From the New World

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Robin Hanson is a leading research of prediction markets, a professor of economics at George Mason University, author of the Elephant in the Brain and the Age of Em, and the writer of the blog Overcoming Bias.0:00 Authenticity9:30 Autodidacts22:30 Deaths of Despair39:20 World Mob1:17:00 The Sacred1:28:30 Tax Career Agents1:39:00 Elon Musk1:42:00 Academic Standards1:51:00 Academia and IQ tests2:25:...

Jon at the New Atlantis: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas Why Conservatism Failed: https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed Jon’s twitter: https://twitter.com/jonaskonas Podcast with Jon and Geoff Shullenberger: 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

Jonathan Rauch is the author of the Constitution of Knowledge , Kindly Inquisitors , the Happiness Curve , and much more.0:00 The Constitution of Knowledge23:30 Trump28:00 Cognitive Bias48:15 Game Theory 1:12:00 Egregores Jon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jon_rauch BJ Campbell on From the New World: Jonathan Rauch — How American Politics Went Insane: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/...

Arnold Kling is an economist, former writer at EconLog and writer of the In My Tribe substack, and the author of many books, including Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics, and The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. We discuss polarization, Never-Trumpers, intellectual honesty, specialization, vaccines, scientific innovation, tribalism, empathy, “...

Jeremy is senior fellow at the Claremont institute, writer and builder in early silicon valley, contributor to many, many publications, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration. We discuss early silicon valley, the dissident right, authoritarian regimes, rationalism, Covid policy, immigration, economies of scale, chesterton, and “Godel, Escher, Bach”.  Jeremy on W...

Bryan Caplan is an economist and professor at George Mason University, the writer of the betonit substack and the author of many books: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , the Case Against Education , Open Borders: the Science and Ethics of Immigration , and the newly released Don’t Be A Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice .  Bryan’s Susbtack: Bryan’s Twitter: http...

James Pogue is a uniquely interest journalist and author of Chosen Country: a Rebellion in the West. You can find his work in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, and many more outlets. Timestamps (You’ll need them this time): 0:00 American Mythology 17:00 Disenchantment 55:00 Truckers 1:01:00 Elite Theory 1:24:00 Forestry 1:48:00 Rights Regime 2:04:00 Social Media 2:36:00 De-Civilization 2:44:00 South...

Steve Hsu is a theoretical physicist at Michigan State, the co-founder of Genomic Prediction, and write of the blog Information Processing. Round 1 with Steve Hsu: Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz: Information Processing: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/ Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hsu_steve Human Nature (Documentary): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612680/ Timestamps: 0:00 genomic prediction 12...

Eric Kaufmann is a professor at Birkbeck, University of London, a columnist at Unherd and the author of Whiteshift.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/epkaufm Unherd: https://unherd.com/author/eric-kaufmann/ Whiteshift: https://www.amazon.ca/Whiteshift-Populism-Immigration-Future-Majorities/dp/1468316974 0:00 is race overrated or underrated? 13:03 leftmodernism 26:20 scapegoating 33:20 ethnic nation st...

My twitter: https://twitter.com/psychosort 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

Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and writer of the legendary blog Marginal Revolution alongside Alex Tabarrok. We discuss talent, Ontario, immigrants, institutional trust, power attractors, the Intellectual Dark Web, public health, the internet, generation Z, the significance of social change versus technology, upsides of wokeness, populism, imposter syndrome, sel...

Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at emergents. 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, civilizational collapse, populism, libertarianism, and pure math. Not...

Manny Rinconcruz is a financial historian, a member of the history working group at Standard Hoover Institution, an open source software developer buttonwood foundation (buttonwood.foundation), and the author of the thinking.farm newsletter. His views do not reflect those of his employer. Manny’s twitter: https://twitter.com/mrinconcruz His newsletter: http://thinking.farm/ Manny and Niall’s piece...

Rob’s First Episode: His article on the University of Austin:https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/25/opinion/welcome-alternative-lack-academic-freedom-college-campuses/ His substack: Jonathan Haidt’s article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ My critiques of Haidt: My discussion with Malcom Kyeyune: This is a public episode. If you'd lik...

Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration research and director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, as well as the author of the book “Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions”. We discuss immigration, the US legal immigration system, the immigration bureaucracy, appeals to chaos and order, libertarianism, populism, whether politics is driven by ideas...

Demetri Kofinas is the host of the Hidden Forces podcast. His insightful interviews and commentary on financial markets, commodities, supply chains, and media have been a part of my learning for several months. The Hidden Forces podcast: https://hiddenforces.io/ His episode with Doomberg (the most recent out of many): https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/food-shortages-energy-security-doomberg/ This i...

Freddie Deboer is a writer on substack and a contributor to many publications. He offers a unique perspective, coming from the economic left while seeing through a range of strategic and policy failures. We discuss progressive organizations, doomerism, the politics of recognition, state capacity, patronage systems, civil rights law, housing, monarchy, mental illness, distrust of institutions, and...

Bohan Lou is a colleague in the UATX summer program, a graduate of Yale University, and a product manager at Lyft. He has interests in religious studies and philosophy. Follow Bohan on twitter: https://twitter.com/loubohan 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

Nils is the VP of programs at the Bergruen institute and deputy editor of Noema magazine. Issues and Timestamps: 0:00 right-wing policy movement 8:30 supreme court 18:54 legitimacy 29:12 right wing postmodernists 32:50 state capacity 52:00 fda and neuroticism 1:39:00 populists right vs. libertarians 153:30 aesthetic preferences 223:00 problems of power analysis 238:00 centralization vs. bureaucrac...

A Solo Discussion of the Podcast’s Past, Motivation, and Strategy. 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

Doomberg the green chicken is the publisher of the Doomberg newsletter, which covers energy, finance, food, and more. They are the second ranked paid newsletter after their first month of premium launch. Their team also runs a small consulting company / think tank, which analyzes similar issues. We discuss branding, consulting, the COVID downturn, inflation, money, rare earth metals, oil, ESG, pol...

Jacob is a senior writer for Tablet, writer of the scroll newsletter, and host of the Manifesto! Podcast with novellist Phil Klay. We discuss iconoclasm, curiosity, technology and centralization, Andrew Yang, postliberalism, Curtis Yarvin, bureaucracy, Bidenism, the secular and religious worlds, and the importance of quarrel.  This is the first of three episodes in which I find myself with much gr...

Rob is a phD candidate at Cambridge university in moral psychology, the writer of the robkhenderson newsletter and the inventor of the term “luxury beliefs”. Topics include universities, dating markets, analyzing social situations, anxiety in Gen-z, luxury beliefs, signalling, wordcels, and informal networks.  Rob Henderson on twitter: https://twitter.com/robkhenderson Rob K Henderson Newsletter:...

Samo Burja is the founder and president of the consulting company Bismarck Analysis, a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute. He is also the writer of the Bismarck Brief newsletter, linked below. In this podcast, we discuss the life of Otto Von Bismarck, the political economy of institutions, narratives as a hedge ag...