Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann . He is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography from Imperial College London. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website her...
May 11, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Stephen Grugett is a cofounder of Manifold Markets, where anyone can create a prediction market. We discuss how prediction markets can change how countries and companies make important decisions. Manifold Markets : https://manifold.markets/ Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps: (0:00:00) - Introduction (0:02:29) - Predicting the future (0:05:16) - Getting Accur...
May 05, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix. We also discuss militarization, industrial capacity, current events, and blogging. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here . Follow Pradyu on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Follow Pradyu's Blog: https://brettongoods.substack.com/ Timestamps: (0:00:00) - I...
Apr 27, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Razib Khan is a writer, geneticist, and blogger with an interest in history, genetics, culture, and evolutionary psychology. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here .Follow Razib on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes Thanks for reading The Lunar Society! Subscribe to find out about future episodes! Time Stamps (0:00:05) Razib's Background (0:01:34) Dysgenics of Intelligence (0:04:23) Endogamy and Geneti...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jimmy Soni is the author of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow Jimmy on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes! Timestamps: (0:00:00) - Bell Labs vs PayPal (0:05:12) - Scenius in Ancient Rome and America's Founding (0:07:02) - Girard at PayPal (0:15:17) - Thiel almost shorts the Dot com bubble (0:19:49) - D...
Apr 16, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast I interview the economist Bryan Caplan about his new book, Labor Econ Versus the World , and many other related topics. Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration . Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platfor...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and the author of Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow Richard on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Read Richard's Substack: https://richardhanania...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality . Read me contra David on AI . Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript with helpful links here . Follow David on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future podcasts. Timestamps (0:00:00) - Will AIs be smarter than humans? (0:06:34) - Are intelligence differences immutable / heritable? (0:...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . The Diff newsletter: https://diff.substack.com/ Follow Byrne on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes! Thanks for reading The Lunar Society! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Timestamps: ( 0:00:00 ) - Byrne's one big idea...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Friedman is a famous anarcho-capitalist economist and legal scholar. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website + transcript here . David Friedman's website: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/ Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps: ( 0:00:00 ) - Dating market ( 0:12:15 ) - The future of reputation ( 0:27:30 ) - How Friedman predicted bitcoin ( 0:35:35 ) - Prediction markets ( 0:40:00 ) - Can regulation s...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a writer, coach, and speaker with a fallibilist worldview. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in the early 1990s after being surprised by the heated audience reactions she was getting when talking about children. She has spoken all over the world about her educational philosophy, and you can find transcripts of some of her talks on her website. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website ...
Jun 04, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than sixty academic articles in epistemology, ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy, as well as eight amazing books. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here . Buy Knowledge, Reality, and Value and The Problem of Political Authority . Read Michael’s awesome blog and follow me on Twitter for new episodes. Timesta...
May 28, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob) is a programming pioneer and bestselling author or Clean Code. We discuss the prospect of automating programming, spotting and developing coding talent, occupational licensing, quotas, and the elusive sense of style. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Listen to his fascinating talk on the future of programming: https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc Read his blog about programming: http://blog.cleancoder.com/ Buy his books o...
Nov 28, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 author of one of the most interesting blogs on the internet: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ and the book “ Quantum Computing since Democritus”. He was also my professor for a class on quantum computing. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow me on Twitter to get upda...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 aggressive self-directed learning. Scott has some of the best advice out there about learning hard things. It has helped yours truly prepare to interview experts and dig into interesting subjects. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Podcast website he...
Nov 16, 2020•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment , By The People , and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead . Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here . Follow Charles on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps (00:00) - Intro (01:00) - Writing Human Accomplishment (06:30) - The Lotka curve, age, and miracle years (10:38) - Habits of the greats (hard work) (15:22) - Focus and expl...
Oct 28, 2020•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Prize, the Baumol effect, and Dominant Assurance Contracts. Watch on YouTube , or listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow Alex on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Alex Tabarrok's and Tyler Cowen's excellent...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Caleb Watney is the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow Caleb on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Caleb's new blog: https://www.agglomerations.tech/ Timestamps (00:00) - Intro ( 00:20 ) - America's innovation engine is slowing ( 01:02 ) - Remote work/ agglomeration effects ( 08:45 ) - Chinese vs American innova...
Sep 04, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: https://www.overcomingbias.com/ Robin's website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html My blog: https://dwarkeshpatel.com/ My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp 00:05 The long view 15:07 Subconscious vs conscious intelligence 20:28 Meditators 26:50 Signaling, norms, and motives 36:50 Conversati...
Aug 31, 2020•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Crawford writes at The Roots of Progress about the history of technology and industry and the philosophy of progress. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here . Follow Jason on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Jason's website: https://jasoncrawford.org/ The Roots of Progress: https://rootsofprogress.org/ Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkeshpatel.com/subscribe...
Aug 25, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 scientific progress, and advice for young people who want to be polymaths. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here. Follow Matjaž's excellent Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes! Get full access to Dwarkesh P...
Aug 22, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Transcript + Podcast website here. Follow Tyler Cowen on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps (0:00) - The Great Reset (2:58) - Growth and the cyclical view of history (4:00) - Time horizons, growth, and sustainability (5:30) - Space travel (8:11) - W...
Jul 10, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration . I talk to Bryan about open borders, the idea trap, UBI, appeasement, China, the education system, and Bryan Caplan's next two books on poverty and housing regulation. Watch on YouTube . Listen on App...
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