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Hacking State54 - Kyle Housley: The Right to Bear Arms and the Wrong Way to Think About LoveKyle Housley is a writer and co-host of a new podcast, Horizons Review, with longtime friend of the show, Cody Moser, exploring neglected intellectual texts and thinkers. We discuss the pathologization of normal relationship dynamics through misused psychological terminology, and extensively examine Second Amendment jurisprudence, particularly Kyle's disagreement with the Heller case on original meaning grounds.
Kyle critiques how terms like "narcissism" and "transactional relationships" are misapplied to pathologize healthy interpersonal expectations and natural give-and-take in friendships and romantic partnerships. He argues this reflects broader cultural problems with dismissing relational obligations in favor of personal convenience.
2025-06-261h 04
Hacking StateCody Moser - Systems Intelligence and the Mysteries of LifeCody Moser is a PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at the University of California, Merced studying collective intelligence, system collapse, complex systems, and networks.We cover the challenge of integrating humanity into science, the collapse of public spaces, consequences of social institutions moving online, how network structures optimize innovation, how AI reveals the anti-human incentives of many of our systems, living things and the theory of dissipative systems, and the mystery of life for statistical physics.My AI For Government Affairs Startup https://lawgiver.ai...2024-12-191h 12Hacking State40 - Cody Moser: Systems Intelligence and the Mysteries of LifeCody Moser is a PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at the University of California, Merced studying collective intelligence, system collapse, complex systems, and networks.
We cover the challenge of integrating humanity into science, the collapse of public spaces, consequences of social institutions moving online, how network structures optimize innovation, how AI reveals the anti-human incentives of many of our systems, living things and the theory of dissipative systems, and the mystery of life for statistical physics.
My AI For Government Affairs Startup https://lawgiver.ai
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Hacking State4 - Cody Moser: The Science of Innovation, Core-Periphery Networks, Internet PolarizationCody Moser is a PhD student in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at University of California, Merced. His work focuses primarily on the evolution of human behavior and human institutions. We spoke about his work generating formal network models with agent-based modeling, the life history of organizations, core-periphery dynamics and why "loser" nodes are necessary for network innovation, the tension between explore-exploit tradeoffs in organizations, generative adaptive systems, path dependency and organizational longevity, why we want hyper-hyper polarization on the internet, and more... "Innovators come from the outside." - Cody Moser ...2023-06-161h 25Hacking State4 - Cody Moser: The Science of Innovation, Core-Periphery Networks, Internet PolarizationCody Moser is a PhD student in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at University of California, Merced. His work focuses primarily on the evolution of human behavior and human institutions.
We spoke about his work generating formal network models with agent-based modeling, the life history of organizations, core-periphery dynamics and why "loser" nodes are necessary for network innovation, the tension between explore-exploit tradeoffs in organizations, generative adaptive systems, path dependency and organizational longevity, why we want hyper-hyper polarization on the internet, and more...
"Innovators come from the outside." - Cody Moser
...2023-06-161h 25
Hacking State31: The Tyranny of Materialism with Cody MoserCody Moser is an anthropologist and PhD candidate studying cultural evolution in the department of cognitive and information sciences at University of California Merced. We talk about science and scientism, famed molecular biologist Rupert Sheldrake, his theory of Morphic Resonance, and what he calls the 10 tenets that make up the ideology of scientific materialism, asking whether evolution has a telos, how to reboot scientific exploration through patronage, tolerating cranks and free inquiry, and barriers to growth & innovation, not only in science, but in institutions more broadly.Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense...2021-06-042h 17
Hacking State16: Prediction For Our Brave New World with Cody MoserCody Moser is an evolutionary anthropologist and Cognitive and Information Sciences grad student at University of California Merced.We cover:How much has the world has changed since Coronavirus?Peter Turchin’s 2020 prediction, Intra-Elite competition, Cliodynamics, Ideological herd immunity, Are we in a civil war?, Reorganizing society after the Great Reset, Return to Localism, Microcredentialing and the future of online education, The end of universities as the gatekeepers of knowledge, Will this be the end of cities?, Elite overproduction, Declining birthrates in the West, 2020-08-311h 33
Hacking StatePod clips: Cody Moser - Universities and MonasteriesFrom Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody MoserFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/cody-moser-master-track-2120-1202-pmJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapoliticsApple https://podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politicsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Twitter: https://twitter...2020-07-0100 min
Hacking StatePod clips: Cody Moser - The Demise Of LocalismFrom Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody MoserFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/cody-moser-master-track-2120-1202-pmJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapoliticsApple https://podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politicsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Twitter: https://twitter...2020-06-1700 min
Hacking State1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody MoserI speak with evolutionary anthropology "grad student in purgatory" Cody Moser. We cover an array of topics, including: How technology is undermining the substrate culture that got us here, historical relativism vs. universalism, the Incel phenomenon, how metabolic rates effect the growth of cities, the internet and its disruption of universities as the gatekeepers of scientific knowledge, elite overproduction, Adaptationism and The Spandrels of San Marco,and a number of other areas. Get full access to Hacking State at www.alexmurshak.com/subscribe2020-02-011h 18