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Please contact us or support us on Patreon! You can also find us on discord Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week the discussion centres around the new super-annuation scheme changes , and about defined contribution schemes in general. We also try to think about whether we have free will Chris' f...

Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Our main topic today is Elites vs Experts by Robin Hanson. He's very smart, but not terribly likeable so we have to go back and forth defending him and attacking him. We talk about minimum wage, whether behavioural economics really replicates and why are there no aliens anyway? Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app. ---------------------...

 Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This episode our main topic is Julia Galef's new book. Julia is a much better podcaster than us, and also probably a better author. Her new book scout mindset is an exploration on how to seek the truth instead of just defend your pre-existing views. Brian pronounces rhetoric incorrectly a lot and Chris fails to make fun of him because he wasn'...

 Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Chris picks fights with MacroBioBoi (probably because he's jealous of Brian's new podcast best friend). We discuss another book on the entire history of the world with Sapiens. We muse on population ethics and whether we have an obligation to future populations. We discuss UBI and how having "enough" can change your career and consum...

 Please contact us or support us on Patreon! As Chris was travelling this week Brian got to host a very special episode interviewing MacroBioBoi, one of the top Diablo 2 streamers. They discuss what it's like to be a  streamer, accents and how the Diablo content industry works. A very enjoyable interview even if you don't care about Diablo at all (and speaking as Chris, I don't!) Ne...

Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This episode Chris has a book review on "The decadent society", hard to explain, but very impactful. We have further reflections on meritocracy, UBI, and womens happiness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The main book by Ross Douthat - The decadent society: How we became victims of our own success Wh...

A very special Affix episode where Brian and Chris sit across the table in real life and try to avoid looking at each other in the eye. To commemorate this visit we did a listener feedback episode. We follow up on FI/RE, how to build media patronage, a mea culpa from Chris, significant discussion on wage growth and a long bet and discussion on the minimum wage. Please contact us or support us on P...

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 Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! BIG NEWS! Vote along with us on the list of coffee bets! Big list of coffee bets This week we discuss the topic that initial brought Brian and Chris together FI/RE. The idea that by living frugally and earning well you can retire much earlier than is typical, in your 30s or even 20s. ------------------...

Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! In this episode Brian and Chris get dangerously close to having original ideas about the news and information distribution. Don't worry, we'll go back to just reading other people's opinions next week. We discuss interest rates and power, ponder Stoic philosophy and Brian has so much Diab...

In this episode we have a listener suggested topic of UBI, how affordable it might be in Australia and if it would help or harm over-all. We talk about moral foundations, and find an actual disagreement between Brian and Chris (please tell us who you agree with). And of course we bring you all the news from D2 speedruns and another coffee bet! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Big list o...

In this episode Brian and Chris discuss pandemic preparedness and how Bill and Melinda Gates have(n't?) helped. We use our media empire to wage war on Facebook and the Australian media and have genuine Diablo II news rather than just more nonsense! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Big list of coffee bets --------------------------------------------------- BBC TV Licence Why is plut...

This episode we discuss types of power from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. We muse over inequality and what it takes to stop it through the lens of Walther Scheidel's "The Great Leveller". We discuss politics and why we hate talking about politics (we like to think all our opinions on economics are just common sense and are in no way political). We bet on whether TSMC can ever be taken d...

Please contact us or support us on Patreon! In this episode Brian and Chris discuss shareholder value, important categorization problems such as whether a hotdog is a sandwich or ice is a rock. We talk about inequality in Australia and bet on whether movies will ever make a comeback (of course not, everyone just listens to podcasts now) The Friedman Doctrine holds that a corporations only purpose...

In this episode we review the state of FLOSS software, the things going right and the things going wrong. We discuss if it's good to be a technocrat, and when that can go wrong, and sigh with disbelief at the google vs australian newspaper fight. Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Tidelift - a new way to pay for open source How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny pie...

Please support our patreon !! We discuss "the infinite game" by Simon Sinek. Decide that we all need to be better capitalists, and some of what we've learned from Scott Alexander, our favorite auhor (technically just Chris's favorite author, but he feels strongly enough about it to speak for Brian too) Simon Sinek - The infinite game Astral Codex Ten - Scott Alexander Meditatio...

This episode we discuss alternative theories of government and economics. Could we police the whole world purely through securities fraud law? Are there better models for open source software development? Look forward to not really finding satisfying answers to these obviously clickbait questions! Also, good news and bad news. We have reached the point in this podcast where we are starting to have...

In this episode we apologise to Bryan Caplan and reveal ourselves to be the full throated, selfish libertarians you always suspected we were. We discuss the similarities between codebases and factories, and determine if economic progress halted in the 70s. Capitalism without capital The Great stagnation Productivity graph Evil doom number - we used to have to actually optimize our code DALL-E - an...

In this episode Brian and Chris discuss the ethical weight of law, should we be able to drive faster, what plato has in common with podcasts and a WORLD RECORD diablo II run! Bryan Caplan - The righteous scofflaw     -How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie     Escaping paternalism book club Stopping distances of cars (I really wish I could find how this has improved over the years...

The Trolley Problem: There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. On the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. You are standing next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks with one person on the side track. You have two options: Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track. Pull th...

I know you all can't wait until the release of our podcast, so here's 13 seconds of Chris' voice introducing things to tide you over until then.