Embrace The Void

Latest Episodes:

EV - 163 Animal Consciousness with Jeff Sebo Oct 23, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo) director of the NYU animal studies MA program and author of Chimpanzee rights and Food, Animals, and the Environment. We discuss animal consciousness and the implications for animal ethics.

Invocation: The Aarononomicon

Jeff's website: https://jeffsebo.net/

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: Proud Boy Whispering with Samantha Kutner

EV - 162 CRT Diversity Training with Casey Petersen pt.2 Oct 15, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Casey Petersen (@CaseyAPetersen), a research and development electrical engineer at Sandia National Labs who took issue with the diversity and racial awareness training at the National Labs. We discuss his video challenging Critical Race Theory and its use in diversity training and school curriculums. (NOTE: This discussion happened prior to the release of Breonna Taylor's grand jury testimonies)

Casey's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNW9nlFDBk

Study on bias perpetuation through AI lending: https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/mortgage-algorithms-perpetuate-racial-bias-in-lending-study-finds/

Brookings Age Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/06/16/race-gaps-in-covid-19-deaths-are-even-bigger-than-they-appear/

Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://voxeu.org/article/racial-disparity-covid-19-deaths

Fryer Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html

Response to Fryer: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-there-racial-bias-shootings-police

DHS Violent White Supremacist Threat: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/white-supremacy-dhs-draft-assessment/index.html

DHS Violent White Supremacist Definition: https://www.dhs.gov/publication/reference-aid-us-violent-white-supremacist-extremists

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: Animal consciousness with Jeff Sebo

EV - 161 CRT Diversity Training with Casey Petersen pt.1 Oct 08, 2020

Show notes

Casey's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNW9nlFDBk

Study on bias perpetuation through AI lending: https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/mortgage-algorithms-perpetuate-racial-bias-in-lending-study-finds/

Brookings Age Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/06/16/race-gaps-in-covid-19-deaths-are-even-bigger-than-they-appear/

Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://voxeu.org/article/racial-disparity-covid-19-deaths

Fryer Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html

Response to Fryer: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-there-racial-bias-shootings-police

DHS Violent White Supremacist Threat: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/white-supremacy-dhs-draft-assessment/index.html

DHS Violent White Supremacist Definition: https://www.dhs.gov/publication/reference-aid-us-violent-white-supremacist-extremists

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: CRT in Federal Diversity Training with Casey Petersen pt.2

EV - 160 Vaxxer Conspiracies with Matt Browne Oct 02, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Matt Browne (@ArthurCDent), a psychology professor at central Queensland Australia and cohost of the new Decoding the Gurus podcast. We discuss conspiracy theories within the Anti-vaxxer community and what they can tell us about a world inundated with conspiracy theories.

Matt's Vaccination Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29863949/

Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

Convocation: Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Harper Magazine 1964

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: CRT in Federal Diversity Training with Casey Petersen

Rebroadcasting ETV101+102: Social Progress in the Void with Bo Winegard pt.1 Sep 25, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Bo Winegard, Assistant Professor at Marietta College, cohost of the psyphilopod podcast, and frequent contributor to Quillette. We've engaged in several disagreements on twitter and thought it could be valuable to debate some of these issues on the show. We focused our debate on the question "should society attempt to promote social progress by changing human nature". The argument is naturally wide ranging.

Invocation: The Tower of Babel

Bo's article on Progressivism and the West: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/

Psyphilopod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psyphilopod/id1446215479

Editing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-manning-day?fbclid=IwAR2L2_YIJvQpcw0nx6nTSfz0GmyJ1DtWsF--vvdI9W1ug3XW7IAtU6dQ36s

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

Next Week: TBA

Rebroadcasting ETV11+12: Trump's Malignant Narcissism Sep 18, 2020

Show notes

Taking a two week break to commune with the void. In the meantime enjoy this double wide rebroadcast of our discussion of Trump's narcissism and diagnosing at a distance.

Here's a link to the DSM-5 definition of narcissism:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/CON-20025568

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on the Zachrilege podcast talking about grievance hoaxers and various other topics. Check it out! https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ndkpx-e7846b?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share&fbclid=IwAR3qXqJBRxZh7qjfczUFHA1fTIqPz9M1TbHWAYc4Gk7LFsFiSY8aspbOZZI

Next week: Rebroadcast ETV101+102 Social Progress in the Void with Bo Winegard

EV - 159 Racial Capitalism with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Sep 11, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@OlufemiOTaiwo), assistant professor at Georgetown university with an interest in pan African community action. We discuss a recent exchange that he and Liam Bright had with Michael Wazler on the issue of Racial Capitalism.

Wazler's article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-note-on-racial-capitalism

Liam and Femi's response article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-response-to-michael-walzer

Femi's website: http://www.whyeverythingcostsmoney.com/

Convocation: John Holloway, Crack Capitalism

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Next week: Rebroadcast ETV11 Trump's Narcissism with Jesse Rabinowitz

EV - 158 The Tragedy of the Epistemic Commons with Kevin Dorst Sep 04, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Kevin Dorst (@kevin_dorst), a philosopher at Oxford University and University of Pittsburg with a particular interest in polarization and irrationality. We discuss why current polarization involves elevated levels of demonization and if there's any way to break out of this spiral.

Kevin's Website: https://www.kevindorst.com/

Convocation: The Tower of Babel

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Next week: Racial Capitalism with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

EV - 157 GPT-3 with Raphaël Millière Aug 28, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Raphaël Millière (@raphamilliere), a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at Columbia university’s Center for Science and Society. We discuss the new natural language processor GPT-3 and it's potential benefits and risks to various parts of society.

Raphaël's website: http://raphaelmilliere.com/

Convocation: GPT-3's Manifesto of Void Art

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Next week: The tragedy of the Epistemic Commons with Kevin Dorst

EV - 156 Convergence vs. Consensus Liberalism with Marcus Schultz-Bergin Aug 21, 2020

Show notes

My guest this week is Marcus Schultz-Bergin (@schultzbergin), a teaching professor in philosophy at Cleveland State University who’s interests include ethics and political philosophy. Marcus is also a former colleague of mine from the Colorado State masters program. We discuss different kinds of Liberalism and what the view can still bring to the table.

Marcus's Website: http://schultzbergin.xyz/

Convocation: Simón Bolívar

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Next week: GPT-3 with Raphaël Millière