John and Emmet talk about facts, bureaucracy, science as a social process, the social telos of internet moderation as a culture, and more.

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Emmet's essay on Alien Covenant: https://dumbaristotle.medium.com/who-wrote-ozymandias-creativity-fallibility-and-mystery-in-art-34ffd6f8d5da

Bibliography: https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/p7

Closing Song: "Little Dead Bodies" by Algebra Suicide