Nerds Can Be Irrational, AoT#342

Scientism is all the rage these days as we drift further and further away from a forgotten past. 

Topics include: live callers, transferring memories, controlling bodies across the world, Ai, machine learning, AGI, transhumanism, prehistory, myth, history of consciousness, nerds are cool, Nimrod, hubris, scientific method, Francis Bacon, secret societies, updating theories, technique, technological progress, historical figureheads as icons of the work of fraternal orders, science born out of mystic philosophy and alchemy, astronomy and astrology, caught up in details, marketing, irrationality of reality, strength of emotional impulse, aloe mites, pesticides, scientism