Archive - Progress Good

#123 – The Price of “Free”

Why the Government Cannot Escape Economic Reality to Provide Your Needs.

Apr 13 •

March 2024

#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart

Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200…

Mar 23 •

1:09:49

#122 – It’s Impossible to Justify Predictions from Evidence. Here’s Why.

Imagine a chicken on a farm who sees the farmer bring it food every morning. Every day, the chicken watches the farmer come with food, making it think…

Mar 21 •

February 2024

#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper

Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought…

Feb 14 •

1:23:36

#121 – The Not So Good Old Days

“[T]he sage gave him the history of man in a single line; it was this: he was born, he suffered, and he died. […] Life was insignificant and death…

Feb 4 •

January 2024

#25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism

David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum…

Jan 1 •

40:37

December 2023

#120 – Profits Are Proof of Service

Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

Dec 10, 2023 •

November 2023

#119 – Creativity: Our Only Way Forward

Rejecting Career Paths and Planning for Uncertainty

Nov 26, 2023 •

#118 – Inequality is Not a Problem, Poverty is

We will only have perfectly achieved equality when we are all dead.

Nov 12, 2023 •

#24 – Max More: Cryonics, Transhumanism, and The Morality of Progress

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…

Nov 5, 2023 •

1:05:30

October 2023

#117 – The Altruism Trap: How Self-Sacrifice Stymies Progress

If everyone sacrificed their own happiness for the happiness of others, no one would be happy.

Oct 29, 2023 •

#116 – The Religion of Science

Addressing a form of zealotry that is cloaked in the guise of science.

Oct 8, 2023 •

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