18 November 2025, Livestream #65

0:00 Intro

1:34 Forthcoming commentary video re: David Pakman

4:58 My new channel description

11:42 Marriage

Blocking someone

TikTok Live

Turning on Super Chat

Marriage (continued)

1:05:05 Call w/ Latent Prion

Should politicians be ruthless, cunning, dishonest to protect rights?

Dictatorship, vigilantism

2:50:27 Consequentialism

3:55:56 The Trump Organization, Trump and lawsuits

The Bible and study aides

Outro

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13 November 2025, Livestream #64

0:00 My YouTube channel has been monetized!!!

19:58 Reading update: Richard III, Book of Joshua, Trump's first term, Unite the Right rally

29:44 Call w/J re: introspection and free will

Suspiciousness of social science studies

Benjamin Libet's experiments

Improvisation

1:12:15 Call w/Holden

1:16:06 Passage in Hoppe's book re: axioms, analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori

Kant & Hume

The order of knowledge: percepts, concepts, generalizations, etc.

Rand & Mises

2:46:10 Bruce Goldberg's criticism of Ayn Rand; Rand's reformulation of the definition of reason

Attitudes toward Rand, engaging with disrespectful people

Outro

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7 November 2025, Livestream #63

0:00 Intro

9:15 Reading update: Trump's 2016 campaign for president

Blocking a chatter who was uncivil

Is/ought & existence/identity/causality (Greg Lewis)

Preying mantis sexual behavior and altruism

(technical difficulties for ~10 min. while I figure out why I can't hear the caller)

1:18:18 Call w/ Oh Noes

Are non-human organisms egoistic/altruistic?

Background on Oh Noes: what Rand works he has read

"Anarcho-Objectivism"

What do "Objectivism" and "Aristotelianism" refer to?

1:45:48 Art, sensation/perception, entities

2:33:42 Sculpture, architecture, utilitarian entities

Cubism, non-representational "art"

Decoration, painting, music

Hedonism

Using Chat GPT for the first time

Determinism, indeterminism, and choice

Poll: Is determinism true?

"The Value of Believing in Free Will: Encouraging a Belief in Determinism Increases Cheating" by

Kathleen D. Vohs and Jonathan W. Schooler: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/91974.pdf

6:13:20 Call w/ Ray

Free will

9:21:34 Call w/ J

Introspection

Outro

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2 November 2025, Livestream #62

0:00 Intro

5:18 Holden Mitrione's call re: Atlas Shrugged etc.

Holden's overall reaction statement

The theme of Atlas Shrugged

Mind and body, sex

America and the founders

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and Anthem

Faith and reason

What to read/study next?

Engaging with chat

I'm over 3k hours of watchtime, the threshold for YouTube monetization!

Is evidence for God possible?

4:35:20 Robert Nasir's call

Trump

Are we living in the best of times?

Music

Etc.

6:18:17 Radical Capitalist's call

Are virtues instrumental or constitutive values?

Are Aristotelians "forms" epistemological?

How to access Leonard Peikoff's dissertation

Outro

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In this video I comment on my second call (of three) to The David Pakman Show, a leftist political show with over three million subscribers on YouTube. My commentary video on my first call can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4PP0WrVTMc

0:00 Intro

1:28 Beginning of call: Posting my calls etc.

3:59 Political philosophy discussion begins: "Utopian libertarianism"

6:24 David's list of alleged problems with a voluntary, free market system

7:49 Emergencies and unexpected events

9:41 Inequality and public/private services; police, coercion, and taxes

12:46 Outro

"How to fund the government WITHOUT TAXES": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM

"Voluntary funding of roads, firefighting, and police": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i7y7pmkXYU

This call was on 20 September 2023.

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28 October 2025, Livestream #61

0:00 Intro

Irreplaceable Spark conference

Justifying egoism; bridging the is-ought gap or facts and values

Hypothetical vs. categorical imperatives

(Aside: Immigration and Ohtani the baseball player)

Religion/Kant

36:23 Yaron's recent interview by Dave Rubin

46:13 Reading update: up to Richard III

53:16 Wondering if a chatter (Steven McGowan) is the same person as someone I blocked (Darwin)

My YouTube Analytics

1:26:20 Which area of philosophy is likely to have the biggest bang for the buck in changing the culture? (Greg Lewis)

New free will video from ARI, Ayn Rand on free will and her theory of concepts

What qualifies an idea as being part of "Objectivism"?

Floating hearts etc. (emoji reactions)

Bayesian epistemology, mathematizing philosophy, science envy

The proper use of statistics

2:32:04 Atheism and materialism

Philosophy of mind: materialism/physicalism; mind-brain identity theory, functionalism, dualism, zombies

Forthcoming commentary video on my second call to The David Pakman Show

The dictionary definition of "selfishness"

"Collective punishment" and Israel

5:27:33 Egoism (w/ caller J)

Are we living in a simulation?

No outro (abrupt ending due to power outage)

More topics and timestamps may be added to the description later. Some topics in the above list may be out of order. You may want to use the AI "Ask" feature in YouTube (if it's available) for a summary of the video with timestamps, especially if I don't have time to create a fuller description myself.

Sorry about the abrupt ending to this livestream. I briefly lost power and wasn't able to re-start the stream at the same link (though I have an idea as to how I could do so in the future if there's another power outage). Thanks to those of you who participated in the chat or by calling in or who just watched/listened.

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23 October 2025, Livestream #60

0:00 Intro

Should an egoist save a drowning child?

Emotionalism

Helping strangers

"The Ethics of Emergencies," by Ayn Rand (1963)

"Famine, Affluence, and Morality," by Peter Singer (1972)

Intrinsicism

1:16:43 Are beggars responsible for their own condition?

Underlying causes of emergencies

My experience giving money to beggars

Working on 2nd commentary video on my calls to The David Pakman Show

Engaging with chatters

My YouTube analytics

1:53:50 "What could possibly justify egoism?" (mynameisjefferson3771)

The origin of our ideas of "good" and "bad"

Helping beggars (continued)

Diogenes and material needs

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Atheism

Outro

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18 October 2025, Livestream #59

0:00 Intro

No Kings protests

My original stream title: "No Kings. And no dictatorship of the proletariat. My life is not for tyrants or mobs. It's for ME!!!"

14:12 Ayn Rand, Social Security & Medicare

Israel/Palestine (I only mention the topic, I don't discuss it)

Did Ayn Rand get out of Social Security & Medicare more than she put in?

32:56 Onkar Ghate's article, "What Gave Ayn Rand the Moral Right to Collect Social Security" https://newideal.aynrand.org/what-gave-ayn-rand-the-moral-right-to-collect-social-security/

The Question of Scholarships, by Ayn Rand https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-question-of-scholarships/

Martin Anderson, helped end the military draft, influenced by Ayn Rand

44:57 Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick; article by Keith Lockitch, https://newideal.aynrand.org/must-read-new-book-on-rands-philosophic-case-for-capitalism/

Tax liberation day

55:04 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand, interview with Evva Pryor re: Ayn Rand, Social Security & Medicare

Max Stirner

The seen and the unseen

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Egoism/altruism & hypotheticals

Existence

Outro

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14 October 2025, Livestream #58

0:00 Intro

Altruism

19:20 Trump, Chicago/Portland "war zone," ICE/police & due process

Facebook replies to my posts & my replies to them

Enforcing bad laws

What do I mean by altruism?

Mother Teresa

1:54:50 My X post re: communism, nazism, and capitalism

Copying and pasting the chat

Monetizing my channel and other YouTube analytics

My video, "Is the mind physical?"

2:34:00 How long have I been a philosopher?

2:36:22 Did I attend Ayn Rand University?

Mercy, justice, and egoism

Determinism, compatibilism, free will

Free will and epistemology

4:09:50 Break

4:33:02 Call with Latent Prion about free will

Axioms, Law of Identity, Law of Noncontradiction, implicit knowledge

Outro

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9 October 2025, Livestream #57

0:00 Intro

7:35 Troll update

Should there be debtor's prison?

19:16 Reading update: Henry IV, Lollards, burning heretics

Andrew Wilson vs. Michael Liebowitz debate

Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and the Jews/Israel

Free will, debt, and rationality

Gross topics

2010 schism

Incest, Oedipus, Hapsburgs

Holden Mitrione update

My YouTube analytics

1:36:00 Reading update: Alt-right, Charlottesville killing

1:46:14 Commentary video on my second call to the David Pakman show

Subscriber-only chat

1:53:36 Why is Trump bad?

Chicago protests

2:13:00 Debating capitalism w/ chatters (Steven, Graeme)

Private roads and monopolies

Tariffs

2:55:00 Break

The pharmaceutical industry

Etc.

3:36:26 Call w/ "Sox" about egoism and altruism

What does altruism mean?

Is kindness altruistic?

Is taking care of children altruistic?

Is it altruistic to serve in the military?

Coerced, altruism, the military draft, taxes, and communism

Being a means to someone else’s end

Finding out a person‘s motivation

Altruistic lies and resentment

Engaging with chat

Honesty as rejecting the unreal

Outro

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