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Shea and I talk Rawl, desert/luck, and hantavirus
00:00 Introduction to the Discussion03:38 Wealth, Luck, and Property Rights04:53 Self-Esteem and Cultural Identity06:17 Cultural Degradation and Ethno-Nationalism09:27 Owing to Evolution10:30 The…
Shreeda interviews me about parenting
I think we got somewhere more by the end, so if you listen to part of it, I recommend starting near the end!You can find Shreeda here.00:00 Introduction to Intentional Parenting03:06 Understanding…
Ethics isn't a truce, with me and Shea
Some things I said I’d link:* Shea and Emmett talk red pill blue pill* Shea and me talking about metaphysics of valueSome timestamps:00:00 Revisiting the Red Pill Blue Pill Discourse09:20 Ethics as a…
Shea and I talk some behaviorism and more parenting
I hope to get back into recording more regularly soon, but no promises. Life has been pretty busy for me lately. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
Very Outdated Iran takes, and some other stuff
Apologies for taking forever to edit this podcast we recorded or Feb 7. We talked about the Iran situation some which was all before the US attacked, but there was some other stuff too. This is a…
Kave and I talk adventure games etc.
Relatively rambling as usual, especially the second half I think. I hope some of you enjoy it!Some links:* Kave on X* Kave’s blog (with his excellent Inkhaven posts)* some tweets of mine about being…
Matt Bateman, Aaron Stupple and I talk kids and freedom
Last week, I went to see Matt Bateman and Aaron Stupple talk about their parenting disagreements at The Montessorium, the (pretty new!) school Matt created. I enjoyed their conversation, wanted to…
Shea and I talk UBI studies and the metaphysics of value
A bunch of this was me trying to understanding Shea’s metaphysics of value and also where he sees property rights as coming from. It may have been more repetitive than usual, since I kept asking him…
Shea and I talk intrapersonal property rights etc
Shea started out talking about recognizing thought processes as value-laden, and then we got into ~psych debugging a way I think some of my thought processes haven’t been respecting what I think are…
Malcolm Ocean and I talk about collective IFS Self
Some things we mentioned include:* A Positive Account of Property Rights* the original instructions for we-ness* someone's write-up of the we-ship experiment that Malcolm ran (the one where we did…
Shea and I talk military theory and also about how we have bigger families
I probably should have split this up into two episodes, but instead it’s all together. The first part of the conversation is basically about how Shea thinks military conflicts should work in the…
Ben and I talk politics and predictions
I had a fun time catching up with my former cohost!Some links we mentioned:* Ben's website* Ben’s substack* Good Strategy Bad Strategy* my blog This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss…
Shea and I talk scarfgate and how ethics works
We talked about the scarfgate and it turned into a whole thing about how discussions of ethics should work. We didn’t even really get to the part about “high agency”! We did get to analyzing how I…
Shea and I talk neurodivergence and how to think about it
We only had a time for a short episode today, but I hadn’t recorded anything in a while, so here it is! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get…
Sarah Constantin and I talk emotions
I saw this Twitter thread from Sarah and offered her to talk to her about it on a podcast, and Aaron volunteered to moderate. I was more taking the position that all emotions are functional, and…
Shea and I talk epistemology etc
In this podcast, we recap a conversation we didn’t record where Shea and I talked about epistemology and decision theory, and I decided to flag it more when I say “but what would that even mean”I…
Cristie Henry on unschooling
I had a great time talking to my friend Cristie Henry about unschooling, an educational philosophy that we both practice within our families.And here’s a link to the thing I wrote about unschooling…
Jordan Myska Allen on metaphysics, identity, better social media, etc.
I caught up with my friend Jordan, and we talked about a whole bunch of stuff! Not a very organized conversation, and I hope you enjoy it.You can find him at The Relateful Company, and his new…
Some recent dog training updates
A pretty rambling podcast about what’s been going through my head recently when trying to work on getting our dogs and cats comfortable with each other. tldr; I think I was accidentally messing up my…
Re: Kave Rennedy on natural law conflicting with itself
I started a threadapalooza on natural law, Kave responded with some thoughts on natural law conflicting with itself, and now I have recorded some thoughts on what I think natural law means and why I…
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