Dystopia Now
Hosted by Émile and Kate · Kate Willett and Emile Torres
4.8from 291 ratings
- 75
- Episodes
- 68
- Transcribed
- 291
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Dystopia Now
Dystopia Now is a show where a comedian (Kate Willett) and an academic (Emile Torres) explore the philosophies and religions of Silicon Valley and tech billionaires shaping our country, our world, and our future.
- Publisher
- Kate Willett and Emile Torres
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 3 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
68 of 75 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Criti-hype and Consciousness (ft. Dr. Alexander Thomas)
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
"Empire of Orgasm" with Ellen Huet
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI Safety Hits the Mainstream
Inside a recent episode
Criti-hype and Consciousness (ft. Dr. Alexander Thomas)
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Mental states, it follows, can also be multiply realized by different systems. As long as those systems are replicating the right sort of functional organization. As long as they're producing these functional states, then a mind will arise, right? Conscious states will arise. So these people are working within this tradition, which I think for a while within the philosophy of mind, functionalism was like maybe a majority view. It was never really unanimous at all. And I think it has fallen out of favor Because people like Neil Seth are out there arguing for alternatives like biological theories, which basically might say that consciousness is intimately linked to the specific properties of biological tissue. […]
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- Alexander Thomas
- Ellen Huet
- Mary Houlihan
- Alaina Bamfield
- Cory Doctorow
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 177 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 114 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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Who hosts Dystopia Now?
Émile and Kate host the show. Published by Kate Willett and Emile Torres.
How often do new episodes come out?
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