78 – Seriously, an Atheism Episode?

Eneasz, Jess, and Steven take an hour or so to talk about the New Atheism movement that occurred in the mid 2000’s. We experienced a bit of audio loss in the second half of the episode, so the conversation occasionally jumps around a bit, especially around an hour and 20 minutes in for about 5 minutes… Sorry about that. We’re buying an SSD to hopefully prevent any lossy recording in the future.   Links to things talked about in today’s episode: Gwern’s (a popular contributor to LessWrong) personal website Guided Path Decision Advisor that Jess mentioned (other tools here) The first part of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheists group conversation The Amazing IQ Squared debate with Hitch and Fry Jai’s Blog post “Foes Without Faces” that Eneasz brought up On Immunity, the book Jess mentioned   Be sure to check out Eneasz’s book, What Lies Dreaming Vote for What Lies Dreaming at Top Web Fiction!   Sequence Posts for next time: Self Deception: Hypocrisy of Akrasia?  Tsuyoku Naritai (I Want to Become Stronger!)   Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!