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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
Listen now | How migrants bring their values to their new countries, Why national IQ matters, How the Chinese people are an unstoppable global force for…
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Jan 24
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Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
Listen now | "completely changed how I think about who creates value in the world and who leaches off it."
Jan 9
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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Listen now | AI, Progress, Digital People, Ethics, & a $30m grant to OpenAI
Jan 3
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December 2022
Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & Marriage
Listen now | what Sriram would say if Elon tapped him to be the next CEO of Twitter, why more married couples don’t start businesses together, and how…
Dec 29, 2022
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Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
Listen now | This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean broke the Enron story & has written some of the best finance books out there. We…
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Dec 21, 2022
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Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
Listen now | On the culture of the new tech elite, the priorities of their philanthropy, and the limitations of democracy in open source
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Dec 15, 2022
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Aella - Sex, Psychedelics, & Enlightenment
Listen now (77 min) | Sex tips, porn revolutions, elites, consent, & trads
Dec 12, 2022
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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
Listen now (91 min) | what happened at FTX, how drugs explain past financial bubbles, whether Musk Twitter will succeed, and much much more!
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Dec 1, 2022
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November 2022
Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
Listen now | why Cities are resilient to terrorism, remote work, & pandemics, Silicon Valley may collapse, Opioids show UBI is not a solution to AI, …
Dwarkesh Patel
Nov 28, 2022
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Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
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Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
Listen now | I had a fascinating discussion about Robert Moses and The Power Broker with Professor Kenneth T. Jackson. He's the pre-eminent historian on…
Nov 8, 2022
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October 2022
Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
Listen now | Why construction isn’t getting cheaper and faster, Environmental review makes new construction expensive and delayed, “Ugly” modern…
Dwarkesh Patel
Oct 27, 2022
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Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
Listen now | Why the universe hates women, praising billionaires, anarcho-capitalism as the ultimate form of government, and much more!
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Oct 20, 2022
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