Podcast Episodes

Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers.  

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4 years, 6 months ago

Roger's Bacon - Using Cults to Power Science

Roger's Bacon is a pseudonymous blogger and the creator of the new Seeds of Science journal.

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4 years, 6 months ago

David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

David Friedman is a famous anarcho-capitalist economist and legal scholar.  

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4 years, 7 months ago

Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously

Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a writer, coach, and speaker with a fallibilist worldview. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in th…

4 years, 10 months ago

Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than sixty academic articles in epistemology, eth…

4 years, 10 months ago

Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code

Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob) is a programming pioneer and bestselling author or Clean Code. We discuss the prospect of automating programming, spott…

5 years, 4 months ago

Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

Scott Aaronson is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. 

He's the auth…

5 years, 4 months ago

Scott Young - Ultralearning

Scott is the author of Ultralearning and famous for the MIT Challenge, where he taught himself MIT's 4 year Computer Science curriculum in 1 year.

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5 years, 4 months ago

Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty

I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment, By The People, and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead.  

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5 years, 5 months ago

Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods

Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and with Tyler Cowen a founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org.

I…

5 years, 5 months ago