Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, writer at EconLib and Bet On It, and best-selling author of eight books, including You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism, the subject of this episode.
0:00 - Intro
2:04 - The Next Crusade
3:44 - Moderating X
6:11 - Inventing Slippery Slopes
8:04 - Right-Wing Antiwokes
10:20 - Nonconformism and Asperger’s
12:02 - Making society less conformist
16:44 - The rationality community
20:30 - Polyamory
23:28 - Caplan vs. Yudkowsky on methods of rationality
26:40 - Updating on AI risk
29:35 - Checking your nonconformity
31:10 - Making LinkedIn not suck
33:53 - The George Mason economics department
38:35 - Does tenure still matter?
40:03 - Improving education
46:50 - Should people living under totalitarianism conform?
49:30 - Natalism and birth rates in Israel
51:19 - Hedonic adaptation in the age of AI
53:52 - Should we abolish the FDA?
57:15 - Being a prolific writer
1:00:30 - Bryan’s writing advice
1:02:35 - Outro
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Bryan’s Blog, Bet On It: https://www.betonit.ai/
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