#100 - Celebrating the Centennial

100 episodes! To celebrate, Vaden tries to get personal with Ben, while Ben dodges his questions and wants to know how Vaden feels about incest. All in all, a pretty typical episode.

The questions

From Vaden to Ben:

1. How is your side hustle going?
2. Who are some of your major influences outside of Popper?
3. How has the Popperian worldview influenced your day-to-day?
4. What is the life of a nomadic academic like?
5. What would you say to people who are considering mathematics as a career?
6. Which charities do you recommend?

From Ben to Vaden:

1. How do you feel about looksmaxxing?
2. Thoughts on medical assistance in dying?
3. Ethics of Alex Honnold free soloing Taipei 101?
4. Thoughts on Nation-Buiding?
5. Incest - into it?

Episode References

• #22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments
• #66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella)
• #58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read
• #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows)
• #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)

References

• Angus Deaton debates Abhijit Banerjee: https://nyudri.wordpress.com/initiatives/deaton-v-banerjee/
• Christopher Hitchens and Robert Wright
• Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov
• Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
• The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

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