, boy. The class divide never gets discussed. They're going to have to cut this. Right. This is something that people will not talk about. And they were beating each other with pillows in there, bro. And I sat out there and smoked a cigarette out there. Well, you should be talking about my books. Well, there's too many goddamn people.
Well, you know... Well, we're not talking about dads.
Is the horrible way in which we allow the car to dominate our civilization. I'm going to introduce something now which you might find a little bit uncomfortable. The thing that pisses me off. Oh, goodness.
I think we're not talking enough about sex.
So I would love to talk to you about lots of things. To be offended is not something that anyone need or should respect. My answer to that is really mundane. I think it's Constantine's baldness. What's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be?
I'm going to mess up the optimistic note that we tried to end on. Sex robots. I think sex robots are on their way. I think they shouldn't be. And I think there's a very pro-male reason to say that they shouldn't be. I mean, the concern about sex robots has generally been, from a feminist perspective, the idea that you're kind of training men who use them to think of women as being inert and whatever, encouraging violence. I'm sure that's probably true. For me, though, I think the problem, one of the really big problems with sex robots as well as that is that you've got skyrocketing amounts of young men who are not having sex relationships at all, who are going into their 20s or even 30s, remaining virgins, hooked on porn, you know, all of this.
And more than that, also just not living productive lives, you know, not holding down jobs, not making any progress in their lives, just stuck in this kind of miserable adolescence. And I think sex robots would just supercharge that if they ever became affordable for these men and became sufficiently convincing, which they are on track to. Because what sex robots basically do to the monkey brain, to the evolved mind, is they give you a completely false sense of your own success in the world. You can be, you know, you don't have to go to the gym. You don't have to clean your room. You don't have to have a job. You don't have to own a house. You don't have to do any of the things that will actually make you a happier and more enriched human being because you've got your sex robot who will give you the impression that actually you're a stud, right?
And I think that there's a, it's like super stimuli times a million, right? The sex robot is like the most perfect encapsulation of that phenomenon and that risk. And, yeah, I think that we need to ban them, basically, like whatever mechanism is necessary.
Why aren't we talking about de-extinction more? Do you know about de-extinction? No. The idea that we could... It'd make for a far worse rebellion, I think. The de-extinction rebellion. Everything's fine. There's more species again. Yeah, that's right. What is de-extinction? De-extinction is simply bringing back the mammoth or bringing back the passenger pigeon or the great orc. You know, something that's gone extinct. Four steps. Read the genome. Done that in lots of these cases. We've got ancient DNA from samples. We know what the genome of these creatures looks like. Second, take a living genome from a related species and edit it so it's the same. Third, somehow get that into a living creature. Turn that cell into an embryo and then into a creature.
And fourth, release it to the world. Fantastic. So not only are we getting the pandemic, we're getting Jurassic Park as well.
Perfect. That would be great. It's important for everyone to know if they don't already, if the last decade didn't get it through, that even in the UK, we are now living in an environment of mass electronic surveillance and our own governments spy on us.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Which overlooked societal issue opens the episode answers segment?
0:05–6:50
2
How could sex robots and declining male intimacy reshape society?
6:50–20:17
3
Why should we be more concerned about mass electronic surveillance?
20:17–25:15
4
What evidence shows the class divide and social mobility crisis?
25:15–46:35
5
How are public health concerns—drugs, cannabis and obesity—being ignored?
46:35–1:17:28
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