Arjun Khemani Podcast

Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:30 - What makes humans different

3:50 - Christian atheists

8:05 - Inequality good?

12:25 - AGI Doomerism

21:46 - Aliens

23:37 - Bad philosophy in popular movies

26:29 - The education system

28:37 - Epistemology and The Beginning of Infinity

40:58 - Advice for young people

YARON'S LINKS

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

* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yaronbrook

ARJUN'S LINKS

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

* Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

* Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani

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Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism.

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We talk about:

* Lulie’s untypical childhood and the parenting philosophy she was raised under

* What psychology and the social sciences can learn from epistemology

* Mindfulness tied to Critical Rationalism

* The constraints of creativity

* And much more!

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Lulie’s childhood and Taking Children Seriously

9:30 - Why social science isn’t science

11:35 - Evolutionary psychology

14:15 - Foundations of psychology: not neurology, but epistemology

15:35 - Meme theory

17:39 - What’s needed for consciousness?

19:54 - AGI

21:14 - Criticism Scheduling and Privacy

29:35 - Tying mindfulness and meditation to Critical Rationalism

45:05 - Constraints help creativity

50:27 - Non-coercive schools

52:53 - Critical Rationalism community + recommendations by Lulie

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

* The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

* Episode 10 of Do Explain with David Deutsch on The Primacy of Ideas

* Lulie’s recent appearance on the Do Explain podcast [The Chapman Series, Pt.5]

* David Deutsch on the ‘Fun Criterion’ with Lulie Tanett

* Increments podcast

* Lulie’s post on Alexander Technique

LULIE’S LINKS

* Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reasonisfun

* Website: https://www.lulie.co.uk/

ARJUN’S LINKS

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

* Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

* Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani

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Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education. 

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TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Preview and intro1:16 - Nat and Martha’s background (making movies)6:20 - Living on the road in an RV for a whole year11:47 - “you can just do stuff”15:30 - Winning $100,000 fellowship through O'Shaughnessey Ventures22:36 - Education, homeschooling/unschooling, “follow the fear”, gaps in knowledge, socialization, authority, Taking Children Seriously57:11 - Winning the social media game

NAT & MARTHA'S LINKS Website: https://natandmartha.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@natandmarthaTwitter: https://twitter.com/natandmartha

ARJUN’S LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemaniBlog: https://arjunkhemani.comBuy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani

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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 - Knowledge creation leads to wealth creation25:44 - Free will

RELEVANT LINKSNaval on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/navalBrett on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/bretthallKeith on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/welivetoserveArjun on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/arjunKnowledge | Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/arjun/knowledge

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

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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.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:39 - On a quest for the best life that you can achieve

4:02 - Happiness without morality or morality without happiness

5:27 - The interests of humans are at harmony

7:58 - Sacrifice is not good for you and the world

12:24 - Love is selfish

17:12 - Are soldiers sacrificial?

19:15 - The Fountainhead

23:33 - Communicating counter-culture ideas

33:58 - Epistemology

47:25 - Wealth, progress and happiness

1:01:52 - Closing remarks

DON’S LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/donswriting

Website: https://www.donswriting.com

ARJUN’S LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani

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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.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - 7-year-old Danny taking over the New York Times

2:17 - Thoughts on creating content

5:09 - The desire to be normal

8:22 - Danny’s entire process of creating a podcast

22:25 - Seeing no results

22:09 - Twitter is invaluable

26:51 - You gotta go where the people are

35:10 - On podcasting and the future

41:10 - Books and podcasts Danny likes

46:53 - Gary Vaynerchuck and optimism

52:18 - People Danny admires and closing remarks

DANNY’S LINKS

Podcast: https://linktr.ee/heydannymiranda

Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda

ARJUN’S LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani

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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 - Shoulds, prescriptions, and inexplicit knowledge

15:58 - Sincere questions

17:59 - Why James doesn’t meditate, the sense of sense, and enlightenment

21:05 - The ultimate cause for all relationship problems

26:20 - Peace

33:30 - Insincere questions

36:40 - Freedom

JAMES’ LINKS

Website: james-pierce.com

Twitter: twitter.com/jimmpierce

ARJUN’S LINKS

Twitter: twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Blog: arjunkhemani.com

Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani

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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 the best thing that happened to education, writing online and effective ways to do so, how to tackle long term goals, ChatGPT and more!

TIMESTAMPS

0:30 - The problem David is trying to solve with his new writing course for high schoolers

6:10 - What David would do and how he would go about writing on the Internet if he were a 15 year old today

16:30 - The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to education and “the paradox of abundance”

22:57 - Arjun’s current school experience

28:25 - The tragedy of school killing curiosity

31:26 - A novel and important idea that David wants to write more about

36:29 - How to write a book

39:10 - “Is ChatGPT a part of your writing routine?”

DAVID’S LINKS

Website: perell.com

Twitter: twitter.com/david_perell

Write of Passage Liftoff: liftoff.school

ARJUN’S LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

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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 cold DMs, entrepreneurship, misconceptions around money, The Beginning of Infinity and Andrew’s most influential books, the pursuit of creation, happiness and much more!

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Andrew’s backstory // his entrepreneurial childhood

4:50 - How Andrew became financially free at 22 // being a permission-less apprentice

9:15 - The shortcut to writing good Cold DMs

12:18 - What Andrew invests in

13:24 - Understanding is the purest form of power // Andrew’s big goals

15:42 - Money can be boiled down to solving people’s problems

19:15 - Say yes to everything at first, then say no // how to prioritize

22:30 - BOOKS!

30:45 - Creating for yourself vs. creating for others

34:37 - Happiness and the meaning of life

ANDREW’S LINKS

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewKirbys

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAmAndrewKirby

ARJUN’S LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

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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 which expresses physical laws in terms of counterfactuals, i.e. what can and cannot happen.

She is the author of The Science of Can and Can’t subtitled “A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals” which is all about constructor theory and its implications.

We talk about Chiara’s lovely childhood that led to her developing an interest in fundamental physics, people being a force of nature, knowledge, instrumentalism, reductionism, information having physical properties, updates on constructor theory, productive constraints and more!

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TIMESTAMPS

1:40 - Chiara’s childhood and why she came to do what she does today

11:44 - Man, a force in nature & what makes knowledge resilient

21:45 - In an information-less universe / why information and knowledge are physical (not abstract) entities

26:00 - Explanatory and non-explanatory knowledge

28:45 - How constructor theory has been received by the physics community so far

33:28 - Bad philosophy / instrumentalism and reductionism

45:17 - Constraints are good!

51:50 - Why Chiara isn’t on Twitter + closing remarks

LINKS

* https://constructortheory.org

* https://www.chiaramarletto.com

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ARJUN’S LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/arjunkhemani

Blog: https://arjunkhemani.com

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