Philosophy, Science, Politics, Banter

Sebastian and Luke discuss escalation in holiday decorations, humanity's proof of concept, and the deep lore of our childhood cereal mascots.

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Show Notes:

Halloween Lights

Revolutionary Clothing Signs

Dubious Mythology of the Irish Jig

Listicle

Modern Prosthetics v. Star Wars

The Hutts

Humanity’s Proof of Concept Drives a Lincoln

Another One

Time is a Flat Circle

The Reason Hillary is Still Married

Cabal Is Not the Same as Kabbalah But They Are Etymologically Related

POC = Point of Contact / Person of Color

Hyper sexualized Green MnM

Great Man Theory of History

Trix Rabbit

Cocoa Puffs

Hip Hop Reeces

Corn Flakes v. Fog Horn Leg Horn

World Weary Chester Cheeto

Kofi Annan

The Kofi Annan of Cereal Mascots

Luke and Trevor talk about music, culture, the question to end all questions, motivation and getting things done, Beyonce, the nature of creativity, instagram algorithms, and how podcasts are supposed to work

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Vox Netflix Show

Colors on Paper

Anyone Can Cook

Beyonce

Paper About Getting Things Wrong

The Graduate (Movie About Everything Other than Graduation)

Real Philosophy

Vegans

Ramses the One True God

Siddhartha Gautama

Dwayne Johnson Instagram

Black Girls Graduate

Ways and Means

Glass Pyramids Found

Important Theory

Some More Very Important Information from Instagram

Welcome to the very first episode of Philosophy, Science, Politics, Bullsh*t. In our inaugural podcast Danny and Luke have a friendly and wide ranging conversation that wanders from a disagreement about the validity of the “Hot Take” to musings on the human brain, speculation about the future of machine translation, arguments about the importance of pronunciation, and banter about the true value of friendship. Enjoy.

Links for You and Your Robot Children:

Hot Takes

Functionalism

Silicon (Not SIlicone) Brains

Tautology

Chinese Room

Transhumanism

So Much Eskimo Snow (Many Eskimo Snows?)

Natural Language Processing

Danny’s Amazing Language Magic Topic

Word Embeddings

Product Evangelists

Aetherium Mining

Friendship

Tabloids for Your Friends

Prescriptive Language

Appalachian Mountains

Postmodernism