From the New World

Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of Em, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.0:00 Authenticity9:30 Autodidacts22:30 Deaths of Despair39:20 World Mob1:17:00 The Sacred1:28:30 Tax Career Agents1:39:00 Elon Musk1:42:00 Academic Standards1:51:00 Academia and IQ tests2:25:00 Order and Chaos

Robin on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/robinhanson

Round 1:

Robin Hanson and Agnes Callard on Autodidacts:

https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/autodidact

Robin Hanson Debates Curtis Yarvin:

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Jon at the New Atlantis:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas

Why Conservatism Failed:

https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed

Jon’s twitter:

https://twitter.com/jonaskonas

Podcast with Jon and Geoff Shullenberger:

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Jonathan Rauch is the author of the Constitution of Knowledge, Kindly Inquisitors, the Happiness Curve, and much more.0:00 The Constitution of Knowledge23:30 Trump28:00 Cognitive Bias48:15 Game Theory 1:12:00 Egregores

Jon on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jon_rauch

BJ Campbell on From the New World:

Jonathan Rauch — How American Politics Went Insane:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/

Atlantic Dinosaurs:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/

Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strength American Democracy:

https://www.amazon.ca/Political-Realism-Back-Room-Strengthen-Democracy-ebook/dp/B00WNCUMEW

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Arnold Kling is an economist, former writer at EconLog and writer of the In My Tribe substack, and the author of many books, including Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics, and

The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. We discuss polarization, Never-Trumpers, intellectual honesty, specialization, vaccines, scientific innovation, tribalism, empathy, “fantasy intellectual teams”, and the administrative state.

0:00 Polarization

20:30 Never-Trump

41:00 Intellectual Honesty

1:03:00 Specialization

1:21:00 Vaccines and Innovation

1:39:20 Does specialization cause tribalism

2:24:00 Order, Chaos, and the Administrative State

In My Tribe, by Arnold Kling:

Arnold on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/KlingBlog

Econlog:

https://www.econlib.org/author/akling/

Specialization and Trade:

https://www.amazon.ca/Specialization-Trade-Re-introduction-Arnold-Kling-ebook/dp/B01GW3SOOM

The Three Languages of Politics:

https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Languages-Politics-Talking-Political/dp/1944424466

My conversation with Zvi Mowshowitz:

My conversation with Richard Hanania:

Designing a Better Regulatory State by Arnold Kling:

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/designing-a-better-regulatory-state

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America:

https://www.amazon.ca/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-America/dp/0195069056

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

https://www.amazon.ca/Special-Providence-American-Foreign-Changed/dp/0415935369

Warriors and Worriers:

https://www.amazon.ca/Warriors-Worriers-Survival-Joyce-Benenson-ebook/dp/B00HO6WT3O

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Jeremy is senior fellow at the Claremont institute, writer and builder in early silicon valley, contributor to many, many publications, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration. We discuss early silicon valley, the dissident right, authoritarian regimes, rationalism, Covid policy, immigration, economies of scale, chesterton, and “Godel, Escher, Bach”. 

Jeremy on Web 1.0:

https://return.life/2022/03/07/web-1-0/

Jeremy’s Twitter:

https://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4

Curtis Yarvin on From the New World:

Godel Escher Bach:

https://www.amazon.ca/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567

Power of the powerless:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23

Geoff Shullenberger and I on his podcast, Outsider Theory

Compact Endorsement of Trump:

https://compactmag.com/article/he-s-still-the-one

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Bryan Caplan is an economist and professor at George Mason University, the writer of the betonit substack and the author of many books: The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, the Case Against Education, Open Borders: the Science and Ethics of Immigration, and the newly released Don’t Be A Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. 

Bryan’s Susbtack:

Bryan’s Twitter:

https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan

Timestamps:

0:00 Feminism

30:40 Wokeness and Anti-wokeness

39:40 Social Desirability Bias

1:00:45 Private Companies

1:05:20 Rebranding Libertarianism

1:15:15 Life as a Public Intellectual

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James Pogue is a uniquely interest journalist and author of Chosen Country: a Rebellion in the West. You can find his work in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, and many more outlets.

Timestamps (You’ll need them this time):

0:00 American Mythology

17:00 Disenchantment

55:00 Truckers

1:01:00 Elite Theory

1:24:00 Forestry

1:48:00 Rights Regime

2:04:00 Social Media

2:36:00 De-Civilization

2:44:00 South Africa

3:01:00 Political Violence

4:00:00 The Deep Right

4:58:00 Ron Desantis

5:40:00 Principles

James on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jhensonpogue

My interview with Curtis Yarvin:

Part 1 of My Series on NatCon:

Common Sense Piece on Trucker Protests

New Yorker Profile of Mark Milley:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals

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Steve Hsu is a theoretical physicist at Michigan State, the co-founder of Genomic Prediction, and write of the blog Information Processing.

Round 1 with Steve Hsu:

Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:

Information Processing: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/

Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve

Human Nature (Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612680/

Timestamps:

0:00 genomic prediction

12:20 communication, statistics and media

38:20 use of force

41:20 predicting intelligence

55:30 do progrsssives hate stats?

144:45 gene editing

2:00:00 He Jiankui

204:15 Machine Learning

218:30 Nazis in the Western memory

235:00 science fiction

240:20 chaos and order

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Eric Kaufmann is a professor at Birkbeck, University of London, a columnist at Unherd and the author of Whiteshift. 

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/epkaufm

Unherd:

https://unherd.com/author/eric-kaufmann/

Whiteshift:

https://www.amazon.ca/Whiteshift-Populism-Immigration-Future-Majorities/dp/1468316974

0:00 is race overrated or underrated?

13:03 leftmodernism

26:20 scapegoating

33:20 ethnic nation states

101:20 tolerance 

112:20 DEI 

119:50 Brexit

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