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Affix
by Chris
Brian and Chris always said that if they couldn't have a morning coffee together at work each day, they'd start a podcast to make sure they catch up regularly.This is the conversation they want to have and will range from finance and economics to philosophy and management theory
Episodes
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Episode 44: Perhaps Uncharitable?
This is the show notes to complement this weeks episode Thanks for reading Affix’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Main Article this week is The generous country by Ryan Ginard. It’s a bits and pieces article and perhaps the point is better made in the...
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Episode 43: This is what peak art looks like
The show notes can be delivered to you in handy substack form! If you click no other link in this then please subscribe to the substack! You can always contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]. I think you can also just reply to this email on substack? Main Article this week...
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Episode 42: Stocks vs Flows of Happiness
This week we discuss whether moving from measuring Gross Domestic Product vs Gross National Happiness would improve underlying results for the world. There's a hint of an opinion in the title of the article we reference. The aim of maximising happiness is doomed to fail as a public policy The...
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Episode 41: The obligatory housing episode
The show notes can be delivered to you in handy substack form! If you click no other link in this then please subscribe to the substack! You can always contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]. I think you can also just reply to this email on substack? Main Article on housing
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Episode 40: Money Buys Loneliness?
The show notes can be delivered to you in handy substack form! If you click no other link in this then please subscribe to the substack! You can always contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]. I think you can also just reply to this email on substack? Main Article rich…
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Episode 39: Everything is Average, Except Diablo II and Brian's titling skills
We have a substack now!! If you click on no other link ever on the show notes except this one then you'll get all the show notes from now on in your email!! Please contact us we miss you! I think you can also just reply to this email if you’re on substack? You can also find us on discord or…
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Episode 38: Bad Job Applications
We have a substack now!! If you click on no other link ever on the show notes except this one then you'll get all the show notes from now on in your email!! Please contact us we miss you! I think you can also just reply to this email if you’re on substack? You can also find us on discord or…
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Episode 37: Dying With Zero Trolley Problems
We have a substack now!! If you click on no other link ever on the show notes except this one then you'll get all the show notes from now on in your email!! Please contact us we miss you! I think you can also just reply to this email if you’re on substack? You can also find us on discord or…
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Episode 36: Ok guys and stupendous gals
Please contact us we miss you! This week we discuss The Wife Drought by Annabel Crab. You can also find us on discord or reddit Big list of coffee bets ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meaning is a jumper you have to knit yourself - it keeps you warm...
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Episode 35: Cough-ee bets resolved
Please contact us we miss you! This week we once again discuss whether progress is over, or even if people still want progress! The lure of technocracy can be great or terrible You can also find us on discord or reddit Big list of coffee bets...
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Episode 34: We're pretty rusty
Please contact us we miss you! Chris wants to get into micro-grids. If you know anything about them please tell me! Our main article is about jobs that pay in status instead of money. You can also find us on discord or reddit Big list of coffee bets...
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Episode 33: Suffix
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This will be the last of our regularly scheduled episode. As our lives ramp up and we take on different responsibilities we have decided to take a break from our schedule. We may come back from time to time, so if you'll have us in your feed, we'd love…
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Episode 32: A replication machine makes the rich richer
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This week we discuss what's gone wrong with science and the replication crisis. We also discuss how inequality may improve life globally riffing off Scott Sumner. You can also find us on discord or reddit Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange…
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Episode 31: Fat public servants
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This week we discuss why the internet intelligentsia really do not like the Australian lockdowns (each word is a different link, that's how much they hate us). I try to explain to Brian why Slime Mold Time Mold thinks we're getting fat. Something to do...
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Episode 30: Maybe we all need to chill?
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! After opening this discussion saying we have no feedback or followup we spend half this podcast musing on questions raised about government power and growth. Our main topic this week is how politics isn't as bad as you think. You're allowed to not vote...
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Episode 29: Wealth inequality followed by income inequality....all topics are equal
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This week we once again revisit the topic of wealth and income inequality, first through the lens of cryptocurrency and then through the lens of if it matters at all (I mean....probably...at least a bit). You can also find us on discord or reddit Big…
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Episode 28: We shouldn't have talked about tri-cam-eralism without Cam - SPECIAL GUEST
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! A discussion of aging and wisdom, more forms of government that we should try, and Chris exhorts you, yes you specifically, to become a billionaire. You can also find us on discord or reddit Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app....
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Episode 27: The bleeps are Richards, not Copulation
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Our major topic this week is on Tricameral Legislatures by slime-mold time-mold. What if instead of 2 branches of government we had 3? According to this article, something either very silly, or possibly a little profound. You can also find us on discord...
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Episode 25: We're moving backwards in time, one tangent at a time.
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Our main topics this week are Brian pushing back to the tyranny of merit on the Jolly Swagman podcast. Brian actually recorded an entire rant on this, but has mellowed to the point where we're willing to share his musings with you. Chris found Noah...
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Episode 26: We *are* peak culture
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! We are moving the show to fortnightly. We still love you all, it's just a lot of work (mostly for Brian) This week we talk about total factor productivity growth, and whether higher wages (through worker power, alternatives like UBI or minimum wage…
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Episode 24: Live Episode with conversation with chat
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! If you can, this might be more fun to watch on Twitch or YouTube where you can read the chat and see our pretty faces. This week is our live show. Editing is light and trolls are unfortunately fed. We riff on "Conversations with Tyler" by doing…
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Episode 23: Previously known as Untitled
Our live show is in one week on Brian's twitch stream!!!!! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This week Chris and Brian discuss whether we should burn down Atlanta in the name of science (don't worry, we'd let all the people out first). Then, substacks actually...
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Episode 22: Blood...patent pending
Our live show is in one week on Brian's twitch stream!!!!! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Brian and Chris discuss markets in everything, particularly blood plasma and organs. We talk about patents, one of the first topics Chris liked to read about. We make...
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Episode 21: Old tech, new tech, fin-tech, coup tech
Our live show is coming! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This week Chris and Brian have a meandering discussion on military technology, stagnation, time horzions and "10 year syndrome". We also discuss the new technology of crypto-currency and the cults of...
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Episode 20: Solar Powered Innovators
Our live show is coming! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! You can also find us on discord Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app. This week Brian and Chris stray from the script once more by discussing a number of different positions and sources on...
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Episode 19: Brian both thinks and therefore is, Chris does neither.
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! You can also find us on discord Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week the discussion centres around the new super-annuation scheme changes, and about…
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Episode 18: Elites and Experts (we definitely manage to be neither)
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Our main topic today is Elites vs Experts by Robin Hanson. He's very smart, but not terribly likeable so we have to go back and forth defending him and attacking him. We talk about minimum wage, whether behavioural economics really replicates and why…
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Episode 17: Scout mindset (no not those scouts, it's not the best title for a book)
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This episode our main topic is Julia Galef's new book. Julia is a much better podcaster than us, and also probably a better author. Her new book scout mindset is an exploration on how to seek the truth instead of just defend your pre-existing views.…
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Episode 16: Emails from Sapiens
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Chris picks fights with MacroBioBoi (probably because he's jealous of Brian's new podcast best friend). We discuss another book on the entire history of the world with Sapiens. We muse on population ethics and whether we have an obligation to future...
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Special Episode: Interview with Macrobioboi
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! As Chris was travelling this week Brian got to host a very special episode interviewing MacroBioBoi, one of the top Diablo 2 streamers. They discuss what it's like to be a streamer, accents and how the Diablo content industry works. A very enjoyable...
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Episode 15: Decadant feedback and society
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! This episode Chris has a book review on "The decadent society", hard to explain, but very impactful. We have further reflections on meritocracy, UBI, and womens happiness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The...
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Episode 14: Listener Feedback and Coffee Bets Paid!
A very special Affix episode where Brian and Chris sit across the table in real life and try to avoid looking at each other in the eye. To commemorate this visit we did a listener feedback episode. We follow up on FI/RE, how to build media patronage, a mea culpa from Chris, significant discussion...
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Episode 13: The merits of meritocracy
(¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯·.¸¸.·´¯·.¸¸.·´¯·.¸¸.·´¯) ( \ / ) ( \ ) ( / ) ( ) ( VOTE WITH US!!! ) ( ) ( / ) ( \ ) ( / \ ) (_.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`) Or contact us or support us on Patreon! This week we discuss meritocracy and psychopaths, we muse if the son of a shearer is really worthy...
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Episode 12: A Flowing Financial Independence Xploration
Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! BIG NEWS! Vote along with us on the list of coffee bets! Big list of coffee bets This week we discuss the topic that initial brought Brian and Chris together FI/RE. The idea that by living frugally and...
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Episode 11: Who reports on the reporters?
Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! In this episode Brian and Chris get dangerously close to having original ideas about the news and information distribution. Don't worry, we'll go back to just reading other people's opinions next week. We...
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Episode 10: I'll be moral, UBI
In this episode we have a listener suggested topic of UBI, how affordable it might be in Australia and if it would help or harm over-all. We talk about moral foundations, and find an actual disagreement between Brian and Chris (please tell us who you agree with). And of course we bring you all…
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Episode 9: Overwhelming show of force
In this episode Brian and Chris discuss pandemic preparedness and how Bill and Melinda Gates have(n't?) helped. We use our media empire to wage war on Facebook and the Australian media and have genuine Diablo II news rather than just more nonsense! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Big...
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Episode 8: Power, the great leveller and biting our tongues
This episode we discuss types of power from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. We muse over inequality and what it takes to stop it through the lens of Walther Scheidel's "The Great Leveller". We discuss politics and why we hate talking about politics (we like to think all our opinions on economics are…
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Episode 7: Categorization and Inequality
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! In this episode Brian and Chris discuss shareholder value, important categorization problems such as whether a hotdog is a sandwich or ice is a rock. We talk about inequality in Australia and bet on whether movies will ever make a comeback (of course…
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Episode 6: Technocrats and Journalism: A recipe for rhetorical dominance?
In this episode we review the state of FLOSS software, the things going right and the things going wrong. We discuss if it's good to be a technocrat, and when that can go wrong, and sigh with disbelief at the google vs australian newspaper fight. Please contact us or support us on Patreon!…
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Episode 5: Infinite Credentials
Please support our patreon!! We discuss "the infinite game" by Simon Sinek. Decide that we all need to be better capitalists, and some of what we've learned from Scott Alexander, our favorite auhor (technically just Chris's favorite author, but he feels strongly enough about it to speak for Brian...
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Episode 4: Fraud, FLOSS and working from home
This episode we discuss alternative theories of government and economics. Could we police the whole world purely through securities fraud law? Are there better models for open source software development? Look forward to not really finding satisfying answers to these obviously clickbait…
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Episode 3: Apologies, intangibles and stagnation
In this episode we apologise to Bryan Caplan and reveal ourselves to be the full throated, selfish libertarians you always suspected we were. We discuss the similarities between codebases and factories, and determine if economic progress halted in the 70s. Capitalism without capital The Great...
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Episode 2: Should we even follow laws?
In this episode Brian and Chris discuss the ethical weight of law, should we be able to drive faster, what plato has in common with podcasts and a WORLD RECORD diablo II run! Bryan Caplan - The righteous scofflaw -How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie Escaping paternalism book...
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Episode 1: CovUK and Zvi Mowshowitz
The Trolley Problem: There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. On the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. You are standing next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks with one person on the side track.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Brian and Chris always said that if they couldn't have a morning coffee together at work each day, they'd start a podcast to make sure they catch up regularly.This is the conversation they want to have and will range from finance and economics to philosophy and management theory
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