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If you follow the thesis “the way to be happy is to sacrifice your happiness for the happiness of other people” to its logical conclusion for…

Mar 26

#15 – Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall: Knowledge, Constraints, and Truth-Seeking Mechanisms Listen now (33 min) | Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com TIMESTAMPS 0:24 - The nature of knowledge 1:01- Constraints of progress 6:31 - The finite…

Mar 25

Automating all non-creative activities.

Mar 19

Scientific theories are impersonal.

Mar 12

And the derangements of science, the wonders of evolution, technology, and more

Mar 5

February 2023

Almost everything to do with the evidence of modern civilization is the manifestation of thought.

Feb 26

School conflates passing of exams with learning. Emphasis is made on the procedure of teaching (to pass exams), rather than the result of learning. But…

Feb 19

14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Epistemology and Wealth Listen now (63 min) | Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn…

Feb 16

A person is not just a set of ideas.

Feb 12

#13 – Danny Miranda: Creating Podcasts and The Future Listen now (55 min) | Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast where he’s interviewed people like Bryan Johnson, Morgan Housel, Gary…

Feb 6

At one point doesn’t everything seem relative? What even is truth if not that which is true relative to the person?

Feb 5

January 2023

Oh, the beauty of being wrong...

Jan 29

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