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KMO talks with LifeSmyth/Systems Tinker of the Doomer Optimism podcast about his journey from techno-utopianism through the valley of Doomerism and into a new phase of mental life that prioritizes physical presence and activity over worldview cultivation. Later the conversation turns to currency design and the ways in which Holochain differs from other crypto projects.
CRV 437
Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:34:33 — 54.3MB)
KMO and Jim, Your Ad Attacker, host of the Attack Ads! podcast, discuss the books The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America by Peter Zeihan and Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond.
CRV 436
Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:18 — 31.2MB)
Dysrationalia is the inability to think rationally in spite of possessing adequate intelligence. Sometimes smart people are so good at making and defending arguments that they turn their own intelligence against itself.
CRV 435
Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:04 — 40.9MB)
Taking two concepts from the Less Wrong website, KMO spins a spiel of inferential distance and intellectual hipsters. As a smart person, you need to signal your disagreement with the mid-brow herd on just about any issue. It doesn't matter if the simpletons are right in their unsophisticated take, your job is to gravitate to a worldview which is so rich with nuance and difficult to grasp, that you have to be a smarty pants just to understand it.
CRV 434
Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08:56 — 39.8MB)
This episode is built around two pieces of feedback, one talking about AI ethics and the other recommending that I read/listen to Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.