Ep 12: Politics & Transhumanism

In this episode, Micah and Amy venture into the forbidden world of transhumanist political commentary, while Micah keeps trying to change the subject to almost anything else, including Alien Death Stars, Greek tragedies, time travel, and the first Christian heresy.

• Zoltan Istvan, the transhumanist party, The Transhumanist Wager, and The Immortality Bus which looks like a giant coffin
• The three laws of transhumanism & the three laws of robotics
• Relational Transhumanism vs Radical Egocentrism - Micah's rebuttal to the three laws of transhumanism
• The petition to disavow Zoltan Istvan
• The Unwritten & Neil Gaiman's Sandman
• The Book of Eli, and turning off your altruism
• H+ vs I+, or Humanity+ vs Individualism+
• The Christian Transhumanist Association
• Finite and Infinite Games
• The Highlander (in the end there can be only one)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
• The Marcion Heresy and Micah's explanation of its significance
• The weird connection between the grandfather paradox and the Oedipus complex, that explains time travel stories, the real nature of Greek mythology, and Looper
• How Greek tragedies are like time travel stories
• How Micah is like a Greek tragedy
• How Micah purposefully sabotaged his future political career
• Letter to your past self and letters to your future self
• Discovery of a Death Star?, or the potential Kepler alien megastructure
• Dyson Sphere vs the sphere in a Dyson vacuum cleaner
• Freeman Dyson
• Kardeshev scales
• Fermi Paradox
• Aliens wouldn't be here for our water
• The Prime Directive and why we live in a gravity-well
• Myers-Briggs and ENFP and ENTP
• Why space travel means human unity
• Amy's bedtime stories are about NASA, and finding water on Mars
• Micah's childhood dreams of space travel
• The people who told us bedtime stories were the first generation of people who could conceive of a man on the moon
• Christmas Trees & Spaceships
• Star Trek 6: Undiscovered Country
• "What does God need with a spaceship?"
• Are we God's spaceship?
• Eric Von Danikan, Chariots of the Gods — the book that brought us ancient aliens