In this episode, Simon and Tony talk about the long wait for a Coronavirus vaccine, implications of post-infection immunity, the symptomatic sweet spot occupied by COVID-19, comparisons with the ordinary flu--both valid and invalid, zoonotic origins of Ebola, their first few months in quarantine, access to online learning as an economic privilege, new things Simon is learning about space, Voyager 1, gravity as the glue that holds together the solar system, time dilation as portrayed in the movie Interstellar, the possibility of time travel & the existence of extra-terrestrial life forms, the Netflix documentary Have A Good Trip, profound questions that are made urgent while under the influence of mild psychedelics, bad trips & what they might entail, the origin of the universe, our self-assigned life-purposes & whether we ought to question them, living righteously, the innateness of greed to the human condition, frugality as a necessary tool for self-transcendence, asceticism & willpower in Eastern cultures, wealth & happiness, Seneca's stoicism, and many other topics. 

*Recorded in May 2020

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