Increments

#100 - Celebrating the Centennial

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100 episodes! To celebrate, Vaden tries to get personal with Ben, while Ben dodges his questions and wants to know how Vaden feels about incest. All in all, a pretty typical episode.

The questions

From Vaden to Ben:

  1. How is your side hustle going?
  2. Who are some of your major influences outside of Popper?
  3. How has the Popperian worldview influenced your day-to-day?
  4. What is the life of a nomadic academic like?
  5. What would you say to people who are considering mathematics as a career?
  6. Which charities do you recommend?

    7. From Ben to Vaden:

    1. How do you feel about looksmaxxing?
    2. Thoughts on medical assistance in dying?
    3. Ethics of Alex Honnold free soloing Taipei 101?
    4. Thoughts on Nation-Buiding?
    5. Incest - into it?
      6. Episode References
      • #22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments
      • #66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella)
      • #58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read
      • #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows)
      • #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)
        • References
        • Angus Deaton debates Abhijit Banerjee: https://nyudri.wordpress.com/initiatives/deaton-v-banerjee/
        • Christopher Hitchens and Robert Wright
        • Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov
        • Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
        • The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind
          • Socials
          • Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
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          • Become a patreon subscriber here. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations here.
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            • What is your favorite form of ince... actually nevermind, too much. Just email us at [email protected].

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