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My conversation with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis. He chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine.
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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Live players
5:41 - Great Founder Theory
11:20 - Our material technology rests on our social interactions
14:23 - Optimism, pessimism, and human agency
23:21 - Operationalized knowledge
25:22 - Lost and dead traditions of knowledge
27:34 - Tradition of criticism
29:36 - The most important piece of knowledge to preserve
32:27 - Common features of declining societies
39:18 - Are the Spartan warriors overrated and just had very good PR?
42:07 - DOGE and bureaucracy in America
45:28 - The machinery of freedom
47:43 - Tech Samo is most excited about over the next 5 years
50:10 - Curtis Yarvin and the orbital authority
55:01 - Samo’s advice for young people
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My conversation with Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart on unstoppable private money.
Zooko Wilcox is a legendary cypherpunk and one of the founders of Zcash—private, digital money.
Josh Swihart is the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind the Zcash protocol and the Zashi wallet app.
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0:00 - Maya Protocol integrates with Zcash
3:52 - Coinbase social engineering attack
7:43 - Private money negates capital controls
14:13 - Privacy comes from money at rest
18:24 - The Zashi effect and future roadmap
25:11 - Project Tachyon
39:10 - Zcash’s anonymity set doesn’t depend on the number of its users
45:37 - Turnstiles in Zcash and the 2018 inflation bug
57:28 - “ZK” has become a marketing stunt among crypto projects
59:48 - On Binance delisting ZEC
1:01:35 - A transition toward using crypto as it was originally intended
1:04:52 - Should exchanges use transparent addresses?
1:17:38 - Coin holder voting in Zcash
1:23:38 - Sci-fi influence
1:28:37 - Gary Gensler
1:29:40 - Why I like Zcash
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My conversation with Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries.
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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Why Mach needs to exist
3:16 - Early experiments
5:07 - Dropping out of MIT
8:36 - Raising $85 million at 19 years old
11:20 - Decentralized vertical supply chains
13:54 - The most important domain of the next century
15:55 - Betting on hydrogen
18:11 - Overview of Viper and Glide
21:06 - Building feedback loops across teams
25:29 - Facing regulatory hurdles
28:19 - Knowing when to be risk tolerant
29:54 - Time until China invades Taiwan
31:45 - The future of warfare
42:29 - Takeaways from the (unmanned) war in Ukraine
48:23 - Biggest influences on Ethan’s life
49:37 - Mach’s long-term plan
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My conversation with philosopher and author Peter Boghossian.
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0:00 - The enlightenment
5:51 - The dangers of moral relativism
21:28 - Modern education is failing us
31:14 - What’s worth preserving in the West
37:00 - Is wokeism filling the void left by atheism?
38:04 - The spread of Islamism
45:49 - Speech is not violence
49:11 - Derangements of science
52:48 - The myth of the framework
56:34 - Why you should learn epistemology
58:05 - The instinct to belong trumps what’s true
1:02:44 - Chasing likes versus pursuing truth
1:05:08 - What is Peter most optimistic and most pessimistic about
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My conversation with Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe about the Zcash protocol.
Zooko is a cypherpunk who co-founded Zcash along with his brother, Nate Wilcox, and others. Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who has played a crucial role in the development of Zcash and has made significant contributions to advancements in zero-knowledge proofs, particularly zk-SNARKs, which underpin Zcash’s privacy features.
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0:00 - Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn
0:04 - Writing the first blog post on Bitcoin ever
6:21 - Bitcoin’s fundamental privacy flaw
9:40 - Unstoppable private money
12:19 - Will Zcash compete with Bitcoin as a store of value?
14:24 - How many people are using Zcash?
16:18 - Good security is good usability
20:10 - Social credit systems and ubiquitous surveillance
23:43 - Why Monero’s privacy tech can’t work
35:21 - Integrating ZKPs into other blockchains
39:51 - Privacy comes from money at rest, not from money in flight
47:42 - Why did the price of ZEC fall so drastically in the beginning?
51:49 - Zcash stablecoins?
55:50 - Quantum threats to Zcash
1:02:50 - Encrypted love notes in the blockchain'
1:07:07 - Privacy enabled cultural trends
1:12:43 - Nate Wilcox
1:14:38 - Why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?
1:16:16 - A brief history of Zcash
1:22:42 - Why does Zcash have opt-in privacy?
1:26:55 - Does Zcash still rely on a trusted setup?
1:30:49 - Upgrading the Zcash protocol to Hybrid PoW/PoS
1:40:50 - A bug that almost killed Zcash
1:52:40 - Zcash’s funding model
2:09:09 - Why can’t privacy be added as an L2?
2:14:35 - Scaling Zcash and making it more interoperable
2:23:16 - Shielded Labs
2:24:39 - Nate’s vision for Zcash
2:27:53 - Sean Bowe
2:32:53 - Censorship resistance is a spectrum
2:35:26 - Will privacy coins be banned?
2:37:49 - Privacy and scalability
2:41:47 - Programmable money
2:43:31 - Summary of Sean’s contributions to the field of cryptography
2:55:17 - Zcash might get privacy against quantum adversaries for free
3:00:14 - Halo
3:05:34 - What Sean’s working on right now
3:11:54 - What has influenced Sean’s thinking in cryptography the most?
3:13:36 - Being a high school dropout working in crypto
3:15:08 - Zcash is just getting started
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My conversation with Naval Ravikant. Enjoy!
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Timestamps
0:00 - The Theory of Everything
4:48 - How do you know what’s true?
7:51 - Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth
13:07 - We have never run out of a single resource
15:25 - Are we destroying the Earth?
17:48 - Marxism denies wealth creation
21:28 - Regulation kills innovation
27:05 - Degrowth and the fall of Western universities
33:31 - Why the West is best
35:47 - Federalism
38:10 - Everyone wants to live forever
41:44 - Humans are universal explainers
43:25 - Collectivism vs. individualism
50:44 - You cannot explain the universe without explaining humans
55:02 - How David Deutsch’s ideas have changed Naval’s life
1:02:31 - The scientific method isn’t possible
1:05:07 - The low-hanging fruit theory is a bad explanation
1:08:19 - The biggest threats to Western civilization
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Deutsch in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation.
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1:01 - A tragic view of human history
7:04 - Why did it take so long for civilization to arise?
13:31 - Fallibilism
21:32 - Cultural relativism denies improvement
24:03 - Richard Dawkins and indigenous ways of knowing
26:49 - Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
31:38 - The era of man
37:55 - People are unlike any other force of nature
42:51 - The dangers of regulating AI
48:09 - Are we running out of resources?
54:21 - Everything in existing educational theory is wrong
1:11:30 - When David met Richard Feynman
1:17:33 - Everyone is a Popperian
1:20:16 - Only progress is sustainable
1:26:00 - The biggest threat to Western civilization
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Julian Barbour is a renowned physicist known for his groundbreaking work on the nature of time. In his influential books, The End of Time and The Janus Point he explores the concept of a timeless universe, challenging traditional views.
Samuel Kuypers is a theoretical physicist, currently located in Montréal, who is interested in the foundations of quantum theory and time.
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1:10 - The instant is not in time, time is in the instant
6:27 - Time capsules and evidence of time passing
9:22 - Newton’s view of absolute time and space
18:46 - Shape dynamics
24:33 - Mathematics of variety
37:51 - Newton’s theory as a theory of creation
56:23 - How shape dynamics relates to general relativity
1:06:50 - Entropy and heat death of the universe
1:28:13 - Free will and determinism
1:33:22 - Carpe diem
1:34:13 - Julian’s interest in Shakespeare
1:40:54 - Question from David Deutsch about quantum theory
1:48:56 - Question from Brett Hall about general relativity and QT
1:51:51 - Final remarks
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Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newsletter and podcast. He is the author of the book Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance.
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0:49 - Ayn Rand
6:40 - The transition from writing online to writing a book
12:26 - Marketing Crypto Confidential
16:43 - Writing for the modern world
21:20 - Come for the money, stay for the tech
26:49 - Decentralized social media
30:19 - Don’t be someone’s exit liquidity!
34:39 - The value of authenticity
36:39 - The advantages of being pseudonymous
39:19 - Constraints can help us be creative
42:53 - Is note-taking valuable?
46:02 - The future of work
50:11 - Strava for writing
53:49 - What idea sounds crazy today but will be mainstream in 5-10 years?
1:01:00 - Why Nat doesn’t use shampoo and other conventional health products
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Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.
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0:50 - How Johan changed his mind about human progress
3:50 - Pro-human flourishing cannot be anti-environment
5:33 - Alternative words to describe capitalism
8:30 - Why is there so much economic illiteracy?
12:36 - Despise poverty, not wealth or inequality
16:41 - We are taxing what we want more of
18:46 - Degrowth and the fall of western education
25:21 - The concept of “needs” is often abused
29:27 - How to have infinite growth on a finite planet
33:08 - Elon Musk
34:43 - Javier Milei and Argentina
39:34 - Privatizing law and justice systems
43:52 - Child labor
49:52 - Advice for young people
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Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write.
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0:52 - Does crypto make anarcho-capitalism pragmatic?
11:56 - Crypto is both technologically and morally superior
20:08 - Ayn Rand’s ideal world
26:00 - Children are humans in their purest form
30:03 - Having integrity in your beliefs
33:17 - Creating a TV show of Atlas Shrugged
36:33 - COVID radicalized a lot of people
41:48 - Riva’s toy store and philosophy class for kids
44:37 - Epistemological anarchism
46:49 - Objective beauty
50:57 - AI, AGI, and AI safety
57:25 - Distractions in the longevity movement
1:04:30 - Why care about longevity (and hate the state)
1:08:07 - Riva’s childhood
1:12:42 - There is more opportunity out there than anyone wants you to believe
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Nicole Behnam is a founder and journalist. She is the creator of Beyond The Interview where she’s interviewed people like Chris Voss, Konstantin Kisin, and Robert Greene.
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0:00 - Nicole’s relationship with her parents and books
4:45 - On being a red carpet host
9:57 - Clubhouse
14:34 - How Naval spoke at one of Nicole’s events
18:03 - Leverage social media
19:45 - NFTs
26:32 - Cults, communities, and influencing people
30:51 - Ray Peat
34:36 - What would your Oscar’s speech be?
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Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia. He is also the host of the Stranded Technologies Podcast.
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0:32 - Building Vitalia and Infinita VC
6:05 - The parallels between longevity and crypto
17:35 - How to convince people that living longer is a worthy goal
22:54 - Network societies
30:35 - Curating your early community
35:22 - The benefits of making organ trade legal
39:23 - Master of Business Creation
43:46 - The madness of air travel regulation
48:51 - Privatizing the base layer of society + closing remarks
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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