My conversation with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis. He chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine.
Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.
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Timestamps
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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