Society & Culture Episodes

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. - Eden Ahbez   Two episodes in one to grapple with the origins of a cosmic concept, and its future among the stars. --- *Search...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- Time isn't the only thing the FDA is killing. - ACT UP slogan   Chris & Kayla grapple with the intense nuance presented by the Church of Perpetual Life and the Life Extension...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- How could I enjoy a yacht if I know we're all going to die and disappear? - Bill Faloon   Chris & Kayla head back to Church to learn more about the man behind the curtain. ---...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- Aging and Death can be Optional...We Choose Life & Health.   Chris & Kayla head to church to learn how the Creator wants us to live forever. --- *Search Categories*...

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*...

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 /...

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 humanity, in the...

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*...

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 /...

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 Categories*...

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 way.   ---...

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 unfolding of...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. - Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death   Chris and Kayla talk about...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- The act of freezing a dead body and storing it indefinitely on the chance that some future generation may restore it to life is an act of faith, not science. - The Society for Cryobiology,...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- Being cryopreserved after death is the second-worst thing that could happen. The worst thing is dying without being cryopreserved. - Ben Best    Kayla dives deeper into the world...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- You're not dead til you're warm and dead.   Chris & Kayla finish their cryonics facility visit with the help of a VIP "tour guide."   --- *Search Categories* Science /...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- I am the mediocre architect of my afterlife. - Glen Nesbitt   Chris & Kayla take a tour of the very cool place they were headed to last episode.   --- *Search Categories*...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- If a man die, shall he live again? - Book of Job 14:14   Chris and Kayla hotfoot it to a cold storage facility.   --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest /...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- Chris & Kayla recap the experience of experiencing things for Season 5 of Cult or Just Weird.   (previously published on CoJW's patreon: )   --- *Patreon Credits*...

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 all.   ---...

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 & ubiquitous....

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible." -David Brin     Chris and Kayla explore the nature of power and learn some...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   --- "Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces." - Martha Graham     Chris and Kayla go to a restaurant. Kind of. Don't worry, we'll repeat ourselves.   --- *Search...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out?   ---   It's hard to detect good luck--it looks so much like something you've earned. - Frank A. Clark   Chris and Kayla visit a liquor store to try and resurrect the American dream....