Arjun Khemani Podcast

Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.

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Timestamps

0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food

5:29 - Restructuring the American diet after the gold standard

11:25 - The Seventh-day Adventist Church

16:09 - The word “science” has become a shield against criticism

18:19 - On eating everything in moderation

21:04 - The CPI significantly downplays the effect of inflation

25:53 - The benefits of eating sound good

28:54 - How could a transition to the Bitcoin standard look like?

32:50 - Freedom and raising free children

36:21 - Advice for starting the carnivore diet and closing remarks

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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.

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Timestamps

0:39 - Biohacking for 25 years

7:23 - Follistatin gene therapy

11:15 - Farbood’s protocol and results after taking follistatin

15:38 - The FDA’s job is not to keep you alive and healthy

20:58 - Próspera and other startup cities

24:13 - Effective accelerationism

29:27 - On living forever

33:40 - The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m an effective altruist and I’m here to help”

44:40 - Action is always selfish

50:53 - Tips for the average person to get started with biohacking

57:00 - The importance of mobility and flexibility

1:02:14 - Steve Jobs and following your heart

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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.

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Timestamps

0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology

14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism

25:35 - The sociology of philosophy

29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching

36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU

45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests

52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art

56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream

1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism

1:23:02 - Closing remarks

If you are interested in Jeremy's Zoom based conferences on Karl Popper's work, you can contact him at: [email protected]

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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 quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a new, non-paternalistic view of children.

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Timestamps

0:22 - Happiness is a state of continually solving one’s problems

4:54 - Both free-will and the self exist

12:06 - The principle of optimism

17:28 - Any ultimate explanation is a bad explanation

20:22 - The origins of Taking Children Seriously

25:33 - Why children are the most coerced members in society

31:33 - Anarcho-capitalism

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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” in its modern sense.

TIMESTAMPS

0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More”

2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life extension

8:00 - Extropian philosophy and Transhumanism

9:15 - Cryonics explained

26:06 - Hardest challenges in achieving indefinite lifespan

33:16 - Humans don’t like uncertainty

35:55 - We need more progress in AI

39:05 - Climate change is massively exaggerated

46:24 - Pancritical Rationalism and Karl Popper

52:21 - Proactionary principle

56:58 - Max’s book on cryonics and final remarks

EPISODE LINKS

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Max’s Substack: https://maxmore.substack.com

Arjun’s X: https://x.com/arjunkhemani

Arjun’s Substack: https://arjunkhemani.substack.com

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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 and philosophical works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch, as well as in libertarianism, climate and risk, gender theory, aesthetics, anti-aging, and pro-natalism, among other topics.

TIMESTAMPS

0:39 - Why a larger population is good for the world

11:18 - The morality of immortality

25:11 - Anarchism and why wealth inequality may be good for the poor

38:01 - Degrowth is disastrous

49:05 - Animal consciousness

56:31 - The infinite gender theory

1:07:40 - Final remarks and recommendations

EPISODE LINKS

Tom’s Substack: http://tomhyde.substack.com

Tom’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomhyde_

Arjun’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Arjun’s newsletter: https://arjunkhemani.substack.com

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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 about the Economy: A Primer, serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy.

TIMESTAMPS

0:04 - Why economic illiteracy is so prevalent

5:25 - Individualists trying to spread their ideas in a collectivist manner

9:25 - The role of the entrepreneur

12:27 - The primacy of theory in the social sciences

25:07 - The irrationality of “social entrepreneurship”

32:17 - Cospaia

34:52 - Javier Milei

39:13 - The greatest economic fallacy

41:50 - The effects of taxes

43:55 - What advice would Per give his 17 year old self?

45:35 - Could we have cured cancer in the 60s?

49:49 - Final remarks

EPISODE LINKS

Per’s Twitter: x.com/perbylund

Download Per’s latest book for free here: mises.org/primer

Arjun’s Twitter: x.com/arjunkhemani

Arjun’s newsletter: arjunkhemani.substack.com

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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 - How law could be produced and enforced in an anarcho-capitalist society

12:00 - Laws produced by the market will be biased toward freedom

14:27 - Is David an anarchist for pragmatic or ethical reasons?

15:41 - Strategy

18:19 - Governments evolving into private firms and science-fiction

25:43 - India, capitalism, and the West

32:51 - The rights of youth, education, and the State

LINKS

David’s website: daviddfriedman.com

David’s Substack: daviddfriedman.substack.com

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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.

TIMESTAMPS

0:27 - The future of AI and Jim’s investment in Stability AI

4:51 - The Beginning of Infinity and the ideas of David Deutsch

12:32 - The perils of labeling things and the illusion of certainty

17:35 - Thinking probabilistically vs. deterministically

23:14 - The education system and Synthesis School

29:38 - $100,000 OSV fellowships

35:43 - The Great Reshuffle and the movie industry

51:09 - We have more natural resources today than we did in the past

56:46 - Does Jim want to live forever?

1:02:08 - Final remarks

JIM’S LINKS

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/jposhaughnessy

* O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC: https://www.osv.llc

ARJUN'S LINKS

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

* Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

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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 of Austrian economics

9:15 - Is economics a science?

14:12 - How to think about the state

21:05 - The problem with welfare statism

30:05 - Constructor Theory and Austrian economics

33:12 - Economic creationism

41:20 - Consumerism: does capitalism rob us of meaning from our lives?

52:14 - Fiat, sound, hard, and easy monies

55:49 - The history of money: the fall of Rome

1:01:47 - Attributes of a sound money

1:05:59 - History of money: the Renaissance

1:12:06 - History of fiat money: the gold standard

1:15:17 - History of fiat money: World War I

1:18:48 - History of fiat money Post World War II

1:23:13 - Market feedback as criticism

1:32:56 - Bitcoin

1:52:51 - Constructor Theory

2:04:07 - Recommended reading and final remarks

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