Arjun Khemani Podcast

Support this podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani Jim 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. TIMESTAMPS 0:27 - The future of AI and Jim’s investment in Stability AI 4:51 - The Beginning of Infinity and the ideas of David Deutsc...

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 . TIMESTAMPS 0:33 - A brief history of Austrian economics 9:15 - Is economics a science? 14:12 - How to think about the state 21:05 - The problem with welfare statism 30:05...

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/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS 0:30 - What makes humans different 3:50 - Christian atheists 8:05 - Inequality good? 12:25 - AGI Doomerism 21:46 - Aliens 23:37 - Bad philosophy in popular movies 26:29 - The education system 28:37 - Epistem...

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/arjunkhemani We 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 constr...

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/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS0:00 - 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 fellowsh...

Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com TIMESTAMPS0:24 - 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 will RELEVANT LINKSNaval on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/naval...

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/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS 0:39 - On a quest for the best life that you can achieve 4:02 - Happiness without moralit...

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 . TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - 7-year-old Dan...

Support this podcast using this link: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani James Pierce is a writer, executive coach and a philosopher. TIMESTAMPS 0:50 - How modern psychology weakens the mind and how to conquer anxiety 4:15 - Perspective and “direct observation” 8:25 - Shoulds, prescriptions, and inexplicit knowledge 15:58 - Sincere questions 17:59 - Why James doesn’t meditate, the sense of sense, and e...

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! TIMESTAMPS 0:30 - The problem David is tr...

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! L...

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 s...

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! TIMESTAMPS 0:4...

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 s...

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 P...

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! Hop...

TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met 1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it 5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out 8:18 - Become more valuable by learning high value skills 10:45 - Voids create value / why Jay wants to change the way education is done 13:20 - Digital Nomad and filming a documentary in the Arctic Circle 21:10...

Links * Aastha Jain * Live Longer World podcast * Feynman Kids Program * Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension Timestamps 1:05 - 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 nature 7:14 - Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension 15:20 - Greater chance for statism if a generation extends in...

This was a very fun conversation with Sarah on the manner in which children are generically raised and why that is not helpful, the importance of Taking Children Seriously and raising a child without coercion, fallibilism, the growth of knowledge, problem-solving, her inspiration for founding Taking Children Seriously and much more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...

Brett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher Brett's blog: https://bretthall.org Brett's podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP5H2rF-ER33a58ZD5jCig This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.arjunkhemani.com