29 August 2025 Livestream #47

0:00 Intro

6:04 Chat with Holden Mitrione (who debated Charlie Kirk), an econ major new to Ayn Rand

Utilitarianism

Libertarianism

Ayn Rand

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Ayn Rand’s fiction, life, and the Objectivist movement

The morality of capitalism and history

Utilitarianism and capitalism

Free market economists and their philosophical views

My history reading

Holden’s intro to economics

Capitalism and the rate of progress

Alex Epstein

Neuralink

Wages and jobs over time

2:16:40 Engaging with chat

Minimum wage (Duitse)

Henry Hazlitt and utilitarianism (Evolutionary, Greg)

Democracy and utilitarianism

Determinism (Evolutionary)

2:44:30 Outro

Holden's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UC1cD_cQsytEWapuvvaJtR_g

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0:00 Intro to my interaction with communist streamer Straighterade (Erin)

8:01 Setting up the first segment from Konstantin Kisin's Triggermetry interview with Ann Coulter re: Vivek Ramaswamy and my first exchange with Erin

13:59 Erin says Ann Coulter is racist and doesn't treat Vivek as an individual; I ask if communism treats people as individuals

18:36 Erin says she's a communist and that I asked her "a troll question"

20:02 I'm gifted a subscription to Erin's channel

22:15 Erin asks why I know her name

24:32 Another chatter recognizes me from The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder; Erin puts my Majority Report playlist on screen

29:17 Erin says she will debate me but not right now

36:00 I get Erin's permission to post the debate on my channel

38:24 Chatter raises the age of consent issue

41:31 I say I'm not a libertarian; "minarchy," the Objectivist view of government

47:21 I say economic power isn't political power; coercion

56:56 Erin says there won't be a conversation unless I concede I was trolling

1:06:55 Erin smears me as a sea lion

1:09:36 Erin gives up on insisting I acknowledge I was trolling as a condition of debating

1:16:54 Erin does a silly voice

1:18:35 Moderator says he's holding back (from blocking me?)

1:21:18 I'm not sure I want a debate now. Sam Seder.

1:23:23 What smearing is

1:26:30 Erin doesn't care anymore about my not conceding I was trolling as a condition of debating. Why should I tolerate her smears?

1:29:07 Debates not worth having. Should I have debated Sam Seder? Private vs. public thoughts

1:32:50 Erin repeats the "troll" and "sea lion" smears. Is smearing no big deal? "Agree to disagree"

1:37:42 I engage with my chat's comments re: Straighterade's video

1:43:07 Can you be an honest communist?

This video is a segment from my livestream of August 25, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8-ROex7_M

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25 August 2025 Livestream #46

0:00 Intro

3:00 Reading update: Early American history

Townshend Acts

13:10 "No taxation without representation."

20:52 Is taxation theft?

25:17 Communist streamer Straighterade (Erin) thinks I'm trolling her in chat. I react.

2:02:51 Engaging with my chat about the video I just reacted to

2:17:44 Testing cutting the Zoom-to-YouTube connection and reestablishing it

2:24:54 Outro

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21 August 2025 Livestream #45

0:00 Intro

3:40 My YouTube monetization

Engaging with chat re: Ayn Rand quote (Robert)

27:23 My debate with Jolah Politics

Engaging with chat re: fatalism/determinism

37:44 Wittgenstein and nominalism (benji)

55:30 Free will vs. determinism w/ caller (benji)

Introspective evidence

Falsifiability

Libet's experiments (I misstated the title of Alfred Mele's book. The correct title is: _Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will_.)

1:34:38 Break

Engaging with chat

1:43:53 Craig Biddle and Alex O'Connor's debate on free will (John)

Evasion

Why are so many people anti-free will? (John)

Centrifugal force analogy to free will

2:02:10 Is there a link between determinism and being religious? (Duitse)

2:05:10 Two types of control: animal and human

Etc.

2:10:41 Two types of determinist: those who do and those who don’t think free will is at least an illusion

A contrast argument against determinism

2:17:18 Do you think dogs have free will? (Latent Prion)

2:22:05 Is it sometimes hard to use free will, e.g., when you’re very emotional? (Duitse)

My calmness in debates

Miscellaneous engagements with chat

Contrasts re: time

Robert is listening to two shows a

2:47:23 Animal training and its limits (Duitse)

2:50:37 Discord and my Discord profile (Dj Onx)

2:58:37 Eating glass: Free will is not omnipotence (Evolutionary)

3:01:01 Levels of awareness (Wade)

3:04:45 Matter, space, dark matter, Parmenides, aether (Dj Onx, Latent Prion)

3:08:58 Becoming civilized vs. unconscious evolution: Gene editing, genetically modified foods (Wade)

The universe, time, its shape and invalid questions

Latent Prion's screenname

Post-humanism: mechanical vs. biological body (Latent Prion)

3:20:58 Outro

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0:00 Intro

1:21 Ayn Rand, libertarianism, coercion, and authoritarianism

10:03 Capitalism and history, individualism and collectivism

16:52 Current U.S. politics: Trump, Democrats & Republicans, the long-game

22:05 Coercion, water pollution, private property

26:33 The U.S. Constitution, voluntary funding of government, foreign policy

34:15 The growth of government and the rate of progress

38:12 Reason, freedom, and prosperity

39:42 Is some coercion necessary?

45:15 Egoism and altruism, helping others

51:10 Authoritarianism and individualism, MAGA mindlessness

1:02:22 Dan’s closing statement

1:04:26 Jolah’s closing statement; outro

Recorded on 11 April 2025.

Jolah's channel: @jolahpolitics ​

17 August 2025 Livestream #44

0:05 Intro

New background

Atheism

1:09:31 Anarcho-capitalism (usernameryan)

1:52:06 Reading update: Albany Plan 1754, Stamp Act 1765

1:58:31 My Reddit thread on capitalism/mixed-economy

2:27:00 Be part of my first 1,000 subscribers? And get a perk?

2:45:34 Will I call The Majority Report with Sam Seder again? (usernameryan)

2:54:27 Antitrust

Engaging with chat, outro

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14 August 2025 Livestream #43

0:02 Intro, Reddit, etc.

13:48 Reading update: Early American history, Stamp Act, Indians and tribalism, First Thanksgiving

Individualism vs. conformity

Are sentient robots or digital consciousness possible?

Is consciousness reducible?

1:18:08 Call with Latent Prion

1:24:30 Break

1:32:15 Call with Latent Prion (continued)

Moral realism vs. moral anti-realism

Facts vs. truth vs. knowledge

1:59:19 Analyzing Harry Binswanger's views on whether consciousness is reducible

2:59:30 Analyzing a "syllogism"

Engaging with chat, outro

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11 August 2025 Livestream #42

0:03 Intro

1:58 Reading update: Early American history, Navigation acts

12:28 Carjacking video

X

Polling chat about whether to show insults, etc., on X

Blocking insulters, etc. on X

42:00 Replies on X re: immigration

Art

51:38 Art vs non-art (Theo)

Can paint smears (e.g., Jackson Pollock) count as art?

1:00:20 Decoration vs. art, Rand’s definition of art

Timing out Ben

Are Pollock’s smear jobs decoration? (Theo)

Ben gets blocked

Are flags art?

Is photography art? A representational quilt?

2:00:47 Break

2:03:32 More replies on X re: immigration 

2:23:56 “Anarcho-capitalism," Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and the nature of rights/government (Godspeed)

Dr. Derek McAllister

A legit government vs. a gang: Objective law

2:59:57 Island example

3:04:17 Is ethics subjective or objective? What do "subjective" and "objective" mean? (Godspeed)

3:19:27 Outro, miscellaneous

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8 August 2025 Livestream #41

0:07 Intro, new subscribers, last livestream in Videos section

10:25 My X analytics

19:39 My OCON photo, etc. (Friend Harper, Robert, Jason)

34:52 The Majority Report: Not sure I'll call it again (H Charlie Bodkin)

43:27 Reading update: Bible/God

1:02:06 Break til 1:10:12

1:11:44 Call with Friend Harper

Who wrote the Bible? My reading about the Constitutional Convention, Statutes at Large, etc.

1:29:26 Agnosticism

The universe; space, ether

1:45:18 Immigration comments on X

2:05:16 The American Dream and materialism (Wade)

2:07:25 Cases in which one can't act morally (Liam aka Divinityy)

Abortion (the king of nido)

2:25:03 Call with Liam

Is it moral/just to give money to a mugger? Etc.

3:03:00 Break

3:08:45 Miscellaneous, outro

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2 August 2025, Livestream #40

0:04 Intro

2:29 Welcome to my 35 new subscribers from Facebook!

4:22 [I cut about seven minutes of the original livestream at this point due to audio problems. You can see my Facebook post and hear the music that goes with it here: https://www.facebook.com/dan.norton.1428/posts/10164321952288338.]

7:08 Also need 4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months to be monetized

10:36 The Selfishness Project

16:23 Bible reading update: Book of Numbers, Operation Rising Lion

34:45 In a free society, would a lottery to help finance the limited functions of a government be proper or would it interfere with the rights of private casino owners? (Jason)

39:28 Funding the government via bake sales (Jason)

46:04 Immigration (RW and Jason)

Residence vs. citizenship

Tiered list of countries

Gaza vs. Mexico; drug legalization

Patronizing/boycotting businesses based on whether they contribute to the government (aside from previous topic)

Passports necessary?

Waiting generations to vote?

Immigration in the 19th century

Innocent until proven guilty; border monitors; background checks

Arbitrary vs. optional screening (a la age of majority)

Etc.

Harry Binswanger on immigration

1:42:10 Outro

This livestream originally appeared in the “Live” section of my YouTube channel on 2 August 2025. Due to audio problems in the original video, I edited and re-uploaded the video, and it now appears in the “Videos” section and is dated 3 August 2025. The Live Chat Replay is not preserved, but I copied it and pasted it into a comment below the video.

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