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A Neighborhood Where All Your Friends Live

How We Disappear

Hacking State 58: Aidan Beshoff - Below the Surface of the Mind

Rambo Van Halen Reports The Death of Hollywood | Hacking State 57

The Machine that Makes the Machine with Matt Parlmer | Hacking State 56

Hacking State 55 - Aneil Mallavarapu: Why AI Can't Be Conscious

Hacking State 54 - Kyle Housley: The Right to Bear Arms and the Wrong Way to Think About Love

Everything Went Wrong and I Still Did It

Hacking State 53 - Charles Herrman: Duties of Honor vs. Rights of Dignity

Hacking State 52 - Uberboyo: Christ vs. Nietzsche, Moral Revolutionaries

Hacking State 51 - Patrick Casey: The New New Right

Hacking State 50 - Arcadius Strauss: A Techno-Nationalist Future

Hacking State 49 - Alex Petkas: Greco-Futurism and the Return of Zeal

Hacking State 48 - Raw Egg Nationalist: Health, Hormones, and Social Control

47 - Alex Priou: From Plato to Palantir - Philosophy's Place in Technological Society

Hacking State 46 - ARX-HAN: The Shape of Meaning

Hacking State 45 - Edward Luttwak: The Vitality of War

Hacking State 44 - Daniel Hess: Fixing the Fertility Crisis

Hacking State 43 - Jonathan Scharf: The Future of Energy

Hacking State 42 - Daniel Schwarzhoff: Meditation For Emotional Resilience in Politics

Thom Ivy - The State of Persuasion

Cody Moser - Systems Intelligence and the Mysteries of Life

Hacking State 39 - Nathan Worcester: American Dynamism

Hacking State 38 - Logan Allen: Zorp, NockChain, A Market For Zero Knowledge Proofs

Hacking State 37 - Jessica Solce: Forging A Country

36 - Eric Kaufmann: Breaking Taboos to Win the Culture War

35 - Ben McCormick: Getting to Know Kinode

34 - Charles Haywood: Political Action, Foundationalism, Advice for Ambitious Young Men

33 - Nina Power: Defamation and Free Speech in the Internet Age

31 - Nick Simmons: Urbit + Octu Ventures

30 - Alexander Pacheco: Building a Network of 150

29 - Kevin Dolan (Bennet's Phylactery): Rebooting Natalism for the 21st Century

28 - Charles Rosenbauer and Olli Payne: Finding the Keys to Our Possible Futures

27 - Lomez: Keeper of the Press

Hacking State 26 - Stephen R.C. Hicks: Ayn Rand and High Romanticism

25 - Kevin MacDonald: Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy | Cofnas-MacDonald Debate, pt.2

24 - Nathan Cofnas: Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy | Cofnas-MacDonald Debate, pt.1

23 - Zero HP Lovecraft: Toward a Christo-Nietzschean Synthesis

22 - Luca Cacciatore: The State of Christianity in America

21 - Kino Corner: Great Films Touch Our Lives

20 - Michael Millerman: Heidegger, Dugin, and Strauss - The Rewilding of Philosophy

19 - Bitcoin Gandalf: Satoshi's Immaculate Coinception

18 - Nikolai Yakovenko: Exploring DeepNews

16 - Grant Dever: Nuclear Texas

15 - Brendon Marotta: Children's Justice

14 - Stephen Pimentel: Reviewing "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy"

13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled

12 - Garrett Dailey: Designing Business Around Philosophy

Hacking State 11 - Disgraced Propagandist: The World of Dissident Marketing

10 - Razib Khan: Genetic Time Traveling

8 - Bo Winegard: Aporias of Human Nature

7 - Mark Wilcox: 21e8 and Computational Data Markets

6 - Jason Snyder: Growing Doomer Optimism

5 - Jonah Davids: Mental Health is Unwell

4 - Cody Moser: The Science of Innovation, Core-Periphery Networks, Internet Polarization

3 - Jae Yang and John Bugnacki: Tacen and the Wild West of Tech

2 - Matthew Mehan: Classical Education & the Moral Training of Self-Government

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1 - Robin Hanson: Prediction Markets & Futarchy

42: Building a Sensemaking Market with Mike Elias and James Ellis

41: Great Founders, Complex Thought, and State Capacity with Samo Burja

40: Decentralized Statecraft With Gabriel

39: René Girard - Imitation & Desire with William Johnsen

38: Holistic Community Development with Anna Brodsky

37: Nina Power - The Radical Traditionalism of Ivan Illich

36: Secrets of Performance with Alex Feinberg

35: The Horrors in Waiting with Zero HP Lovecraft

34: An Exercise in Constructive Disagreement with Brent Cooper

33: An Eclectic Spacewalk with Nicholas McCay

32: Heraclitus of Ephesus – Philosopher of Fire

26: The Death Speech of Socrates - Excerpt from The Apology + Analysis (RELEASED)

31: The Tyranny of Materialism with Cody Moser

30: Exploring the Search Space of Game~B with Jim Rutt

29: Notes on the Future of Decentralized Organization with Richard Bartlett

28: Civilization & Hypermodernity with John David Ebert

27: Informational Mutually Assured Destruction with Matthew Pirkowski

The Death Speech of Socrates - PREVIEW/TEASER

25: Uncovering Leo Strauss with Michael Millerman

24: Theory on the Outside with Geoff Shullenberger

23: Love in the Age of Information with Raven Connolly

22: Cultivating a World We Can Live In with Jason Snyder

21: Color Revolutions and How To Fight Them (RELEASED)

20: Violence and Sacred Rites with Will Buckner

19: Bracing for Whiteshift with Eric Kaufmann

18: On Anarcho-Tyranny (RELEASED)

17: Hacking Genes and Memes with Razib Khan

16: Prediction For Our Brave New World with Cody Moser

15: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (RELEASED)

14: Cancelled Culture: Bo Winegard

Pod clips: Upgrading Our Collective Software

Pod clips: Cody Moser - Universities and Monasteries

Pod clips: Jason Crawford - Intensive Vs. Extensive Progress

Pod clips: Our Prehistoric Brains

13: Mapping the Intellectual Dark Web with Oliver Traldi

Pod clips: Jason Crawford - Which Problems Matter

Pod clips: Making it Through the Bottleneck

Pod clips: Cody Moser - The Demise Of Localism

Pod clips: Jason Crawford - Progress Is Not The Default Of History

12: Problematics of Postmodernism with Stephen Hicks

11: First Principles Economics with Per Bylund