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Oct 31, 2022 • 2h 28min
Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future
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

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 6min
Bonus Episode: Jon Askonas on Alternate Reality
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

Oct 24, 2022 • 1h 43min
Jonathan Rauch: The Written and Unwritten Constitution
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

Oct 17, 2022 • 2h 30min
Arnold Kling: How Economics Starts with Specialization
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

Oct 10, 2022 • 3h 1min
Jeremy Carl: The Three Eras of State and Technology
Jeremy is senior fellow at the Claremont institute, writer and builder in early silicon valley, contributor to many, many publications, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration. We discuss early silicon valley, the dissident right, authoritarian regimes, rationalism, Covid policy, immigration, economies of scale, chesterton, and “Godel, Escher, Bach”. Jeremy on Web 1.0:https://return.life/2022/03/07/web-1-0/Jeremy’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4Curtis Yarvin on From the New World:Godel Escher Bach:https://www.amazon.ca/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567Power of the powerless:https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23Geoff Shullenberger and I on his podcast, Outsider TheoryCompact Endorsement of Trump:https://compactmag.com/article/he-s-still-the-one 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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Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 46min
Bryan Caplan: How Libertarians Can Stop Losing Friends and Influencing No One
Bryan Caplan is an economist and professor at George Mason University, the writer of the betonit substack and the author of many books: The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, the Case Against Education, Open Borders: the Science and Ethics of Immigration, and the newly released Don’t Be A Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. Bryan’s Susbtack:Bryan’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/bryan_caplanTimestamps:0:00 Feminism30:40 Wokeness and Anti-wokeness39:40 Social Desirability Bias1:00:45 Private Companies1:05:20 Rebranding Libertarianism1:15:15 Life as a Public Intellectual 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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Sep 26, 2022 • 5h 36min
James Pogue - Nature, Strife, and American Destiny
James Pogue is a uniquely interest journalist and author of Chosen Country: a Rebellion in the West. You can find his work in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, and many more outlets.Timestamps (You’ll need them this time):0:00 American Mythology17:00 Disenchantment55:00 Truckers1:01:00 Elite Theory1:24:00 Forestry1:48:00 Rights Regime2:04:00 Social Media2:36:00 De-Civilization2:44:00 South Africa3:01:00 Political Violence4:00:00 The Deep Right4:58:00 Ron Desantis5:40:00 PrinciplesJames on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jhensonpogueMy interview with Curtis Yarvin:Part 1 of My Series on NatCon:Common Sense Piece on Trucker ProtestsNew Yorker Profile of Mark Milley:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals 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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Sep 19, 2022 • 2h 37min
Steve Hsu - The Future of Human Evolution
Steve Hsu is a theoretical physicist at Michigan State, the co-founder of Genomic Prediction, and write of the blog Information Processing.Round 1 with Steve Hsu: Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:Information Processing: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hsu_steveHuman Nature (Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612680/Timestamps:0:00 genomic prediction12:20 communication, statistics and media38:20 use of force41:20 predicting intelligence55:30 do progrsssives hate stats?144:45 gene editing2:00:00 He Jiankui204:15 Machine Learning218:30 Nazis in the Western memory235:00 science fiction240:20 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

Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 59min
Eric Kaufmann: Whiteshift and the Coming Realignment
Eric Kaufmann is a professor at Birkbeck, University of London, a columnist at Unherd and the author of Whiteshift. Twitter:https://twitter.com/epkaufmUnherd:https://unherd.com/author/eric-kaufmann/Whiteshift:https://www.amazon.ca/Whiteshift-Populism-Immigration-Future-Majorities/dp/14683169740:00 is race overrated or underrated?13:03 leftmodernism26:20 scapegoating33:20 ethnic nation states101:20 tolerance 112:20 DEI 119:50 Brexit 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

Sep 8, 2022 • 12min
From the New World Season 2 Retrospective
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