The Joe Rogan Experience

Like it says in The Pickwick Papers you don't taste it with a sip we taste yeah got a go you got a cough you gotta have something

Oliver Twist. Christmas Carol is the one I was trying to think of. David Copperfield, Great Expectations.

worm tongue from lord of the rings uh where he would just sort of like whisper these you know terrible things to the king so the king would believe these things that weren't true

two books out this year, Philosophers on God

so first one's Philosophers on God

talking about existence

is defeating the evil God challenge

in defense of God's goodness

so I spend that book defending the existence of God despite being an agnostic

Rutger Bregman points out wonderfully in his book you took for realists that people that come to the US for example first generation migrants are less likely to commit crimes than the native population the same is true for their children as well in the US and the same stories in the UK like they're less likely to be filling up our prisons

there's a guy named fuck it why am I blanking on his name American Coyote Dan Flores

Dan Flores this I forget where is your professor out of him he studies the history of animals and Dan Flores he wrote a paper called I think it's called Buffalo Ecology something what was it Buffalo Diplomacy Buffalo Ecology he thinks that's it genius guy he thinks the reason why when they came across the Great Plains and there was millions and millions of buffalo I think the reason why is because 90% of the Native Americans were killed by the plague oh wow this is his thought like because the earliest settlers in the 1400s the 1500s they didn't see that many buffalo it wasn't like they didn't even report them there were many accounts where they didn't even report them why because the Native Americans lived off them and they kept their population in check the buffalo have a very long gestation period right they're an enormous animal and if you can kill one it takes a long time to replace that one so they would travel around track the buffalo kill them live off them use their skins eat their meat and then nomadically travel with them and they kept their population in check when 90% of Native Americans were dead Dan Flores believes that led to this insane overpopulation problem of buffalo where you see millions of them in fields because that doesn't exist anywhere in nature unless there's a problem and that problem is a lack of predators and the predators at that time being the Native American hunter

I think Martha Nussbaum in a book just as for animals she argues that these things as you say are a problem you can't avoid suffering in these cases because you need to keep populations in control and she thinks that we need to embark on a research project which simulates hunting and keeps down populations in animal sanctuaries if you like

I've just finished Ian Kershaw's book on Hitler it's like a over a thousand pages it's a real good read like 40 hour read

but in reality what most people know is what they read in the Golden Circle Children's Book of Noah.

I don't know who said it first but it was used in the Andrew Lloyd Reba Tim Rice musical Evita

politics is the art of the possible

And then there was sort of the, the I don't know the CCP, Chinese communist rebuttal, the Kai-Fu Lee book from 2018, "AI Superpowers", and I think the subtitle was something like the race for AI between Silicon Valley and China, or something like this, and it, it was sort of it defined AI as it was fairly low tech, it was just surveillance, um, you know, facial recognition technology.

I'm, I'm always I don't know if this is an alternate history theory, but I'm always into the James Frazer, "Golden Bough", Ren Girard, "Violence and the Sacred History", where you know you have always this question about the origins of monarchy and kingship and the, the, the sort of Girard, Frazer intuition is that it's something like, it is something like if every king is a kind of living god, then we have to also believe the opposite that maybe every god is a dead or murdered king, and that that somehow societies were organized around scapegoats.

I had this conversation with the other guy, Murdo Macleod, the "Immortality Key" guy.

This is all about Hitler's drug use during World War II.

This is all about Hitler's drug use during World War II.

But he was talking about that video, and he didn't think that video was real. I was like, why do you think that? Because he had a direct, like a line of history between when Hitler gets introduced to this one doctor and the drugs this doctor's giving him, and that's the Olympic Games one.

But I'm of the opinion that Hitler, if you can get him to go on oxycodone a year from now, he's probably trying some shit that he didn't tell you about. That's what I would imagine. So the doctor, he's getting notes from the doctor, Retreated Hitler.

It was very funny writing the book because I wanted to get into the new ideas and my editor was like you gotta explain how people think about life now and I was like okay well this definition is the most annoying one I'll just pick it apart.

I have a book out it actually is out today called Life as No One Knows It the physics of life's emergence where I talk about assembly theory and you know like what's needed to solve the physics of life and also really trying to motivate this experimental program that Lee is spearheading because I'm such a fan of it to try to find aliens in the lab so basically like the idea here is we just want to get people excited about these problems and thinking about them more deeply.

I have a book out it actually is out today called "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence" where I talk about assembly theory and you know like what's needed to solve the physics of life and also really trying to motivate this experimental program that Lee is spearheading because I'm such a fan of it to try to find aliens in the lab.

I think the entire grid has got eight minutes of battery backup, 10 minutes of battery backup... And Toby Ord wrote this great book called The Precipice. And he is from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. He wrote the best researchers in the world. He got them to rank what are the most dangerous existential risks to humans. And it's a one in 10,000 chance over the next century coming from climate change. It's one in six from AI or one in 10 from AI, one in 10 from engineered pandemics, like one in 30 from natural pandemics.

And you think that if you were to accept that the science and all of the stuff that the climate change people believe in is accurate, I still think that the strategies that they're using aren't going to be effective because I think it turns more people off.

I reread Guns, Germs, and Steel about the Spanish flu.

I don't want to watch that. It's a thriller. Who's in it? Eddie Redmayne... The Day of the Jackal was excellent.

But, um, oh, the other one is the expanse.

The expanse is an Amazon show.