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Seeing Clearly

Christian Gonzalez

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Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 9

Exploring different philosophical frames for understanding what is and what we ought to do. Hosted by Christian Gonzalez.

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This is the Worst Thing Humanity Does | Seeing Clearly Episode 7

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 44:58

Factory farming is humanity’s greatest sin. In this episode I speak with Itsi Weinstock, an animal welfare advocate at Senterra Funders. We talk about what’s really going on in factory farming, why it matters, and what you can do to help.

2:14 — Moral realism

4:41 — Itsi’s work

6:20 — Factory farming

12:07 — Value lock in from AGI

13:09 — How feasible is fighting economic forces?

14:18 — Legal challenges

15:14 — Moral progress

18:15 — The Christian argument for animal welfare

21:25 — Empathy isn’t what matters

22:57 — Strongest arguments against animal welfare

25:32 — What you can do to help

30:48 — Pascal Mugging by insects

33:32 — Recent wins for animal welfare

35:40 — Moonshots

39:05 — Working with the machine instead of against

40:58 — In 50 years, what went right/wrong?

43:29 — Call to action

Donate:

https://www.farmkind.giving/

Calculate cost to offset your diet: https://www.farmkind.giving/compassion-calculator

Want to help with your time or money? Get in contact with Itsi directly itsi (at) senterrafunders.org

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Substack (long form philosophy + memes): https://substack.com/@cxgonzalezX: https://x.com/cxgonzalez/ Instagram (short form philosophy): https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez/TikTok (short form philosophy): https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez

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The Brain is a Reducing Valve | Seeing Clearly Episode 6

Friday, April 24, 2026 • Duration 01:48:28

Watch UNRAVELING THE DREAM:

Jake’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblems

Jake’s X: https://x.com/jakeorthwein

1:08 — Origin of the film

4:00 — Bayesian brain, predictive processing, free energy principle

13:53 — Direct experience vs. symbolic thinking

25:46 — Buddhism and identity

30:38 — Emptiness vs metaphysics

39:17 — Is suffering all that matters? Meaning and Buddhist utilitarianism

1:01:38 — Valence realism vs. emptiness. What could make moral facts true?

1:11:57 — Jung and predictive processing

1:20:54 — Moving from rationalism to post-rationalism

1:32:07 — The grammar of wisdom traditions

1:40:17 — Fractal hierarchies

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Has consciousness already been solved?

Monday, March 30, 2026 • Duration 01:41:24

Dr. Ogi Ogas is a mathematical neuroscientist and, in his own words, a prophet. This is our conversation on God and consciousness.

1:44 — Who or what is God?

17:06 — Mind vs. matter, purpose vs. physics

27:05 — What does God want?

29:15 — Darwinism applied to super organism

31:06 — Fractal reality, hyper minds

36:40 — Moral intuition and psychological/spiritual development

48:56 — The ladder of purpose, utility function coupling through love

1:05:27 — The emergence of the first cities and the “I”

1:07:30 — What is consciousness?

1:16:49: — The hard problem of consciousness isn’t hard

1:36:46 — Purpose

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[Podcast] Moral realism, Kantian ethics and veganism

Friday, March 13, 2026 • Duration 01:04:14

In this episode we talk with Moral Law Within about God, secular morality, moral realism, reasons, intuitions, Kantian ethics, and more. Florence Bacus is a PhD student at Harvard studying Kantian ethics.

1:49 — God and religion

5:39 — What is truth?

8:15 — Morality without God

10:39 — Obligation

11:50 — Reasons

20:05 — Morality grounded in consciousness (Valence realism)

27:33 — Morality without God cont.

30:00 — Kantian ethics

36:44 — Why universalize?

42:18 — Kantian Contractualism

43:10 — 4 categories of moral theories

46:36 — Logic as bedrock

47:25 — Is everything intuition?

50:44 — What is philosophy?

52:53 — Are there objective moral facts?

56:29 — The Kantian argument for veganism

1:02:53 — Applying to grad school

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Embodiment, flow, creating a golden age, Neo-Hermeticism, God — Seeing Clearly episode 3

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 • Duration 02:09:47

Leona is a consciousness researcher, a practitioner of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and the Cofounder of The House of Hyperstition (hyperstitio.us).

This was an enlivening conversation that only got better as the time flew by. We cover several fascinating topics earmarked below. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did participating in it.

1:06 — Embodied decision making, non-doing

35:36 — Chakras

43:00 — Translating and communicating woo concepts

48:55 — Acting from your body, not your mind

51:40 — When is conceptual thought useful?

55:58 — Flow-maxxing as a meta-desire

1:08:27 — Creating a golden age, distributed cognition

1:14:45 — Preserving agency within a fractal super organism

1:17:35 — Psychological development

1:19:15 — What is Neo-Hermeticism? Why this podcast?

1:30:08 — House of Hyperstition, social roles, healing

1:41:25 — The Self (top-down vs. bottom up)

1:47:10 — Good vs. bad egregores

1:51:58 — What is God?

2:00:27 — Divine coordination

2:04:42 — Love is gravity

2:06:52 — Virtue ethics

Leona

Twitter: https://x.com/dismaien

House of Hyperstition: hyperstitio.us

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Predictive processing, morality, religion, tpot — Seeing Clearly episode 2

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 • Duration 01:11:34

1:24 — Live music

3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity

17:41 — Identity

22:07 — Emotions as an error signal

24:40 — Is/ought gap

27:50 — Abstraction, conceptual scaffolding, pragmatism

31:47 — Morphic field, civilizational development

38:37 — Coordination as a coordination mechanism

43:14 — The Kingdom of God, moral convergence

45:06 — Superorganisms, coordination, and utility functions

47:21 — Bioelectricity as cellular intuition, morphic field

52:01 — Narratives, archetypes, the .story filetype

57:01 — Astrology and The Cycles, personality types

1:01:01 — Platonic Forms

1:02:17 — tpot, Community Archive

Xiq’s made some generational twitter threads that you have to check out, I’m going to share some of my favorites here:

Collective intelligence diagram:

Translating spiritual concepts into computer science language:

Predictive Processing and Jung:

My substack post on Virtue, Archetypes, and the Narrative Self:

https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez/p-159900848

Xiq (“Chic”):

X: https://x.com/exgenesis/highlights

Substack:

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Rebuilding a high trust society, super organisms, fractal agency, Seeing Clearly episode 1

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 • Duration 01:09:57

Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibles) is a community organizer and Vibe Mechanic at Casa Tilo. In this episode we discuss rebuilding a high trust society, bottom-up coordination, super organisms, purpose, personal development, Casa Tilo and more.

1:08 — Rebuilding a high trust society

5:45 — Bottom-up coordination, village life

7:56 — Microsolidarity as social physics

10:00 — Taxonomy of superorganisms

19:20 — Self-help is a scam

21:06 — Social roles, groups as error correcting

28:02 — The fractal self, IFS therapy

37:37 — The goal is maturity

40:22 — How to find meaningful work

45:15 — Doing vs. Becoming

48:58 — Casa Tilo

1:00:55 — Do egregores/superorganisms strip agency?

1:07:13 — Christianity and Vervaeke

Rich

X — https://x.com/RichDecibels

Substack — https://substack.com/@richdecibels

Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/richarddbartlett/

TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@rich_decibels

Personal Website — https://richdecibels.com

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Debating MIRI President Nate Soares About AI Doom

Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 01:07:20

In this episode of Seeing Clearly, MIRI President and co-author of If Everyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Nate Soares and I discuss existential risk from artificial super intelligence. We first run through the case for AI doom before I push back on some of his assumptions.

Nate Soares is the President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and co-author (with Eliezer Yudkowsky) of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Order Nate’s Book: https://amzn.to/4wpQXve

0:00 — Highlights

0:40 — Is super intelligence inevitable?

2:07 — The default outcome

3:09 — AI Scepticism vs. Takeoff

11:01 — What might ASI want?

17:37 — Why would ASI kill us all?

18:20 — Would ASI change its own goals?

23:21 — Would ideal humans values converge?

24:53 — The fundamental assumption in Rationalism

35:47 — Does moral realism imply alignment?

56:42 — p(moral convergence)

1:00:35 — Will ASI be an optimizer?

1:04:13 — Emotionally dealing with potential apocalypse

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Michael Huemer explains his full argument for objective morality

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 01:58:26

In this episode of Seeing Clearly, professor Michael Huemer and I run through his argument for moral realism: the thesis that there are objective moral facts knowable via intuition. We cover every other metaethical theory and show why each of them fails and how moral realism responds to the most popular objections against the view. I did my best to pressure Professor Huemer by steel manning anti-realism every step of the way.

Link to buy Michael Huemer’s book Ethical Intuitionism: https://amzn.to/4wDCTOl

1:01 — What is metaethics?

2:52 — The 5 metaethical theories

10:58 — Why are philosophers, and not linguists, talking about semantics?

13:36 — Why non-cognitivism (emotivism, prescriptivism) is wrong

19:11 — Why quasi-realism is wrong

24:09 — Why naturalism is wrong

27:49 — The Open Question argument and can we just deny it?

29:34 — Is the is/ought gap real?

33:11 — If normative facts depend entirely on descriptive facts, are they really different?

37:16 — Why subjectivism is wrong

54:04 — The Principle of Phenomenal Conservatism

56:41 — Why nihilism is wrong

58:11 — Isn’t it more intuitive to be a nihilist given a modern scientific worldview?

1:10:09 — What if someone just doesn’t have realist intuitions?

1:18:44 — Does evolution debunk morality?

1:25:42 — How could we possibly know “non-natural” moral facts? Can meditation help?

1:36:25 — If you’re wrong about morality, does anything bad actually happen?

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