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Jul 31, 2023 • 3h 34min
Bo Winegard and Matt Archer: Three Hereditarians Debate Immigration
Matthew Archer is the Editor-in-Chief of Aporia, a social science substack devoted to exploring controversial and important ideas in a fair & rigorous manner. Bo Winegard is the Executive Editor of Aporia and an independent scholar. He has a PhD in social psychology.Find Aporia:https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazinehttps://twitter.com/EPoe187Mentioned in the episode:https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1659910385141686273?s=20https://www.fromthenew.world/p/richard-hanania-returns-how-status#detailshttps://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine/status/1671217007650390017https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438 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

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Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 49min
Sam Woods: Machine Learning Will Return Us to Creativity
Find Sam:https://americanmind.org/features/the-exterior-darkness/whos-on-the-other-end-of-the-chatbot/https://www.bionicmarketing.io/https://twitter.com/samuelwoods_Mentioned in the episode:https://www.amazon.ca/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality 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

Jul 17, 2023 • 2h 54min
Noah Smith: We Can Build Again
Noah Smith is an economist, former Bloomberg columnist and the writer of the Noahpinion newsletter.Find Noah:https://twitter.com/NoahpinionMentioned in the episode:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.htmlhttps://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813https://eig.org/new-start-ups-break-record-in-2021-unpacking-the-numbers/https://twitter.com/BrandonLBradforhttps://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630 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

Jul 10, 2023 • 2h 22min
Richard Hanania: Liberalism Might Just Be Closer to Human Nature
Richard Hanania is the author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy” and the upcoming book “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics”. He is also the author of an excellent newsletter. Find Richard:https://twitter.com/RichardHananiahttps://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7Shttps://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Woke-Corporate-Identity-Politics-ebook/dp/B0BHWMJWW3Mentioned in the episode:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.htmlhttps://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618154/regime-change-by-patrick-j-deneen/https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146256/the-rise-of-the-conservative-legal-movement 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

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Jul 3, 2023 • 2h 44min
Lyman Stone: Growing the Population - A Kitchen Sink Approach
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

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Jun 26, 2023 • 2h 8min
Jacob Siegel: Social Media Censorship and the Hoax of the Century
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

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May 15, 2023 • 3h 19min
Byrne Hobart: Over- and Under-Correction in Tech
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

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May 8, 2023 • 1h 53min
Bryan Caplan: Can We Make Freedom and Democracy Compatible?
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

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Apr 10, 2023 • 3h 39min
Erik Torenberg: Upstream of the Revolution
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

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Mar 27, 2023 • 2h 16min
Brett Andersen: The Re-Evaluation of All Values
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