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Change My MindIn Defense of Liberalism w/ Cass SunsteinLukas Leuzinger and Alex Buxeda interview Cass Sunstein for Schweizer Monat. They dissect the mechanics of liberalism. Sunstein defines a tradition that encompasses Hayek and Burke. He counters the claims of Patrick Deneen. He argues that choice does not destroy faith or family. The dialogue shifts to nudges. Sunstein explains how choice architecture assists humans without it being manipulation. They analyze speech standards. They contrast the First Amendment with the laws of Switzerland and Germany. Sunstein outlines the divisions of power. He warns against the expansion of the executive.Buy Sunstein's latest book: On...
2026-01-2640 minChange My MindSound Money or Soft Despotism w/ Barbara KolmBarbara Kolm, President of the Austrian School of Economics, joins Alex Buxeda to dismantle the myths of monetary nationalism, expose the political incentives behind inflation, and explain why trust collapses when money becomes a political tool.They explore Carl Menger’s legacy, why money is a discovery not an invention, how time and information shape economic order, and why Europe is quietly drifting toward central planning through the “law of rules”.From Bitcoin’s “don’t trust, verify,” to demographic decline, taxation traps, bureaucratic overreach, CBDCs, nudging theory, and the collapse of competitiveness in Europe, this episode is...
2025-12-1142 minChange My MindEntropy and UnderstandingIn this episode, we explore how consilience collapses concepts, the nature of entropy, markets as anticipation machines, biology as a model of past environments that survives by matching the present and future, the division of labor freeing mental bandwidth, energy as the basis of value, and the provisional nature of all knowledge.
2024-10-022h 36Change My MindEfficiently Feeding the World with Microalgae W/ Fengzheng GaoToday, I had a conversation with Fengzheng Gao. Fengzheng is a researcher specializing in Microalgal Biotechnology, and he holds two doctorates, one in Bioprocess Engineering and another one in Aquatic Product Processing and Storage Engineering. He has contributed to over 20 scientific publications.
We talked about the potential of microalgae in optimizing the food chain in order to provide abundant food to the poorest at an accessible cost, how microalgae can supplement the iron intake of the people suffering from iron deficiencies better than conventional iron supplements, the vastly promising future of algae strains in...
2024-02-0548 minChange My MindIntelligence, Neurodivergence and Epistemology W/ Abel AbelsonAbel Abelson, a neurodivergent writer and YouTuber, has navigated the unique challenges of being distinct from the majority, on which our conversation focuses mainly. He was recognized by Mensa with an IQ of 133, which places him in the 98th percentile in terms of cognitive ability.
Today we talked about whether every problem can be solved through further understanding, how one can be content with the fact that one will be discontent, the apparent incompatibility of acceptance and performance, how to define happiness, the need for enough similarities between two people to have a successful...
2023-12-173h 09Change My MindFree Will & Stoicism W/ AbdiToday I am joined by my friend Abdi.
In this conversation we talked about: that what causes suffering is the interpretation of the facts, not the facts themselves, framing free will as the ability to ditch a vice, how we don't choose to choose-proving the inexistence of free will as unconstrained decisions, how uncaused behavior is an incoherent concept as a round square, how 99% of the cost of vice is in the creation of future vice, the end of history illusion, how the misalignment between feedback and reality is THE civilizational problem, how we are drowning in...
2023-12-061h 34Change My MindComfortable Limiting Beliefs and Universal Laws W/ Lukas S
Today I had a conversation with Lukas S, he is a personal coach that focuses on human performance and mindset training. Check him out on Instagram at otokstrength or online at otokstrength.com and theprotocol.life
We talked about how complaining is useless but it feels good to us, how finding common ground with people who believe opposite ideas is what allows your or others' minds to be changed, the importance of self-awareness to not be fooled into the fake things that the status quo advocates for, distinguishing what furthers our long-term objectives and what does not, how getting rid of what...
2023-07-141h 21Change My MindIn defense of Free Speech & The Scientific Method W/ Harvey SilverglateToday I had the pleasure to have a conversation with Harvey Silverglate, he is an American attorney, author, and civil liberties advocate. He is best known for his work in defending individual rights and freedom of speech. Silverglate has been involved in numerous high-profile cases and has written extensively on issues related to civil liberties and the criminal justice system.
He co-founded the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) in 1999, an organization dedicated to protecting free speech and due process rights.
He has also written several books, including Three Felonies a Day: How the...
2023-06-011h 31Change My MindThe case against Car Dependency W/ Victor DoverVictor Dover is an innovator in city planning, neighborhood design and street design, he serves as president of the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade and as a board member of the National Recreation & Parks Association.
We talk about how the cost of car dependency is hidden from the individual by governmental subsidies, how the promised ‘’car freedom’’ in the 50s became car dependence which newer generations are rejecting, how maximum flow of cars occurs at medium speeds, the evil of minimum parking lots because it causes car dependence, that 0 is an absurd price for parking, that people will use the...
2023-04-131h 15Change My MindThe Metaphorical Truth of Fiction W/ David E. FeldmanToday I had a conversation with David E. Feldman, he is an author of mysteries, crime fiction and the occasional standalone novel, which might be called literary fiction, historical drama or family saga.
David has overcome drug addiction, spinal problems that were heading for paralysis, 2 hip replacements, intestinal resection with colostomy and cancer. He is also a working musician and painter.
We talked about the coexistence of the better and worse angels of our nature, the key for a successful marriage, our natural curiosity toward hidden plots or conspiracies, the interconnectedness of the world, spirituality, science, the...
2023-04-051h 17Change My MindPondering DeathI am joined today by my friend Emilio to discuss the inevitable end of our journey, the value of noticing your own mortality, the dichotomy between life and death, the process of appreciating things and people while they are around us, the need for acting in a virtuous manner while we can, how the Stoics dealt with death and whether developing an objective morality is possible.
2023-03-301h 28
The Vancrux Podcast - Host Jeevan MatharuCapitalism, Decentralisation & Consilience– Alex Buxeda Alex is the podcast host of ‘escaping mediocrity’. Alex is a curious person, and we end up discussing a variety of topics including:- Capitalism and it’s benefits- Globalisation vs Decentralisation- Currency and value- Scientific methods- Consilience- Quantum Physics- NATO- Feminism- Freedom of ideas and speechThis was a great intellectual conversation. You can find Alex on the below links:https://open.spotify.com/show/5uSwZMzzAid5tNivJIOKMthttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt-j2ZfdHA8mxu0AYlAo8SZV4AgHvxtIW🔥 Useful Links:📘 Become a Person of Value by J.S. Math https://amzn.to/4cJjMbu📗 A Que...
2023-03-281h 39
Change My MindSelf Improvement, limiting beliefs and Becoming a Person of Value W/ Jeevan MatharuJeevan Matharu is a wealth management partner at True Potential LLP and transformational coach at Vanquish transformational coaching.
We discussed limiting thoughts, imposter syndrome, unconditional commitments leading to deeper consequences(as in marriage, the externalization of justice through the legal system and not stealing organs) not foreseeable by a narrow analysis, how being rational requires taking into account other people’s irrationality, the origin of morality, the naturalistic fallacy, raw darwinism determining what exists at the level of moral judgment, the importance of realizing the difference between what feels good and what is good, th...
2023-03-161h 14
Change My MindFake Feelings & Rationality W/ Luca PetersenMy good friend Luca joins me to discuss the difference between what FEELS good and what IS good, a doughnut feels good but is not good(in the long term), our feelings fool us.
We talk about the trueness and fakeness of different feelings which is in the bullseye of effective altruism’s principal flaw: that what feels the best when doing good is not what has the biggest impact, zero sum vs positive sum games, Intelligence singularity, utilitarian ethics reduced to the absurd with the repugnant conclusion, that we have trade offs all the way down, th...
2023-03-041h 23
Change My MindThe limits of Self-Improvement W/ Patric SchiessI am joined by my friend Patric for a second time (we discussed what failure is on a previous occasion)to discuss the limits of self-improvement and why everyone should try it. Improving yourself is actually worth the effort.
We talk about how dopamine is the ultimate currency, that discipline is consistently doing what is known to be good even if it feels bad, the factors affecting Luck vs unluck, the difference between what you wish and what you wish to wish, the benefits of meditation and meta-cognition(being aware of being aware) in avoiding anger and...
2023-02-2853 min
Change My MindThe case Against Porn W/ Roman MironovRoman Mironov is a coach, he helps men get their act together by getting them out of their porn addiction, he himself wasted many years addicted to porn. You don’t have to make his same mistake.
Roman and I talked about:
1: How porn is to sex as McDonald’s is to food.
2: That any male can now see more naked females in 1 day than kings did in their whole lives.
The reward mechanism of males is hijacked by what seems to be ‘’evolutionary success’’(seeing many naked females) tha...
2023-02-2256 min
Change My MindAdvancing STEM Disciplines W/ Brett HoffstadtBrett Hoffstadt is an aerospace Engineer, Innovator and a prolific Author. His books are mainly focused in inspiring children’s curiosity in STEM fields, he has authored titles such as "Exploring Smart Cities for Kids","Goodnight Moon Base" and "How To Be a Rocket Scientist: 10 Powerful Tips to Enter the Aerospace Field and Launch the Career of Your Dreams".
We talk about the fundamental role of the STEM disciplines in our society, the benefits of having a permanent inhabited base on the moon, the multifacetedness of engineering, the unity of knowledge, the inherent tendency of...
2023-02-1655 min
Change My MindWhy Public Libraries and Copyright Laws are Not CompatibleI explain in this bonus episode my views on how incompatible simultaneously stating that a public library and copyright laws are a good thing is.
It is socially accepted for public libraries to exist so that in principle everyone has access to any book without paying for it in the moment, but this is not coherent with another belief that society simultaneously holds as unacceptable: downloading the ebook for free infringing the copyright law.
I am not trying to argue against copyright law, I am just pointing my finger at a cognitive dissonance I believe to...
2023-01-2214 min
Change My MindGrief, Wisdom & Success W/ Jan GossJan Goss is the Founder of Show Up Well Consulting, an Austin based firm specializing in personal and professional development.
On this episode we talked about grief, the process of healing from it, how achieving success in spite of social pressure dragging you to mediocrity can happen if you have enough drive and know how to play your cards, what wisdom is, gratitude and the unfortunate fact that on many occasions we only value some things when we lose them, the value of the knowledge inherited from previous generations and more.
2023-01-2146 min
What's the value?" " - Alex BuxedaIt is not a mistake or a typo that the title of this show has a "blank" for the value selected. And that is also not a knock on my guest, Alex, suggesting he was indecisive or unable to commit to one value. As we discussed during the show, leaving the value blank was the most honest thing I could put after the conversation we had. Anything else would have felt forced or contrived.
To back up for a moment, Alex is perhaps one of the most curious humans I've ever met. He is...
2022-12-191h 04
Change My MindUnderstanding Our Selflessness W/ Dr. Jay GarfieldI am joined today by Dr. Jay Garfield, Jay is a professor in the humanities, philosophy, logic and buddhist studies at Smith College, he specialized in Tibetan Buddhism, the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics and hermeneutics, he is also a visiting professor for buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, and author of his latest book ''Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self.'' published in may 2022 on which our conversation focuses mainly.
In our conversation we cover the topics of avoiding suffering, the self, free will, two experiments t...
2022-12-0859 min
Change My MindAddressing root causes of disease and getting people OFF medication W/ Victoria Andarcia MDVictoria is an Internal Medicine Physician, she claims that medicine is how we eat, think, feel, our relationships and more, that there’s no one pill solution.
During her first 6 months of residency she quickly realized that traditional medicine was not addressing the root of the problem. She became intrigued in addressing the root of the problem to prevent patients from frequently returning to the hospital and to ultimately help people improve their quality of life.
We converse on the evolutionary maladaptation of our biology to our current environment in relation to th...
2022-12-0244 min
Change My MindTranscending Parochialism through Food W/ Chef Dennis LittleyOn this occasion I chat with Chef Dennis over food, its omnipresence among all cultures due to the shared biology of the human condition, how the obesity epidemic could be ameliorated returning to the diet of our grandparents, the importance of taking into account personal differences when looking for the optimal diet, the unfortunate fact that the cheapest food that we can consume are junk foods, making eating healthily a difficult task in North America, the cultural and culinary differences in the west between North American and European countries among which both of our opinions converge in that the...
2022-11-1152 min
Change My MindOn Suicide W/ Mark HenickMark Henick is a mental health activist and advocate, author, host and public speaker who has appeared on tv, radio and online podcasts on multiple occasions, he is especially well known for his popular TedX talk on YouTube which now has had more than 6 million views.
We talk about: Suicide, why some people choose it and how to avoid it, the meaning of life, public policy measures relating to suicide prevention, how we have a common flaw of identifying ourselves with our feelings, the important differences between the collective and the individual and the remarkable similarities between t...
2022-10-1443 min
Change My MindThe Moral Case for Free Speech W/ Julius GreyJulius H. Grey is a Canadian lawyer and university professor, he was born in Poland. He is particularly known for his expertise in constitutional and human rights law. He is a senior partner at the law firm Grey Casgrain, s.e.n.c.
I talk with Julius about the importance of freedom of speech in correcting incorrect thoughts-opinions, the threats to freedom of speech that political correctness creates, the role of the government in supporting weak languages such as French in Quebec or Welsh in Wales and the conflicts of interests that arise in the law system...
2022-10-0750 min
Change My MindWhy do Businesses Suceed or Fail? W/ Peter ChristianPeter Christian was an engineer, consultant and teacher of management, worked in Crayola Corporation and he is also the author of two business books Influences and Influencers: How Our Relationships Affect and Shape Us and What About the Vermin Problem: A Guide to Avoiding Damaging Business Practices.
We chat over why businesses succeed or fail, possible conflict of interests between customers and providers, the need for marketing on a business, the difference between capturing and producing value and more.
Contact Peter at phchristian53@gmail.com
Buy his books at https://petechristianbooks.com/
2022-09-2757 min
Change My MindHow Corrupt is the Healthcare System in the US? W/ Robert Yoho MDUS citizens spend double per capita than most of the Europeans do on healthcare. Far from being due to the inherent nature of free markets and the corruptness of capitalism, this is due to unfair privileges given to pharmaceutical companies by the regulators and the externalization of costs and the internalization of benefits (like overeating when splitting the bill on a group).
Robert Yoho, author of the popular book ''Butchered by ''Healthcare'''' accompanies me today to discuss over how corrupt the healthcare system of the US is, he also shares his views on vaccines and the state...
2022-09-171h 01
Change My MindHow different is Africa? W/ Steve BrakerSteve Braker is an author of a series of 5 books, was born in the United Kingdom but his desire for adventure drove him 20 years ago to Mombasa, Kenya.
We discuss the differences between western and central african countries, from the economy, safety nets, police, corruption, infrastructure, to governance.
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2022-09-0250 min
Change My MindUnderstanding the Universe W/ Dr. Paul M. SutterPaul Matt Sutter is an Astrophysicist, podcast host and science communicator.
The universe is big, but how big? Well... how does 8.8×10^26 m in diameter feel? Alienating? Good! That's why I am today accompanied by Sutter to put into perspective how bizarre the universe is.
In this conversation we cover the cosmic microwave background and how the big bang theory of the universe is derived from it, the impregnable heat death of the universe, conservation of energy, the existence of fundamental forces, the imprecision of english in expressing the laws of nature in contrast with mathematical f...
2022-08-2745 min
Change My MindADHD, Parenting and Unwise Prescriptions W/ Avigail GimpelAvigail Gimpel is an author, mother of six and special educator.
She has examined the current research relating to ADHD and has conducted 25 years of her own research, culminating in her book ''HyperHealing: The Empowered Parent’s Complete Guide to Raising a Healthy Child with ADHD Symptoms''
We discuss parenting, how on many occasions medical prescriptions are not wisely done due to ineptitude, wrong system structures and conflict of interests and how we frequently defer to our doctors in a way that we would not in other areas of knowledge
Hy...
2022-08-2551 min
Change My MindAchieving Sustainable Excellence W/ Terry TuckerTerry Tucker has been a SWAT Hostage Negotiator and Hospital administrator, he is currently an author, father of 2 and as he likes calling it a ''Cancer Warrior''.
There is much more nuance in life than we would like to admit, in this conversation Terry and I go through a wide range of topics, from endurance to meaning to conflict of interests in politics to escaping mediocrity.
Check Terry´s book Sustainable Excellence: Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon And Extraordinary Life
Find Terry on Twitter and LinkedIn
2022-08-101h 00
Change My MindSaving the World Billions on Cost Overheads W/ Noah HealyNoah Healy is a recreational mathematician that has developed CDM(Coordinated Discovery Markets), this new method has the potential to substantially reduce the cost overheads of commodity trading in the market, he is the first person in centuries to offer an alternative to the system which rules large-scale markets, in this episode we discuss the features of CDM, the potential it has to reduce cost overheads in trading commodities and the way incentives are aligned between producers, speculators and consumers by penalizing noise and incentivizing signal.
CDM more technically is a a new method f...
2022-07-2948 min
Change My MindWhat makes one Good or Bad?What is it that makes something good or bad?
Are we all condemned to interpret our intuitive perceptions (built through natural selection)of what ought to be done as either Good or Evil?
In this episode Baer joins me to reflect over what the origin of our moral perceptions is. We talk about the morality in relationship to determinism and how being considerate to our fellow terrestrial cohabitants is a must in order to permit our existence as a species.
2022-07-1651 min
Change My MindFlow State, Joy and Absorption Vs DistractionWe all know that state in which time seems to fly by while you are achieving at the highest rate, that is Flow State and it has a lot to do with not being aware of being aware of what you are doing, it's just doing in the purest form, 0 abstractions from what you are doing.
The State of Flow is highly joyful and makes what you are doing seem really meaningful. The opposite would be to be constantly hijacked by the hottest and newest trend that will perish in the following days.
Absorption transcends...
2022-06-251h 01
Change My MindExplicitness Vs MitigationModifying your speech deliberately in order to conceal a deeper intent, to gather further information about the state of other people or to adapt the message to the intended purpose is a widely used technique that is mainly used implicitly, in this episode Baer and Alex discuss the topic with a critical perspective.
There are situations in which the existence of a conflict of interests leads us to not be as direct as we could be, misrepresenting reality to maximize our objectives(the example of a teenager getting hammered), others require mitigation due to the limited capacity...
2022-06-1551 min
Change My MindWhat is Beauty?Do beauty standards vary with time?
If this is the case… What is the standard that encompasses all of them?
Baer and I present here a theory that makes sense of the subjective sense of beauty, social trends and the status signaling through an evolutionary lens relating to the seeking of fitness maximization. Even if this is in the expense of collective fitness as long as it gives the individual more comparative fitness than it takes absolute fitness from the collective(A human’s Ferrari or a Peacock tail)
2022-06-0452 min
Change My MindImposter Syndrome, Life Coaching and Social Standards W/ Denise GarrettWhy is it that we develop imposter syndrome? Why would nature equip us with the common feeling that we are not well prepared to deal with the situation we are facing?
In this conversation with life coach Denise Garrett we discuss the origin of feeling inadequate, how society expects us to be consistent with previous performance, generating a self-fulfilling prophecy in which mediocrity is promoted and greatness penalized as a side effect of a natural trait we should be aware of. We also talk about how we have not been selected for capacity to be fulfilled but...
2022-05-2654 min
Change My MindShakespeare was just a PEN NAME W/ Robert BoogRobert Boog, is the author of 7 books among which ''Shakey's Madness: Does a Mental Disorder Reveal the "Real" William Shakespeare?'' is located, he bravely posits the thesis that Shakespeare was only a pen name to avoid backlash from contemporary royalty, backed by rigorous evidence gathered by the aforementioned author.
Boog started considering the story of Shakespeare as flawed by a diverse set of mutually exclusive facts that are held as true in the mainstream knowledge of the story relating to the worldwide-known author, he did a profound research in the last 2 years, pointing out to a...
2022-05-0757 min
Change My MindThe Moral Case for Capitalism W/ Germinal G.VanGerminal G. Van is an author, economist, political scientist, and scholar. He is a member of the National Association of Business Economics and the Economic History Association. His works mainly focus on Public Choice Theory, Economic History, Econometrics, Statistics, and Mathematical Economics. He has written more than a dozen books in Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, Business Economics, and Macroeconomics. He has also written several columns for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the Mises Institute. Moreover, he published several scientific papers, notably in professional academic journals such as the Journal of Economics and Econometrics.
2022-04-231h 04
Change My MindWhat is the best way to learn a Language? W/ Phil LadbrookI am accompanied by Phil Ladbrook on this occasion, he is a professional English teacher with experience in marketing, he has resided in the Basque Country for 20 years.
We discuss:
The process of skill acquisition, how engagement is vital for it, what hinders and what helps the process backed by prolonged experience in english teaching from the part of Landbrook
Demographic expectations modifying the pondering of relevance of East Vs West or Chinese Vs English
How technological improvement will make many professions outdated leading to job loss
The cultural differences between Hispanic and A...
2022-04-011h 23
Change My MindThe Existence of Karma, Moral Nihilism and DogmatismDoes karma exist?
Is Moral Nihilism true?
Is dogmatism always something bad?
Alex Buxeda and Emilio discuss in this episode the existence of karma, the surprising rigor of moral nihilism, what it leads to, its unlivableness and dogma as the antidote to the perpetual skepticism, itself an antidote to moral nihilism.
2022-03-061h 19
Change My MindRepentance, is it rational? W/ Dr. Brad SeemanBrad Seeman is a PhD in philosophy and an associate professor at Taylor university. Seeman’s own areas of research include metaethical questions about the ways in which God grounds moral obligations, difficulties facing Materialists who seek to ground objective moral obligations in a world without God, and how Christians can respond to the tough questions people ask Christians about their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He also has a lively interest in contemporary continental philosophy and the ways in which architectural theory and philosophy interact.
In this conversation I discuss with Seeman whe...
2022-02-191h 23
Change My MindWhat is Failure? W/ Patric SchiessIn this episode I am accompanied by Patric Schiess in order to discuss the meaning of failure and how this is a relative perception of the accomplishment of one's ambitions which are highly influenced by our social environment and to what we (as a social animal) perceive will contribute status to our inner out of phase ancestral 24h-status-counter, making us feel realized due to evolutionary reasons explained in the episode.
Other peripheral topics like the moral capacity to complain, the progressive process of realizing your own ignorance, how doing what is statistically proven to...
2022-02-072h 15
Change My MindEmpiricism Vs RationalismWhen it comes to approaching problems we tend to dogmatically assume that either empiricism or rationalism is the proper way to go, I question this natural bipartisan assumption in order to favor staying alert for nuances that will favor one system vs the other depending on the situation, requiring criteria in order to distinguish successfully what the kind of problem you are facing is.
The idea of an infinite spectrum of grays between the black and white that is sensible to time is also proposed as most of the situations are not obviously one or the other...
2021-12-2554 min
Change My MindThe origin of all VICES and VIRTUESWhat can be attributed to our general inadequacy when it comes to do the ''right'' things and avoid doing the ''bad'' things?
In this episode my friend Emilio and I do a deep dive into how the lack of complex and intangible concepts in the evolutionary process leading to us caused our current incapacity to do the things we know are good but require insight, rationality and long term dedication and how we end up falling for the ''quick fix'' that is perjudicial in the long term (the episode is full of examples, ranging from fast food t...
2021-11-061h 33
Change My MindEverything does NOT fit into FAIR or UNFAIRMe and my friend Emilio argue about the third category that most things fall into when it comes to judging things in terms of Fairness, this third option is non-intuitive due to our predisposition to judge things as being binary(as in fair or unfair). The third category: the lack of fairness or unfairness(or extrajudicial), takes into account that many things in life come given to us (us not having been capable of using our agency to affect these things); our genetic predisposition to develop a medical condition, our family´s wealth or well being, our beauty(topic f...
2021-10-091h 02
Change My MindAtheism, Meaning and Existential CrisisAre atheists left without meaning by ditching the meaning-building machine of religion?
Does life have any ultimate value?
Is the scientific method the way to go in order to defeat our biases and achieve truth?
Can we create our own meaning out of the apparent meaninglessness of life?
What is the value standard from which we start for judging things in life?
This and much more is discussed in this episode!
2021-10-021h 03
Change My MindWhat is rationality? Is the ego detrimental to it?In this episode my friend Baer and I talked about what rationality is, the impossibility of being rational without taking into account other people's irrationality in order to achieve your goals, how the ego is detrimental to your long term flourishing and how it is correlated with the influence the instinct has in our lives and our willingness to perpetuate our genes (ensuring survival).
2021-09-2545 min
Change My MindDoes Altruism Exist?The existence of altruism as doing something selflessly is discussed deeply in this episode by my good friend Baer and me.
Our theses are not too misaligned as we both agree on most of the nuances, but we came to new conclusions and were able to distill the essence of the debate.
2021-09-1850 minChange My MindPodcast Presentation EpisodeIn this episode I talk about what I intend to do with this podcast, I let you know that my primary intention with this podcast is to have an open mind towards the different hard topics that can be covered in the future episodes as I believe that having an open mind and being ''rational'' is the best approach to maximising your human capital (as in capability of generating value in general, not just money).In case you are interested in requesting to partake in future episodes...
2021-09-1818 min