A conversation with Kaden Endres. We discuss:

0:00 The untrustworthiness of memory
3:11 The recidivism rate of sex offenders
9:13 Free will, determinism, and compatibilism
13:39 The overinflated danger of drugs
17:43 How a healthy social life provides resilience to addiction and criminal behavior
30:50 The evils of capitalism and individualism
35:18 Communism
43:13 Centralized economies
56:50 Corporate lingo and speaking ironically
59:00 Whether competition is a bad thing and whether communism functions
1:17:45 The wastefulness of capitalism and unfair comparisons between capitalism and communism
1:21:39 Book reading ASMR
1:22:48 The Texas Tower Shooter, Kluver-Bucy Syndrome, and the culpability of sex offenders (I realize that Bucy should probably be pronounced like bew-see rather than boo-see)
1:32:35 Possible solutions to pedophilia
1:43:05 Whether certain discussions need to be had at all
1:45:21 The problem with an earlier discussion
1:48:33 Platforming people with evil ideas
1:55:40 Stupidity and the limitations of human cognition
2:01:49 Environmental activism and eco-terrorism
2:17:01 Whether it's better for cows to be slaughtered or eaten by wolves
2:20:30 Kaden’s argument for the abolishment (or dissolution) of gender
2:29:41 Whether gender is at all tied to biology
2:34:29 Gender norms and individualism
2:36:33 Why we use pronouns to refer to gender rather than sex
2:46:36 Equality and the hierarchy of values
2:53:21 Kaden’s book recommendations

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Books to read:
The People’s Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

Note that while I would not call myself a communist, I’m not as anti-communist as I may sound in this episode. Some critiques of communism that I throw at Kaden are sincerely held, while others I just want to hear his response.

My comment at 1:31:13 is in reference to the very loud siren in the background. Earlier I was telling Kaden the annoying part of recording in my apartment is that I live very close to a fire department.

I was straight up wrong about the FBI’s definition of terrorism. https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terro...

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