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Arjun Khemani Podcast

A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. www.arjunkhemani.com

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#22 – Per Bylund: Economic Illiteracy,...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2023/09/20

If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8Per Bylund is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. His latest book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer, serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy.TIMESTAMPS0:04 - Why economic illiteracy is so prevalent5:25 - Individualists trying to spread their ideas in a

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#21 – David D. Friedman: The Machinery of Freedom,...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2023/09/01

Support this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniDavid D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and son of Milton Friedman.TIMESTAMPS0:44 - 50 years of The Machinery of Freedom3:35 - What is a government?9:22 - How law could be produced and enforced in an anarcho-capitalist society12:00 - Laws produced by the market will be biased toward freedom14:27 - Is David an anarchist for pragmatic or ethical reasons?15:41 - Strategy18:19 - Governments evolving

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#20 – Jim O'Shaughnessy: AI, Education, Media, and...

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2023/08/15

Support this podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniJim O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. He also serves as the executive chair of the board of directors at Stability AI and is the host of the Infinite Loops podcast.TIMESTAMPS0:27 - The future of AI and Jim’s investment in Stability AI 4:51 - The Beginning of Infinity and the ideas of David Deutsch12:32 - The perils of labeling things and the illusion of certainty17:35 - Thinking probabilistically vs

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#19 – Logan Chipkin: Understanding Economics

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2023/07/28

This episode was recorded on Airchat. Learn more at getairchat.com.Logan Chipkin is a writer. You can purchase his recently published fantasy novel, Windfall here.Follow Logan on Twitter @ChipkinLogan and on Airchat @logan.TIMESTAMPS0:33 - A brief history of Austrian economics9:15 - Is economics a science?14:12 - How to think about the state21:05 - The problem with welfare statism30:05 - Constructor Theory and Austrian economics33:12 - Economic creationism41:20 - Consumerism: does capitalism rob us

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#18 – Yaron Brook: Humans, Inequality and AI

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2023/05/29

Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. Support the podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniTIMESTAMPS0:30 - What makes humans different3:50 - Christian atheists8:05 - Inequality good?12:25 - AGI Doomerism21:46 - Aliens23:37 - Bad philosophy in popular movies26:29 - The education system28:37 - Epistemology and The Beginning of Infinity40:58 - Advice for young peopleYARON'S LINKS* Twitter:

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#17 – Lulie Tanett: Epistemology in the Social...

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2023/04/12

Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting it at: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniWe talk about:* Lulie’s untypical childhood and the parenting philosophy she was raised under* What psychology and the social sciences can learn from epistemology* Mindfulness tied to Critical Rationalism* The constraints of creativity* And much more!TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Lulie’s childhood and Taking Children Seriously9:30 - Why

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#16 – Nat and Martha Sharpe: Alternative-Education,...

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2023/04/04

Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education. Support this podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniTIMESTAMPS0:00 - Preview and intro1:16 - Nat and Martha’s background (making movies)6:20 - Living on the road in an RV for a whole year11:47 - “you can just do stuff”15:30 - Winning $100,000 fellowship through O'Shaughnessey Ventures22:36 - Education, homeschooling/unschooling, “follow the fear”, gaps in

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#15 – Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall: Knowledge,...

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2023/03/25

Airchat: https://www.getairchat.comTIMESTAMPS0:24 - The nature of knowledge1:01- Constraints of progress6:31 - The finite speed of light is not a problem13:36 - “Any system that doesn’t get its feedback from free markets or nature eventually gets corrupted.” — Naval19:54 - Knowledge creation leads to wealth creation25:44 - Free willRELEVANT LINKSNaval on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/navalBrett on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/bretthallKeith on Airchat:

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14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand,...

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2023/02/16

Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.Support this podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniTIMESTAMPS0:39 - On a quest for the best life that you can achieve4:02 - Happiness without morality or morality without happiness5:27 - The interests of humans are at harmony7:58 - Sacrifice is not good for

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#13 – Danny Miranda: Creating Podcasts and The Future

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2023/02/06

Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast where he’s interviewed people like Bryan Johnson, Morgan Housel, Gary Vaynerchuck, David Perell, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Sam Parr, Anthony Pompliano, Derek Sivers, among many others.If you enjoy the podcast, the best way to support it is by sharing it. And if you have the means, please consider buying me a coffee.TIMESTAMPS0:00 - 7-year-old Danny taking over the New York Times2:17 - Thoughts on creating content5:09 - The desire to be normal8:22 -

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#12 – James Pierce: Perspective, Prescriptions, and...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2023/01/15

Support this podcast using this link: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniJames Pierce is a writer, executive coach and a philosopher. TIMESTAMPS0:50 - How modern psychology weakens the mind and how to conquer anxiety4:15 - Perspective and “direct observation”8:25 - Shoulds, prescriptions, and inexplicit knowledge15:58 - Sincere questions17:59 - Why James doesn’t meditate, the sense of sense, and enlightenment21:05 - The ultimate cause for all relationship problems26:20 - Peace33:30 - Insincere

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#11 – David Perell: Writing and Education

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/12/17

If you’d wish to support this podcast, click here.David Perell is a writer, podcaster and founder of the course Write of Passage. We talk about David’s new writing course for high schoolers, why he thinks the Internet is the best thing that happened to education, writing online and effective ways to do so, how to tackle long term goals, ChatGPT and more!TIMESTAMPS0:30 - The problem David is trying to solve with his new writing course for high schoolers6:10 - What David would do and how he would go

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#10 – Andrew Kirby: Hitting Financial Freedom At Age...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/12/02

Andrew Kirby is a YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers who became financially free at age 22 by synthesizing content on the Internet.We talk about the path Andrew takes to attain financial freedom at age 22, how to write good cold DMs, entrepreneurship, misconceptions around money, The Beginning of Infinity and Andrew’s most influential books, the pursuit of creation, happiness and much more!Listen on Apple Podcasts or SpotifyTIMESTAMPS0:00 - Andrew’s backstory // his entrepreneurial childhood4:50

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#9 – Chiara Marletto: Knowledge, Constraints and Good...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/11/22

Chiara is a quantum physicist and research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research interests are at the foundations of physics. Together with David Deutsch she is the pioneer of constructor theory, a new mode of scientific explanation which expresses physical laws in terms of counterfactuals, i.e. what can and cannot happen.She is the author of The Science of Can and Can’t subtitled “A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals” which is all about constructor

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#8 – Charlie Jungheim: From Meditation to Mars

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/11/12

Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) makes really cool videos about Critical Rationalism following the works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch. He’s a musician and comedian.In a fun and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about mixing comedy with intellectual stuff, our lives being transformed by the works of David Deutsch, how meditation links to epistemology, then Mars and more!TIMESTAMPS0:45 - Charlie’s INCREDIBLE content around critical rationalism (comedy mixed with intellectual stuff)6:17 -

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#7 – Michael Strong: Deschooling Society and The...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/11/04

Michael Strong is the founder of a virtual school called The Socratic Experience, made for children aged 8-19 where they get a personalized and purpose-driven education cultivated to develop their unique genius. He is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States. In our conversation, we talk about Michael’s vision for education in 20 years, deschooling society, Socratic questioning, the future of education and much more!Listen on Apple Podcasts or

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#6 – Jason Crawford: Does Progress Make Us Any Happier?

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/10/14

Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder.We talk about the need to study progress, tackle the question of whether progress makes humans any happier, optimism and solutionism, and some more.Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.TIMESTAMPS:0:38 - Why we need a new philosophy of progress3:54 - “Almost nothing about

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#5 – Chris Turner: Changing The Education System

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/10/09

In this episode, I talk to Chris Turner. A tech entrepreneur turned education entrepreneur who founded Moonrise, a co-learning space for kids. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.We talk about the problem with school, bad explanations around learning, the hard (yet exciting) problem Moonrise is solving, Taking Children Seriously and much more.This was a very fun and insightful conversation! Hope you find it so to.TIMESTAMPS0:30 - How Chris came from the startup world to the alt-education space8:55 -

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#4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad...

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/10/01

TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out8:18 - Become more valuable by learning high value skills10:45 - Voids create value / why Jay wants to change the way education is done13:20 - Digital Nomad and filming a documentary in the Arctic Circle21:10 - The most profound thing Jay learned from traveling to 57 countries 24:30 - All morality is localized / every

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#3 – Aastha Jain: Should We Live Forever?

Arjun Khemani Podcast ·

2022/07/07

Links* Aastha Jain* Live Longer World podcast* Feynman Kids Program* Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan ExtensionTimestamps1:05 - An important question: should we stop aging?3:27 - What if people don’t change their minds?5:35 - It’s in human nature to go against nature7:14 - Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension15:20 - Greater chance for statism if a generation extends indefinitely?18:26 - Population and pessimism25:26 - Doesn’t death give life meaning?34:56 - The importance of

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