Jack Roycroft-Sherry

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is a professor of history at the University of Chicago. He's an expert on the history of Europe and Britain, and most recently has co-written a book with Carl Wennerlind called 'Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis.' TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Start 01:17 Why the Industrial Revolution Happened 06:10 Origins of Growth and Science 12:00 Economic Growth as a New Idea (And the Time Before Growth) 14:50 How We Get to Modern Economics (Smith and Malthus) 22:27 Economic Growth Becomes Mainstream 26:10 When Did Climate Change Really Begin ? 31:20 Should We Stop Economic Growth? 38:15 Geoengineering and the Benefits of Climate Change 42:30 What Would a World with No Growth Look Like? 49:20 Advice to People Interested in Climate Change FREDRIK -University profile and research: https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/Fredrik-Albritton-Jonsson -His book: https://amzn.eu/d/j2Wbpcg THE PODCAST -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry

Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University. In this podcast, we delve into various pressing questions such as: What are the economic impacts of IQ? How do migrants affect the economies of the countries they move to? What is the ideal level of democracy? And what is the impact of AI and technology on jobs? Tune in to find out! Garett's academic webpage: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/gjonesb Garett's books: -The The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left -10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less -Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:06 IQ matters more for nations than individuals 03:07 IQ and patience, savings, and cooperation 07:07 AI replacing jobs 09:13 IQ and immigration 12:35 "The Culture Transplant" 16:02 Do migrants assimilate? 20:47 Migration vs. geography vs. institutions 23:06 Migrants from Europe Made Countries Richer 24:56 How do migrants change the countries they move to? 27:05 The Economics of Diversity 33:30 Migration in the ancient world 39:04 The role of government 41:42 Bitcoin 43:50 Austrian school of economics: Under or Overrated? 49:53 Big data economics 52:49 The pros and cons of democracy 58:28 Democracy and migration 1:01:12 How to improve the world 1:04:08 Behavioral Economics

Damian Kelty-Stephen is a psychologist focused on understanding complex behaviors such as movement, language, and perception. Traditional cognitive science often views organisms as having a centralized controller in the brain to govern behavior. But what if we could better understand organisms as collective intelligences, exhibiting behaviors we typically associate with swarm organisms, like bees? In this episode, we discuss intelligence without a central controller and intelligence beyond brains. We explore how complex behaviors might be explained without centralized control systems. We also touch on the importance of neurons, the intelligence of cells, and compare biological with technological intelligence. Find Damian's Work: A great lecture related to this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P89WTmNBjBk&t=1032s Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/foovian/ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:22 Explaining the complexity of movement 05:03 Cognition without a central controller 13:15 Intelligence beyond brains 21:48 Biological vs. technological intelligence 28:19 Multifractal social psychology 38:52 Measuring multifractality 49:16 Nations as collective intelligences 50:57 Understanding speech

Brett Andersen is a PhD student studying evolutionary psychology. We discuss how different models of cognition are increasingly being bridged together and how they relate to our world today. This is giving us the tools to appreciate the place of science and mythology in our culture, as well as helping to develop scientific accounts of meaning, mythology and God. READING AND EXTRA INFO Brett is a PHD student who is studying evolutionary psychology. His academic work focuses on autistic vs schizotypal spectrum. He has a Substack where is writing on topics such as our left hemisphere dominance as a culture, scientific account of mythology, and how we come to have morals and values. He recently wrote a paper with John Vervaeke bridging the relevance realisation theory of cognition with predictive processing which can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-022-09850-6#ref-CR31 He has a Substack where he writes on as host of topics, bridging together complexity theory, cognitive science, philosophy, science and mythology: https://brettandersen.substack.com/