Sam Altman Part 2: Doomsday Prepping and Simulation Hypothesis
Please consider becoming a subscriber on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/dystopianow/membership This episode we began with a discussion of Peter Singer and eugenics ideas in the Effective Altruis...
17 Apr 20251h 15min
Sam Altman Part 1: Building God, Scanning Eyeballs
Become a member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow This week, we begin to explore the mystery that is Sam Altman of Open AI. We cover the AI Doomer coup, Sam's Worldcoin metal orb that ...
10 Apr 202552min
Curtis Yarvin
To become a Patreon subscriber and hear our bonus eps: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow This week we talked about Curtis Yarvin and his vision of CEO/Monarchies, Network States for Tech Bros-- in...
4 Apr 20251h 3min
The Effective Altruists and the "Abundance" Movement
This week we talked about the "Abundance Agenda" and it's roots in the Effective Altruism movement. A network of think tanks, Silicon Valley billionaires, and centrist pundits are getting all riled u...
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Peter Thiel Part 1
In this episode, we explore Peter Thiel's villain origin story. From his budding commitment to being an edgelord at Stanford to developing the theory that girls ruined everything by voting. Seasteadin...
20 Mars 202559min
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
This week we are joined by Paris Marx, host of the podcast Tech Won't Save Us and a tech critic, journalist, author, and international speaker. We talked about Silicon Valley's changing influence in p...
12 Mars 20251h 9min
Patreon Preview: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)
To hear the rest of this episode, become one of our Patreon supporters at https://www.patreon.com/DystopiaNow For this bonus episode we were joined by comedian Kenice Mobley to talk about the differen...
11 Mars 20255min
The Tech Right with Jacob Silverman
This week our guest is Jacob Silverman, and independent journalist who has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The New Yorker & The New Republic. He's the co...
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