Episode 102
#102 - Criticizing Crit-rats (w/ Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen)
May 12th, 2026
1 hr 46 mins 40 secs
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About this Episode
Turning on our own! Vaden sits down with Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen to discuss some of the bad memes that run rampant in the online "crit-rat" community, in an attempt of some intra-tribal error-correction. Ben, scared of the retribution, runs away with his tail uncomfortably close to his thighs.
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We discuss- Bruce and Peter's origin stories
- Anarcho-capitalism and its (pseudo) connections to Popperian philosophy
- CritRat disbelief in mental illness
- What does the Universal Explainer hypothesis imply about mental illness and IQ?
- Is Anarcho-capitalism a foundationalist and utopian philosophy?
- Why are so many crit-rats Trump supporters?
- Theory of Anything Podcast #136: Michael Golding on Mental Illness
- Theory of Anything Podcast #82: Popper's Ratchet
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