#333 - Devon Eriksen - Property Rights, Rent Seekers, AI, Communism, Why Culture is Upstream of Law

Devon Eriksen grew up with images of the galaxy and the imagined worlds of the golden age of science fiction. Now a retired software engineer, he writes with one purpose in mind: to give the reader something to love.

On this episode, Chris and Devon discuss:

• Why culture is upstream of law
• The era of whining being over
• Property Rights
• Why we need to push back on bad ideas
• Artificial Intelligence
• Rent-Seekers

Links:

Devon on X

Devon's Book: Theft of Fire

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Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:02:23) - Devon’s multiple careers

(00:03:42) - “Culture is upstream of law, and law affects us.”

(00:17:33) - How does the non-left get back into the cultural dialogue?

(00:30:54) - The era of whining is over.

(00:34:43) - Property Rights

(00:41:48) - Pushing back on bad ideas

(00:46:13) - Artificial Intelligence

(01:00:26) - Predicting the future

(01:03:11) - Rent-Seeking

(01:07:05) - Who are the fiction gatekeepers?

(01:14:18) - Who is ‘they’?

(01:16:53) - The Principle-Agent Problem

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