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Anti-natalism is the ethical view that the act of having children is morally reprehensible, largely because of the consent issue: nobody who's born is capable of consenting to being born. On this episode, we discuss the ethical issues around procreation.
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On this episode, we talk about the ideas behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
My goal here is to give a balanced overview of the ideology (or the philosophy) at work behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency protocols. -
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Here, we attempt to separate fact from fiction, exploring whether the Atlantis myth may be a fictionalized tale of a real natural disaster—such as the devastation of the Minoan civilization on Crete by a tsunami more than 3,500 years ago.
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On this episode of the podcast, we discuss survival stories and the philosophy of mountains and mountaineering. I talk about a few close calls I've had while out in the mountains, and then we ask what draws humans to these mountains in the first place.
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On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the philosophical implications of settling humans on Mars. We also go into Elon Musk's idea that we humanity needs to become a multi-planetary civilization in order to avoid extinction, and the ideology behind this growing wave of Earth escapism.
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On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the ideology of veganism, the ethical problem of factory farming, and explore how different cultures view the consumption of animals differently.
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On this episode, we discuss how we can create meaning in life and love. To accomplish this task, we explore Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, and What Love Is by Carrie Jenkins.
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In this episode, we jump into a discussion about seven human-caused existential risks: what philosopher Toby Ord says are 1,000 times more likely to cause human extinction over the next century than any naturally occurring risks.
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In this episode of the podcast we discuss Existential Risks and the future of humanity. First, we start off with an analysis of the recent film "Don't Look Up." From there, we jump into an analysis of seven naturally occurring existential risks and how we might mitigate them.
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In this episode, we go into "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus and formulate an alternative modern punishment to Sisyphus' boulder-rolling that I think is even worse. From there, we discuss how we can attempt to find meaning in an inherently meaningless world through absurd freedom.
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In the first-ever episode of the Bad Philosopher Podcast, we discuss my philosophy origin story, Nietzsche's "God is dead" proclamation, jump into Mary Wollstonecraft on hedonism, and round things off with the Bhagavad Gita and a discussion about secular metaphysics.
