Available in audio and written. It's a pretty big post covering the author's thoughts around walled gardens and everything outside the garden trashing their values as they optimize for profit. It at least touches a lot though - that 60/70s beat/hippie counter culture; identifying 14 versions of multipolar, malthusian traps, "races to the bottom"; framing ideas that influence nrx, mgtow; coordination problems; memetics; AI super intelligence and human gene editing; and basically trying to identify and frame a fundamental problem underneath this all. Written: [https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/) Audio, linked in main post.