Podcast Episodes

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.

I had a blast chatting with Scott Young about aggress…

Published on 5 years, 1 month 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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Published on 5 years, 2 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 ask Alex Tabarrok about the Grand Innovation Priz…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine

Caleb Watney is the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute.

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Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

Robin Hanson - The Long View

Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Elephant in the Brain and The Age of Em.  

Robin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson

Robin's blog: ht…

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago

Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress

Jason Crawford writes at The Roots of Progress about the history of technology and industry and the philosophy of progress.  

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Published on 5 years, 4 months ago

Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability

Matjaž Leonardis has co-written a paper with David Deutsch about the Popper-Miller Theorem. In this episode, we talk about that as well as the dangers of the scientific identity, the nature of scient…

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago

Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center.

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Published on 5 years, 5 months ago

Paul Frazee (Creator of BeakerBrowser) - Building the Future of the Web

Paul Frazee is the cocreator of BeakerBrowser, where they're pursuing the ambitious goal of creating a decentralized Internet with a new peer-to-peer browser.

In this conversation, we discussed how Be…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) - Reason and Emotion

Charlie Jungheim (aka. Hermes of Reason) makes really awesome and funny YouTube videos about Popperian and Deutschian philosophy. In this episode, we talk about about inexplicit and explicit ideas, t…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago