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I recorded 40 episodes over the holiday for a new podcast, w/ co-hosting help from @LauraDeming & @PatrickJBlum

Here they are, season 1:

spreaker.com/show/big-ideas

Geoffrey West on scale
John Mearshimer on foreign policy
Scott Sumner on monetary policy
Yuval Levin on conservatism
@GRaghuramRajan on economic growth
@wesyang on the culture war
@PageauJonathan on religion & society
@DrDaronAcemoglu why nations fail
@jjhorgan on scientism
@SoumayaKeynes on trade
@D_A_Irwin on trade
@aqualityx on Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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@buster on disagreement
@migrationnerd on immigration
Crispin Sartwell &Daniel Kauffman &Spencer Case on philosophy
@m_t_prewitt on radical markets
@donalddhoffman on reality
@garybasin on trading
Frederick Crews on Freud
@BCAppelbaum on economists
@hamandcheese on welfare policy
@DinnyMcMahon on China
@mattwridley on evolution
@seanmcarroll on q's of the universe
@BrianNosek on replication crisis
@AgnesCallard on egalitarianism & meritocracy
@MPigliucci on Stoicism
Carola Binder & Donald Kohn & Jared Bernstein on The Fed

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Erik Torenberg
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Peter's thoughts on longevity, worth separating out into its own thread:

One way of rephrasing the live forever Q is: W/ respect to any single disease, should we be doing more? Should we be doing more to cure cancer? Should we doing more to cure Alzheimer's?

The answer is yes
The question isn't: do you get a pill that can make you live to 1000? That's too abstract and ideological of a way to frame it.

Answering that general Q positively makes you sound weird.

But saying no the specific Q's (cancer, dementia, arthritis) makes you sound cruel.
The frontier of medicine today is different from the past, where death wasn't quite as linked w/ q's of aging, it was infant mortality, or the plague.

Today the epidemics are of old age. E.g. Cancer you have 1 in 1,000 chance of getting it when you're 30, 1 in 10 when you're 80.
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Here's another try at articulating Glen Weyl's ideas / quotes:
You can think of all the social circles that you're a part of in pre modern society—your work circle, your family circle, your friend circle, all these overlap heavily.

So you're not really an individual b/c there's so many other people who's their circles are the same as yours
And then what starts to happen in modernity is these things start to separate out.

So maybe you only have two people who are in both your work and home circles.

So then you end up being the unique intersection of all these different like social groups that gives you meaning.
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Erik Torenberg
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Been reading a bit about Nixon & LBJ and how that era informs today. Some musings & takeaways:

The contrast between JFK -> Nixon is an interesting comparison to Obama - > Trump. 

Reaction couldn’t be starker. Both benefited from new technologies.
It’s interesting to think that democrats were anti-immigration only up until recently.

Schumer, Pelosi, etc were pro-border until recently

The left has been typically more anti immigration due to perceived impact on labor & union influence—Immigrants taking jobs from Americans.
Democrats only went identitarian relatively recently too:

Remember the democrats were party of south and segregation until LBJ (Lincoln was a republican— confederates were democrats).

Recently, Democrats became party for the elites, while republicans picked up working class.
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John Ashcroft became Attorney General (head of the Dept of Justice) in 2001. Did he approve the IDW contracts?

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