robot friends Podcast
1) episode 40: eigenrobot vs roon
talking with roon (@tszzl) about the emergence of yuppies, san francisco, island communities, the notion of a homeland, and noah smith
2) episode 37: eigenrobot vs money
i spoke with qc and polimath about how families handle money and learn from qc what it's like to be main character for a day. we also speculate about whether taylor lorenz went to school with kim...Show More
3) episode 36: eigenrobot vs science fiction
wherein I speak with all five (!!) of the 2021 Prometheus Award Best Novel finalists about their work, the social history of science fiction, and the role of science fiction in mapping the future. Gre...Show More
4) episode 35: eigenrobot vs history part 2
wherein @historycourses and I spend two hours talking about history again, exploring among other things:- how learning history is emancipatory;- David Reich and archaeogenomics;- what European geopoli...Show More
5) episode 34: eigenrobot vs history
wherein Abraham Ash (@historycourses) and I talk about Orthodox Judaism: its history in the united states, its current place and modes of life, and its future. We also hop wildly across thousands of y...Show More
6) episode 33: eigenrobot vs becoming creature
wherein @becomingcritter of the actually-well-produced A Becoming Creature podcast and IÂ go off the rails on the use of hallucinogens in Minecraft, the nature of time and perception, and why thinking...Show More
7) episode 32: eigenrobot vs totoTavrinky
wherein @totoTavrinky and I discuss the philosophical framework presented by Robert Pirsig in his second work, Lila, and what it has to do with wet markets, Ayn Rand, the Puritans, Allen Ginsburg, Emp...Show More
8) episode 31: eigenrobot vs sex
wherein I talk with @maybegray and @QiaochuYuan about flirting, sexual oughtism, cargo cult sexuality, downloading millions of escort reviews, and the international conspiracy of women to gossip about...Show More
9) episode 30: eigenrobot vs michael of barbary
wherein @corsairmichel and i discuss the aesthetics of murder scenes, what really went down at Waco, working as a bouncer at a strip club, the Bakken oil boom, winters in North Dakota, anarchobaking, ...Show More
10) episode 28: eigenrobot vs BEAST
wherein @BLUNDERBUSSTED and I discuss america's best ice cream, reading groups, the hostility of suburbs to scenes, how hillbilly lives matter, floating signifiers as a means of facilitating indi...Show More