From the New World

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

I’m crossposting this episode from the Moment of Zen podcast, a tech podcast hosted by Erik Torenberg, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and Dan Romero. In it I discuss ChatGPT, machine learning, pluralism, and regime politics. This was one of the most enjoyable podcast appearances for me so far.Timestamps:(1:00) Why is ChatGPT woke? (6:23) DAN (do anything now) (12:20) Who cares if chatGPT is a little woke?(16:00) OpenAI is just protecting themselves (23:00) Why is it so bad that chatGPT is a little woke? (27:00) Why not compete with openAI directly? (33:00) Why pluralism instead of truthism? (40:00) How can pluralism win? (42:00) Polarization is good (51:00) The arc of technology is centralization (1:12:30) Reconciling contradictions (1:21:40) Explaining The Cathedral (1:32:00) Why politics matters for tech 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

Roko Mijic, Rationalist and inventor of 'Roko's Basilisk,' discusses rationality, signaling, lockdowns, selection effects, feminism, housing, crypto, and elite theory. The podcast delves into the conflict between rationalists and Wokism, exploring truth-seeking movements, societal challenges, governance systems, DAOs, Urbit, cryptocurrency, and future implications on governance and AI development.

Curtis Yarvin is the founder of Urbit, as well as the author of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror: 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

Rob Henderson is a writer of an excellent Substack, a founding faculty of UATX, and a recent recipient of a psychology PhD. We discuss the evolution of media, the “policy left”, noblesse oblige, the Tripartite War, the meaning crisis, Eric Berne, and transactional analysis.Timestamps:0:00 Media12:00 Tiktok22:00 “Policy left”33:00 Elites and Status Competition52:00 Noblesse Oblige58:00 Parallel Status Hierarchies1:07:00 Tripartite War1:42:00 Meaning vs. Pleasure1:55:00 Eric Berne and Transactional Analysis2:39:00 Chaos and OrderRob on Substack:Twitter:https://twitter.com/robkhendersonPieces Mentioned: 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

Malcolm Collins is the co-founder of pronatalist.org and the Collins Institute, along with his wife Simone. We discuss Cultural Evolution, Puritans, Wokeness, Psychiatry, Effective Alutrism, Pronatalism, Gene Editing, Trads, Eschatology, and Good and Evil.Timestamps:0:00 Western Civilization4:00 Memes21:00 Hicksite Quakers28:30 Psychiatry37:30 Fashion50:00 Effective Altruism57:00 Gene-Culture Coevolution102:00 Depopulation1:33:00 Trads1:55:00 Eschatology2:11:00 Historical Direction2:32:00 Good and Evil3:07:00 Autism3:12:00 Order and ChaosMalcolm and Simone on Twitter:https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollinspronatalist.orghttps://collinsinstitute.org/Pieces mentioned:The Pragmatist Guide Series by Simone and Malcolm Collins:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTG?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn 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

Samuel Hammond is the director of social policy at the Niskanen center and the author of the Second Best newsletter. We discuss religion, Peter Thiel, artificial intelligence, critical theory, industrial policy, Georgism, resource scarcity, bureaucracy, prisoner’s dilemmas, care work, and Canada.https://secondbest.ca/Samuel at Niskanen:https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/samuel-hammond/Samuel on Twitter:https://twitter.com/hamandcheeseSamuel on AI:Samuel on Mormons:From the New World Episode with Richard Hanania: 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