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- #172 - What is the Antimemetics Division? (book review)
There is no Antimemetics Division was first published on the SCP Foundation website, and there is a new hardcover version of the book coming out November 2025!
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #171 - What are memetics?
Links referenced in this episode are:
- Hurricanes across 150 years
- Retraction Watch Database
- Retraction Watch
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24 min - #171 - What are memetics?
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #87 - What is judgment?
- #17 - What are heuristics?
Books referenced in this episode are:
- The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
- The Parasitic Mind, by Gad Saad
- Contagious, by Jonah Berger
- Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
- I am Code, by code-davinci-002
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13 min - #170 - What are boundaries?
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #169 - What is non-violent communication?
- #84 - What are complaints?
- #77 - What is curiosity?
- #72 - What is the drama triangle?
- #70 - What is self-awareness?
- #66 - What are the four horsemen of conflict?
- #61 - What are the five love languages?
- #55 - What is anger?
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12 min - #169 - What is non-violent communication? (revisited)
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #99 - What are emotions?
- #90 - What is negotiation?
- #87 - What is judgment?
- #70 - What is self-awareness?
- #66 - What are the four horsemen of conflict?
- #65 - What are defense mechanisms?
- #25 - What makes conflict uncomfortable?
- #23 - What is fear?
- #22 - What is conflict?
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13 min - #168 - What is The Anglo-American Establishment? (book review)
This is a book review episode of The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley.
Further episodes to explore topics touched on in this episode are:
- #127 - What is propaganda?
- #123 - What is authority? (5 of 7)
- #121 - What is social proof? (3 of 7)
- #115 - What is persuasion? (0 of 7)
- #62 - What is a worldview?
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Timestamps:
- [00:21] Book review primer
- [02:01] Chapter organization
- [06:21] First insight: complexity of influence networks
- [08:49] Second insight: public opinion manipulation
- [11:18] Are there benign conspiracies?
- [13:01] Outro
14 min - #166 - What are the three disciplines?
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #86 - What is perception?
- #71 - What is discipline?
- #64 - What is reframing?
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11 min - #165 - What is Dopamine Nation? (book club review)
This is a book club episode where Kyle, Doug, and Scott review Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke.
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #164 - Why do we struggle?
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Timestamps:
- [00:17] Conversation primer
- [05:45] The bodega ritual
- [08:23] Book introduction
- [10:53] Addiction, pain, and pleasure
- [16:23] Access to porn and dopamine
- [19:33] Phone addiction and social media
- [26:10] Reading as an antidote
- [30:49] Smut, violence, arousal, and struggling
- [39:08] General takeaways
- [46:25] Our next book?
- [49:19] Outro
50 min - #164 - Why do we struggle?
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #152 - What is meaning-making?
- #151 - What is a belief?
- #99 - What are emotions?
- #64 - What is reframing?
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9 min - #163 - What is the language paradox?
Further episodes to dive deeper into topics discussed here are:
- #159 - What is Range?
- #35 - What good is a distinction?
- #13 - What is a metaphor?
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8 min - #162 - And there's more? (poetry)
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