• #29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control
    May 14 2024

    Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on Airchat.

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    0:19 - The immigration crisis in the US

    11:08 - DEI and Mark Cuban

    14:29 - Anti-humanism and Gen Z

    18:17 - The rise of Christian nationalism

    22:32 - Elon freeing the bird

    27:47 - What the birth control pill represents

    33:07 - Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom

    35:16 - Should you go to college?

    38:37 - Elephants Are Not Birds

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    42 mins
  • #28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science
    May 6 2024

    Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.

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    0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food

    5:29 - Restructuring the American diet after the gold standard

    11:25 - The Seventh-day Adventist Church

    16:09 - The word “science” has become a shield against criticism

    18:19 - On eating everything in moderation

    21:04 - The CPI significantly downplays the effect of inflation

    25:53 - The benefits of eating sound good

    28:54 - How could a transition to the Bitcoin standard look like?

    32:50 - Freedom and raising free children

    36:21 - Advice for starting the carnivore diet and closing remarks

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    38 mins
  • #27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart
    Mar 23 2024

    Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy.

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    0:39 - Biohacking for 25 years

    7:23 - Follistatin gene therapy

    11:15 - Farbood’s protocol and results after taking follistatin

    15:38 - The FDA’s job is not to keep you alive and healthy

    20:58 - Próspera and other startup cities

    24:13 - Effective accelerationism

    29:27 - On living forever

    33:40 - The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m an effective altruist and I’m here to help”

    44:40 - Action is always selfish

    50:53 - Tips for the average person to get started with biohacking

    57:00 - The importance of mobility and flexibility

    1:02:14 - Steve Jobs and following your heart

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • #26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper
    Feb 14 2024

    Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.

    Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.

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    0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology

    14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism

    25:35 - The sociology of philosophy

    29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching

    36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU

    45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests

    52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art

    56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream

    1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism

    1:23:02 - Closing remarks

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • #25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism
    Jan 1 2024

    David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory. He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a new, non-paternalistic view of children.

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    0:22 - Happiness is a state of continually solving one’s problems

    4:54 - Both free-will and the self exist

    12:06 - The principle of optimism

    17:28 - Any ultimate explanation is a bad explanation

    20:22 - The origins of Taking Children Seriously

    25:33 - Why children are the most coerced members in society

    31:33 - Anarcho-capitalism



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    41 mins
  • #24 – Max More: Cryonics, Transhumanism, and The Morality of Progress
    Nov 5 2023

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    Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.

    TIMESTAMPS

    0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More”

    2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life extension

    8:00 - Extropian philosophy and Transhumanism

    9:15 - Cryonics explained

    26:06 - Hardest challenges in achieving indefinite lifespan

    33:16 - Humans don’t like uncertainty

    35:55 - We need more progress in AI

    39:05 - Climate change is massively exaggerated

    46:24 - Pancritical Rationalism and Karl Popper

    52:21 - Proactionary principle

    56:58 - Max’s book on cryonics and final remarks

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • #23 – Tom Hyde: Population, Immortality, Anarchism, and Gender
    Sep 24 2023

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    Tom Hyde is a geologist with degrees in geoscience and natural hazards. In addition to his academic background, Tom has a keen interest in the scientific and philosophical works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch, as well as in libertarianism, climate and risk, gender theory, aesthetics, anti-aging, and pro-natalism, among other topics.

    TIMESTAMPS

    0:39 - Why a larger population is good for the world

    11:18 - The morality of immortality

    25:11 - Anarchism and why wealth inequality may be good for the poor

    38:01 - Degrowth is disastrous

    49:05 - Animal consciousness

    56:31 - The infinite gender theory

    1:07:40 - Final remarks and recommendations

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • #22 – Per Bylund: Economic Illiteracy, Entrepreneurship, and The Primacy of Theory
    Sep 20 2023

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    Per Bylund is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. His latest book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer, serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy.

    TIMESTAMPS

    0:04 - Why economic illiteracy is so prevalent

    5:25 - Individualists trying to spread their ideas in a collectivist manner

    9:25 - The role of the entrepreneur

    12:27 - The primacy of theory in the social sciences

    25:07 - The irrationality of “social entrepreneurship”

    32:17 - Cospaia

    34:52 - Javier Milei

    39:13 - The greatest economic fallacy

    41:50 - The effects of taxes

    43:55 - What advice would Per give his 17 year old self?

    45:35 - Could we have cured cancer in the 60s?

    49:49 - Final remarks

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    51 mins