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Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newsletter and podcast. He is the author of the book Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance.
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Timestamps
0:49 - Ayn Rand
6:40 - The transition from writing online to writing a book
12:26 - Marketing Crypto Confidential
16:43 - Writing for the modern world
21:20 - Come for the money, stay for the tech
26:49 - Decentralized social media
30:19 - Don’t be someone’s exit liquidity!
34:39 - The value of authenticity
36:39 - The advantages of being pseudonymous
39:19 - Constraints can help us be creative
42:53 - Is note-taking valuable?
46:02 - The future of work
50:11 - Strava for writing
53:49 - What idea sounds crazy today but will be mainstream in 5-10 years?
1:01:00 - Why Nat doesn’t use shampoo and other conventional health products
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Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.
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0:50 - How Johan changed his mind about human progress
3:50 - Pro-human flourishing cannot be anti-environment
5:33 - Alternative words to describe capitalism
8:30 - Why is there so much economic illiteracy?
12:36 - Despise poverty, not wealth or inequality
16:41 - We are taxing what we want more of
18:46 - Degrowth and the fall of western education
25:21 - The concept of “needs” is often abused
29:27 - How to have infinite growth on a finite planet
33:08 - Elon Musk
34:43 - Javier Milei and Argentina
39:34 - Privatizing law and justice systems
43:52 - Child labor
49:52 - Advice for young people
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Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write.
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Timestamps
0:52 - Does crypto make anarcho-capitalism pragmatic?
11:56 - Crypto is both technologically and morally superior
20:08 - Ayn Rand’s ideal world
26:00 - Children are humans in their purest form
30:03 - Having integrity in your beliefs
33:17 - Creating a TV show of Atlas Shrugged
36:33 - COVID radicalized a lot of people
41:48 - Riva’s toy store and philosophy class for kids
44:37 - Epistemological anarchism
46:49 - Objective beauty
50:57 - AI, AGI, and AI safety
57:25 - Distractions in the longevity movement
1:04:30 - Why care about longevity (and hate the state)
1:08:07 - Riva’s childhood
1:12:42 - There is more opportunity out there than anyone wants you to believe
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Nicole Behnam is a founder and journalist. She is the creator of Beyond The Interview where she’s interviewed people like Chris Voss, Konstantin Kisin, and Robert Greene.
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0:00 - Nicole’s relationship with her parents and books
4:45 - On being a red carpet host
9:57 - Clubhouse
14:34 - How Naval spoke at one of Nicole’s events
18:03 - Leverage social media
19:45 - NFTs
26:32 - Cults, communities, and influencing people
30:51 - Ray Peat
34:36 - What would your Oscar’s speech be?
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Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia. He is also the host of the Stranded Technologies Podcast.
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Timestamps
0:32 - Building Vitalia and Infinita VC
6:05 - The parallels between longevity and crypto
17:35 - How to convince people that living longer is a worthy goal
22:54 - Network societies
30:35 - Curating your early community
35:22 - The benefits of making organ trade legal
39:23 - Master of Business Creation
43:46 - The madness of air travel regulation
48:51 - Privatizing the base layer of society + closing remarks
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Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on Airchat.
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0:19 - The immigration crisis in the US
11:08 - DEI and Mark Cuban
14:29 - Anti-humanism and Gen Z
18:17 - The rise of Christian nationalism
22:32 - Elon freeing the bird
27:47 - What the birth control pill represents
33:07 - Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom
35:16 - Should you go to college?
38:37 - Elephants Are Not Birds
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Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.
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0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food
5:29 - Restructuring the American diet after the gold standard
11:25 - The Seventh-day Adventist Church
16:09 - The word “science” has become a shield against criticism
18:19 - On eating everything in moderation
21:04 - The CPI significantly downplays the effect of inflation
25:53 - The benefits of eating sound good
28:54 - How could a transition to the Bitcoin standard look like?
32:50 - Freedom and raising free children
36:21 - Advice for starting the carnivore diet and closing remarks
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Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy.
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Timestamps
0:39 - Biohacking for 25 years
7:23 - Follistatin gene therapy
11:15 - Farbood’s protocol and results after taking follistatin
15:38 - The FDA’s job is not to keep you alive and healthy
20:58 - Próspera and other startup cities
24:13 - Effective accelerationism
29:27 - On living forever
33:40 - The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m an effective altruist and I’m here to help”
44:40 - Action is always selfish
50:53 - Tips for the average person to get started with biohacking
57:00 - The importance of mobility and flexibility
1:02:14 - Steve Jobs and following your heart
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Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.
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0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology
14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism
25:35 - The sociology of philosophy
29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching
36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU
45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests
52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art
56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream
1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism
1:23:02 - Closing remarks
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David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory. He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a new, non-paternalistic view of children.
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0:22 - Happiness is a state of continually solving one’s problems
4:54 - Both free-will and the self exist
12:06 - The principle of optimism
17:28 - Any ultimate explanation is a bad explanation
20:22 - The origins of Taking Children Seriously
25:33 - Why children are the most coerced members in society
31:33 - Anarcho-capitalism
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Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.
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0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More”
2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life extension
8:00 - Extropian philosophy and Transhumanism
9:15 - Cryonics explained
26:06 - Hardest challenges in achieving indefinite lifespan
33:16 - Humans don’t like uncertainty
35:55 - We need more progress in AI
39:05 - Climate change is massively exaggerated
46:24 - Pancritical Rationalism and Karl Popper
52:21 - Proactionary principle
56:58 - Max’s book on cryonics and final remarks
EPISODE LINKS
Max’s website: https://www.maxmore.com
Max’s Substack: https://maxmore.substack.com
Arjun’s X: https://x.com/arjunkhemani
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Tom Hyde is a geologist with degrees in geoscience and natural hazards. In addition to his academic background, Tom has a keen interest in the scientific and philosophical works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch, as well as in libertarianism, climate and risk, gender theory, aesthetics, anti-aging, and pro-natalism, among other topics.
TIMESTAMPS
0:39 - Why a larger population is good for the world
11:18 - The morality of immortality
25:11 - Anarchism and why wealth inequality may be good for the poor
38:01 - Degrowth is disastrous
49:05 - Animal consciousness
56:31 - The infinite gender theory
1:07:40 - Final remarks and recommendations
EPISODE LINKS
Tom’s Substack: http://tomhyde.substack.com
Tom’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomhyde_
Arjun’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
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Per Bylund is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. His latest book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer, serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy.
TIMESTAMPS
0:04 - Why economic illiteracy is so prevalent
5:25 - Individualists trying to spread their ideas in a collectivist manner
9:25 - The role of the entrepreneur
12:27 - The primacy of theory in the social sciences
25:07 - The irrationality of “social entrepreneurship”
32:17 - Cospaia
34:52 - Javier Milei
39:13 - The greatest economic fallacy
41:50 - The effects of taxes
43:55 - What advice would Per give his 17 year old self?
45:35 - Could we have cured cancer in the 60s?
49:49 - Final remarks
EPISODE LINKS
Per’s Twitter: x.com/perbylund
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Arjun’s Twitter: x.com/arjunkhemani
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David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and son of Milton Friedman.
TIMESTAMPS
0:44 - 50 years of The Machinery of Freedom
3:35 - What is a government?
9:22 - How law could be produced and enforced in an anarcho-capitalist society
12:00 - Laws produced by the market will be biased toward freedom
14:27 - Is David an anarchist for pragmatic or ethical reasons?
15:41 - Strategy
18:19 - Governments evolving into private firms and science-fiction
25:43 - India, capitalism, and the West
32:51 - The rights of youth, education, and the State
LINKS
David’s website: daviddfriedman.com
David’s Substack: daviddfriedman.substack.com
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Jim O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. He also serves as the executive chair of the board of directors at Stability AI and is the host of the Infinite Loops podcast.
TIMESTAMPS
0:27 - The future of AI and Jim’s investment in Stability AI
4:51 - The Beginning of Infinity and the ideas of David Deutsch
12:32 - The perils of labeling things and the illusion of certainty
17:35 - Thinking probabilistically vs. deterministically
23:14 - The education system and Synthesis School
29:38 - $100,000 OSV fellowships
35:43 - The Great Reshuffle and the movie industry
51:09 - We have more natural resources today than we did in the past
56:46 - Does Jim want to live forever?
1:02:08 - Final remarks
JIM’S LINKS
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/jposhaughnessy
* O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC: https://www.osv.llc
ARJUN'S LINKS
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
* Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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Logan Chipkin is a writer. You can purchase his recently published fantasy novel, Windfall here.
Follow Logan on Twitter @ChipkinLogan and on Airchat @logan.
TIMESTAMPS
0:33 - A brief history of Austrian economics
9:15 - Is economics a science?
14:12 - How to think about the state
21:05 - The problem with welfare statism
30:05 - Constructor Theory and Austrian economics
33:12 - Economic creationism
41:20 - Consumerism: does capitalism rob us of meaning from our lives?
52:14 - Fiat, sound, hard, and easy monies
55:49 - The history of money: the fall of Rome
1:01:47 - Attributes of a sound money
1:05:59 - History of money: the Renaissance
1:12:06 - History of fiat money: the gold standard
1:15:17 - History of fiat money: World War I
1:18:48 - History of fiat money Post World War II
1:23:13 - Market feedback as criticism
1:32:56 - Bitcoin
1:52:51 - Constructor Theory
2:04:07 - Recommended reading and final remarks
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Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:30 - What makes humans different
3:50 - Christian atheists
8:05 - Inequality good?
12:25 - AGI Doomerism
21:46 - Aliens
23:37 - Bad philosophy in popular movies
26:29 - The education system
28:37 - Epistemology and The Beginning of Infinity
40:58 - Advice for young people
YARON'S LINKS
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrook
* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yaronbrook
ARJUN'S LINKS
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* Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism.
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We talk about:
* Lulie’s untypical childhood and the parenting philosophy she was raised under
* What psychology and the social sciences can learn from epistemology
* Mindfulness tied to Critical Rationalism
* The constraints of creativity
* And much more!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Lulie’s childhood and Taking Children Seriously
9:30 - Why social science isn’t science
11:35 - Evolutionary psychology
14:15 - Foundations of psychology: not neurology, but epistemology
15:35 - Meme theory
17:39 - What’s needed for consciousness?
19:54 - AGI
21:14 - Criticism Scheduling and Privacy
29:35 - Tying mindfulness and meditation to Critical Rationalism
45:05 - Constraints help creativity
50:27 - Non-coercive schools
52:53 - Critical Rationalism community + recommendations by Lulie
MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
* The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
* Episode 10 of Do Explain with David Deutsch on The Primacy of Ideas
* Lulie’s recent appearance on the Do Explain podcast [The Chapman Series, Pt.5]
* David Deutsch on the ‘Fun Criterion’ with Lulie Tanett
* Increments podcast
* Lulie’s post on Alexander Technique
LULIE’S LINKS
* Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reasonisfun
* Website: https://www.lulie.co.uk/
ARJUN’S LINKS
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani
* Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com
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Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education.
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TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Preview and intro1:16 - Nat and Martha’s background (making movies)6:20 - Living on the road in an RV for a whole year11:47 - “you can just do stuff”15:30 - Winning $100,000 fellowship through O'Shaughnessey Ventures22:36 - Education, homeschooling/unschooling, “follow the fear”, gaps in knowledge, socialization, authority, Taking Children Seriously57:11 - Winning the social media game
NAT & MARTHA'S LINKS Website: https://natandmartha.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@natandmarthaTwitter: https://twitter.com/natandmartha
ARJUN’S LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemaniBlog: https://arjunkhemani.comBuy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani
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Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com
TIMESTAMPS0:24 - The nature of knowledge1:01- Constraints of progress6:31 - The finite speed of light is not a problem13:36 - “Any system that doesn’t get its feedback from free markets or nature eventually gets corrupted.” — Naval19:54 - Knowledge creation leads to wealth creation25:44 - Free will
RELEVANT LINKSNaval on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/navalBrett on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/bretthallKeith on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/welivetoserveArjun on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/arjunKnowledge | Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/arjun/knowledge
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