Arjun Khemani Podcast
The Arjun Khemani Podcast explores progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. Host Arjun Khemani shares conversations and ideas about how humanity can flourish. It covers topics such as innovation, learning, personal freedom, and the future. More information is available at arjunkhemani.com.
Episodes
Aubrey de Grey: Longevity Escape Velocity, SENS & the End of Aging
My conversation with Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist, founder of the LEV Foundation, and author of Ending Aging.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Timestamps0:00 - SENS vs. the Hallmarks of Aging2:47 - The Robust Mouse Rejuvenation experiment5:48 - Is SENS falsifiable?7:12 - CMLase and ex
Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Aging, and the Future of Medicine
My conversation with Michael Levin, a biologist at Tufts University whose research explores bioelectricity, regeneration, morphogenesis, and how cells collectively process information to build and repair bodies.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future epi
Karl Pfleger: The Road to Solving Aging
Karl Pfleger is the founder of agingbiotech.info and an investor in several rejuvenation startups.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Timestamps0:00 - Why lifespan is the wrong metric for aging progress7:28 - Is the hallmarks of aging expand
David D. Friedman: Death, Taxes, and Other Solvable Problems
David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist. He is the author of The Machinery of Freedom, Future Imperfect, and several other books. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Timestamps0:00 – The economics of longevity8:05 – Epigenetic r
Sean Bowe and Dev Ojha: Architecture of Freedom
Sean Bowe is a core cryptographer and engineer who played a major role in building Zcash’s technology.Dev Ojha, also a cryptographer, is the founder of Osmosis. He is now working on helping Zcash scale and go post quantum.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on
Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg: Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale
Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg aka str4d are both cryptographic engineers working on the Zcash protocol. Sean’s latest project is Tachyon, intended to bring encrypted money into the hands of 8 billion people. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Ti
Samo Burja: Building an Immortal Society
My conversation with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis. He chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:18 - Live players5:41 - Great Founde
Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart: Unstoppable Private Money
My conversation with Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart on unstoppable private money.Zooko Wilcox is a legendary cypherpunk and one of the founders of Zcash—private, digital money.Josh Swihart is the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind the Zcash protocol and the Zashi wallet app.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotif
Ethan Thornton: The Future of Warfare
My conversation with Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:00 - Intro1:07 - Why Mach needs to exist3:16 - Early experiments5:07 - Dropping out of MIT8:36 - Ra
Peter Boghossian: Moral Relativism and The Future of The West
My conversation with philosopher and author Peter Boghossian.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:00 - The enlightenment5:51 - The dangers of moral relativism21:28 - Modern education is failing us31:1
Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe: Zcash
My conversation with Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe about the Zcash protocol.Zooko is a cypherpunk who co-founded Zcash along with his brother, Nate Wilcox, and others. Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who has played a crucial role in the development of Zcash and has made significant contributions to advancements in zero-knowledge proofs, particularly zk-SNARKs, which underpin Zcash’s
Naval Ravikant: The Beginning of Infinity
My conversation with Naval Ravikant. Enjoy!Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:00 - The Theory of Everything4:48 - How do you know what’s true?7:51 - Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth13:07 - We have never run out of a single resource15:25 - Are we destroying the Earth?17:48 - Marxism denies wealth creation21:2
David Deutsch: The Era of Man, Popper, and Western Civilization
I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Deutsch in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps1:01 - A tragic view of human history7
#35 – Julian Barbour and Samuel Kuypers: The Nature of Time
Julian Barbour is a renowned physicist known for his groundbreaking work on the nature of time. In his influential books, The End of Time and The Janus Point he explores the concept of a timeless universe, challenging traditional views. Samuel Kuypers is a theoretical physicist, currently located in Montréal, who is interested in the foundations of quantum theory and time.Topics we discuss are wel
#34 – Nat Eliason: Crypto Confidential, Writing, and The Future of Work
Click here to support my work. You can also send me bitcoin to this address.Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newsletter and podcast. He is the author of the book Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any o
#33 – Johan Norberg: Capitalism, Degrowth, and Elon Musk
Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. I hope you enjoy
#32 – Riva Tez: Anarchy, Beauty, and Longevity
Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it!Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestam
#31 – Nicole Behnam: Leveraging Social Media, Building Cults, and Parenting
Nicole Behnam is a founder and journalist. She is the creator of Beyond The Interview where she’s interviewed people like Chris Voss, Konstantin Kisin, and Robert Greene.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Times
#30 – Niklas Anzinger: Longevity, Crypto, and Network States
Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia. He is also the host of the Stranded Technologies Podcast.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:32 - Building Vitalia and Infinita VC6:05 - The
#29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control
Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds. This interview was recorded on Airchat.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:19 - Th
#28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science
Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Click here to support my work.Timestamps0:49 - Why Matthew wrote Fiat Food
#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart
Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes.Cl
#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper
Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.Watch on YouTube or X. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript
#25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism
David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory. He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a new, non-paternalistic view of children.Topics we di
#24 – Max More: Cryonics, Transhumanism, and The Morality of Progress
If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.TIMESTAMPS0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More”2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life exte
#23 – Tom Hyde: Population, Immortality, Anarchism, and Gender
If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8Tom Hyde is a geologist with degrees in geoscience and natural hazards. In addition to his academic background, Tom has a keen interest in the scientific and philosophical works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch, as well as in libertarianism, climate and risk, gender theory, aesthet
#22 – Per Bylund: Economic Illiteracy, Entrepreneurship, and The Primacy of Theory
If you would like to support this podcast, click here.Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8Per Bylund is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. His latest book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer, serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy.TIMESTA
#21 – David D. Friedman: The Machinery of Freedom, Education, and India
Support this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniDavid D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and son of Milton Friedman.TIMESTAMPS0:44 - 50 years of The Machinery of Freedom3:35 - What is a government?9:22 - How law could be produced and enforced in an anarcho-capitalist society12:00 - Laws produced by the market will be biased toward freedom14:27
#20 – Jim O'Shaughnessy: AI, Education, Media, and Living Forever
Support this podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniJim O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. He also serves as the executive chair of the board of directors at Stability AI and is the host of the Infinite Loops podcast.TIMESTAMPS0:27 - The future of AI and Jim’s investment in Stability AI 4:51 - The Beginning of Infinity and the ideas of David Deutsch12
#19 – Logan Chipkin: Understanding Economics
This episode was recorded on Airchat. Learn more at getairchat.com.Logan Chipkin is a writer. You can purchase his recently published fantasy novel, Windfall here.Follow Logan on Twitter @ChipkinLogan and on Airchat @logan.TIMESTAMPS0:33 - A brief history of Austrian economics9:15 - Is economics a science?14:12 - How to think about the state21:05 - The problem with welfare statism30:05 - Construct
#18 – Yaron Brook: Humans, Inequality and AI
Yaron Brook is an objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. He’s also the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. Support the podcast at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniTIMESTAMPS0:30 - What makes humans different3:50 - Christian atheists8:05 - Inequality good?12:25 - AGI Doomerism21:46 - Aliens23:37 - Bad philosophy in popular movies26:29 - The education system28:37 - Epistemology and
#17 – Lulie Tanett: Epistemology in the Social Sciences, Mindfulness and Taking Children Seriously
Lulie Tanett is a writer and expositor of ideas of applied critical rationalism. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting it at: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniWe talk about:* Lulie’s untypical childhood and the parenting philosophy she was raised under* What psychology and the social sciences can learn from epistemology* Mindfulness tied to Critical Rationalism* The constraints
#16 – Nat and Martha Sharpe: Alternative-Education, Making Movies and Doing Stuff
Nat and Martha are filmmakers. In February 2023, they won a fellowship through O’Shaughnessy Ventures to explore alternative education. Support this podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniTIMESTAMPS0:00 - Preview and intro1:16 - Nat and Martha’s background (making movies)6:20 - Living on the road in an RV for a whole year11:47 - “you can just do stuff”15:30 - Winning $100,000 fellowship
#15 – Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall: Knowledge, Constraints, and Truth-Seeking Mechanisms
Airchat: https://www.getairchat.comTIMESTAMPS0:24 - The nature of knowledge1:01- Constraints of progress6:31 - The finite speed of light is not a problem13:36 - “Any system that doesn’t get its feedback from free markets or nature eventually gets corrupted.” — Naval19:54 - Knowledge creation leads to wealth creation25:44 - Free willRELEVANT LINKSNaval on Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com/navalBr
14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Epistemology and Wealth
Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.Support this podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniTIMESTAMPS0:39 - On a quest for the best life that you can achieve4:02 - Happiness without morality or
#13 – Danny Miranda: Creating Podcasts and The Future
Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast where he’s interviewed people like Bryan Johnson, Morgan Housel, Gary Vaynerchuck, David Perell, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Sam Parr, Anthony Pompliano, Derek Sivers, among many others.If you enjoy the podcast, the best way to support it is by sharing it. And if you have the means, please consider buying me a coffee.TIMESTAMPS0:00 - 7-year-old Danny t
#12 – James Pierce: Perspective, Prescriptions, and Sincerity
Support this podcast using this link: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemaniJames Pierce is a writer, executive coach and a philosopher. TIMESTAMPS0:50 - How modern psychology weakens the mind and how to conquer anxiety4:15 - Perspective and “direct observation”8:25 - Shoulds, prescriptions, and inexplicit knowledge15:58 - Sincere questions17:59 - Why James doesn’t meditate, the sense of sense, and enlight
#11 – David Perell: Writing and Education
If you’d wish to support this podcast, click here.David Perell is a writer, podcaster and founder of the course Write of Passage. We talk about David’s new writing course for high schoolers, why he thinks the Internet is the best thing that happened to education, writing online and effective ways to do so, how to tackle long term goals, ChatGPT and more!TIMESTAMPS0:30 - The problem David is trying
#10 – Andrew Kirby: Hitting Financial Freedom At Age 22, Solving Problems and Happiness
Andrew Kirby is a YouTuber with over 600,000 subscribers who became financially free at age 22 by synthesizing content on the Internet.We talk about the path Andrew takes to attain financial freedom at age 22, how to write good cold DMs, entrepreneurship, misconceptions around money, The Beginning of Infinity and Andrew’s most influential books, the pursuit of creation, happiness and much more!Lis
#9 – Chiara Marletto: Knowledge, Constraints and Good Explanations
Chiara is a quantum physicist and research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research interests are at the foundations of physics. Together with David Deutsch she is the pioneer of constructor theory, a new mode of scientific explanation which expresses physical laws in terms of counterfactuals, i.e. what can and cannot happen.She is the author of The Science of Can and Can’t su
#8 – Charlie Jungheim: From Meditation to Mars
Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) makes really cool videos about Critical Rationalism following the works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch. He’s a musician and comedian.In a fun and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about mixing comedy with intellectual stuff, our lives being transformed by the works of David Deutsch, how meditation links to epistemology, then Mars and more!TIMESTAMPS0:45 -
#7 – Michael Strong: Deschooling Society and The Future of Education
Michael Strong is the founder of a virtual school called The Socratic Experience, made for children aged 8-19 where they get a personalized and purpose-driven education cultivated to develop their unique genius. He is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States. In our conversation, we talk about Michael’s vision for education in 20 years, deschooling s
#6 – Jason Crawford: Does Progress Make Us Any Happier?
Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder.We talk about the need to study progress, tackle the question of whether progress makes humans any happier, optimism and solutionism, and some more.Listen on Apple Pod
#5 – Chris Turner: Changing The Education System
In this episode, I talk to Chris Turner. A tech entrepreneur turned education entrepreneur who founded Moonrise, a co-learning space for kids. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.We talk about the problem with school, bad explanations around learning, the hard (yet exciting) problem Moonrise is solving, Taking Children Seriously and much more.This was a very fun and insightful conversation! Hope y
#4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad and the Arctic Circle
TIMESTAMPS0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out8:18 - Become more valuable by learning high value skills10:45 - Voids create value / why Jay wants to change the way education is done13:20 - Digital Nomad and filming a documentary in the Arctic Circle21:10 - The m
#3 – Aastha Jain: Should We Live Forever?
Links* Aastha Jain* Live Longer World podcast* Feynman Kids Program* Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan ExtensionTimestamps1:05 - An important question: should we stop aging?3:27 - What if people don’t change their minds?5:35 - It’s in human nature to go against nature7:14 - Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension15:20 - Greater chance for statism if a generation extends indefinitely
#2 – Sarah Fitz-Claridge: Taking Children Seriously, Fallibilism and the Growth of Knowledge
This was a very fun conversation with Sarah on the manner in which children are generically raised and why that is not helpful, the importance of Taking Children Seriously and raising a child without coercion, fallibilism, the growth of knowledge, problem-solving, her inspiration for founding Taking Children Seriously and much more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with
#1 – Brett Hall: Knowledge, Evolutionary Psychology and Free Will
Brett's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacherBrett's blog: https://bretthall.orgBrett's podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmP5H2rF-ER33a58ZD5jCig This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.arjunkhemani.com
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