Bad Philosophy

Since the dawn of computer networks, there have been those who push past the permissions, the boundaries, and the firewalls to penetrate deep within the forbidden corners of cyberspace. Recently, a group of these hackers calling themselves LulzSec has taken it upon themselves to bring some highly public meme-infused humor back into this practice. They’ve [...]

Ep092 LulzSec Flamebait [ 1:02:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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artificial intelligence, blackhat, Boing Boing, book code, brain, Colossus: The Forbin Project, computer security, consequentialism, crime, emergence, encryption, ethics, Facebook, FBI, Fox.com, Gawker, Hacker's Manifesto, Hackers, hacking, IBM, identity theory, intelligence, IRC, Kevin, Kevin Mitnick, Let Me Google That For You, Libya, lulz, LulzSec, memes, mind, morning, MySQL, network security, Nintendo, passwords, PBS, planting, porn, Pron.com, Sean Connery, singularity, Sony, Stephen, trolling, vigilantism, Watson, whitehat

At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction of sinful local businesses or just a little tsunami from God to show the world He’s still awake at the control [...]

Ep089 You Asked For It [ 58:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Aperture Science, ASMR, Buddha, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, consequentialism, deontology, Dr. Webb, Eleanor Stump, existentialism, God, harm, incest, Islam, J. Crew, Jeopardy!, Judaism, Kiki, Leisure Suit Larry, mantra, meditation, memes, nature, nurture, personality, philosophy of religion, placebo effect, prayer, problem of petitionary prayer, religion, Repent Amarillo, Richard Dawkins, science, Socrates, Stephen, synesthesia, Texas Tech University, The Daily Show, worship, Zagzebsky

Yep, we’re back. It may be a week late, and these stories are probably completely irrelevant by now, but just pretend we’ve brought you a time machine and taken you back to last week for a look at the news! Yeah, it may be last week’s news, but… TIME MACHINE. Anyways, Kiki joined me for [...]

Ep073 The Royal We [ 1:11:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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3D Realms, Adam Savage, adult content, American Idol, Anderson Cooper, Apple, arcades, Catholicism, CDs, Chuck Norris, communism, Craigslist, Doctor Who, Doom, Double Rainbow, Duke Nukem Forever, ethics, Family Guy, Gearbox, government, graphic design, harm principle, health insurance, healthcare, Hebrew, i09, iOS, iTunes 10, Johnny Carson, Kiki, language, Latin, linguistics, memes, memetics, Michael Moore, MMA, music, music theory, NOVA, Old English, PAX, Penny Arcade, politics, privacy, prostitution, Randy Pitchford, religion, Richard Dawkins, Russia, Seth MacFarland, Sicko, Simon Cowell, Stephen, Steve Jobs, subsidized medicine, TechCrunch, transubstantiation, Yakov Smirnoff

We’re back! Pardon the week off. We had to deal with a rather unexpected chainsaw-wielding polar bear invasion, but all is good now… except for Kevin’s leg … Anyway! This week BF took a trip to the movies, grilling Hollywood’s latest Oscar fetish, Slumdog Millionaire with first-time guest Eric Braden. We also delved into the realm of free will vs. determinism, where Eric and I pulled no punches in our quest to disprove the other. Oh, and the audio was FRAKKING AMAZING if I do say so myself. Enjoy, peeps!

Ep024 Slumming With Destiny [ 59:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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24, Adaptation, Al Qeada, Albert Einstein, American Dream, Batman, Beauty and the Beast, Best Picture, Bill Clinton, causation, charity, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, Dan Brown, Danny Boyle, destiny, determinism, education, epistemology, Eric Braden, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, ethics, evolutionary psychology, fatalism, fate, Forrest Gump, free will, Frost/Nixon, God, guilt, Harry Potter, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Jack Nicholson, Joker, Kevin, LEGOs, Leibniz, LOST, love, memes, metaphysics, MIA, Milk, multiple universes, Mumbai, neoconservatives, Nietzsche, Occam's Razor, Oscars, Patrick Swayze, Peter Travers, Pixar, poverty, Pulp Fiction, quantum mechanics, reality, Richard Dawkins, Roadhouse, Robert Wright, Slumdog Millionaire, Star Wars, Stephen, string theory, Ted Stevens, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Reader, Titanic, Trainspotting, Wall-E, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Wikipedia, Woody Allen