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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 42: Stocks vs Flows of Happiness
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss whether moving from measuring Gross Domestic Product vs Gross National Happiness would improve underlying results for the world. ...
Episode 41: The obligatory housing episode
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The show notes can be delivered to you in handy substack form! If you click no other link in this then please subscribe to the substack! You can...
Episode 40: Money Buys Loneliness?
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The show notes can be delivered to you in handy substack form! If you click no other link in this then please subscribe to the substack! You can alw...
Episode 39: Everything is Average, Except Diablo II and Brian's titling skills
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have a substack now!! If you click on no other link ever on the show notes except this one then you'll get all the show notes from now on in y...
Episode 38: Bad Job Applications
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have a substack now!! If you click on no other link ever on the show notes except this one then you'll get all the show notes from now on in y...
Episode 37: Dying With Zero Trolley Problems
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have a substack now!! If you click on no other link ever on the show notes except this one then you'll get all the show notes from now on in y...
Episode 36: Ok guys and stupendous gals
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us we miss you!This week we discuss The Wife Drought by Annabel Crab. You can also find us on discord or redditBig list of coffee b...
Episode 35: Cough-ee bets resolved
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us we miss you!This week we once again discuss whether progress is over, or even if people still want progress! The lure of technocracy...
Episode 34: We're pretty rusty
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us we miss you!Chris wants to get into micro-grids. If you know anything about them please tell me! Our main article is about jobs that...
Episode 33: Suffix
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This will be the last of our regularly scheduled episode. As our lives ramp up and we take on different r...
Episode 32: A replication machine makes the rich richer
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This week we discuss what's gone wrong with science and the replication crisis. We also discuss how in...
Episode 31: Fat public servants
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This week we discuss why the internet intelligentsia really do not like the Australian lockdowns (each word...
Episode 30: Maybe we all need to chill?
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!After opening this discussion saying we have no feedback or followup we spend half this podcast musing on q...
Episode 29: Wealth inequality followed by income inequality....all topics are equal
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This week we once again revisit the topic of wealth and income inequality, first through the lens of crypto...
Episode 28: We shouldn't have talked about tri-cam-eralism without Cam - SPECIAL GUEST
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!A discussion of aging and wisdom, more forms of government that we should try, and Chris exhorts you, yes...
Episode 27: The bleeps are Richards, not Copulation
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!Our major topic this week is on Tricameral Legislatures by slime-mold time-mold. What if instead of 2 branc...
Episode 25: We're moving backwards in time, one tangent at a time.
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!Our main topics this week are Brian pushing back to the tyranny of merit on the Jolly Swagman podcast. Bria...
Episode 26: We *are* peak culture
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! We are moving the show to fortnightly. We still love you all, it's just a lot of work (mostly for B...
Episode 24: Live Episode with conversation with chat
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!If you can, this might be more fun to watch on Twitch or YouTube where you can read the chat and see our ...
Episode 23: Previously known as Untitled
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our live show is in one week on Brian's twitch stream!!!!! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!!Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This week Chris ...
Episode 22: Blood...patent pending
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our live show is in one week on Brian's twitch stream!!!!! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!!Please contact us or support us on Patreon!Brian and Chris di...
Episode 21: Old tech, new tech, fin-tech, coup tech
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our live show is coming! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!!Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This week Chris and Brian have a meandering discussion ...
Episode 20: Solar Powered Innovators
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our live show is coming! 13th of June 8pm AEST!!!!Please contact us or support us on Patreon!You can also find us on discordBig list of coffee bets - ...
Episode 19: Brian both thinks and therefore is, Chris does neither.
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!You can also find us on discordBig list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app. -------------------------...
Episode 18: Elites and Experts (we definitely manage to be neither)
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! Our main topic today is Elites vs Experts by Robin Hanson. He's very smart, but not terribly likeable...
Episode 17: Scout mindset (no not those scouts, it's not the best title for a book)
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This episode our main topic is Julia Galef's new book. Julia is a much better podcaster than us, and...
Episode 16: Emails from Sapiens
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!Chris picks fights with MacroBioBoi (probably because he's jealous of Brian's new podcast best ...
Special Episode: Interview with Macrobioboi
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!As Chris was travelling this week Brian got to host a very special episode interviewing MacroBioBoi, one ...
Episode 15: Decadant feedback and society
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon!This episode Chris has a book review on "The decadent society", hard to explain, but very impactf...
Episode 14: Listener Feedback and Coffee Bets Paid!
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A very special Affix episode where Brian and Chris sit across the table in real life and try to avoid looking at each other in the eye. To commemorate...
Episode 13: The merits of meritocracy
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 12: A Flowing Financial Independence Xploration
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends!Please contact us or support us on Patreon!BIG NEWS! Vote along with us on the list of coffee bet...
Episode 11: Who reports on the reporters?
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends!Please contact us or support us on Patreon!In this episode Brian and Chris get dangerously close to...
Episode 10: I'll be moral, UBI
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we have a listener suggested topic of UBI, how affordable it might be in Australia and if it would help or harm over-all. We talk abou...
Episode 9: Overwhelming show of force
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Brian and Chris discuss pandemic preparedness and how Bill and Melinda Gates have(n't?) helped. We use our media empire to wage w...
Episode 8: Power, the great leveller and biting our tongues
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we discuss types of power from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. We muse over inequality and what it takes to stop it through the lens of Walth...
Episode 7: Categorization and Inequality
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please contact us or support us on Patreon! In this episode Brian and Chris discuss shareholder value, important categorization problems such as wheth...
Episode 6: Technocrats and Journalism: A recipe for rhetorical dominance?
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we review the state of FLOSS software, the things going right and the things going wrong. We discuss if it's good to be a technoc...
Episode 5: Infinite Credentials
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon!! We discuss "the infinite game" by Simon Sinek. Decide that we all need to be better capitalists, and some of wh...
Episode 4: Fraud, FLOSS and working from home
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we discuss alternative theories of government and economics. Could we police the whole world purely through securities fraud law? Are the...
Episode 3: Apologies, intangibles and stagnation
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we apologise to Bryan Caplan and reveal ourselves to be the full throated, selfish libertarians you always suspected we were. We discu...
Episode 2: Should we even follow laws?
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Brian and Chris discuss the ethical weight of law, should we be able to drive faster, what plato has in common with podcasts and a WOR...
Episode 1: CovUK and Zvi Mowshowitz
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Trolley Problem:There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. On the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. Yo...
Trailer
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I know you all can't wait until the release of our podcast, so here's 13 seconds of Chris' voice introducing things to tide you over un...