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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics

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Jan 30, 2023
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Damon Binder
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What's Going on With the Hockey Stick?
02:13 • 4min
3
Are We on the Next Step?
05:57 • 6min
4
Is Life Expectancy Going Down With These Early States?
11:36 • 4min
5
Is There a Difference Between State Power and Average Quality of Life?
15:50 • 5min
6
What Does Like Optimal Peasant Utility Look Like?
20:23 • 2min
7
Do You Think Malthus Got Anything Wrong?
22:19 • 2min
8
The Carrying Capacity of Land
23:50 • 2min
9
The Industrial Revolution
26:01 • 2min
10
Industrial Revolution
27:51 • 2min
11
Is the Industrial Revolution a Driving Factor?
29:40 • 4min
12
Is Industrialization Inevitable?
33:40 • 3min
13
What's the Good News About Coal?
37:00 • 3min
14
The Enlightenment and the Protestant Work Ethic
40:17 • 2min
15
What's the Role of the Catholic Church in Europe?
41:48 • 2min
16
What's the Story Behind the Industrial Revolution?
44:07 • 4min
17
The Black Death Wage Factor Price Story
47:41 • 2min
18
The Black Death and Population Growth
49:41 • 4min
19
The Industrial Revolution
53:42 • 3min
20
The Industrial Revolution and Its Effects on the World
57:11 • 2min
21
Did the Industrial Revolution Cause Empire?
58:54 • 4min
22
The New World's Exchange
01:02:40 • 2min
23
The Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences
01:04:30 • 3min
24
Is It a Security Dilemma?
01:07:44 • 3min
25
How Far Can You Stretch That?
01:10:25 • 2min
26
Is There a Good Answer to the Question of Population Growth?
01:12:42 • 2min
27
Is There a Future for AI?
01:14:41 • 3min
28
The Future of Artificial Intelligence?
01:18:08 • 2min
29
Is There a Middle Ground for Biochemical Enhancement?
01:20:28 • 2min
30
Is There a Limit to Growth in a Super Denmark World?
01:22:02 • 3min
31
Degrowth Arguments
01:24:51 • 4min
32
The Global North Should Like Degrowth a Bit
01:28:24 • 3min
33
Are You a Skeptic of Existential Risk?
01:31:19 • 2min
34
Is Accelerating the Development of Advanced Biotech a Good Idea?
01:32:59 • 3min
35
Is It a Good Net Bad or Just a Side Show?
01:35:58 • 3min
36
Crusader Kings
01:39:11 • 2min
37
EA Research
01:41:08 • 3min
38
What's the Basic Numbers in Cell Biology?
01:43:38 • 2min
39
What's Up With Content Free Physics?
01:46:01 • 6min
40
What Are the Different Camps of Theorists?
01:51:40 • 3min
41
What Does Quantum Gravity Look Like?
01:54:11 • 5min
42
How to Find a Muon?
01:59:07 • 4min
43
How to Prove Quantum Gravity Effects With a Microscope?
02:02:57 • 5min
44
Maxwell's Equations Explained Electricity and Magnetism
02:08:08 • 4min
45
Maxwell's Equations - The Speed of Light
02:12:34 • 5min
46
The Speed of Light Is the Same for Everyone
02:17:11 • 2min
47
How Do You Measure the Speed of Light With Microsomoly Technology?
02:18:55 • 5min
48
Special Relativity Is a Critical Feature of Particle Mechanics
02:23:47 • 2min
49
Is There a Causal Structure in Relativity?
02:26:13 • 4min
50
The Process of Mercury's Orbit
02:30:41 • 3min
51
Einstein's Theory of the Universe
02:33:12 • 3min
52
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Was a Theoretical Beast
02:36:29 • 2min
53
The Progress in Cosmology in the Second Half of the 20th Century
02:38:13 • 6min
54
How to Calculate the Protons and Neutrons From the Standard Model?
02:43:46 • 2min
55
The Higgs Boson - The Standard Model Predicts Everything
02:46:14 • 2min
56
The Higgs Boson - Is There Anything New?
02:48:20 • 6min
57
What Lessons Are Reliable From the String Theory Story?
02:53:56 • 3min
58
Is There a Future for String Theory?
02:56:59 • 4min
59
Is the Theory of Protein Folding True?
03:00:30 • 5min
60
Is String Theory Correct?
03:05:38 • 1min
61
What Are the Higgs Masses?
03:06:55 • 3min
62
The Cosmological Constant Is Not Zero
03:09:28 • 2min
63
The Cosmological Constant Is Not Zero, but It's Close to Zero
03:11:50 • 4min
64
Is There a Bias Toward Logic?
03:16:06 • 4min
65
Is There a Lot of Stuff in the Universe?
03:20:18 • 2min
66
Is There a Universe That's Full of Life?
03:22:28 • 5min
67
How Long Will the Last Stars Die?
03:27:51 • 3min
68
Seeing Galaxies Is Not Visible Light
03:30:47 • 5min
69
The Super Duper Black Hole
03:35:58 • 5min
70
Theta Black, We're All Credits
03:40:53 • 5min
71
Is the Universe Metastable?
03:46:05 • 3min
72
I Don't Think We'll Be Able to Break Like the Speed of Light Barrier
03:48:51 • 3min
73
Is There Anything Like First Principles Thinking Going on Here?
03:52:20 • 4min
74
Are There Any Reasons to Prefer Digital Minds?
03:56:43 • 4min