From the New World

(Classic Episode) Samo Burja: Patterns of Destruction and Structures of Rebirth

Dec 26, 2022

02:09:52

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Samo Burja

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The Impact of Functional Organizations on Society

02:10

The Evolution of Online Discourse and Writing Culture

01:51

Building Power: Harnessing Resources and Using Restraint

02:13

The Social Phenomenon of the Selfie

03:09

Introduction

2min

What I Like About Otto Von Bismarck

3min

German Foreign Policy

3min

What Are Live Players?

3min

Is There a Reason Not to Deviate From the Wheel?

3min

The Elon Musk of Social Media

5min

The College Experience Is What It Is

2min

Is There a Massive Subsidy to All of Society?

5min

What Is the Problem With Institutional Structures?

5min

10.

Are the Office Politics Functional or Dysfunctional?

5min

11.

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations

5min

12.

What Is the History of the Museum in Alexandria?

2min

13.

Social Capital

3min

14.

What Is Our Kind of Civilizational Risk?

1min

15.

We've Found a New and Better Form of Piety

6min

16.

Is There a Future for Renewables?

3min

17.

Is Human Attention a Liability?

5min

18.

We're Eating the Muscles of Our Society, Right?

2min

19.

The Ever-Haging Narrative

3min

20.

The European Union Is Not a Producing Society

3min

21.

Is Private Versus Public Really a Panacea?

3min

22.

Social Democracy

3min

23.

The Ultimate Hedge of Artificial Intelligence

3min

24.

Machine Learning Is Fundamentally the Science of Finding Statistics

1min

25.

The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable, Right?

5min

26.

The Chinese Model of Social Credit Can Be Good, Right?

4min

27.

Is There a Difference Between China and America?

6min

28.

Politics Is Centered Around the Fight Between Old Power and New Power

3min

29.

Machiavellianism, Right?

2min

30.

The Existence of Actualizable Opportunities Right Is Important

2min

31.

Are We Making Use of the Live Players?

4min

32.

Is There Room for Demagogues?

5min

33.

Hyper-Connectivity

4min

34.

I Think the Twitter Anonymous Accounts Are True Intellectual Elite

2min

35.

MIT Should Have an Anonymous Twitter Account

2min

36.

Is There a Zero Sum and Negative Sum Online Culture?

2min

37.

Do You Think We Live in a Zero or a Positive Sum Era?

3min

38.

Don't Neglect Your Networks

3min

39.

Are We at the End of the Road?

2min

40.

Samo Beria - Great Podcast Samo

2min

This remains my favorite episode, despite Samo’s squeaky chair and some audio misses. We discuss ideas that have made a profound impact on my thinking, such as narrative hedging, the Bismarckian compromise, and energy leaps. This may sound like it was recorded last week with the insightful observations on energy and geopolitical conflict, but it was actually recorded nearly a year ago, at the end of April, and releasing in the middle of May.

Samo Burja is the founder and president of the consulting company Bismarck Analysis, a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute. He is also the writer of the Bismarck Brief newsletter, linked below.

In this podcast, we discuss the life of Otto Von Bismarck, the political economy of institutions, narratives as a hedge against failure, the coming energy transition, differences between Europe and America, regulation as vengeance, live players, Elon Musk, and the global financial system.Bismarck Analysis:

https://www.bismarckanalysis.com/#/

Bismarck Brief:

Samo Burja on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/SamoBurja

The Costs of European “Privacy” Regulation:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30028

EU Artificial Intelligence law:https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/13/1052223/guide-ai-act-europe/

Great founder theory:

https://samoburja.com/great-founder-theory/

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