From the New World

Noah Smith is an economist, former Bloomberg columnist and the writer of the Noahpinion newsletter. Find Noah: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion Mentioned in the episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/ https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813...

Richard Hanania is the author of “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy” and the upcoming book “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics”. He is also the author of an excellent newsletter. Find Richard: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S https://...

Lyman Stone is a Demographer and Writer, focusing on the issues of pronatalism, family, and religion. Find Lyman: https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky https://sites.google.com/view/lymanstone/home Mentioned in the episode: https://www.fromthenew.world/p/malcolm-collins-the-parasite-precipe https://www.fromthenew.world/p/simone-collins-optimized-dating-parasocial#details https://www.fromthenew.world/p/...

Jacob Siegel is a senior editor of Tablet Magazine and a co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. He is also the author of the landmark article “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century”. Find Jacob: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation https://twitter.com/Jacob__Siegel https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/jacob-...

Byne Hobart is the writer of The Diff . He is an exceptional writer on finance and a wide collection of other topics. We discuss anecdotes, organizational theory, OpenAI, democracy, boom-bust cycles, and crystallized knowledge, among other topics. Find Byrne: https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart Mentioned on the show: https://cactus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-lanley-not-spock-artificial https://mlzeng.c...

Today’s guest is Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Bet On It newsletter and many books, including Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrational. Find Bryan Caplan (and buy his books): https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan https://www.amazon.com/Voters-Mad-Scientists-Political-Irrationality/dp/B0C2SD1K8B https://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Are-Politi...

Erik Torenberg is the founder of Village Global, Ondeck, and the first employee of Product Hunt. We discuss tech, silicon valley as a media power, public impact, social desirability, egalitarianism, and dating advice for young founders. Find Eric: https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg Mentioned in the episode: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/ This is a public episode....

Brett Andersen is the author of the “Imitations of a New Worldview” substack, where he writes about philosophical traditions in the context of evolutionary psychology, complexity, and cognitive science. We discuss all of those topics, as well as Jordan Peterson, humanities education, and evolutionary mismatch. Find Brett: https://twitter.com/BrettPAndersen Mentioned in the show: https://www.hup.ha...

Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse. Jon Askonas: https://twitter.com/JonAskonas https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas Jon’s articles mentioned: https://co...

Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at the recently released (as of republishing) card game https://emergentstcg.com. We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing, immoral mazes, selection effects, psychological malleability, Robin Hanson and medicine, institutional incentives, egalitarianism, c...

Simone Collins is the co-founder of pronatalist.org and co-author of the Pragmatist’s Guide series. Find Simone: https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FMWMFTG https://pronatalist.org/ Mentioned in the episode: https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-Paradox Timestamps: 0:00 Evolutionary Mismatch8:30 Transmaxxing13:00 The Sacred31:00 Social Justice46:00 Pronatalism1:10:30 Paraso...

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast and writes The Lunar Society newsletter. Find Dwarkesh: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Mentioned in the show: https://www.americanmoment.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note Timestamps: 0:00 zoomers 8:00 childhood 15:00 administrative state 25:00 prodigies 35:00 art and digitization 53:00...

I’m crossposting this episode from the Moment of Zen podcast, a tech podcast hosted by Erik Torenberg, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and Dan Romero. In it I discuss ChatGPT, machine learning, pluralism, and regime politics. This was one of the most enjoyable podcast appearances for me so far. Timestamps: (1:00) Why is ChatGPT woke? (6:23) DAN (do anything now) (12:20) Who cares if chatGPT is a little w...

Roko Mijic is a rationalist, writer of the Heretical Update newsletter, and the inventor of “Roko’s Basilisk”. Roko’s Links: From the New World is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. https://twitter.com/RokoMijic Mentioned in the episode: https://spandrell.com/2018/01/21/leninism-and-bioleninism/ https://www.thegptt...

Curtis Yarvin is the founder of Urbit, as well as the author of Unqualified Reservations and Gray Mirror: 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

Rob Henderson is a writer of an excellent Substack, a founding faculty of UATX, and a recent recipient of a psychology PhD. We discuss the evolution of media, the “policy left”, noblesse oblige, the Tripartite War, the meaning crisis, Eric Berne, and transactional analysis. Timestamps: 0:00 Media12:00 Tiktok22:00 “Policy left”33:00 Elites and Status Competition52:00 Noblesse Oblige58:00 Parallel S...

Samuel Hammond is the director of social policy at the Niskanen center and the author of the Second Best newsletter. We discuss religion, Peter Thiel, artificial intelligence, critical theory, industrial policy, Georgism, resource scarcity, bureaucracy, prisoner’s dilemmas, care work, and Canada. https://secondbest.ca/ Samuel at Niskanen: https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/samuel-hammond/ Samue...

Last week I brought you my favorite episode from the archives, with Samo Burja. I asked on twitter for my audience’s favorite episode and unsurprisingly it is this one. There’s no doubt that part of this is because Tyler is the most well-known guest on this podcast. But listening to the episode in hindsight, my impression of it is better than it was before. It remains true that I didn’t have the t...

This remains my favorite episode, despite Samo’s squeaky chair and some audio misses. We discuss ideas that have made a profound impact on my thinking, such as narrative hedging, the Bismarckian compromise, and energy leaps. This may sound like it was recorded last week with the insightful observations on energy and geopolitical conflict, but it was actually recorded nearly a year ago, at the end...

Richard Hanania’s substack Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania A Psychological Theory of the Culture War On DeSantis Reagan and Civil Rights Law His first time on FTNW: Bryan Caplan on FTNW: Michelle Goldberg on Trump and Mental Illness https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/09/trump-induced-anxiety-is-a-real-thing.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss th...

Michael Gibson is a venture capitalist and author of Paper Belt on Fire. Paper Belt on Fire:https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress/dp/164177245X Follow Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/william_blake Bryan Caplan — The Case Against Education:https://www.amazon.ca/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652 Bryan Caplan on FTNW: Timestamps: 0:00 Scenes 22:00 Rationalism 3...

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. I...

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=35594 Garett’s other books: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28088https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23082 Garett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GarettJone...

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/1421444453 Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelshermer Richard Hanania Interview: Jon As...

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 World Zvi 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