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Angel on Twitter Moderation:https://quillette.com/2022/11/23/twitter-is-not-the-town-square/Angel’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/StrangelEdweirdAngel Eduardo and Curtis Yarvin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkLhtTT1vnQGeoff Shullenberger on Popularism:https://compactmag.com/article/the-death-of-popularismTom Leung and his brother:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSomJ8Ls87G9Ct0c4m-tKM47wuI2pwRNAMore in Common Report:https://www.moreincommon.com/FIRE Surveys:https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/student-surveysTimestamps:0:00 Free Speech41:00 Trump53:30 Partisanship1:09:30 Starmanning1:34:00 Suicide2:02:30 Urgency2:22:00 Twitter2:28:00 Media Incentives 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

Freddie deBoer is a writer and the author of The Cult of Smart.The Incoherence and Cruelty of Mental Illness as Meme — Freddie deBoer:Freddie deBoer’s first appearance on FTNW:The Cult of Smart:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250224491/thecultofsmartTimestamps:0:00 Class Analysis10:30 Mental Illness43:00 Internet Incentives1:28:00 McLuhan1:41:00 Elite Competition 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

Garett Jones is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of several books: Hive Mind, 10% Less Democracy, and his latest book: The Culture Transplant.Buy The Culture Transplant:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35594Garett’s other books:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23082Garett on Twitter:https://twitter.com/GarettJonesMy Interview With Tyler Cowen:Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-matthew-yglesias.htmlTimestamps:0:00 Democracy33:00 Libertarianism37:00 Singapore43:00 Intelligence1:10:10 State Capacity1:18:30 Immigration and Culture1:41:00 Diversity1:50:00 Public Trust2:00:00 Populism and Shorism 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

Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of many books, including Why People Believe Weird Things, the Moral Arc, and most recently, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.Conspiracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Conspiracy-Why-Rational-Believe-Irrational/dp/1421444453Michael on Twitter:https://twitter.com/michaelshermerRichard Hanania Interview:Jon Askonas: Reality is Just a Game Nowhttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now0:00 History6:30 Conspiracy Theories24:00 Religious Sects41:00 Evolutionary Adaptation57:30 Social Media Algorithms1:13:30 Sex Differences1:17:00 Trump1:31:00 Pandemics1:36:00 Deep State1:51:00 Lab Leak1:59:00 The Intellectual Dark Web2:10:00 Academia2:28:00 Chaos and Order 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

Richard Bruns is an economist who worked on cost-benefit for the FDA and now works at a biosecurity organization funded by the Open Philanthropy Foundation.Tyler Cowen on From the New WorldZvi Mowshowitz on FTNW:Scott Alexander on the FDA 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

In which we discuss:Effective AltruismPsychopathyMachine LearningPhilosophy of ScienceNeuroticismFree SpeechCatholic Integralists 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

Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of Em, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.0:00 Authenticity9:30 Autodidacts22:30 Deaths of Despair39:20 World Mob1:17:00 The Sacred1:28:30 Tax Career Agents1:39:00 Elon Musk1:42:00 Academic Standards1:51:00 Academia and IQ tests2:25:00 Order and ChaosRobin on Twitter:https://twitter.com/robinhansonRound 1:Robin Hanson and Agnes Callard on Autodidacts:https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/autodidactRobin Hanson Debates Curtis Yarvin: 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 at the New Atlantis:https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonasWhy Conservatism Failed:https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failedJon’s twitter:https://twitter.com/jonaskonasPodcast with Jon and Geoff Shullenberger: 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

Jonathan Rauch is the author of the Constitution of Knowledge, Kindly Inquisitors, the Happiness Curve, and much more.0:00 The Constitution of Knowledge23:30 Trump28:00 Cognitive Bias48:15 Game Theory 1:12:00 EgregoresJon on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jon_rauchBJ Campbell on From the New World:Jonathan Rauch — How American Politics Went Insane:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/Atlantic Dinosaurs:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strength American Democracy:https://www.amazon.ca/Political-Realism-Back-Room-Strengthen-Democracy-ebook/dp/B00WNCUMEW 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

Arnold Kling is an economist, former writer at EconLog and writer of the In My Tribe substack, and the author of many books, including Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics, andThe Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. We discuss polarization, Never-Trumpers, intellectual honesty, specialization, vaccines, scientific innovation, tribalism, empathy, “fantasy intellectual teams”, and the administrative state.0:00 Polarization20:30 Never-Trump41:00 Intellectual Honesty1:03:00 Specialization1:21:00 Vaccines and Innovation1:39:20 Does specialization cause tribalism2:24:00 Order, Chaos, and the Administrative StateIn My Tribe, by Arnold Kling:Arnold on Twitter:https://twitter.com/KlingBlogEconlog:https://www.econlib.org/author/akling/Specialization and Trade:https://www.amazon.ca/Specialization-Trade-Re-introduction-Arnold-Kling-ebook/dp/B01GW3SOOMThe Three Languages of Politics:https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Languages-Politics-Talking-Political/dp/1944424466My conversation with Zvi Mowshowitz:My conversation with Richard Hanania:Designing a Better Regulatory State by Arnold Kling:https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/designing-a-better-regulatory-stateAlbion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America:https://www.amazon.ca/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-America/dp/0195069056Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the Worldhttps://www.amazon.ca/Special-Providence-American-Foreign-Changed/dp/0415935369Warriors and Worriers:https://www.amazon.ca/Warriors-Worriers-Survival-Joyce-Benenson-ebook/dp/B00HO6WT3O 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