Neohuman

In the 50th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Tim Draper. Tim is an American venture capital investor, and in 1985, the founder of the firm that would become Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He also founded Draper Associates and Draper University. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace website. He also spent in excess of $5 million to push a ballot initiative to divide California into six smaller states, which has met the signature threshold but was removed from the ballot by a decision in the Supreme Court of California. In August 2017, he launchd Cal 3, a proposal to split the U.S. state of California into three states and led the effort to have it originally qualify on the November 2018 state ballot as Proposition 9 (officially the Division of California into Three States initiative). In July 2018, the Supreme Court of California pulled it from the ballot for further state constitutional review. Draper officially stopped pushing for the measure soon after. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including technology, politics, Cal 3 Proposition, Anonymity, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, social media and user data, government and bureaucracy, Blockchain technology, and the end of Democracy.

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Timothy Draper: www.dfj.com/people/timothy-draper

Tim Draper on Cal 3, with Tucker Carlson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vLkrB3Pus

Plan to Split California into Three States Barred by State Supreme Court: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/19/17590594/california-supreme-court-three-californias-cal3-split-divide

Billionaire Tim Draper Stands By Bullish $250,000 Bitcoin Price Target for 2022: www.ccn.com/billionaire-tim-draper-stands-by-bullish-250000-bitcoin-price-target-for-2022

Tim Draper Predicts Total Crypto Market Cap of $80 Trillion in Next 15 Years: www.cointelegraph.com/news/tim-draper-predicts-total-crypto-market-cap-of-80-trillion-in-next-15-years

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In the 49th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Marina Nemat. Marina is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran for a new life in Canada. She was awarded the first Human Dignity Prize in December 2007, chosen by the Prize Committee ‘because of her strength of character despite her life experiences’. Today, Marina teaches memoir writing part-time at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and regularly speaks about her experiences in front of high-school classes, universities, libraries and associations. She is a regular participant in the Oslo Freedom Forum, and was a guest speaker at the San Francisco Freedom Forum of the Human Rights Foundation along with Aung San Suu Kyi and Garry Kasparov. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including Iran, politics, religions & ideologies, the importance of education & financial independence for women, Iranian oppositions and foreign interference, trauma and PTSD, and complexities of maintaining a Democracy. 

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In the 48th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Patrick J. Deneen. Patrick is Professor of Political Science and holds the David A. Potenziani Memorial Chair of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the faculty of Notre Dame in 2012, he taught at Princeton University (1997-2005) and Georgetown University (2005-2012), where he held the Markos and Eleni Tsakapoulos-Kounalakis Chair in Hellenic Studies. From 2005-2007 he served as principle Speechwriter and Special Assistant to the Director of the U.S. Information Agency, Joseph Duffey. He is a regular contributor to a variety of online journals and blogs, and the author of ‘Why Liberalism Failed’. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including politics, philosophy, Liberalism and Conservatism, the political genius of Donald Trump, abortion, the role of religion in the new era of Conservatism, political tribalism, the division & the struggle to establish the post-Liberal worldview and order, and predicting the upcoming midterm and the Presidential elections.

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In the 47th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Danielle DiMartino Booth. Danielle is a global thought leader on monetary policy and economics who spent nine years as an adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She began her career in New York at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and is a full-time columnist for Bloomberg View, a business speaker, and a commentator frequently featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Radio, Fox News, Fox Business News and other major media outlets. She is the author of ‘FED UP: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America’. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including economics, politics, President Trump’s trade policies, Federal Reserve, the Presidential election in Mexico, Communism, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, and the real value of the US dollar.

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In the 46th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Arash Sobhani. Arash is the founder, lead singer and songwriter of Kiosk, an underground Iranian rock band. Formed in Tehran in 2003, Kiosk was forced out of Iran because of its satirical lyrics which are often critical of the social and political environment under the Islamic regime. In addition to be an active musician, Arash is a TV host, a human rights activist, and one of the signatories of an open letter to then President-Elect Trump, urging Mr Trump ‘to send the clear message that the United States will not Tolerate the increasing threats of the Islamic Republic of Iran against its citizens and neighbors’, as well as ‘to support the pro-democracy Iranians whose goal is to replace the Khomeinist regime of Tehran with a liberal-democratic government’. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including technology, politics, the latest uprisings in Iran, Democracy and whether or not the Iranian society is ready for a democratic system, Donald Trump, Leftism as a new religion, criticism of Islam and Islamism, and a free-market economy as the only viable solution for rebuilding Iran.

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In the 45th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Bryan Caplan. Bryan is an American economist and a professor of economics at George Mason University, reserach fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, andfrequent contributor to Freakonomics, as well as publishing his own blog, EconLog. He is a self-described economic libertarian, and the author of three books including The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money. They talk about a wide range of subjects including education, economy, technology, politics, social evolution, automation, AI, cryptocurrencies, and conspiracies.

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Bryan Caplan: www.bcaplan.com

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a waste of Time and Money: www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652

ECONLOG: http://econlog.econlib.org

Why This Economist Thinks Public Education is Mostly Pointless: www.vox.com/conversations/2018/2/16/16870408/public-education-libertarianism-democracy-bryan-caplan

The Myth of the Rational Voter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter

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In the 44th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Annie Duke. Annie is a retired Poker champion who holds a World Series Poker gold bracelet from 2004 and used to be the leading money winner among women in WSOP history. She was a finalist on Donald Trump’s The Celebrity Apprentice, and is the author of Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including Poker philosophy, Confirmation bias and echo chambers, the difference between the bad decision and the bad outcome, games and AI, information analysis and decision making, the importance of uncertainty, the role and significance of bluffing, and Donald Trump.

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Annie Duke: www.annieduke.com

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Bets-Making-Smarter-Decisions/dp/0735216355/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

World Poker Champion: Here’s How to Make Big Decisions in the Face of Great Uncertainty: www.cnbc.com/2018/02/05/poker-champ-annie-duke-on-how-to-make-decisions-in-uncertain-times.html

Annie Duke @ TEDxGeorgetown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvbm_flCZds

Liv Boeree: A Number Speaks a Thousand Words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zankirmsRAc

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In the 43rd episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah Bahari is chatting with Dr. Michio Kaku. Dr Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, popularizer of science, and a co-founder of String Field Theory. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including technology, the future of physics, post-silicon computing, Stanley Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Simulation Theory, immortality, the evolutionary impact of religion, the importance of the private sector in the new age of space exploration, as well as Dr Kaku’s new book, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth.

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In the 42nd episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Sharon Weinberger. Sharon is the executive editor for news at Foreign Policy Magazine and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Previously, she was the National Security Editor at The Intercept, where she directed the publication’s defense and intelligence coverage. They talk about wide range of subjects, including science & technology of military, the US national security, Pentagon and DARPA, military data collection, the business of hype-for-profit, as well as Sharon’s new book, The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, The Pentagon Agency that Changed the World.

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In the 41st episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah Bahari is chatting with Lee McIntyre. Lee is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He is the author of series of book from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, including his latest book, Post-Truth. They talk about a wide range of subjects, including definitions of truth and post-truth, the rise of Donald Trump, technology & social media, ethics & morality, the objectivity of truth, Confirmation Bias, and authoritarianism as the next stage in the Post-Truth world.

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