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Embrace The Void

Embrace The Void

Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we"re just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever

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01:03:51

AI in Medicine with Bryce Eakin

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2023/11/10

My guest this week is Bryce Eakin, an AI engineer currently working in the area medical ethics. We discuss the potential risks and benefits of AI in various parts of the medical process and where this technology is likely headed in the next few years.Music by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us

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00:46:51

Embracing the Manosphere with Debbie Ging

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2023/10/20

My guest this week is Dr. Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. Dr. Ging teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men's rights politics, incel subculture and the radicalisation of boys and men into male supremacist ideologies. We cover all of ETV's greatest hits in front of our first ever live audience!Debbie's website:

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01:03:44

Professional Surrogacy with Barbie Dangond

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2023/09/28

My guest this week is Barbie , co-founder of Lift Life Travel and a professional gestational surrogate. We discuss her motivation for helping women experience travel and many parts of the ethics surrounding surrogacy.Convocation: NietzscheLift Life Travel: https://www.liftlifetravel.com/?fbclid=IwAR3SjFa7P0x1V-sLMNiVSmjapGMNQFWyrQh-V7WqZU3WR73xps3hsgrfH4AMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod:

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01:11:29

Triangle Freethought Society with Matthew Krevat

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2023/09/08

My guest this week is Matthew Krevat, a secular and skeptical organizer with Triangle Freethought Society. We discuss his experiences with local organizing and trying to balance the interests of skeptics and atheists within a single group.Convocation: SchomburgTriangle Freethought Website: https://www.trianglefreethought.org/Matt's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@TalkingAboutTheBigStuffMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals

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Possible Worlds and Other Stories with Rachel Handley

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2023/08/09

My guest this week is Rachel Handley, a teaching fellow in philosophy at Trinity college Dublin, and author of a recent collection of sci-fi short stories entitled Possible Worlds and Other Stories. The book is a fun exercise in multiverse building that scratches that meta-itch a lot of us have, but it also has some lovely touching human moments. We discuss why possible worlds are having a moment, the gendered history of possible worlds, and a few of Rachel's possible worlds that I enjoyed so

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01:09:09

Heavy Metal Philosophy with David Burke

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2023/07/27

My guest this week is David Burke, a PhD student at Bathe’s Spa University, with a focus on studying the philosophy of heavy metal. He has written on the Neitzchien elements of heavy metal and argues that metal should be taken seriously as a philosophical art form.Convocation: NoneMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the

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01:07:01

Grassroots Secular Organizing with Devon Graham

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2023/07/24

My guest this week is Devon Graham, one of the Assistant state directors for American Atheists in Florida. We discuss the challenges of secular organizing in deeply red territories and conflicts within movement secularism over the relationship between secular values and social justice.Convocation: NoneMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at

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01:37:32

GPT-4 Wrap-up with Callie Wright

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2023/06/25

My guest this week is Callie Wright, host of the Queersplaining podcast and co-host of Philosophers in Space. They humor me while I try to exorcise my GPT demons and work through as many of the arguments about this technology as possible.Convocation: Fjords Vol. 1 by Zachary SchomburgMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy

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01:16:35

The Language of Terrorism with Chris Kavanagh

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2023/06/09

My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), junior co-host of the Decoding the Gurus podcast and second author on a range of topics related to human behavior. We discuss his recent publications and what they tell us about the risks of stochastic terrorism from different communities.Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/Convocation: Fjords Vol. 1 by Zachary SchomburgMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live

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01:15:52

GPT-4 Alignment with Daniel Schauer

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2023/05/26

My guest this week is Daniel Schauer, a lifelong computer nerd who currently works at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in their writing department to submit materials to the FDA but is here representing himself as a computer nerd with a bunch of fiddling experience with GPT-4. We discuss what GPt-4 can do especially with regard to ethical reasoning.Democratizing Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/democratizing-music/id1546799293Convocation: Warhammer 40kMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers

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01:06:57

GPT-4 with Matt Browne

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2023/04/28

My guest this week is Matt Browne (@ArthurCDent), professor of psychology at central Queensland, Australia, and senior co-host of the Decoding the Gurus podcast. We discuss how GPT-4 is a whole new thing compared to its predecessors, and the narratives aren't keeping up, including mine! I started playing with GPT-4 after this episode and honestly feel we downplayed it. More on that soon!Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/Convocation: GPT-4Music by GW RodriguezSibling

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01:02:04

Ancient Aliens with Fredrik Trusohamn

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2023/04/14

My guest this week is Fredrik Trusohamn (@DUAncientAliens) host of the Digging Up Ancient Aliens podcast, where he recently did a series on Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse materials on netflix. We discuss the overlaps in our research on Hancock and broader questions about the culture of racism and harmful conspiracism in the Ancient Aliens world.Fredrik's website: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/Convocation: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-FiveMy UK Skeptic Mag article on Hancock:

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01:04:42

Spiritual Emergence with Leah Prime

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2023/03/31

My guest this week is Leah Prime (@leahprime) host of The Invisible Night School, author at sub stack, and working on a project called We Own the Night: The Legacy of Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM. Leah does work in exotic states of conscious and Spiritual emergence and AI ethics in tech. We discuss High Weirdness/Strangeness, spiritual emergence, conspiracism, and the tightrope of skepticism.Leah's site: https://bio.site/leahprimeConvocation: Webb

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01:05:32

High Weirdness with Erik Davis

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2023/03/19

My guest this week is Erik Davis (@erik_davis), author of High Weirdness and many other worthwhile reads on counterculture topics. We discuss the history of High Weirdness and how it has shaped our modern world for better and for worse.Erik Davis: https://techgnosis.com/https://www.burningshore.com/Convocation: Erik DavisMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at

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01:08:17

Conspiracism Leadership with Ben Dow

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2023/03/03

My guest this week is Ben Dow (@benjaminjdow), a professor of practice at Southern Methodist University with a focus in management studies. He recently sent me several papers he worked on with other folks about conspiracism and leadership, and we discuss what those papers suggest about the role of conspiracism in modern politics and other organizations.Ben's website: https://www.smu.edu/cox/Our-People-and-Community/Faculty/Benjamin-DowConvocation: H.L. Mencken, A Mencken ChrestomathyMusic by GW

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01:10:13

Conceptually Engineering Luck with Matthew Cull

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2023/02/19

My guest this week is Matthew Cull (@MaattCuull), a philosopher postdoc at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in social philosophy, particularly debates around the concept of conceptual engineering. We discuss the debate between classic approaches to defining terms and conceptual engineering. We also discuss whether my pedagogy of luck counts as conceptual engineering or not.NOTE ON VIP CONTENT FOR THIS WEEK: Sadly, we had some issues with the bonus content and Matt and I decided to just

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01:09:31

Antisemitic Conspiracism with Joshua Stein

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2023/02/03

My guest this week is Joshua Stein (@thephilosotroll), a postdoc in philosophy at Georgetown. His interests include social ontology, political philosophy, collective responsibility, and today’s topic, antisemitic conspiracism. We discuss Ye's recent public spiral and what it says about the future of right wing politics.Joshua's Website:Convocation: SartreMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod:

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01:12:58

Defending the Public with Yassine Meskout

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2023/01/20

My guest this week is Yassine Meskhout (@ymeskhout), a Public defender and infrequent host of The Bailey podcast. Yassine argues for anarchy perspectives also writes on substack and for Jesse Singal’s newsletter on topics related to the criminal justice system as well as some culture war issues. His articles include “Eleven Magic Words” and “I am here because of dumb luck”.Yassine's website: https://ymeskhout.substack.com/Convocation: Ayn RandMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space:

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01:15:36

Stoic Social Justice with Jonathan Church

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2023/01/06

My guest this week is Jonathan Church (@jondavidchurch), a chartered financial analyst, government economist, and author. His recent books include Reinventing Racism: Why White Fragility is the wrong way to think about racial inequality, and Virtue in an age of identity politics: A stoic approach to social justice. From my perspective his works aim to provide substantive critiques of current approaches to marxism and social justice, or “Wokeness” my term not his, while also criticizing the way that

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01:30:39

Feminism, Woke Religiosity, and Trans Rights with...

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2022/12/23

My guest this week is Helen Lewis (@helenlewis), a staff writer at the Atlantic and author of the book Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. Helen has a project with the BBC coming out December 19th about internet gurus. We discuss her book, her article on wokeness as a religion, and debates around trans rights and gender self-ID.Helen's Substack: https://helenlewis.substack.com/Convocation: Difficult WomenMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space:

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