Mutual Understanding

For some reason, Riverside didn’t generate chapter topics for me this time, so they aren’t here, sorry! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

00:00 Introduction to the Discussion 03:38 Wealth, Luck, and Property Rights 04:53 Self-Esteem and Cultural Identity 06:17 Cultural Degradation and Ethno-Nationalism 09:27 Owing to Evolution 10:30 The Role of Evolution in Human Existence 12:36 Credit and Value Creation 14:40 AI and Evolutionary Debt 15:49 Rand’s Critique of Rawls 22:08 Judging Reality and Human Values 23:58 Gratitude Towards Evolu...

I think we got somewhere more by the end, so if you listen to part of it, I recommend starting near the end! You can find Shreeda here . 00:00 Introduction to Intentional Parenting 03:06 Understanding Unschooling vs. Homeschooling 05:59 Daily Life in an Unschooling Family 08:55 Critique of Traditional Schooling 12:01 Personal Experiences with Schooling 14:59 The Role of Relationships in Parenting...

Some things I said I’d link: * Shea and Emmett talk red pill blue pill * Shea and me talking about metaphysics of value Some timestamps: 00:00 Revisiting the Red Pill Blue Pill Discourse 09:20 Ethics as a Truce in Politics 20:22 The Role of Free Speech in Society 25:51 Court Packing and Political Norms 32:10 Gerrymandering: The Nature of Representation 40:05 The Role of Honesty in Political Discou...

I hope to get back into recording more regularly soon, but no promises. Life has been pretty busy for me lately. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

Apologies for taking forever to edit this podcast we recorded or Feb 7. We talked about the Iran situation some which was all before the US attacked, but there was some other stuff too. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

Relatively rambling as usual, especially the second half I think. I hope some of you enjoy it! Some links: * Kave on X * Kave’s blog (with his excellent Inkhaven posts) * some tweets of mine about being stuck in puzzles * Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack * Scott Whiskers * Mutropolis * Golden Idol games This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...

Last week, I went to see Matt Bateman and Aaron Stupple talk about their parenting disagreements at The Montessorium , the (pretty new!) school Matt created. I enjoyed their conversation, wanted to hear even more, asked them if they’d be up for coming on my podcast, and they did! Probably the best place to find more is on X.com, and here are a few more links too: * Aaron’s book, The Sovereign Chil...

A bunch of this was me trying to understanding Shea’s metaphysics of value and also where he sees property rights as coming from. It may have been more repetitive than usual, since I kept asking him to explain stuff again, but it was helpful for me at least! We reference this series of blog posts about proposed reforms to zoning laws. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

Shea started out talking about recognizing thought processes as value-laden, and then we got into ~psych debugging a way I think some of my thought processes haven’t been respecting what I think are the correct internal property rights. Shea updated somewhat about what I mean when I’m saying things in an IFS framing. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscriber...

Some things we mentioned include: * A Positive Account of Property Rights * the original instructions for we-ness * someone's write-up of the we-ship experiment that Malcolm ran (the one where we did the "goodbye for now, Malcolm") Malcolm also posted the same conversation but with video to his YouTube channel if you want that! I’ve included some automatically generated chapter timestamps in case...

I probably should have split this up into two episodes, but instead it’s all together. The first part of the conversation is basically about how Shea thinks military conflicts should work in the modern world, with the recent Israel and Iran war as a jumping off point. We talked about The West Wing speech about a proportional response. I tried to summarize what I thought Shea was saying about his t...

I had a fun time catching up with my former cohost! Some links we mentioned: * Ben's website * Ben’s substack * Good Strategy Bad Strategy * my blog This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

We talked about the scarfgate and it turned into a whole thing about how discussions of ethics should work. We didn’t even really get to the part about “high agency”! We did get to analyzing how I pirated music when I was in college. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

We only had a time for a short episode today, but I hadn’t recorded anything in a while, so here it is! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

I saw this Twitter thread from Sarah and offered her to talk to her about it on a podcast, and Aaron volunteered to moderate. I was more taking the position that all emotions are functional, and Sarah was approaching things from a more bio-realist perspective. Ultimately, I don’t think we disagreed about all that much once we hashed it out! Some things we referenced: * How Emotions are Made * It’s...

In this podcast, we recap a conversation we didn’t record where Shea and I talked about epistemology and decision theory, and I decided to flag it more when I say “but what would that even mean” I also made a case for subjective probability as a useful concept, and we talked a little about politics at the end. At one point I referenced this LW post that mentions confidence and credence. AI generat...

I had a great time talking to my friend Cristie Henry about unschooling, an educational philosophy that we both practice within our families. And here’s a link to the thing I wrote about unschooling that I mentioned when we were talking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

I caught up with my friend Jordan, and we talked about a whole bunch of stuff! Not a very organized conversation, and I hope you enjoy it. You can find him at The Relateful Company , and his new company Uptrust should be online soon at uptrusthq.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack...

A pretty rambling podcast about what’s been going through my head recently when trying to work on getting our dogs and cats comfortable with each other. tldr; I think I was accidentally messing up my training plans by using spatial pressure without realizing it, and I think I better get how Argos’s frustration is working This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscr...

I started a threadapalooza on natural law , Kave responded with some thoughts on natural law conflicting with itself, and now I have recorded some thoughts on what I think natural law means and why I think it doesn't. All of this is quite inspired by what David Friedman wrote on property rights . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

In this episode I try to talk though one of my top go-to frameworks for thinking through what to do when my kids are doing stuff that doesn’t work for me, or them, or the family. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

It was great having Shea back on to finish up our conversation from the other week! We talked somewhat more about the Less Wrong rationality stuff, and also hit some other topics like Shea’s issues with libertarians, why he’s against altruism, how consciousness works, and what he thinks about LLMs. He mentioned two books, The Ominous Parallels and The Open Society and Its Enemies . This is a publi...

This podcast came out of a twitter conversation Ruth and I had, and we ended up comparing notes about a lot of our parenting tactics and approaches, including how to not be too stressed while having kids. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com

I was going to record with a guest today, but we ended up rescheduling, so instead I talked about some things I think about attachment theory and object permanence. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mutualunderstanding.substack.com