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Okay, about the actual episode…Video games were so crucial for George Bush and his friends to accomplish their mission during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We trace the origins and justifications of the War on Terror, and connect the post-Cold War scrambling for new wars by defense contractors, US officials, military leaders and right wing intellectuals to the rise of video games as a pedagogical method and recruitment tool.

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Works Cited and Further Reading:

War Play by Cory Mead

Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington

End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

There is a pipeline from video games to the US military and it goes forward and backward and side to side, just like the buttons on your Gameboy Advanced. In this first installment, we look at the history of video game development and learn that when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, that was when the eternal war machine was carrying you, dear gamer. We come very close to accusing Activision of doing 9/11, but we show some restraint.

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US Army e-sports fake prize giveaway

Prince Harry on Afghanistan

7 years of reports from the Marine Corps entertainment liaison office

Pentagon and Call Of Duty linked

Atlantic Council Board of Directors

Atlantic Council donors

Atlantic Council - Chance Glasco

Activision Blizzard - Frances Townsend

Bush era torture apologist at Activision

Frances Memo

Activision Blizzard - Brian Bulato

Eating For Free - Captain Marvel & The U.S. Military's Hollywood Propaganda Machine (Part One)

Lonelies and the Perpetually Unlucky in Loves, rejoice! For your divine theminines are here to give you romantic advice. Unfortunately, a lot of you are even more mentally ill this year. And so, in her infinite grace and wisdom, special guest Joan Summers has come on behalf of Saint Valentine to help Kenny and Virgil help you decide what to do about unwanted crushes, friends having affairs, choosing the right e-girl, and whether moving will solve all your problems.

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This week, your heroes — Kenny, Virgil, & Greg, dive into Dumbledore’s hole for the very last time. We assemble the final pieces of the rationality puzzle including the clandestine labor practices of ChatGPT and what it takes to build the Cyber Truck (Not Sponsored). Finally, with Valentine’s day right around the corner, we wrap the episode with a tender look at Yudkowsky’s OKCupid profile and determine if we're a match to join his poly dance card!

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intro song: AI Blues by Crooks & Nannies

outro song: Houses by Touch Excellent

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The girls are fighting here in Dumbledore’s hole! In contrast to the evil computer hive mind that has all these rich people wetting the bed, most of them are not in complete agreement on how this spooky microchip is actually supposed to work. This week, Kenny, Virgil and Greg talk about Mark Zuckerberg shade, Grimes’ chat with a glorified Akinator, OkCupid, and Virgil uses their math degree to explain us a thing.

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Basilisk? A lot of people apparently. But don’t feel bad, pay pigs and prayer warriors, they are all the worst. This week, it’s part two of Dumbledore’s Hole. Kenny, Virgil, and Greg are spelunking deeper into this old wizard’s caverns to find the Singularity Believer’s most fearsome enemy; Roko’s Basilisk. But why does a (very very dumb) thought experiment written by a forum poster have some of the richest, most powerful people in the world trembling under their blankets in their race-car beds? Your three favorite AI-generated podcasters aim to find out!

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It's a big one, prayer warriors and pay pigs. Kenny and Virgil are headed down Dumbledore's Hole into the Realm of Singularity and the School of Less Wrong, a theory that may or may not have been invented by a published fanfic writer who is so terrified of death that he takes 100 pills a day. Joined by the level-headed economics understander, Greg of Gorilla Radio Show, the trio take a gander at a world filled with rouge AI, rationalism, atheist movements, private islands, "think tanks", libertarians, rational polyamory, Harry Potter, Jeffrey Epstein connections, and Grimes. All to find out one question: why are the richest, self-labeled autodidacts so afraid of their own machines?

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Works Cited and Further Reading:

Futuarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs

The DAO: the future of decentralized governance

Overcoming Bias: Two Types of Envy

Policy Analysis Market

Silicon Valley Questions the Meaning of Life

Richard Smith: Will I Make it to 2045 and Become Immortal?

At the Growing Billionaires' Dinner, Tech Stars Move to Grown-Ups' Table

RationalismWiki

History of Less Wrong

New Year, New Thems. In the inaugural two parter episode of season two of Big Soy Naturals, Kenny and {NAME REDACTED} have teamed up once again to one-up Obama in his quest to impress ethereal bisexuals*. In the first episode, they talk books and prove that they are literate. In part two, your favorite hosts discuss film, music, video games, world events, and what resolutions YOU could make this year, since they are already perfect.

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New Year, New Thems. In the inaugural two parter episode of season two of Big Soy Naturals, Kenny and {NAME REDACTED} have teamed up once again to one-up Obama in his quest to impress ethereal bisexuals*. In the first episode, they talk books and prove that they are literate. In part two, your favorite hosts discuss film, music, video games, world events, and what resolutions YOU could make this year, since they are already perfect.

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To the moon, pay pigs and prayer warriors! Ceres has a public service announcement: despite the crypto crash, bananacoin remains unnaffected, much to the relief of the Kennedy family. But while the #1 cryptocurrency of leftist cafes in the global north remains strong, we need to talk about the cryptocrash. Kendall and Ceres have taken on the emotional labor and are ready to explain the FTX scandal to you, but more importantly, make fun of a tumblrina. The they-devils come out the other side of the cryptohole with an important lesson: behind every ugly libertarian man is a femcel girlblogger taking on the load of rational thinking. Patreon

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Works Cited and Further Reading:

Polyamory, penthouses and plenty of loans: inside the crazy world of FTX

FTX's In-House Performance Coach Is Just as Surprised as You Are

Sam Bankman-Fried doesn’t read. That tells us everything.

Caroline's tumblr archives

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'