From the New World

Lyman Stone is a Demographer and Writer, focusing on the issues of pronatalism, family, and religion.Find Lyman:https://twitter.com/lymanstonekyhttps://sites.google.com/view/lymanstone/homeMentioned in the episode:https://www.fromthenew.world/p/malcolm-collins-the-parasite-precipehttps://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-collins-optimized-dating-parasocial#detailshttps://www.fromthenew.world/p/eric-kaufmann-whiteshift-blueshift#detailshttps://www.amazon.com/Birth-Control-American-Modernity-History/dp/1316519589 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jacob Siegel is a senior editor of Tablet Magazine and a co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. He is also the author of the landmark article “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century”.Find Jacob:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformationhttps://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegelhttps://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/jacob-siegelhttps://manifesto.fireside.fm/https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jacob-siegel-a-friendly-quarrel-inMentioned on the Episode:https://www.fromthenew.world/p/jon-askonas-politics-is-downstream#detailshttps://americanmind.org/memo/black-boxing-democracy/https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-facthttps://www.amazon.ca/Two-Faces-Liberalism-John-Gray/dp/1565846788https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Byne Hobart is the writer of The Diff. He is an exceptional writer on finance and a wide collection of other topics. We discuss anecdotes, organizational theory, OpenAI, democracy, boom-bust cycles, and crystallized knowledge, among other topics.Find Byrne:https://twitter.com/ByrneHobartMentioned on the show:https://cactus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-lanley-not-spock-artificialhttps://mlzeng.com/an-interesting-equation.htmlhttps://www.amazon.ca/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296https://www.amazon.ca/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358250412https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-economics/https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam/dp/0688048382 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Today’s guest is Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Bet On It newsletter and many books, including Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrational. Find Bryan Caplan (and buy his books):https://twitter.com/bryan_caplanhttps://www.amazon.com/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8Bhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Are-Politicians-Demagoguery/dp/B09YQGKBXHhttps://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691138737Mentioned in the episode:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Erik Torenberg is the founder of Village Global, Ondeck, and the first employee of Product Hunt. We discuss tech, silicon valley as a media power, public impact, social desirability, egalitarianism, and dating advice for young founders.Find Eric:https://twitter.com/eriktorenbergMentioned in the episode:https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Brett Andersen is the author of the “Imitations of a New Worldview” substack, where he writes about philosophical traditions in the context of evolutionary psychology, complexity, and cognitive science. We discuss all of those topics, as well as Jordan Peterson, humanities education, and evolutionary mismatch.Find Brett:https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersenMentioned in the show:https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse.Jon Askonas:https://twitter.com/JonAskonashttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonasJon’s articles mentioned:https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failedhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-nowhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-realityhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tuckerMentioned in the episode:https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-cityhttps://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at the recently released (as of republishing) card game https://emergentstcg.com. We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math.Note: the timestamps are somewhat inaccurate due to editing and intro.0:00 MTG19:00 chess,  computability, and learning36:30 COVID projections49:00 CDC banning tests + immoral mazes57:15 narrative hedging1:14:05 selection vs. malleability1:21:20 Robin Hanson and medicine1:55:00 institution building2:00:05 egalitarianism and social competition2:13:30 were we in a golden age?2:15:30 decivilization2:18:50 economies of scale3:03:00 chaos and order3:14:05 pure mathZvi’s Blog:http://thezvi.wordpress.com/Zvi on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheZviEpisode with Samo Burja:Episode with Robin Hanson:CDC banning COVID tests:https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improveMoral Mazes book:https://www.amazon.ca/Moral-Mazes-Corporate-Managers-Updated/dp/0199729883 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Simone Collins is the co-founder of pronatalist.org and co-author of the Pragmatist’s Guide series. Find Simone:https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollinshttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTGhttps://pronatalist.org/Mentioned in the episode:https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-ParadoxTimestamps:0:00 Evolutionary Mismatch8:30 Transmaxxing13:00 The Sacred31:00 Social Justice46:00 Pronatalism1:10:30 Parasocial Relationships1:28:30 Self-Deception2:01:00 Post-Irony2:29:30 “Wokeness” as a Term2:56:00 Incels This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast and writes The Lunar Society newsletter.Find Dwarkesh:https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_spMentioned in the show:https://www.americanmoment.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_NoteTimestamps:0:00 zoomers8:00 childhood15:00 administrative state25:00 prodigies35:00 art and digitization53:00 Economic progress56:00 Talent1:19:00 Curtis Yarvin1:32:00 Podcasting1:47:00 Effective Altruism This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe