We Are Not Saved
We Are Not Saved discusses religion (from a Christian/LDS perspective), politics, the end of the world, science fiction, artificial intelligence, and above all the limits of technology and progress.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 423
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Drug Crisis (Part 2) Wrapping Up and Maybe Some Solutions?
Transcript: https://wearenotsaved.com/2022/04/28/the-drug-crisis-part-2-wrapping-up-and-maybe-some-solutions/
I wrap up my discussion of the drug crisis. I begin with discussing the fact that the US…
The Drug Crisis (Part 1) The Role of Progress and Technology in Creating the Crisis
An examination into how deaths from overdosing on drugs got so bad…
The 9 Books I Finished in March-2022
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by: Roger Lowenstein
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by: Arnold Bennet
- Burning Chrome by: William Gibson
- Public Choice Theory …
Eschatologist #15 COVID and Ukraine (The Return of Messiness)
Transcript: https://wearenotsaved.com/2022/03/31/eschatologist-15-covid-and-ukraine-the-return-of-messiness/
The last few decades have been a historical aberration, a time when things seemed simple …
Nukes and Stability
I initially decided to to weigh in on Ukraine because so many other people were. But as the situation becomes more and more potentially apocalyptic it started to appear that I would have to. But don'…
The 13 Books I Finished in February
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by: Helen Joyce
- The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup by: Evan Hughes
- Th…
Eschatologist #14 The Fragility of Peace
It seems that some people are over-reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We have gone so long without a war that we can only imagine it in apocalyptic terms. But that's precisely what we don't wa…
What If Things Are Changing Faster than We Can Adapt?
At some point, in some episode (and probably several episodes) I asserted that:
The world is changing faster than we can adapt to it.
Then (and now) this statement seemed obvious, so I remember bein…
In Defense of Listening to Audiobooks at 3x (And of Reading a Lot in General)
I take a break from talking about the collapse of society and the world to rant about reading. In particular all the people who say I'm doing it wrong.
The 12 Books I Finished in January
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 by: Matt Ridley and Alina Chan
- Exact Thinking in Demented Times: Th…
Eschatologist #13 Antifragility
It's time for my newsletter again, and after going step by step through the ideas of Taleb we finally arrive at his crowning idea: antifragility. Perhaps the biggest contribution Taleb makes to our u…
Pandemic: The End of the Beginning
It's not the end of the pandemic or even the beginning of the end, but we might be at the end of the beginning, and since I just read three books on the subject I thought I'd see what could be said a…
The Tricky Business of Reality Construction
I return to a discussion of Douthat's "Deep Places" in particular what it tells about modern epistemology, or as I like to call it, "reality construction". I examine the reality constructed by Doutha…
The 7 Books I Finished in December
- Why Liberalism Failed by: Patrick J. Deenen
- Leviathan Falls by: James S. A. Corey
- Termination Shock by: Neal Stephenson
- The Histories of Herodotus by: Herodotus
- The Golden Transcendence by: John C.…
Eschatologist #12 Predictions
It's that time of year when people make predictions. I also make predictions though I do them somewhat differently. Mostly I'm interested in Identifying potential catastrophes and dismissing potentia…
If We Were Amusing Ourselves to Death in the 80s, What Are We Doing Now? (Classic)
I decide to take the end of the year off. But I didn't want to leave my loyal listeners without the normally scheduled episode. So here you go the first ever "We Are Not Saved" Classic!!
It's my revi…
What “The Expanse” Can Teach Us about Fermi’s Paradox
The ninth book and sixth season of The Expanse were both just released. I haven't watched much of the TV show, but I did just finish reading the final book and as I did so it occurred to me that the …
The 8 Books I Finished in November (And the One Series I Decided Not to Finish)
- The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by: Ross Douthat
- Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History by: Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damie…
Eschatologist #11 Black Swans
Lately people have been using the idea that something is a black swan as excuse for being powerless. as an excuse. But this is not only a massive abdication of responsibility, it’s also an equally ma…
The Problems the Past vs. The Problems of the Present
A couple of months ago Gwern published a list of improvements since 1990. I thought it gave short shrift to the many changes which have been wrought upon society by technological progress. He does in…