Cult or Just Weird
Join Chris & Kayla on their journeys of humor, discovery, and the absurd as they try to answer the question...
is it a cult, or just weird?
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 91 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
S6E23 - The Mindset
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The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
-William Gibson
Chri…
S6E22 - The Germ Makers (Eugenics, pt2)
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POV: the Serenity Prayer, but with shoulds instead of cans.
Chris & Kayla attempt to tie the knot between Transhumanis…
S6E21 - The Germ Makers (Eugenics)
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No idiot knows that he is an idiot. As a rule, those of small intellectual equipment are so sure of themselves that they…
S6E20 - The Final Boss(es) (Effective Altruism & Longtermism)
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I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. …
S6E19 - The Final Boss(es) (Effective Altruism & Longtermism)
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
We tackle t…
S6E18 - The Resurrection (Cosmism)
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. - Eden Ahbez
Two episodes in one to grapple with the origins…
S6E17 - The Immortalists' Conclusions (Church of Perpetual Life)
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Time isn't the only thing the FDA is killing. - ACT UP slogan
Chris & Kayla grapple with the intense nuance presented …
S6E16 - The Immortalists' Founder (Church of Perpetual Life)
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How could I enjoy a yacht if I know we're all going to die and disappear?
- Bill Faloon
Chris & Kayla head back to Chu…
S6E15 - The Immortalists' Church (Church of Perpetual Life)
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Aging and Death can be Optional...We Choose Life & Health.
Chris & Kayla head to church to learn how the Creator wants…
S6E13 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
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Making predictions is tough, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
Chris & Kayla put the L in TESCREAL.
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S6E12 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies. - Sam Altma…
S6E11 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
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This podcast is Bayesd.
Chris & Kayla update all of their priors about LessWrong and decide if it's a cult, or just we…
S6E10 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
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The Territory is not The Map.
Chris & Kayla fall out of a coconut tree and continue their discussion of LessWrong.
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S6E9 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
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Have not you read The Sequences?
Chris & Kayla do their first ever CoJW topic revisit and discuss an online community …
S6E8 - The Future of Humanity: Plus
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What would you say you... do... here?
Chris dunks on a doofy website for 40 minutes straight; it is also possible we l…
S6E7 - The Future of Humanity: Prelude
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To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human? - David Zindell
Chris and Kayla take the next step…
S6E6 - The Terror (Terror Management Theory)
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Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. - Ern…
S6E5 - The Cryonauts: Conclusion
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The act of freezing a dead body and storing it indefinitely on the chance that some future generation may restore it to…
S6E4 - The Cryonauts: Interview
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Being cryopreserved after death is the second-worst thing that could happen. The worst thing is dying without being cry…