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We discuss "the infinite game" by Simon Sinek. Decide that we all need to be better capitalists, and some of what we've learned from Scott Alexander, our favorite auhor (technically just Chris's favorite author, but he feels strongly enough about it to speak for Brian too)

Simon Sinek - The infinite game

Astral Codex Ten - Scott Alexander
Meditations on Moloch

Big list of coffee bets

Bender's speedrun
Mekalb's speedrun

This episode we discuss alternative theories of government and economics. Could we police the whole world purely through securities fraud law? Are there better models for open source software development? Look forward to not really finding satisfying answers to these obviously clickbait questions!

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Is everything securities fraud?

Speech on people giving up TV and contributing to internet projects

Stratechery article ending with "Open protocols"being the future

Blog on Open source's failings (including SSL)

Article on G0v/Hack the Government in Taiwan

Monopolies and R&D labs

Gwern on commoditise your complement


Diablo News:
Diablo dot Run
7.5 hour PX HC Hell Barb world record
56 hour P8 Druid World Record

The all important Betting Spreadsheet

In this episode we apologise to Bryan Caplan and reveal ourselves to be the full throated, selfish libertarians you always suspected we were. We discuss the similarities between codebases and factories, and determine if economic progress halted in the 70s.

Capitalism without capital

The Great stagnation

• Productivity graph

Evil doom number - we used to have to actually optimize our code

DALL-E - an amazing application of AI to draw pictures based on text input

AGDQ - awesome games done quick!

The list of coffee bets - Please rate us on itunes!!

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In this episode Brian and Chris discuss the ethical weight of law, should we be able to drive faster, what plato has in common with podcasts and a WORLD RECORD diablo II run!

Bryan Caplan - The righteous scofflaw

    -How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie

    Escaping paternalism book club

Stopping distances of cars (I really wish I could find how this has improved over the years, but couldn’t turn anything up quickly. Perhaps our listeners can help?

Very bad wizards with Agnes Callard

• The counting of ships

The great conversation - 10 year reading plan

List of coffee bets

Diablo two record

The Trolley Problem:

There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. On the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. You are standing next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks with one person on the side track. You have two options:

1. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track.
2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.

QALY - Quality Adjusted Life Years

a generic measure of disease burden, including both the quality and the quantity of life lived. It is used in economic evaluation to assess the value of medical interventions.

Don’t worry about the vase - Zvi Mowshowitz

Putanumonit - Seeing the smoke

The difference between UK infections and the rest of Europe. Get data so good you don’t need to run stats on it.

Big list of coffee bets

Diablo 2 Schisms

I know you all can't wait until the release of our podcast, so here's 13 seconds of Chris' voice introducing things to tide you over until then.