Arjun Khemani Podcast

Arjun Khemani Podcast episodes:

• 05.14.2024

  #29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control

  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. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X....

  
• 05.06.2024

  #28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science

  Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any...

  
• 03.23.2024

  #27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart

  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. Topics we discuss are...

  
• 02.14.2024

  #26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper

  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. Topics...

  
• 01.01.2024

  #25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism

  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...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #24 – Max More: Cryonics, Transhumanism, and The Morality of Progress

  If you would like to support this podcast, click here. 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”...

  
• 09.24.2023

  #23 – Tom Hyde: Population, Immortality, Anarchism, and Gender

  If you would like to support this podcast, click here. Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8 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...

  
• 09.20.2023

  #22 – Per Bylund: Economic Illiteracy, Entrepreneurship, and The Primacy of Theory

  If you would like to support this podcast, click here. Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8 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...

  
• 09.01.2023

  #21 – David D. Friedman: The Machinery of Freedom, Education, and India

  Support this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani 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 -...

  
• 08.15.2023

  #20 – Jim O'Shaughnessy: AI, Education, Media, and Living Forever

  Support this podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani 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....

  
• 07.28.2023

  #19 – Logan Chipkin: Understanding Economics

  This episode was recorded on Airchat. Learn more at getairchat.com. 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...

  
• 05.29.2023

  #18 – Yaron Brook: Humans, Inequality and AI

  Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. Support the podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS 0:30 - What makes humans different 3:50 - Christian atheists 8:05 - Inequality good? 12:25...

  
• 04.12.2023

  #17 – Lulie Tanett: Epistemology in the Social Sciences, Mindfulness and Taking Children Seriously

  Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting it at: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani We talk about: * Lulie’s untypical childhood and the parenting philosophy she was raised under...

  
• 04.04.2023

  #16 – Nat and Martha Sharpe: Alternative-Education, Making Movies and Doing Stuff

  Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education.  Support this podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Preview and intro1:16 - Nat and Martha’s background (making movies)6:20 - Living on the road...

  
• 03.25.2023

  #15 – Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall: Knowledge, Constraints, and Truth-Seeking Mechanisms

  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 -...

  
• 02.16.2023

  14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Epistemology and Wealth

  Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality....

  
• 02.06.2023

  #13 – Danny Miranda: Creating Podcasts and The Future

  Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast where he’s interviewed people like Bryan Johnson, Morgan Housel, Gary Vaynerchuck, David Perell, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Sam Parr, Anthony Pompliano, Derek Sivers, among many others. If you enjoy the podcast, the...

  
• 01.15.2023

  #12 – James Pierce: Perspective, Prescriptions, and Sincerity

  Support this podcast using this link: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani James Pierce is a writer, executive coach and a philosopher. TIMESTAMPS 0:50 - How modern psychology weakens the mind and how to conquer anxiety 4:15 - Perspective and “direct observation” 8:25 -...

  
• 12.17.2022

  #11 – David Perell: Writing and Education

  If you’d wish to support this podcast, click here. David Perell is a writer, podcaster and founder of the course Write of Passage. We talk about David’s new writing course for high schoolers, why he thinks the Internet is...

  
• 12.02.2022

  #10 – Andrew Kirby: Hitting Financial Freedom At Age 22, Solving Problems and Happiness

  Andrew Kirby is a YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers who became financially free at age 22 by synthesizing content on the Internet. We talk about the path Andrew takes to attain financial freedom at age 22, how to write good...

  
• 11.22.2022

  #9 – Chiara Marletto: Knowledge, Constraints and Good Explanations

  Chiara is a quantum physicist and research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research interests are at the foundations of physics. Together with David Deutsch she is the pioneer of constructor theory, a new mode of scientific explanation...

  
• 11.12.2022

  #8 – Charlie Jungheim: From Meditation to Mars

  Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) makes really cool videos about Critical Rationalism following the works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch. He’s a musician and comedian. In a fun and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about mixing comedy with intellectual...

  
• 11.04.2022

  #7 – Michael Strong: Deschooling Society and The Future of Education

  Michael Strong is the founder of a virtual school called The Socratic Experience, made for children aged 8-19 where they get a personalized and purpose-driven education cultivated to develop their unique genius. He is one of the most experienced designers...

  
• 10.14.2022

  #6 – Jason Crawford: Does Progress Make Us Any Happier?

  Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder. We talk...

  
• 10.09.2022

  #5 – Chris Turner: Changing The Education System

  In this episode, I talk to Chris Turner. A tech entrepreneur turned education entrepreneur who founded Moonrise, a co-learning space for kids. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We talk about the problem with school, bad explanations around learning,...

  
• 10.01.2022

  #4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad and the Arctic Circle

  TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met 1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it 5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out 8:18 - Become more...

  
• 07.07.2022

  #3 – Aastha Jain: Should We Live Forever?

  Links * Aastha Jain * Live Longer World podcast * Feynman Kids Program * Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension Timestamps 1:05 - An important question: should we stop aging? 3:27 - What if people don’t...

  
• 06.10.2022

  #2 – Sarah Fitz-Claridge: Taking Children Seriously, Fallibilism and the Growth of Knowledge

  This was a very fun conversation with Sarah on the manner in which children are generically raised and why that is not helpful, the importance of Taking Children Seriously and raising a child without coercion, fallibilism, the growth of knowledge,...

  
• 05.21.2022

  #1 – Brett Hall: Knowledge, Evolutionary Psychology and Free Will

  Brett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher Brett's blog: https://bretthall.org Brett's podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP5H2rF-ER33a58ZD5jCig This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.arjunkhemani.com