Arjun Khemani Podcast Arjun Khemani
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A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition.
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#30 – Niklas Anzinger: Longevity, Crypto, and Network States
Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia. He is also the host of the Podcast.
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Timestamps
0:32 - Building Vitalia and Infinita VC
6:05 - The parallels between longevity and crypto
17:35 - How to convince people that living longer is a worthy goal
22:54 - Network societies
30:35 - Curating your early community
35:22 - The benefits of making organ trade legal
39:23 - Master of Business Creation
43:46 - The madness of air travel regulation
48:51 - Privatizing the base layer of society + closing remarks
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#29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control
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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#28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science
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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#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart
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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#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper
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.
Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.
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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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#25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism
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.
Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.
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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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