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Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Appears in this episode A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. If you would like to support this podcast, click here. Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Appears in this episode Writes Tom of Letters Subscribe A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. If you would like to support this podcast, click here. Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8 Tom Hyde is a geologist with degrees in geoscience and natural hazards.

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Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Appears in this episode A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. Support this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and son of Milton Friedman. TIMESTAMPS 0:44 - 50 years of The Machinery of Freedom 3:35 - What is a government?

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We typically think of constraints as limiting factors to something we want to achieve. This conception is too narrow. Progress often comes from discovering constraints, and from further refining them. Moreover, the discovery of constraints is just another way to describe the growth of knowledge, and knowledge growth is the backbone of all progress. This is why constraints, when applied non-coercively, are catalysts for progress.

This episode was recorded on Airchat. Learn more at getairchat.com. Logan Chipkin is a writer. You can read his recently published fantasy novel, Windfall (for free) here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71845/windfall. Follow Logan on Twitter @ChipkinLogan and on Airchat @logan. TIMESTAMPS 0:33 - A brief history of Austrian economics 9:15 - Is economics a science?

Open in playerListen on ); Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. Support the podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani TIMESTAMPS 0:30 - What makes humans different 3:50 - Christian atheists 8:05 - Inequality good?

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Nature eventually weeds out even those irrational ideas people dogmatically hold—usually causing destruction to the people who held them. As Naval says, “any system that doesn't get its feedback from free markets or nature eventually gets corrupted because free markets and nature are both truth-seeking mechanisms ... And as such, they're going to give you accurate feedback.” Indeed, there can be no safety without a few dangerous ideas that challenge preconceived theories.