# Podcast List
* [[20 May 2023]]
* [#144: The Fine Line Between Science and Fiction — Palmer Luckey — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNWN_bPM/43:27)
* “Life quality line”
* [[10 May 2023]]
* [Fluidity: Upgrade Your Cargo Cult For The Win](https://fluidity.libsyn.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult-for-the-win)
* [Upgrade your cargo cult for the win | Meta-rationality](https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult)
* [[Legitimate peripheral participation]]
* [[3 May 2023]]
* [Prof. Ada Palmer on Pandemics, Progress, History, Teleology and the Singularity — Singularity.FM — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+bQ_EnAvfU/59:03)
* [Ada Palmer on Viking Ethics, Laws of History, Partial Victories, and Terra Ignota — Singularity.FM — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+bQ_Ero41s)
* [[Francis Bacon]] metaphor of insects
* Ant who gathers knowledge and puts it in a big pile
* Spider who cares only about the thing that comes out of the spider
* Bee who collects things in the world and turns them into useful things
* Change in the 18th century wasn’t caused by people doing science proving earlier science or atheism. It was a bunch of weird theisms.
* [[We want to think that intentional actions change the world but our present is way weirder than people envisioned]]
* [[The future is built by people who do not know what future they’re building]]
* [[22 Feb 2023]]
* [Quantum Computers, Spy Balloons, and China’s Endgame | Paul Dabbar — Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Xnvukb4_Q/49:17)
* [[Regulatory agencies become more risk conservative over time]]
* Mechanism
* [[24 Dec 2022]]
* [Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy — The Lunar Society — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+b53Mb2ElQ/50:53)
* [[Speculative Technologies should have a planned obsolescence after 50 years]]
* [[Almost all modern organizations have their greatest impact within 50 years of their inception]]
* [[18 Nov 2022]]
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* [[Ten week research seasons might be a good unit of time]]
* [[6 Nov 2022]]
* [38: Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Engineering, and the Future of Productivity](https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/austin-vernon#details)
* [Michael Munger on Industrial Policy — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6ZqJBlY/1:01:57)
* [[Relatively absolute absolutes]]
* [[9 Oct 2022]]
* [We Know So Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper — The Ezra Klein Show — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+oiPUiYi9w/1:21:06)
* [[We all lose when the internet is the frontier of last resort]]
* [#270 Pieces of the Action: The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush — Founders — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+HBlobQSSc/46:19)
* [[The goal of a research manager is to be able to tell whether a proposal has been thought through]]
* [[27 Sep 2022]]
* [Atomic Show #297 – Krusty – The Kilopower reactor that worked — The Atomic Show — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+hKWdcc8Q)
* Technologies are not systems
* [[5 Sep 2022]]
* [107: Byrne Hobart - Bubbles, Finance and the EMH — Narratives w/Will Jarvis — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+h-VEfkA5k/11:55)
* There’s some parallel between indefinite optimism and the efficient market hypothesis — we *know* that they’re not true
* [[21 Aug 2022]]
* [Critiquing Effective altruism with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra](https://overcast.fm/+kgCC_0SQ8)
* [[Requiring more commitment makes people more bought in to a cause]]
* [[6 Aug 2022]]
* [How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 2 — Ex Urbe Ad Astra — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+yKJpMdV5E/46:21)
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* [[23 Jul 2022]]
* [Who Killed Nuclear Energy? — Decouple — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+cJqjwpmaE/51:20)
* [Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJncA1gQ/43:23)
* How can [[Marc Andreessen]] admit that there was 50 years of non value capture work that went into computers becoming a thing and not believe in philanthropy
* [Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer) — Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+kgCCrONJw/1:07:06)
* [[Plural agency goes against both great man theory and great forces theory]]
* [[3 Jul 2022]]
* [Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGgDE7Kc)
* Tyranny of gossip
* [Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGjljTDo/05:27)
* [[John Locke]] blank slate view
* [[31 May 2022]]
* [Agnel Sfeir on science as an obsession — Night Science — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+tWC4Ihv9s/31:11)
* [[Research management matters]]
* [[30 Apr 2022]]
* [#139: Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNU3z1hk/1:12:09)
* Bayseanism is not a good epistemology
* The argument against [[Nick Bostrom]]’s Urn analogy is that the number of black balls in the urn decrease (or that white balls can cancel out black ones)
* And that balls are going to keep coming out of the urn regardless
* [[16 Apr 2022]]
* [Information Markets, Decision Markets, Attention Markets, Action Markets — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGjcFhsk/25:02)
* [[Every prediction market is also an action market]]
* [[9 Apr 2022]]
* [Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGiFKINY/28:22)
* [[Reference class tennis]]
* [[19 Mar 2022]]
* [Why No One Trusts Anything — Honestly with Bari Weiss — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+vpWaT9HJs/52:45)
* [[Diagnosis is not a cure]]
* [[13 Feb 2022]]
* [#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens — Lex Fridman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyAo2-2o/1:11:47)
* [[People have different noise floors for what constitutes evidence]]
* [[4 Feb 2022]]
* [Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification — Night Science — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+tWC6nP5JI/33:31)
* [[Justification kills play]]
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* [[People time vs clock time]]
* [[People time is important when there is a clear critical path]]
* [[14 Jan 2022]]
* [Abigail Shrier: On Freedom in an Age of Fear — Honestly with Bari Weiss — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+vpWZPi04Q/07:40)
* [[A mapping between free will and the forces of history]]
* [46
* Act as a lighthouse
* Produce actual demonstration objects that people can use
* Show the robot climbing the wall
* [Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry — Ex Urbe Ad Astra — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+yKJrDV0DE/07:33)
* Legitimacy is the claim to authority
* Good discussion on legitimacy
* [[9 Jan 2022]]
* [Ex Urbe Ad Astra: Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 3: Hopepunk and positive futures with writer Ruthanna Emrys](https://exurbe.libsyn.com/ex-urbe-ad-astra-ep-3-hopepunk-and-positive-futures-with-writer-ruthanna-emrys)
* [[12 Dec 2021]]
* [#14 - Tyler Golato - Decentralizing Drug Development For The Greater Public Good — The Simple BioTech Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YwJUSV9_k)
* [[VitaDAO]] uses sponsored research agreements to fund research
* [Sponsored Research Agreements (SRAs) | It’s Your Yale](https://your.yale.edu/research-support/office-sponsored-projects/contracts/sponsored-research-agreements-sras)
* [[13 Nov 2021]]
* [Tyler Cowen | Civilization as Crusonia Plant, Stubborn Attachments and Future Discounting — The Foresight Institute Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+wue1bgNjg/09:02)
* [[Pluralist moral philosophy is important]]
* [62: Anti-Inductivity with Suspended Reason, Quinn Lewandowski and Crispy Chicken — Narratives — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+h-VGb08iU/23:50)
* Social sciences and other as “inexact sciences” to contrast with exact sciences
* [Episode 10: The Ionian School — The Song of Urania — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+vTx_xA8Q8/49:11)
* Monism is the idea that all matter is of the same substance
* [#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality — Lex Fridman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyArwf8k/1:52:44)
* [[Science push and science pull]]
* [Episode 50: The Photonicist — Voices from DARPA — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+HUWWu8pyI/15:33)
* [Science & Technology for National Security — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+0CXln76kQ/12:43)
* If you adopt some of something and not all of something
* If you adopt something that lets you invest in stupid willy-nilly
* [142: Red flags in academia Live episode — Everything Hertz — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GLArcp8-4/03:55)
* Powerful non-overlapping theories. Overlapping theoretical space but the people who talk about them don’t talk to each other
* [[10 Oct 2021]]
* [Arnold Kling on Reforming Government and Expertise — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6bexqU8/12:24)
* [Was the Internet a Horrible Mistake? — Honestly with Bari Weiss — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+vpWbrpTvA/16:58)
* [[A consolidated competitive ecosystem creates a number of effects]]
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* [[2 Oct 2021]]
* [116: In my opinion — Everything Hertz — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GLApDMmbA/36:54%20)
* Give graduate students a full salary but they aren’t allowed to publish
* Hotline for scientific misconduct
* Company for making at-cost scientific equipment
* [[30 Sep 2021]]
* [60: Henry George, Land, and Video Games with Lars Doucet – Narratives Podcast](https://narrativespodcast.com/2021/09/20/60-henry-george-land-and-video-games-with-lars-doucet/)
* [[24 Sep 2021]]
* [Vaccine Hesitant? A Doctor Responds — Honestly with Bari Weiss — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+vpWaIVhtg/1:09:48)
* [The Third Opinion: Why Jews Value Dissent | Rabbi Angela Buchdahl | Yom Kippur 5782 — PodQueue — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+zeZ51SFfU/06:52)
* “Two Jews = three opinions” is a feature, not a bug. The third opinion is a synthesis of the other two arrived at via debate. This is contra christianity where everybody is striving to get to the one true answer
* [David Henderson on the Essential UCLA School of Economics — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6aWZDs4/36:08)
* UCLA school of economics — incentives!
* [[How are market solutions supposed to provide solutions with markets too small to support a single firm?]]
* [128: How do you generate new research ideas? — Everything Hertz — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GLAoEOk6k/27:40)
* Thought process for most researchers is “what two ideas do I wish to exist in association, that I wish to exist in association to?”
* Good at crafting a narrative around brand bricks
* [[18 Sep 2021]]
* [Ilan Gur: How to incubate *really* deep tech startups — Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+oGsB8bmxU/38:23)
* Counterfactual impact
* There’s a shift to everything about talent
* [[Technology pull doesn’t work when people can’t see what to pull on]]
* We need to redo how we do atoms
* [[Creating memes for parpa]]
* [Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical Reform — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6ZtUyTo/21:45)
* Arguably the 20s to the 50s were the largest period of growth
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* This furthers the [[What if the thing that happened in 1972 was 27 years passing after WWII?]]
* [[Authority first vs legitimacy first revolutions]]
* [Episode 49: A Decade of Living Foundries — Voices from DARPA — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+HUWUEjG3o/07:13)
* Living foundry darpa program
* [[10 Sep 2021]]
* [66. I’ll take “Wild Rides” for 500, Alex: Biotech Entrepreneur’s Story, Ron Cohen, CEO, Acorda — Biotech 2050 Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+UqEQIPyGA)
* “Find a way or make one” — not the attitude for a lot of people in the physical world
* Virtual biotech company for years
* [Code Red for Climate Journalism | Dr. Bjorn Lomborg — Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+XnvsRTK_Y/24:59)
* The 70s were a period of abnormalmally low hurricanes
* [#17 - Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster — 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+J3iktpIQ8/25:56)
* Eventually you need external norms
* [Complexity Weekend ~ May 2021 Opening Livestream — Complexity Weekend ~ May 2021 Opening Livestream — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+y-4ukoCKM/3:15:37)
* An actually good complexity talk
* [Johann Hari on Lost Connections — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6blG6BE/50:06)
* [[Reciprocal relationships are clutch]]
* [55: Complexity with Sam Arbesman — Narratives — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+h-VGRVYrQ/33:48)
* Study showing that when person who showed up in a lot of acknowledgements died, productivity went down
* [[Nobody is running interference for new institutions]]
* [[4 Sep 2021]]
* [Mouse on a hill: The structure and function of agency (Ep 65) — Big Biology — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+LJpoLhzR0)
* With: [[Michael Levin]]
* Hosts
* [[Art Woods]]
* [[Marty Martin]]
* [[Michael Levine concept of agency and Alex Dancos concept of purpose might both be describing systems with loops]]
* [54: Rethinking Science with Josiah Zayner — Narratives — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+h-VFr5LQQ)
* [[Heat cycles for democratization and cutting edge experiments innovation and discovery]]
* [#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science — Lex Fridman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyAhPoB4/1:30:26)
* [[Isaac Barrow]] gave up his professorship for [[Isaac Newton]] — feels like this would never happen now
* [[28 Aug 2021]]
* [Ethan Mollick: what do we *actually* know about entrepreneurship? — Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+oGsAguh8c/35:13)
* Teaching with games
* [#7 - Innovation through the Lens of a Policy Entrepreneur with Tom Kalil — Frontiers — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+gdHcDZips/47:22)
* [[To get things done you need to hold yourself and others accountable]]
* Get people to make specific commitments
* With:[[Tom Kalil]]
* [Michael Heller and James Salzman on Mine! — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6ZKA874/27:07)
* [[Mine!]]
* Six stories around ownership
1. Attachment - “my home is my castle “ legal
2. Possession - it’s mine because I’m holding on to it
3. First - first in time
4. Labor — it’s mine because I worked for it, you reap what you sow
5. Self-ownership — it’s mine because it comes from my body
6. Family — inheritance/gift
* [#136: Ergodicity — Ole Peters — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNU1cibM/1:55:58)
* [[Brian Arthur]] Polya urn — dominance of a market doesn’t actually mean that it’s the best product
* [Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJktFmq4/45:50)
* [[Exponential growth without infrastructure is dangerous]]
* [[15 Aug 2021]]
* [The Psychology of a Pandemic, and How to be Anti-Fragile | Dr. Jonathan Haidt — Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Xnvuwj8Tc/1:00:32)
* Different professions need different virtues
* [Michael Munger on Free Markets — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6a0gfYw/18:32)
* Markets work well over space but there’s no guarantee that they work well over time
* [Episode 47: The Life Saver — Voices from DARPA — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+HUWUZbHas/16:03)
* Related to cry stuff?
* [#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System — Lex Fridman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyApRx_k/2:39:38)
* [[Creating artifacts is important]]
* [[Legitimacy cascade]]
* [[7 Aug 2021]]
* [Model City Monday 8/2/21 — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGiOZ2R0/10:39)
* [[Operating partners often want to remain secret]]
* [#101 Minka — Reply All — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TKZJol228/39:15)
* Nursing home-industrial complex
* [[Eldercare is an emotionally draining industry]]
* [Jonathan Rauch on the Constitution of Knowledge — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6amG7vM/19:06)
* Dispositive Evidence is harder to come by in some fields vs. others
* What entails dispositive evidence in one field vs another
* People at the top of fields now make a lot more money — more coupling between $ and success in fields
* Isn’t this what markets in everything people want?
* The marketplace of ideas isn’t enough
* Most ideas about what’s true are *wrong*
* How can a society find a tiny % of knowledge that advances society
* Institutional funnel
* Input is free speech and then nodes in the network
* [Matt Stephenson | NFTs for Science — Matt Stephenson | NFTs for Science — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+yBmjZONPQ/09:31)
* Economists’ idea of incentives has taken over our conceptions of what motivates people to do science; but that’s ON THE MARGIN
* “Manufacturing momentum”
* [[Organizational Momentum]]
* [[Legitimacy cascade]]
* [[30 Jul 2021]]
* [Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJkviLjU/14:26)
* [[Counterfactuals are hard]]/ Counterfactual history
* Philosophy of History, [Friedrich Meinecke | Encyclopedia.com](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-european-biographies/friedrich-meinecke#A) [[Causality and Values]]
* [[24 Jul 2021]]
* [Molecular Machines: Applied in Medicine & Across Scales | J. Tour, Rice | N. Giuseppone, Strasbourg — Molecular Machines: Applied in Medicine & Across Scales | J. Tour, Rice | N. Giuseppone, Strasbourg — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+xfZ3vIYo8/25:01)
* Nanomachines can be used to mechanically rip open bacteria to make them more susceptible to antibacterials
* [Monopoly and Academic Decathlon — The Anthropocene Reviewed — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+l3vICmO04/09:07)
* The game monopoly is a great example of [[We stand on the shoulders of too many giants to give them all credit]]
* [37. Realer Than Real: Useful Fiction with P.W. Singer and August Cole — The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+W81g77B6s/04:07)
* Narrative -> Emotion. Emotion generates action and make you remember things.
* Fascinating how they reframed a report into a heavily footnoted fiction story
* [[Eric Drexler]] tried to do this in [[Unbounding the Future]] and it didn’t feel particularly effective — why?
* Writing process
* Research lots of reading
* Conversational research
* Shoot emails back and forth
* Layering words on words
* Show to experts as sniff test
1. Prior experiences -
2. Constant research
1. “Scansheet”
3. Select topic
4. Topical research
1. Data
2. Interviews
5. Plots — kick plot ideas around
6. Outline - back and forth, plug in research
7. Draft
8. Shaping of draft — back and forth
9. Share stage — circle back with people from original stage
* [37. Realer Than Real: Useful Fiction with P.W. Singer and August Cole — The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+W81g77B6s/48:00)
* [[New technology is maximally useful when it generates a new system instead of being an additional layer on top of an existing system]]
* Example of battleship captains
* Changing just enough not to change/ layering on top of what you’re already doing
* [[17 Jul 2021]]
* [W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics — COMPLEXITY — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+UtNRrQkJU/22:56)
* [[John Holland]]
* [[Knightian Uncertainty]] <> ill-defined problems <> non stationary distributions
* [David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science — COMPLEXITY — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+UtNScRTN4/17:33)
* Causal Markov condition
* [Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World — COMPLEXITY — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+UtNTQ0IyU/47:44)
* [[‘Sleeping beauty’ papers slumber for decades]]
* [F.A. Hayek’s “Intellectuals and Socialism” with Trevor Burrus — The Scholar’s Stage — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+vxQe2mH2I/04:55)
* [[Intellectuals and Socialism]]
* [Sam Kriegman on evolving robot forms — Time Horizons — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+cl5T0sAWk/1:20:16)
* [[10 Jul 2021]]
* [Pennies and Piggly Wiggly — The Anthropocene Reviewed — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+l3vKcrqoI/12:46)
* [Ep 2: Harnessing Randomness (Full Conversation) — Big Biology — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+LJpqy559E/42:10)
* We don’t talk about multilevel systems biology
* [Book Review: How Asia Works — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGj6FbMc/27:19)
* Prof it a strong optimization signal but only drives towards nearby maxima
* Tied to how smooth the NK landscape is
* [[26 Jun 2021]]
* [Ian Leslie on Conflicted — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6YNP-XQ/21:21)
* Low context vs high context cultures
* High context cultures: traditions and norms do a lot of the communicating for you. Ambiguity, obliqueness, directness bad
* Japan
* China
* Low context cultures: can’t rely on context. More disagreement. Everybody is explaining what they think
* [How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it — How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+uPdjc07Cc/26:24)
* [Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations | Alexander Rose — Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations | Alexander Rose — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+uDJ3LfKxE/20:49)
* The idea that you need a few culture keepers “keeper of the fabric” in an organization
* [[Alexander Rose]]
* [30
* Identify the “rows and columns” of the spreadsheet - figure out that one box hasn’t been explored
* [[Periodic tables are a useful way of categorizing]]
* People need a feeling that it’s safe to make mistakes to be creative. Being relaxed is important for creativity. How does this mesh with the existence of disagreeable people in science? The creativity all comes from the disagreeable people and they push other people to execute?
* [[19 Jun 2021]]
* [#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries — Lex Fridman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyCRO6Vg/2:03:39)
* [[Maybe real numbers do not exist]]
* [[Jordan Ellenberg]]
* [Palladium Podcast 60: Jesse Velay-Vitow on the Future of Industrial Ecology — Palladium Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+QrkMHKSbY/33:46)
* [[Jesse Velay-Vitow]]
* Presents a very different view of the environment with humans in the loop as stewards
* [[28 May 2021]]
* [Episode 5: A System of Weights and Measures — The Song of Urania — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+pF4ZzBecI/33:22)
* Draconic Month
* The draconic, or nodical, month of 27.212220 days (*i.e.,* 27 days 5 hours 5 minutes 35.8 seconds) is the time between the Moon’s passages through the same node, or intersection of its orbit with the ecliptic, the apparent pathway of the Sun.
* [Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJnSboWc/09:39)
* Give speech multiple times
* Have your main points
* Put substance in footnotes
* Keep pacing and insights spread
* [[21 May 2021]]
* [episode 34: eigenrobot vs history — robot friends — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+pYCzACprI/1:23:41)
* [[Citation graph of everything]]
* [[18 May 2021]]
* This American life about fiascos
* [[13 May 2021]]
* [MartyrMade Podcast #3- Nostalgia and Naivety in Honor Culture |](https://www.martyrmade.com/martyrmade-podcast-3-shoptalk-edition/)
* [[11 May 2021]]
* [Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations | Alexander Rose — Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations | Alexander Rose — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+uDJ3LfKxE/20:49)
* [[Alexander Rose]]
* [[Long lived organizations need culture keepers]]
* [[Universities are able to maintain relevance because they are forced to reinvent themselves for new generations of students]]
* [[23 Apr 2021]]
* [episode 16: eigenrobot vs chaos — robot friends — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+pYCzbNsT4/58:17)
* Elites no longer hold back — “if it’s not illegal it’s ok to do”
* [Emiliana Simon-Thomas on Happiness — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ne6a-s3Mw/1:08:17)
* [[A good relationship is like jazz]]
* [[2 Apr 2021]]
* [[What makes a scene with Alex Danco]]
* [Alex Danco - Makes A Scene (EP.39) | Infinite Loops](https://t.co/baoQG39PFn?amp=1)
* With [[Alex Danco]]
* Case study of music venue in NYC that had particular scene and hit makers
* Everybody could come in
* Clear delineation between the performers and the supporters
* Low barrier to entry to performers
* Exclusive back room that everybody knew was there but unclear how to get in
* <How illegible was it to how you became good?>
* [8. The Echo of a Coffee House — The Rest Is History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lXhbvsyGM/08:24)
* [[History as told through tweets]]
* [[26 Mar 2021]]
* [Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJnyVdr8/47:06)
* Just good archeology talk
* [[12 Mar 2021]]
* [#205 - Hangzhou: A City by the Bay — The History of China — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+BTCTNM5qM/21:32)
* You need fine-grained temperature control to do both [[Steel]] and [[Ceramics]]
* [[5 Mar 2021]]
* [#167 - S. Song 10: …Is My Enemy’s Enemy, No More, No Less — The History of China — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+BTCRJ35gI/28:04)
* Feel like it forms a triumvirate with [[The Hidden Half]] and the podcast below
* [HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic — History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+D9tF_oZVs/25:13)
* Occult once just meant the seeable
* The word science isn’t quite right
* “knowledge” <-> Scientia —> ars sciential - craft knowledge
* In order for a craft to put theory into practice
* Physicians practice medicine by applying theoretical knowledge
* [[26 Feb 2021]]
* [#144 - N. Song 11: Only A Northern Song — The History of China — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+BTCQmSuS0/24:13)
* Song Dynasty overproduction of qualified officials mirrors academic overproduction
* [Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJlFu8OM/51:20)
* The value of summarizing arguments in pictures
* You can’t attribute something to christianity if it’s present in other places as well
* [#137 - N. Song 5: A Song of Rice and Flour — The History of China — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+BTCT3pIqQ/32:22)
* [[Rice - Technology]]
* [[23 Feb 2021]]
* [#121: The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin – The Jolly Swagman Podcast](https://josephnoelwalker.com/121-the-doyen-of-behavioural-genetics-on-untangling-nature-and-nurture-robert-plomin/)
* Related to [[The Hidden Half]]
* [[15 Feb 2021]]
* [Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop - Econlib](https://www.econtalk.org/dana-gioia-on-learning-poetry-and-studying-with-miss-bishop/)
* [[12 Feb 2021]]
* [No Forward Passes — GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ZRgaaXwXg/11:07)
* Trust is the Coin of the Realm
* [#119: Lessons And Insights From A Maverick Who Made It - Mark Cuban — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNVamRH0/11:39)
* [[5 Feb 2021]]
* [Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Dynamical Systems — Astral Codex Ten Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGjLvh-Y/16:34)
* This is an excellent example of how you can have a legitimate general description of specific conditions
* [[29 Jan 2021]]
* [Trump, COVID-19, and Cold War II with Niall Ferguson Ep. 16 — Conversations With Coleman — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+VteEn-Wv4/03:39)
* [[Niall Ferguson uses the idea of virtual history to talk about counterfactual history]]
* [#117: The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth - Benjamin M. Friedman — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNWlbJKQ/1:19:16)
* Religion has moved to a post-doctrinal regime. The differences are less between doctrines and more between religion and no religion
* - [[Voluntary organizations is a better term than private organizations]]
* [The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel) — Rationally Speaking Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+a1rhfe3a0/33:21)
* An argument against consequentialism is that the main difference between something that is admissible in consequentialism or not is based on it’s legibility
* [[Utilitarianism is a type of consequentialism]]
* [[24 Jan 2021]]
* [Don Boudreaux on Buchanan - Econlib](https://www.econtalk.org/don-boudreaux-on-buchanan/)
* A core point was that once you have more than one person you cannot have a consistent set of preferences. There’s no way to ‘maximize utility’ for the society.
* [[16 Jan 2021]]
* [DIU’s Michael Brown on US-China Tech Competition — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoGoMGfw/39:47)
* [[Peer review is a great system for preventing waste]]
* [[8 Jan 2021]]
* [Bonus Episode - Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence — History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+D9tHOuqQ8/29:41)
* [[Tacit knowledge feels opposed to Aristotelian legibility]]
* [Matthew Crawford on Why We Drive — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JB5aRz8/1:14:15)
* [[Bureaucracies are human algorithms]]
* [Palladium Podcast 51: Building a Developmentalist Class — Palladium Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+QrkPJUzSE/03:02)/ [Palladium Podcast 51: Building a Developmentalist Class — Palladium Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+QrkPJUzSE/37:56)
* Going back and forth between vision and pragmatism is a skill
* [[You need a certain scale for technology development to be worthwhile]]
* [[1 Jan 2021]]
* [106 (part 2): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation — Into the Impossible With Brian Keating — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Hf50Q9IeA/1:00:04)
* [[A theory that is not fully correct can still be effective]]
* [106 (part 2): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation — Into the Impossible With Brian Keating — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Hf50Q9IeA/50:32)
* [[Opacity is important because it allows people to be open about failure]]
* [Michael Blastland on the Hidden Half — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JDqUW28/1:14:18)
* [[There might be many situations with intractable uncertainty or randomness in the highest order bits]]
* [HoP 236 - None for Me, Thanks - Franciscan Poverty — History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+D9tEAjDcI/08:11)
* The overlap between law and philosophy is very old
* [[25 Dec 2020]]
* [Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNU-q-2s/52:17)
* [[Periodic tables are a useful way of categorizing]]
* [[People often confuse whether they are or should be creating prescriptive vs descriptive work]]
* [Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind - David Hirshleifer — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNUsc5-c/19:44)
* [[Information cascades explain a lot of supposedly irrational behavior]]
* [Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles - Vernon Smith — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNWtmWgA/37:50)
* [[Knowledge That is legible but Knowledge How is tacit]]
* [20
* [[Video games might offer lessons for roadmapping]]
* [100: Barry Barish – Black Holes, Nobel Prizes & The Imposter Syndrome — Into the Impossible With Brian Keating — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Hf53aDtno/50:36)
* Worth poking at the organizational structure that [[Barry Barish]] set up for LIGO
* [#113: What I Learned In 2020 - John Hempton — The Jolly Swagman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lvNWS0hXQ/09:46)
* Madmen can take over when the sober people are getting lower returns
* [100: Barry Barish – Black Holes, Nobel Prizes & The Imposter Syndrome — Into the Impossible With Brian Keating — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Hf53aDtno/05:23)
* Caltech manages to stay at the forefront of science without growingwing
* [Dr. Michael Levin — The Future of Regeneration, Biology, and Anatomical Compilers — Build The Future — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+cG12QH5ZM/37:44)
* You want models to be constructive model - needs to be specified enough to make a simulated version of a thing
* https://blubrry.com/voices_from_darpa/71813353/episode-37-sounds-of-innovation-1/
* Cool noises darpa tech makes
* [[Digital innovations don’t have cool noises]]
*
* [[18 Dec 2020]]
* [Classic The Influenza Of Evil — Slate Star Codex Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGi6Znaw/02:36)
* [[Be anti inductive]]
* The stock market is anti inductive
* To detect the pattern is to destroy the pattern
* [[11 Dec 2020]]
* [Involvement Capitalism — Breaking Smart — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+SuMltaIy4/12:07)
* Culture utopia vs Star Trek utopia
* Culture utopia
* Live posture
* Willing to take risks - esp on behalf of others
* AI can
* Capitalism trading prestige and good *risky* actions
* We’re moving towards post-scarcity but primarily for low-energy things
* [[20 Nov 2020]]
* [Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJn81Nf0/12:09)
* Business models drive organization outcomes in unanticipated ways
* [[13 Nov 2020]]
* [Lecture #7: Short Stories — With Special Guest Instructor Mary Robinette Kowal — Lecture #7: Short Stories — With Special Guest Instructor Mary Robinette Kowal — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lgge6mpM8/05:20)
* MICE threads
* [Orson Scott Card’s MICE Quotient – The Writersaurus](https://thewritersaurus.com/2015/05/08/orson-scott-cards-mice-quotient/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMICE%E2%80%9D%20stands%20for%20Milieu%2C,the%20traditional%20three%20act%20structure.)
* Milieu
* Idea
* Character
* Event
* [Lecture #9: Characters — Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy — 2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+lq6H4_3T0/34:10)
* Progress
* Motivation
* Potagonists need to be proactive - makes better story
* [Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of Economics — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JBRrPyA/54:56)
* [[The journal of half baked ideas]]
* Mathiness in economics
* [[6 Nov 2020]]
* [#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe — Lex Fridman Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyDMgMME/3:35:36)
* Find someone who talks about you the way wolfram talks about his theory
* [Rob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and Utilitarianism — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JA9-kjU/1:20:05)
* [[Russ Roberts posits that there are four ways of knowing]]
* [Rob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and Utilitarianism — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JA9-kjU/1:01:17)
* [[Many truths are not scale invariant]]
* [#1557 - Gad Saad — The Joe Rogan Experience — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ldGXFKwVQ/02:20:26)
* [[Disciplines where it is clear to an outsider whether you are proficient]]
* The comedy store was great because they only cared about whether you were funny. Nothing else
* - [[30 Oct 2020]]
* [Finding the Lost Elons feat. Michael Gibson — Conservative Curious — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+ca8IOEw5k/12:11)
* [[Alphagamma]]
* [[27 Oct 2020]]
* [Fredrik deBoer on the Cult of Smart — EconTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JA7kR-g/49:23)
* The game has changed more to relative and socialism
* [[Absolute games are anchored to reality]]
* [[Relative vs absolute games]]
* [Palladium Podcast 45: It’s Time to Kill Science](https://palladiummag.podbean.com/e/palladium-podcast-45-its-time-to-kill-science/)
* The scientific enterprise has become Science™️
* Also weirdly relevant to the idea of the frontier enforcing reality in [[storrshallWhereMyFlying2021]]
* [[Absolute games are anchored to reality]]
* [[Relative vs absolute games]]
* [[23 Oct 2020]]
* [Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJlcsHGM/23:29)
* [[Michael Kremer]] is interested in innovation structures and [[Advanced Market Commitment Thread]]
* [Palladium Podcast 44: Breaking out of the Postmodern Condition](https://palladiummag.podbean.com/e/palladium-podcast-44-breaking-out-of-the-postmodern-condition/)
* [[18 Oct 2020]]
* [Palladium Podcast 43: Mary Harrington on Relational Morality and the Mirror of Princes](https://palladiummag.podbean.com/e/palladium-podcast-43-mary-harrington-on-relational-morality-and-the-mirror-of-princes/)
* [[16 Oct 2020]]
* [Meetup Audio David Friedman: “Legal Systems Very Different from Ours” — Slate Star Codex Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGi_aHuA/21:13)
* [[Amish don’t baptize infants because they can’t sign contracts]]
* [[2 Oct 2020]]
* [China’s Grand AI Ambitions with Jeff Ding — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoF1D_uw/15:45)
* [[How can you compare nebulous things without numbers?]]
* [HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes — History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+D9tGDFcvU/01:23)
* [[We can cleanly attribute philosophical ideas to people but we cannot do the same with science or technology]]
* [Episode 4: In Praise of Passivity — Second Enumerations — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+IXPVebFMs/50:31)
* [[One should default to not having state intervention in controversial issues]]
* [Episode 7: The Ethics of Belief — Second Enumerations — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+IXPXo9haw/17:35)
* [[It is bad to have society stop testing things]]
* [The changing nature of U.S.-China tech competition — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoGNpMOU/07:31)
* [[Chinese academies are based on the Russian model]]
* [Episode 8: The Will to Believe — Second Enumerations — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+IXPWkkBZs/44:52)
* [[Faith based on desire works in human systems]]
* [[27 Sep 2020]]
* Podcast reading of [[Why speculate]]
* https://overcast.fm/+IXPURCLr8/00:16
* [[25 Sep 2020]]
* [Show 320 - Steering Into the Iceberg — Common Sense with Dan Carlin — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Cy5dWbU)
* [[Democracy vs Republicanism]]
* [#98: How The Discovery Of Alien Life Changes The Meaning Of Human Existence — Avi Loeb – Joseph Noel Walker](https://josephnoelwalker.com/98-how-the-discovery-of-alien-life-changes-the-meaning-of-human-existence-avi-loeb/)
* [[Avi Loeb]]
* https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus.pdf
* The difference between scientific questions and philosophical questions
* [[22 Sep 2020]]
* [Palladium Podcast 42: How War Drives Technological Progress — Palladium Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+QrkPX7Cdk/58:28)
* [[Military concerns drove a lot of technology]]
* [[Someone needs to buy manufactured technology eventually in a monetized economy]]
* [[John Dulin]]
* [[18 Sep 2020]]
* [a16z Podcast: Designing a Culture of Reinvention - Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/2020/09/15/a16z-podcast-designing-a-culture-of-reinvention/)
* Brazilian way of building trust is actually more efficient - spend five minutes talking about personal things
* [28: Tides of History: How the Eastern Roman Empire Survived Attila the Hun and the Disastrous Fifth Century — The Fall of Rome Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+HA6rUpaWk/45:52)
* [[The Roman Empire was built on an aristocracy of service]]
* [Classic SSC Gives A Graduation Speech — Slate Star Codex Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGilFGEc/25:45)
* A shockingly good argument to just get rid of the educational system and give everybody a basic income if we can afford it
* [25: Tides of History: The Decline and Fall of the Roman City — The Fall of Rome Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+HA6rkBwBc)
* [[The fall of the Roman Empire rhymes with 2020 in many ways]]
* [Classic Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear? — Slate Star Codex Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGig34ms/10:31)
* Lots of examples of [[Equal and Opposite Advice]]
* [Meetup Audio Connor Leahy on GPT-3 as an AI Fire Alarm — Slate Star Codex Podcast — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+KqGi5Z0HA/1:10:22)
* [[The Manhattan project was primarily grungy engineering improvements]]
* [13
* Always a slider between not knowing where you’re going at all a
* [[Hunches as a legitimate reason to do things]]
* [Daniel Schmachtenberger - Pt 3: Solving The Generator Functions of Existential Risks — Future Thinkers — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+QRjjxnH5g/27:35)
* [[Daniel Schmachtenberger]]
* [[5 Sep 2020]]
* [John Maynard Keynes and His Legacies: Interview with Author and Journalist Zach Carter — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3qfDuW8)
* [[John Maynard Keynes]] talked about non-business value
* [[Scenes are people producing work aimed at impressing and one-upping each other]]
* [Peter Lorentzen on the Politics of Protest in China — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoHVPJYc)
* [[Game theoretic governing]]
* [Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro on How the World Order Evolves — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoHslLJ0/1:05:49)
* [Climate Fatalism: How Green New Deal Policies Hurt the Planet & the Poor, with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg — Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Xnvsir_og/1:10:20)
* This is basically my stance on climate change
* https://overcast.fm/+YhoGkS8Ys
* [China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle: McMahon, Dinny: 9781328846013: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Great-Wall-Debt-Massive/dp/1328846016)
* https://www.amazon.com/Age-Ambition-Chasing-Fortune-Truth/dp/0374535272
* https://www.amazon.com/Red-Capitalism-Financial-Foundation-Extraordinary/dp/1118255100
* [12
* [[Andy Matuschak conversation 9 May 2021]], [[Mark McGranaghan]], [[Adam Wiggins]]
* Just high quality, talks about tech transfer
* [Internet Finance with Martin Chorzempa — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoGlxpUM/08:13)
* [[Regulation should lag innovation]]
* [The Ghosts of Archaic Humans — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3pP-vzY/46:25)
* [Did I End My Early Modern Series in the Right Place? Interview with Keith Pluymers — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3owPewc/42:56)
* [[Historical thinking accepts the fact that you need to discard evidence in order to create a narrative]]
* [Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz](https://overcast.fm/+b97-cbo0Q/43:32)
* [[28 Aug 2020]]
* [51: Matthew Realff - Why do we overlook process innovation? — Nanovation — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GE1tpzzns/20:00)
* [Scholarstage on Xi, War in Taiwan, the CCP Toolkit, and the Chinese Tradition — ChinaTalk — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+YhoF49XiE/16:55)
* Chinese tradition embraces the fact that doing the right thing often means failure
* [[Romance of Three Kingdoms]]
* [[The outlaws of the marsh]]
* [[The Scholars]] (ru ni lai shi)
* [[The Dream of the Red Chamber]]
* [[Diary of a Madman]]
* [[Imperial China 900 -1800]]
* [[Tanner Greer]] - Chinese military history
* Han Wu Shan rebellion
* What we think of as “Universal Principles” come from a narrow slice of the world/history
* [Leah Interviews Dr. Patrick Wyman, PhD, about his upcoming book — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3pAxlyA/15:42)
* [[Writing structure is really important - themes, characters narrative]]
* [The Life of Margaret, Brewer of London — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3rQ6z5k/35:25)
* [[Cities are by default death traps]]
* [The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Stanford’s Professor Richard White — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3o_9XJM/34:10)
* [[Railroads were unprofitable at first]]
* [We Join Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie’s Guild (And You Should, Too!) — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3p_EWac/37:14)
* [[Guilds encode identity based rules instead of general rules]]
* [Why Rome Never Rose Again: An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3pHy4_U/15:40)
* [[Empires are good for evolutionary but not revolutionary change]]
* [[Michael Man Argued for Four Sources of Power - ideology economy military politics]]
* [Pilgrims, Puritans, and the Battle for New England: Interview with Historian Peter Mancall — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3oNPJpI/40:24)
* [[The American colonies were formed by a combination of people wanting exit and people seeking investment]]
* [[23 Aug 2020]]
* [Chris Beiser on Administration Markets, Bureaucracies, and Interoperability — The Henry George Program — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+JWGr4xAsw/1:03:34)
* [[Chris Beiser]]
* [Persecution, Toleration, and the Rise of Modernity: An Interview with Historian Mark Koyama — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3pvQ1Iw/23:24)
* [[Mark Koyama]]
* [[There’s a difference between X freedom and X toleration]]
* [[Structural vs Contingent Causes]]
* [[General vs Identity Rules]]
* [Civil Servants, State Finance, and the Rising State — Tides of History — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+Jf3qKhhnc/45:50)
* [[Tacit knowledge about the tradeoffs inherent in drivers of change is important for well run governments]]
* [[Governing is concerned with rights, legitimacy, claims, and enforcement]]
* [[Present day resembles the beginning of the reformation more than the fall of the roman empire]]
* [[17 Aug 2020]]
* https://blubrry.com/voices_from_darpa/65777883/episode-31-science-20/
* [[Jiangying Zhou]] - DSO
* [Artificial Intelligence Research Associate](https://www.darpa.mil/program/artificial-intelligence-research-associate)
* [[Joshua Elliot]] - I2O
* [World Modelers](https://www.darpa.mil/program/world-modelers)
* [Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction](https://www.darpa.mil/program/automating-scientific-knowledge-extraction)
* [Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M)](https://www.darpa.mil/program/data-driven-discovery-of-models)
* [Synergistic Discovery and Design](https://www.darpa.mil/program/synergistic-discovery-and-design)
* [[Bartlett Russell]] - DSO
* [Gamifying the Search for Strategic Surprise](https://www.darpa.mil/program/gamifying-the-search-for-strategic-surprise) ie [[Polyplexus]]
* [Michael Munger on the Future of Higher Education - Econlib](https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-the-future-of-higher-education/)
* [[Russ Roberts]]/[[Michael - Mike - Munger]]
*
* [[11 Aug 2020]]
* [#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch — Lex Fridman Podcast | Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+eZyBnPnRQ/2:02:11)
* [[Russ Tedrake]]
* Soft robotics
* DARPA challenge highlighting the importance of software engineering
* - [[Toyota Research Institute (TRI)]]
* Simulation for contact
* [[24 Jul 2020]]
* [[Problematic 5 — The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media]]
* [[22 Jul 2020]]
* https://overcast.fm/+XnvtFFuG4
* The idea that classical liberal goals are self limiting
* A government should not enforce virtues
* Positive vs Negative rights
* At the same time maybe a richer society can do more and liberalism needs to be updated
* [[Ro
* [[21 Jul 2020]]
* [NEW WORLD # 7 — Make Man Martian — Anatomy of Next — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GwLbnM6Zk)
* [[Josiah Zayner]]
* [Gabriel Licina
* [[Gabriel Licina]]
* [Jamie Hyneman
* [NEW WORLD #6 — Alien Ecology — Anatomy of Next — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GwLaoNnaE)
* [Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ — Anatomy of Next — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GwLYJfO0M)
* [Palmer Luckey
* [NEW WORLD #8 — City in the Stars — Anatomy of Next — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GwLZ1UUro)
*
* [[19 Jul 2020]]
* [Episode 182: Conversation and Society | The Seen and the Unseen](https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2020/7/19/episode-182-conversation-and-society/)
* The art of good conversation
* [[16 July 2020]]
* [Ep 9: Matthew Nordan, Managing Director at Prime Impact Fund — My Climate Journey — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+SCShJyyQA)
* [[Matthew Nordan]]
* [Ep 5: Sarah Kearney, Founder & Executive Director of Prime Coalition — My Climate Journey — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+SCShOsFX8)
* [[Sarah Kearney]]
* [Archive: UTOPIA #5 — Anatomy of Next — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+GwLaSUO08)
* All of the possible future are incoherent and don’t have a roadmap
* [#1 by jelly | Free Listening on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-262032969/1a-1)
* Audio update as a personal archive is a good idea
* Scott Adams with Bjørn Lomborg
* Argument that Climate is problem but not existential
* [Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence — Conversations with Tyler — Overcast](https://overcast.fm/+TSJkP-4R4)