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Hacking State
by Alex Murshak
In search of exploits. www.alexmurshak.com
Episodes
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A Neighborhood Where All Your Friends Live
Garrett Dailey is a designer and brand consultant, and the founder of Lucid, a consultancy that helps startups simplify their pitches and messaging. He is a former philosophy writer and a fixture of the Austin startup ecosystem. We discuss the death of third places, Walt Disney’s original plan…
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How We Disappear
I sit down with Thomas S. Mullaney — professor of modern Chinese history and the history of technology at Stanford, Guggenheim Fellow, and director of Stanford’s Program in Science, Technology & Society — to discuss his new book, How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information (W. W. Norton)....
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Hacking State 58: Aidan Beshoff - Below the Surface of the Mind
I sit down with Aidan Beshoff, a qualified hypnotist, certified practitioner of clinical hypnotherapy, past life regression, QHHT, and ceremonial magick, and the founder of Higher Self Hypnosis. For the past five years, Aidan has helped others overcome deep subconscious patterns through an...
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Rambo Van Halen Reports The Death of Hollywood | Hacking State 57
I sit down with Rambo Van Halen to discuss his new book, Hollywood Samizdat, released through Passage Press, which serves as a personal account of his experiences in the film industry. What was initially intended as a farewell letter to the film industry turned into a more profound reflection—a...
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The Machine that Makes the Machine with Matt Parlmer | Hacking State 56
I sit down with Matt Parlmer, founder of GenFab, to discuss the re-industrialization of America. Matt came to manufacturing through software engineering, watching supply chains buckle during COVID and realizing how little the country actually makes anymore. His response was to build a new kind of...
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Hacking State 55 - Aneil Mallavarapu: Why AI Can't Be Conscious
Aneil Mallavarapu is a biochemist, award winning computer scientist, and Managing Partner at Humain Ventures; investing in early stage life science and health tech startups. We talk about his pioneering work in systems biology at Harvard that led to the creation of Little b, a programming…
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Hacking State 54 - Kyle Housley: The Right to Bear Arms and the Wrong Way to Think About Love
Kyle Housley is a writer and co-host of a new podcast, Horizons Review, with longtime friend of the show, Cody Moser, exploring neglected intellectual texts and thinkers. We discuss the pathologization of normal relationship dynamics through misused psychological terminology, and extensively...
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Everything Went Wrong and I Still Did It
If you’re subscribed to Hacking State you may recall that you were promised not just Poli-Phil and Cog-Sci, but also Compute, and boy do I have some compute for you. About 3 weeks ago I got the insatiable bug to build out an MCP server for the Congress.gov API. This small, civic-minded project...
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Hacking State 53 - Charles Herrman: Duties of Honor vs. Rights of Dignity
In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Charles Herman, a philosopher and senior research fellow at the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. We explore a distinction that Charles has been developing, which revolves around the concepts of honor versus dignity...
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Hacking State 52 - Uberboyo: Christ vs. Nietzsche, Moral Revolutionaries
In this episode, I sit down with Uberboyo, a prominent YouTuber and Nietzschean thinker, to explore the complex relationship between Christianity and Nietzscheanism. Our conversation begins by examining what it means to be "Nietzschean" - not as an ideology, but as a methodology for approaching...
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Hacking State 51 - Patrick Casey: The New New Right
I sit down with Patrick Casey — political commentator, writer, and creator of Restoring Order — for a deep-dive on the state of right-wing politics in America. We explore the rise of the dissident right, Trump’s 2024 comeback, paleoconservatism, the influence of online political movements, and…
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Hacking State 50 - Arcadius Strauss: A Techno-Nationalist Future
In this episode of Hacking State I discuss "Techno-Nationalism for Building Western Civilization 4.0" with Arcadius Strauss. We examine the un-sustainability of our current societal structures influenced by technology, globalization, and cultural shifts. Strauss presents 3 competing visions for…
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Hacking State 49 - Alex Petkas: Greco-Futurism and the Return of Zeal
Alex Petkas is host of Cost of Glory podcast. He holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton, and teaches on persuasion, heroes, and Plutarch’s "Parallel Lives." We talk about the value of Plutarch’s “Parallel Lives”, the contemporary thirst for heroes and grand narratives, Platonism vs. Stoicism,...
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Hacking State 48 - Raw Egg Nationalist: Health, Hormones, and Social Control
I am joined by Raw Egg Nationalist, creator and publisher of Man’s World Magazine, co-founder of Kindred Harvest, and author of "The Eggs Benedict Option". We discuss the relationship between individual health and the political system, his upcoming book with Passage Press, “The Last Men,” the...
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47 - Alex Priou: From Plato to Palantir - Philosophy's Place in Technological Society
Alex Priou is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Interim Dean of the Center for Intellectual Foundations at University of Austin, as well as co-host of The New Thinkery podcast. We discuss the place of the Great Books in education, a justification of political philosophy in terms of...
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Hacking State 46 - ARX-HAN: The Shape of Meaning
ARX-Han is a novelist and publisher of the Decentralized Fiction Substack. He joins me to discuss cultural accelerationism, shame and masculinity, nihilism and the crisis of agency, and AI & fears of human obsolescence. Follow ARX-Han on X: https://x.com/ARX_Han Substack:...
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Hacking State 45 - Edward Luttwak: The Vitality of War
Edward Luttwak is a legendary military historian and grand strategist, known for his books “Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook,” “Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace,” and “The Rise of China vs. The Logic of Strategy.” We discuss: * How Russia and Ukraine is an 18th century war * Why...
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Hacking State 44 - Daniel Hess: Fixing the Fertility Crisis
Daniel Hess is the writer behind More Births, ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility. MoreBirths is a data-driven resource dedicated to helping humanity to understand and ultimately solve the low birthrate crisis that has taken hold across the world. We discuss: - Factors…
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Hacking State 43 - Jonathan Scharf: The Future of Energy
Jonathan Scharf is a NanoEngineering PhD energy consultant specializing in renewable energy. They discuss the future of the grid: nuclear, AI, and renewables. They also cover Jonathan's eclectic background, his transition from academia to industry, and the importance of interdisciplinary…
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Hacking State 42 - Daniel Schwarzhoff: Meditation For Emotional Resilience in Politics
In this conversation, Alex Murshak speaks with Daniel Schwarzhoff Jr., co-founder of the See meditation app, about the importance of emotional regulation in today's political climate. They discuss the unique approach of the app, which focuses on non-contemplative meditation, and how it aims to…
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Thom Ivy - The State of Persuasion
The always enlightening Thom Ivy joins me to discuss pheromones, bioenergetics and Peating, state management, hypnosis, and propaganda. Thom on X: https://x.com/thom_ivy_1 If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Support Hacking State:...
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Cody Moser - Systems Intelligence and the Mysteries of Life
Cody Moser is a PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at the University of California, Merced studying collective intelligence, system collapse, complex systems, and networks. We cover the challenge of integrating humanity into science, the collapse of public spaces, consequences of social...
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Hacking State 39 - Nathan Worcester: American Dynamism
Nathan Worcester covers national politics and energy for The Epoch Times. We talk about - Views from the 2024 Presidential Campaign trail - Prospects for American Re-Industrialization - Nuclear deregulation and the future of American energy - DOGE Nathan on X: https://x.com/nnworcester My AI For...
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Hacking State 38 - Logan Allen: Zorp, NockChain, A Market For Zero Knowledge Proofs
Logan Allen is the CEO of Zorp, an applied research company building NockChain and the Nockstack. We discuss how NockChain combines proof-of-work with zero-knowledge proofs, creating incentives for proof generation at scale. The conversation covers how zero-knowledge proofs enable state…
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Hacking State 37 - Jessica Solce: Forging A Country
Director & Producer Jessica Solce joins me to discuss Forging A Country, her latest film documenting Nayib Bukele's 2024 re-election in El Salvador. We cover why Western liberalism's playbook is insufficient for El Salvador's problems, her approach to documentaries with ideological implications,...
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36 - Eric Kaufmann: Breaking Taboos to Win the Culture War
Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He is also Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. We talk about his new book "The Third Awokening" and cover: how quasi-religious left-wing liberalism bears more...
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35 - Ben McCormick: Getting to Know Kinode
Ben McCormick, a lead developer at Kinode, joins me to discuss the birth of Kinode, the need for backend tools in crypto, choosing Web Assembly for peer-to-peer computing, breaking out of the Feudal structure of Web 2.0 and creating coordination power outside tech oligopolies, how to popularize...
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34 - Charles Haywood: Political Action, Foundationalism, Advice for Ambitious Young Men
Charles Haywood is the Maximum Leader of The Worthy House, publisher of over 600 book reviews, and creator of a framework for the renewal of society called Foundationalism. We talk about how buying machinery from a defunct hair products manufacturer made him tremendously wealthy, The Worthy House...
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33 - Nina Power: Defamation and Free Speech in the Internet Age
I speak with Nina Power about her harrowing defamation suit court battle, the narrowing window of free expression in the West, novel problems of anonymity, pseudonymity, and identity presented by the internet, the antagonism of the philosopher and the city, and the need for cultural tools to push...
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31 - Nick Simmons: Urbit + Octu Ventures
Nick Simmons is a cofounder and member of Octu Ventures, a member-driven venture DAO investing in teams building on Urbit. Urbit comprises a decentralized network of personal servers, a unique digital ID system, and a decentralized peer-to-peer networking protocol. Altogether, these constitute...
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30 - Alexander Pacheco: Building a Network of 150
Alexander Pacheco is the founder of social media platform, 150. Based on Dunbar’s Limit, 150’s innovative social network leverages insights from network science to create a small-town feel that elides many of the downsides that come with incumbent social media giants. Alexander walks us through...
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29 - Kevin Dolan (Bennet's Phylactery): Rebooting Natalism for the 21st Century
I’m joined by cofounder and organizer of the 2023 Natal Conference in Austin, TX, Kevin Dolan. We talk about the conception of a conference to promote having more babies, the various religious and techno-optimist factions of the Natalist Movement, environmental detriments to fertility, how we’re...
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28 - Charles Rosenbauer and Olli Payne: Finding the Keys to Our Possible Futures
I interview the founding editors of Possibilia, a magazine dedicated to showcasing realistic, optimistic science fiction. They’re bringing positive visions of the future in digital and in print—replete with short stories, nonfiction companion pieces, and illustration. We talk about the…
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27 - Lomez: Keeper of the Press
I speak with father of the Passage Prize and Keeper of the Passage Press, Lomez. Passage Prize started as an open call for literary and artistic submissions to find untapped talent from the Twitter anon sphere. It quickly exceeded its initial ambitions, drawing artists both obscure and famous to...
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Hacking State 26 - Stephen R.C. Hicks: Ayn Rand and High Romanticism
On Ayn Rand, Objectivism, the resonance of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, the development and spread of Individualism, high Romanticism, Rand's polarizing characters, the relationship between altruism and selfishness in her works and philosophy, Ayn Rand's large influence on entrepreneurs,...
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25 - Kevin MacDonald: Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy | Cofnas-MacDonald Debate, pt.2
For part 2 of the Cofnas-Macdonald debate I interview evolutionary psychologist Kevin Macdonald. We go over his response to Nathan Cofnas' objections to the Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy laid out in "The Culture of Critique" series, his explanations for outstanding Jewish influence,...
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24 - Nathan Cofnas: Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy | Cofnas-MacDonald Debate, pt.1
Nathan Cofnas is Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, working in philosophy of biology and ethics. We discuss his paper “Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy” in the context of his ongoing debate with Kevin MacDonald and "The Culture of Critique” series. We...
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23 - Zero HP Lovecraft: Toward a Christo-Nietzschean Synthesis
I speak with sci-fi horrorist Zero HP Lovecraft on his Six Components of Religious Experience, a functionalist approach to religion, the concept of God becoming increasingly abstract and far away (divine distance), how Christianity can benefit from Nietzsche’s bitter medicine, Christianity’s...
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22 - Luca Cacciatore: The State of Christianity in America
Luca Cacciatore joins me to discuss Christianity in America, the decline of religiosity, the Second Great Awakening, how technology mediates religiosity, faith and fertility, religion grappling with science, the Evangelical Revolution, and the dearth of compelling Christian narratives for young...
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21 - Kino Corner: Great Films Touch Our Lives
I am joined by Kino Corner to discuss movie making, film as a medium for capturing the zeitgeist of different eras, shooting on digital, film, and hybrid, the economics of why mid-budget movies have disappeared, crowdfunding movies, The Killer (Fincher, 2023), Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023),...
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20 - Michael Millerman: Heidegger, Dugin, and Strauss - The Rewilding of Philosophy
Michael Millerman joins me to discuss starting a philosophy school, why tech and startups are seeking wisdom, whether Western philosophy is still a living tradition, objections to the usefulness of philosophy, leading students to the eternal questions, the intimate pleasure of communing with old...
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19 - Bitcoin Gandalf: Satoshi's Immaculate Coinception
I sit down with Bitcoin Gandalf for a deep dive on Satoshi's immaculate coinception. Gandalf is a large influencer in the Bitcoin space and works in Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin is one of the most innovative technologies of the last century from a governance and coordination perspective. I believe it...
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18 - Nikolai Yakovenko: Exploring DeepNews
DeepNews is using LLMs to aggregate and summarize the latest news across the internet, seeking to change the way we digest news. Nikolai Yakovenko is an ex-Twitter, Google, and Nvidia machine-learning engineer who initially forayed into Web3 with his venture 'DeepNFTValue,' which uses machine...
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16 - Grant Dever: Nuclear Texas
We envision a nuclear Texas. Grant Dever is a research fellow at FREOPP (Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity) who writes about energy policy, with a focus on nuclear power. He earned his degree in economics and business from the University of Rochester. During the pandemic, Grant...
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15 - Brendon Marotta: Children's Justice
Brendon Marotta is a filmmaker, author, and podcaster. We talk about his book, Children's Justice, which applies critical theory to the controversial topic of infant circumcision. We go through his decision to appropriate the tools and tactics of critical theory in service of this issue,...
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14 - Stephen Pimentel: Reviewing "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy"
Engineer and essayist Stephen Pimentel joins me for a review of the recently released bestselling book in Political Philosophy, Costin Alamariu’s “Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy”. In this discussion we go deep in tracing the argument, point-by-point, of Costin’s thesis concerning...
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13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University, as well as the founder of Genomic Prediction and SuperFocus AI; he also hosts the Manifold podcast, and the Information Processing blog. Steve and I speak about polygenic risk scoring and embryo selection, using AI to...
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12 - Garrett Dailey: Designing Business Around Philosophy
Garrett Dailey is the founder of Aion Enterprises, a business philosophy and design firm. We speak about the meaning of Aion, building a business around philosophy, individuation, the Candy Cane model of reality, and the importance of aesthetics for catalyzing people with a compelling vision of…
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Hacking State 11 - Disgraced Propagandist: The World of Dissident Marketing
Disgraced Propagandist (Isaac Simpson) is the founder of WILL, a dissident marketing agency, and The Carousel Substack and podcast. We speak about how Will does dissident marketing for a cohort of new natural “wholesome” brands, the marketing industry as the canary in the coal mine for workplaces...
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10 - Razib Khan: Genetic Time Traveling
Razib Khan is a population geneticist, has a popular Substack on genetics and history, and is a co-founder of GenRait. We speak about his role in the scientific ecosystem, the effect of the computing revolution on ancient genetics and genomics, why he’s most interested in Eurasian steppe...
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