All Episodes

Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century

Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries

Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy

Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership

Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance

Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia

Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness

Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness

David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously

Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code

Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

Scott Young - Ultralearning

Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty

Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods

Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine

Robin Hanson - The Long View

Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress

Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability

Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas