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Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on Airchat.
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Timestamps
0:19 - The immigration crisis in the US
11:08 - DEI and Mark Cuban
14:29 - Anti-humanism and Gen Z
18:17 - The rise of Christian nationalism
22:32 - Elon freeing the bird
27:47 - What the birth control pill represents
33:07 - Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom
35:16 - Should you go to college?
38:37 - Elephants Are Not Birds
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Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.
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Timestamps
0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food
5:29 - Restructuring the American diet after the gold standard
11:25 - The Seventh-day Adventist Church
16:09 - The word “science” has become a shield against criticism
18:19 - On eating everything in moderation
21:04 - The CPI significantly downplays the effect of inflation
25:53 - The benefits of eating sound good
28:54 - How could a transition to the Bitcoin standard look like?
32:50 - Freedom and raising free children
36:21 - Advice for starting the carnivore diet and closing remarks
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Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy.
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Timestamps
0:39 - Biohacking for 25 years
7:23 - Follistatin gene therapy
11:15 - Farbood’s protocol and results after taking follistatin
15:38 - The FDA’s job is not to keep you alive and healthy
20:58 - Próspera and other startup cities
24:13 - Effective accelerationism
29:27 - On living forever
33:40 - The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m an effective altruist and I’m here to help”
44:40 - Action is always selfish
50:53 - Tips for the average person to get started with biohacking
57:00 - The importance of mobility and flexibility
1:02:14 - Steve Jobs and following your heart
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Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.
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Timestamps
0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology
14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism
25:35 - The sociology of philosophy
29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching
36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU
45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests
52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art
56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream
1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism
1:23:02 - Closing remarks
If you are interested in Jeremy's Zoom based conferences on Karl Popper's work, you can contact him at: jeremy.shearmur@fallowfield.info


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David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory. He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a new, non-paternalistic view of children.
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Timestamps
0:22 - Happiness is a state of continually solving one’s problems
4:54 - Both free-will and the self exist
12:06 - The principle of optimism
17:28 - Any ultimate explanation is a bad explanation
20:22 - The origins of Taking Children Seriously
25:33 - Why children are the most coerced members in society
31:33 - Anarcho-capitalism


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Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.
TIMESTAMPS
0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More”
2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life extension
8:00 - Extropian philosophy and Transhumanism
9:15 - Cryonics explained
26:06 - Hardest challenges in achieving indefinite lifespan
33:16 - Humans don’t like uncertainty
35:55 - We need more progress in AI
39:05 - Climate change is massively exaggerated
46:24 - Pancritical Rationalism and Karl Popper
52:21 - Proactionary principle
56:58 - Max’s book on cryonics and final remarks
EPISODE LINKS
Max’s website: https://www.maxmore.com
Max’s Substack: https://maxmore.substack.com
Arjun’s X: https://x.com/arjunkhemani
Arjun’s Substack: https://arjunkhemani.substack.com





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