Decoding The Gurus

DTG March Live Hangout

If you at the Galaxy Brain tier and want to come ask us about Houthi pirates and One Piece or AG1 advertising, now is your chance.

The timing will be 2 pm JST on Friday... which can be conver...

Next Guru: Yuval Noah Harari

We did a streamer... now an academic.

Yuval has been on the list for a while and now seems as good a time as any.

If you have any specific material for decoding that you would recommend...

Hasan Piker: A swashbuckling Bromance

Avast Ye Harties! 

Yar! This week be the inaugural episode of a New Streamer/Academic Guru season. Join us as we kick things off with a bang and set out for adventure with the famous and...

Supplementary Material: Cringe Immunity and Alternative Ethics

We are all about evolution and optimisation at Decoding the Gurus ™ so join us for an inaugural experiment in formatting. We have taken a waffley intro segment, exercised it from a decoding episo...

From Charisma to Conspiracy (Lecture at Lakeland University)

For anyone interested here is a video of the lecture I (Chris) gave at Lakeland University last month. 

The title was From Charisma to Conspiracy: Traits of Modern Secular Gurus and this...

Debating Moral Realism (apparently) on Embrace the Void

Some of you might 'enjoy' this recent discussion I (Chris) had with Aaron on his philosophy podcast Embrace the Void. This was partly a response to our Yuval Harari episode and Aaron's des...

Gurometer: Sean Carroll

Find out how this diabolical genius broke the Gurometer.

Video edition!

Gurometer: Sean Carroll

Given all the terrible habits we documented, we are sure everyone can anticipate how extreme this score will be and we can confirm you will not be disappointed. Putting Sean through the Gurometer, ...

Next Decoding: Hasan Piker

Yes that's right we are venturing into streamer territory.

Next episode will be the popular leftist streamer Hasan Piker and in particular his recent interview with the 'Hot Houthi' pirate. A...

Sean Carroll: The Worst Guru Yet?!?

Do we love him or do we hate him? I am sure it is very hard to predict.

Join us to find out and learn what has been grinding our gears this week.

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The Hero Bret Weinstein and the Martyr Jordan Peterson

Andy our editor made a video version of the previous episode on Bret and Jordan. Some of you might enjoy it for the visuals. In any case, here it is before we release it publicly.

Mini-Decoding: Indulgent Monologuing

Sometimes we like to focus on a specific rhetorical technique or recurrent feature that we observe in the Gurusphere. Here, Matt and Chris examine a portion of the philosopher John Gray's recent ap...

Interview with Kevin Mitchell on Agency, Evolution, and Freewill

Here is the video version of the interview we recorded with the neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell. We are still doing final checks so if you notice any issues please let us know and we will try to reso...

Zoom Link for Lecture Today

Some people mentioned not receiving a link so for those thinking of virtually attending today (7pm Japan time).

Here is the info…

Good afternoon

Below is t...

On Agency and Evolution an interview with Kevin Mitchell

In this episode, Matt and Chris converse with Kevin Mitchell, an Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, and author of 'Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free W...

Sam Harris: Debating the Lab Leak, Gaza, the Self and Extremism

Here is the video version of the interview. If you want to see facial expressions and hear better-quality audio this is the version to see.

Also, we are doing final quality checks so if you n...

Upcoming Lecture by Chris

Hey guys,

Thought some of you might find this interesting and it will be accessible online, however it will cover a lot of material you will be familiar with if you listen to the podcast.

Sam Harris: Right to Reply

Sam Harris is someone who needs no introduction, certainly if you are a member of our audience since we recently released a full-length decoding episode! Sam generously agreed to come on to address...

The Passion of Jordan and the Wisdom of Bret

Sometimes you need to check in on old friends, just to make sure they are keeping ok. Hence, today's episode. We thought it was necessary to make an unannounced house call on our old buddies Bret W...

February Live Hang Out

For anyone available, we are going to have our February live hang out tomorrow in just under 24 hrs. 15:00 JST but if you want to know how that translates to your neck of the woods, just click on t...

Decoding Material: Jordan Peterson persecution extravaganza

We have a new episode coming out (on Patreon at least) tomorrow.

It is a catch-up on the recent going ons with our old friends Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson. Most of the content relates ...

Yuval Harari and the Angry Philosophers (video)

Yuval Harari had a clip go viral that made a lot of different people angry for different reasons. We talked about that AND here is the video version of that discussion.

Also.... exciting NEW ...

Yuval and the Philosophers

A little mini decoding to get us back into the swing of things as we look at a viral clip that had religious reactionaries, sensemakers, and academic philosophers in a bit of a tizzy. Specifically,...

Sam Harris Questions

We will have a second episode with Sam soon. He probably will have some objections to things we said on our decoding episode and we have various points we want to raise with him (Chris a lot more t...

Next episode update!

After a long journey with plenty of skiing, onsen enjoying, whiskey drinking, and good food eating, tragedy has struck our beloved elderly host Matt. He got a bug and is currently recuperating... s...

Patreon Q&As at the snowy ryokan

Here is the last piece of content we recorded on the DTG snowy mountain retreat. Do not anticipate insights... but do expect a lot of random waffle about Japanese food. Consider this *bonus* behind...

Answering Q&As at the snowy ryokan

Here is the last piece of content we recorded on the DTG snowy mountain retreat. Do not anticipate insights... but do expect a lot of random waffle about Japanese food. Our editor Andy has tried to...

Forthcoming Content

After a well-earned rest at a snowy mountain onsen, Matt and Chris are returning to the galaxy mines to bring you FRESH CONTENT.

Here is some of what you can expect in the relatively near fut...

Decoding Academia 25: Academic Plagiarism

Normally locked away and reserved solely for Revolutionary Thinkers and Galaxy Brain Gurus we decided to release this Decoding Academia episode to EVERYONE. In part because this was recorded while ...

Decoding Academia 25: A (chilled) discussion of Academic Plagiarism

The topic of plagiarism and how much of a sin it is in an academic context has been in the news recently. And with Matt and I being academics we thought we could provide some relevant perspectives ...