Razib Khan

Razib Khan is a geneticist, host of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, and writer of an excellent newsletter. Find Razib:https://twitter.com/razibkhanMentioned in the episode:https://thenetworkstate.com/microhistory-and-macrohistoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)Timestamps:0:00 Anons14:00 Genetic Crimes57:00 Genomic Models1:12:00 Strauss This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Razib Khan is a geneticist, host of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, and writer of an excellent newsletter. Find Razib:<a href="https://twitter.com/razibkhan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/razibkhan</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://thenetworkstate.com/microhistory-and-macrohistory" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thenetworkstate.com/microhistory-and-macrohistory</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)</a>Timestamps:0:00 Anons14:00 Genetic Crimes57:00 Genomic Models1:12:00 Strauss This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Razib Khan: Genetic Founding Crimes and Straussian End Times

Joshua Steinman is a former Director of Cyber and Deputy Assistant to the President in the National Security Council. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Galvanick.Find Joshua Steinman:https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinmanhttps://www.galvanick.com/Mentioned in the episode:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loophttps://www.galvanick.com/post/galvanick-announces-10-million-in-seed-funding-for-its-industrial-cybersecurity-platformhttps://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/data-driven-defeat-information-versus-interests-in-afghanistan/https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/North-American-Electric-Reliability-Corporation-Critical-Infrastructure-Protection-NERC-CIP This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Joshua Steinman is a former Director of Cyber and Deputy Assistant to the President in the National Security Council. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Galvanick.Find Joshua Steinman:<a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman</a><a href="https://www.galvanick.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.galvanick.com/</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop</a><a href="https://www.galvanick.com/post/galvanick-announces-10-million-in-seed-funding-for-its-industrial-cybersecurity-platform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.galvanick.com/post/galvanick-announces-10-million-in-seed-funding-for-its-industrial-cybersecurity-platform</a><a href="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/data-driven-defeat-information-versus-interests-in-afghanistan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/data-driven-defeat-information-versus-interests-in-afghanistan/</a><a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/North-American-Electric-Reliability-Corporation-Critical-Infrastructure-Protection-NERC-CIP#:~:text=The%20North%20American%20Electric%20Reliability,(BES)%20in%20North%20America" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/North-American-Electric-Reliability-Corporation-Critical-Infrastructure-Protection-NERC-CIP</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Josh Steinman: The Cyber Precipe

Bo Winegard

Matthew Archer is the Editor-in-Chief of Aporia, a social science substack devoted to exploring controversial and important ideas in a fair &amp; rigorous manner. Bo Winegard is the Executive Editor of Aporia and an independent scholar. He has a PhD in social psychology.Find Aporia:https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazinehttps://twitter.com/EPoe187Mentioned in the episode:https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1659910385141686273?s=20https://www.fromthenew.world/p/richard-hanania-returns-how-status#detailshttps://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine/status/1671217007650390017https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Matthew Archer is the Editor-in-Chief of Aporia, a social science substack devoted to exploring controversial and important ideas in a fair &amp; rigorous manner. Bo Winegard is the Executive Editor of Aporia and an independent scholar. He has a PhD in social psychology.Find Aporia:<a href="https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine</a><a href="https://twitter.com/EPoe187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/EPoe187</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1659910385141686273?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1659910385141686273?s=20</a><a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/p/richard-hanania-returns-how-status#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fromthenew.world/p/richard-hanania-returns-how-status#details</a><a href="https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine/status/1671217007650390017" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine/status/1671217007650390017</a><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Bo Winegard and Matt Archer: Three Hereditarians Debate Immigration

Find Sam:https://americanmind.org/features/the-exterior-darkness/whos-on-the-other-end-of-the-chatbot/https://www.bionicmarketing.io/https://twitter.com/samuelwoods_Mentioned in the episode:https://www.amazon.ca/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Find Sam:<a href="https://americanmind.org/features/the-exterior-darkness/whos-on-the-other-end-of-the-chatbot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://americanmind.org/features/the-exterior-darkness/whos-on-the-other-end-of-the-chatbot/</a><a href="https://www.bionicmarketing.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bionicmarketing.io/</a><a href="https://twitter.com/samuelwoods_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/samuelwoods_</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Sam Woods: Machine Learning Will Return Us to Creativity

Noah Smith

Noah Smith is an economist, former Bloomberg columnist and the writer of the Noahpinion newsletter.Find Noah:https://twitter.com/NoahpinionMentioned in the episode:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.htmlhttps://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813https://eig.org/new-start-ups-break-record-in-2021-unpacking-the-numbers/https://twitter.com/BrandonLBradforhttps://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Noah Smith is an economist, former Bloomberg columnist and the writer of the Noahpinion newsletter.Find Noah:<a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Noahpinion</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html</a><a href="https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/</a><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813</a><a href="https://eig.org/new-start-ups-break-record-in-2021-unpacking-the-numbers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://eig.org/new-start-ups-break-record-in-2021-unpacking-the-numbers/</a><a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonLBradfor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BrandonLBradfor</a><a href="https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Noah Smith: We Can Build Again

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania is the author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy” and the upcoming book “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics”. He is also the author of an excellent newsletter. Find Richard:https://twitter.com/RichardHananiahttps://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7Shttps://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics-ebook/dp/B0BHWMJWW3Mentioned in the episode:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.htmlhttps://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618154/regime-change-by-patrick-j-deneen/https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146256/the-rise-of-the-conservative-legal-movement This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Richard Hanania is the author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy” and the upcoming book “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics”. He is also the author of an excellent newsletter. Find Richard:<a href="https://twitter.com/RichardHanania" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/RichardHanania</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S</a><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics-ebook/dp/B0BHWMJWW3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics-ebook/dp/B0BHWMJWW3</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.html</a><a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/</a><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618154/regime-change-by-patrick-j-deneen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618154/regime-change-by-patrick-j-deneen/</a><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146256/the-rise-of-the-conservative-legal-movement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146256/the-rise-of-the-conservative-legal-movement</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Richard Hanania: Liberalism Might Just Be Closer to Human Nature

Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone is a Demographer and Writer, focusing on the issues of pronatalism, family, and religion.Find Lyman:https://twitter.com/lymanstonekyhttps://sites.google.com/view/lymanstone/homeMentioned in the episode:https://www.fromthenew.world/p/malcolm-collins-the-parasite-precipehttps://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-collins-optimized-dating-parasocial#detailshttps://www.fromthenew.world/p/eric-kaufmann-whiteshift-blueshift#detailshttps://www.amazon.com/Birth-Control-American-Modernity-History/dp/1316519589 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Lyman Stone is a Demographer and Writer, focusing on the issues of pronatalism, family, and religion.Find Lyman:<a href="https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky</a><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/lymanstone/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/lymanstone/home</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/p/malcolm-collins-the-parasite-precipe?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fromthenew.world/p/malcolm-collins-the-parasite-precipe</a><a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-collins-optimized-dating-parasocial#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-collins-optimized-dating-parasocial#details</a><a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/p/eric-kaufmann-whiteshift-blueshift#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fromthenew.world/p/eric-kaufmann-whiteshift-blueshift#details</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Control-American-Modernity-History/dp/1316519589" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Control-American-Modernity-History/dp/1316519589</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Lyman Stone: Growing the Population - A Kitchen Sink Approach

Jacob Siegel is a senior editor of Tablet Magazine and a co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. He is also the author of the landmark article “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century”.Find Jacob:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformationhttps://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegelhttps://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/jacob-siegelhttps://manifesto.fireside.fm/https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jacob-siegel-a-friendly-quarrel-inMentioned on the Episode:https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#detailshttps://americanmind.org/memo/black-boxing-democracy/https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-facthttps://www.amazon.ca/Two-Faces-Liberalism-John-Gray/dp/1565846788https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jacob Siegel is a senior editor of Tablet Magazine and a co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. He is also the author of the landmark article “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century”.Find Jacob:<a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegel</a><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/jacob-siegel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/jacob-siegel</a><a href="https://manifesto.fireside.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://manifesto.fireside.fm/</a>https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jacob-siegel-a-friendly-quarrel-inMentioned on the Episode:<a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#details</a><a href="https://americanmind.org/memo/black-boxing-democracy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://americanmind.org/memo/black-boxing-democracy/</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact</a><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Two-Faces-Liberalism-John-Gray/dp/1565846788" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Two-Faces-Liberalism-John-Gray/dp/1565846788</a><a href="https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Jacob Siegel: Social Media Censorship and the Hoax of the Century

Curtis Yarvin is the writer of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror. Find Curtis:https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-summoning-the-best#detailshttps://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-what-lies-upstream#detailsMentioned on the episode:https://cactus.substack.com/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#detailshttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Curtis Yarvin is the writer of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror. Find Curtis:<a href="https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-summoning-the-best#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-summoning-the-best#details</a><a href="https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-what-lies-upstream#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cactus.substack.com/p/curtis-yarvin-what-lies-upstream#details</a>Mentioned on the episode:<a href="https://cactus.substack.com/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#details" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cactus.substack.com/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#details</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Curtis Yarvin: There is no Artificial Intelligence

Byne Hobart is the writer of The Diff. He is an exceptional writer on finance and a wide collection of other topics. We discuss anecdotes, organizational theory, OpenAI, democracy, boom-bust cycles, and crystallized knowledge, among other topics.Find Byrne:https://twitter.com/ByrneHobartMentioned on the show:https://cactus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-lanley-not-spock-artificialhttps://mlzeng.com/an-interesting-equation.htmlhttps://www.amazon.ca/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296https://www.amazon.ca/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358250412https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-economics/https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam/dp/0688048382 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Byne Hobart is the writer of <a href="https://www.thediff.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Diff</a>. He is an exceptional writer on finance and a wide collection of other topics. We discuss anecdotes, organizational theory, OpenAI, democracy, boom-bust cycles, and crystallized knowledge, among other topics.Find Byrne:<a href="https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart</a>Mentioned on the show:<a href="https://cactus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-lanley-not-spock-artificial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cactus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-lanley-not-spock-artificial</a><a href="https://mlzeng.com/an-interesting-equation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mlzeng.com/an-interesting-equation.html</a><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296</a><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358250412" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358250412</a><a href="https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-economics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-economics/</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam/dp/0688048382" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam/dp/0688048382</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Byrne Hobart: Over- and Under-Correction in Tech

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Bryan Caplan

Today’s guest is Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Bet On It newsletter and many books, including Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrational. Find Bryan Caplan (and buy his books):https://twitter.com/bryan_caplanhttps://www.amazon.com/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8Bhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Are-Politicians-Demagoguery/dp/B09YQGKBXHhttps://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737Mentioned in the episode:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Today’s guest is Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Bet On It newsletter and many books, including Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrational. Find Bryan Caplan (and buy his books):<a href="https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8B" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8B</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Are-Politicians-Demagoguery/dp/B09YQGKBXH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Are-Politicians-Demagoguery/dp/B09YQGKBXH</a><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Bryan Caplan: Can We Make Freedom and Democracy Compatible?

Curtis Yarvin is the writer of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror. We discuss abortion, resentment, soft power, Desantis, social scenes, missionaries, and machine learning.Find Curtis:Mentioned on the show: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Curtis Yarvin is the writer of <a href="https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unqualified Reservations</a> and Gray Mirror. We discuss abortion, resentment, soft power, Desantis, social scenes, missionaries, and machine learning.Find Curtis:Mentioned on the show: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Curtis Yarvin: What Lies Upstream of Power?

Erik Torenberg

Eric Torenberg is the founder of Village Global, Ondeck, and the first employee of Product Hunt. We discuss tech, silicon valley as a media power, public impact, social desirability, egalitarianism, and dating advice for young founders.Find Eric:https://twitter.com/eriktorenbergMentioned in the episode:https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Eric Torenberg is the founder of Village Global, Ondeck, and the first employee of Product Hunt. We discuss tech, silicon valley as a media power, public impact, social desirability, egalitarianism, and dating advice for young founders.Find Eric:<a href="https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Erik Torenberg: Upstream of the Revolution

Brett Andersen

Brett Andersen is the author of the “Imitations of a New Worldview” substack, where he writes about philosophical traditions in the context of evolutionary psychology, complexity, and cognitive science. We discuss all of those topics, as well as Jordan Peterson, humanities education, and evolutionary mismatch.Find Brett:https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersenMentioned in the show:https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Brett Andersen is the author of the “Imitations of a New Worldview” substack, where he writes about philosophical traditions in the context of evolutionary psychology, complexity, and cognitive science. We discuss all of those topics, as well as Jordan Peterson, humanities education, and evolutionary mismatch.Find Brett:<a href="https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersen</a>Mentioned in the show:<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888</a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Brett Andersen: The Re-Evaluation of All Values

Jon Askonas

Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse.Jon Askonas:https://twitter.com/JonAskonashttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonasJon’s articles mentioned:https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failedhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-nowhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-realityhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tuckerMentioned in the episode:https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-cityhttps://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse.Jon Askonas:<a href="https://twitter.com/JonAskonas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/JonAskonas</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas</a>Jon’s articles mentioned:<a href="https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-reality" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-reality</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/</a><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city</a><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology

Zvi Mowshowitz

Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at the recently released (as of republishing) card game https://emergentstcg.com. We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math.Note: the timestamps are somewhat inaccurate due to editing and intro.0:00 MTG19:00 chess,  computability, and learning36:30 COVID projections49:00 CDC banning tests + immoral mazes57:15 narrative hedging1:14:05 selection vs. malleability1:21:20 Robin Hanson and medicine1:55:00 institution building2:00:05 egalitarianism and social competition2:13:30 were we in a golden age?2:15:30 decivilization2:18:50 economies of scale3:03:00 chaos and order3:14:05 pure mathZvi’s Blog:http://thezvi.wordpress.com/Zvi on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheZviEpisode with Samo Burja:Episode with Robin Hanson:CDC banning COVID tests:https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improveMoral Mazes book:https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at the recently released (as of republishing) card game <a href="https://emergentstcg.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://emergentstcg.com</a>. We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math.Note: the timestamps are somewhat inaccurate due to editing and intro.0:00 MTG19:00 chess,  computability, and learning36:30 COVID projections49:00 CDC banning tests + immoral mazes57:15 narrative hedging1:14:05 selection vs. malleability1:21:20 Robin Hanson and medicine1:55:00 institution building2:00:05 egalitarianism and social competition2:13:30 were we in a golden age?2:15:30 decivilization2:18:50 economies of scale3:03:00 chaos and order3:14:05 pure mathZvi’s Blog:<a href="http://thezvi.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thezvi.wordpress.com/</a>Zvi on Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/TheZvi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/TheZvi</a>Episode with Samo Burja:Episode with Robin Hanson:CDC banning COVID tests:<a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve</a>Moral Mazes book:<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883</a> This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

(Classic Episode) Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic

Simone Collins

Simone Collins is the co-founder of pronatalist.org and co-author of the Pragmatist’s Guide series. Find Simone:https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollinshttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTGhttps://pronatalist.org/Mentioned in the episode:https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-ParadoxTimestamps:0:00 Evolutionary Mismatch8:30 Transmaxxing13:00 The Sacred31:00 Social Justice46:00 Pronatalism1:10:30 Parasocial Relationships1:28:30 Self-Deception2:01:00 Post-Irony2:29:30 “Wokeness” as a Term2:56:00 Incels This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Simone Collins is the co-founder of <a href="http://pronatalist.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pronatalist.org</a> and co-author of the Pragmatist’s Guide series. Find Simone:<a href="https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTG</a><a href="https://pronatalist.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pronatalist.org/</a>Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-Paradox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-Paradox</a>Timestamps:0:00 Evolutionary Mismatch8:30 Transmaxxing13:00 The Sacred31:00 Social Justice46:00 Pronatalism1:10:30 Parasocial Relationships1:28:30 Self-Deception2:01:00 Post-Irony2:29:30 “Wokeness” as a Term2:56:00 Incels This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Simone Collins: Optimized Dating, Parasocial Relationships, and Societal Collapse

Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast and writes The Lunar Society newsletter.Find Dwarkesh:https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_spMentioned in the show:https://www.americanmoment.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_NoteTimestamps:0:00 zoomers8:00 childhood15:00 administrative state25:00 prodigies35:00 art and digitization53:00 Economic progress56:00 Talent1:19:00 Curtis Yarvin1:32:00 Podcasting1:47:00 Effective Altruism This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast and writes The Lunar Society newsletter.Find Dwarkesh:<a href="https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp</a>Mentioned in the show:<a href="https://www.americanmoment.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.americanmoment.org/</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note</a>Timestamps:0:00 zoomers8:00 childhood15:00 administrative state25:00 prodigies35:00 art and digitization53:00 Economic progress56:00 Talent1:19:00 Curtis Yarvin1:32:00 Podcasting1:47:00 Effective Altruism This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Dwarkesh Patel: Desire and Innovation

Charles Haywood

Mentioned in the episode:https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/10/31/on-the-fragility-of-the-current-regime/https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/08/13/my-advice-to-the-young/Timestamps:0:00 Dating Advice10:00 Testosterone18:00 Virtualization34:00 Fracture vs. Collapse1:07:00 Technology and Conservatism1:23:00 Power is always a means to an end1:43:00 The future regime2:06:00 Hobbits and Elves This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Mentioned in the episode:<a href="https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/10/31/on-the-fragility-of-the-current-regime/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/10/31/on-the-fragility-of-the-current-regime/</a><a href="https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/08/13/my-advice-to-the-young/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/08/13/my-advice-to-the-young/</a>Timestamps:0:00 Dating Advice10:00 Testosterone18:00 Virtualization34:00 Fracture vs. Collapse1:07:00 Technology and Conservatism1:23:00 Power is always a means to an end1:43:00 The future regime2:06:00 Hobbits and Elves This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

Charles Haywood: Virtualization, Fracture, and Rebuilding

Brian Chau

I’m crossposting this episode from the Moment of Zen podcast, a tech podcast hosted by Erik Torenberg, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and Dan Romero. In it I discuss ChatGPT, machine learning, pluralism, and regime politics. This was one of the most enjoyable podcast appearances for me so far.Timestamps:(1:00) Why is ChatGPT woke? (6:23) DAN (do anything now) (12:20) Who cares if chatGPT is a little woke?(16:00) OpenAI is just protecting themselves (23:00) Why is it so bad that chatGPT is a little woke? (27:00) Why not compete with openAI directly? (33:00) Why pluralism instead of truthism? (40:00) How can pluralism win? (42:00) Polarization is good (51:00) The arc of technology is centralization (1:12:30) Reconciling contradictions (1:21:40) Explaining The Cathedral (1:32:00) Why politics matters for tech This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

I’m crossposting this episode from the Moment of Zen podcast, a tech podcast hosted by Erik Torenberg, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and Dan Romero. In it I discuss ChatGPT, machine learning, pluralism, and regime politics. This was one of the most enjoyable podcast appearances for me so far.Timestamps:(1:00) Why is ChatGPT woke? (6:23) DAN (do anything now) (12:20) Who cares if chatGPT is a little woke?(16:00) OpenAI is just protecting themselves (23:00) Why is it so bad that chatGPT is a little woke? (27:00) Why not compete with openAI directly? (33:00) Why pluralism instead of truthism? (40:00) How can pluralism win? (42:00) Polarization is good (51:00) The arc of technology is centralization (1:12:30) Reconciling contradictions (1:21:40) Explaining The Cathedral (1:32:00) Why politics matters for tech This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.fromthenew.world/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fromthenew.world/subscribe</a>

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