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Debt Commission to the Rescue? | Romina Boccia & Richard Hanania
Romina Boccia is the director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she writes about government spending, the debt problem, and entitlement reform. She also has a Substack called the Debt Dispatch that you can subscribe to here.
debtdispatch.substack.com
Romina joins the podcast to discuss available paths to deal with the coming entitlement crisis. One potential way to get politicians out of making tough choices is to create a debt commission that takes responsibility for unpopular reforms. Romina has written about using the model of the BRAC commission, which was relied on to close down military bases at the end of the Cold War.
The conversation also touches on the politics of debt, how policymakers are thinking about these issues, Paul Ryan as an unappreciated hero of our time, and much more. Near the end, Romina reflects on her career as a DC policy-wonk, and why she is motivated to help ensure that America continues to be the land of opportunity. If we don’t get entitlements under control, it could potentially degrade our entire way of life.
You can get a transcript of this conversation and subscribe to the podcast at www.cspicenter.com/podcast
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The Threat of AI Regulation with Brian Chau
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Brian Chau writes and hosts a podcast at the From the New World Substack, and recently established a new think tank, the Alliance for the Future. He joins the podcast to discuss why he’s not worried about the alignment problem, where he disagrees with “doomers,” the accomplishments of ChatGPT versus DALL-E, the dangers of regulating AI until progress comes to a halt in the way it did with nucle...
Propaganda and Power | Chris Rufo and Richard Hanania
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Chris Rufo joins the podcast to talk about his new book, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. Rufo begins by talking about his background and his theory of political change. The conversation then shifts to his new book, the strengths of Ron DeSantis as an administrator, and finally what he’s doing on the board of the New College of Florida. Topics include: -...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss the "Succession" Finale
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Rob joins Richard to wrap up Succession (spoilers below). Both sort of predicted Tom’s triumph, as did many other people. The ultimate lapdog ends up with the company, his marriage, and a pregnant wife. Richard brings up how Tom’s career and personal life remind him of the male cuttlefish that disguises itself as a female, and therefore non-threatening, in order to find mating opportunities. Th...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "Succession" S4: Ep 5-9
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Rob joins Richard to talk about Succession, through the penultimate episode of the series. There are spoilers below, and throughout their conversation. They discuss Ross Douthat’s recent piece on the series, and where Richard agrees and disagrees with him. They almost have inverse views on the lessons of the show, where Douthat says public opinion has been written out of it, while Richard think...
AI Alignment as a Solvable Problem | Leopold Aschenbrenner & Richard Hanania
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In the popular imagination, the AI alignment debate is between those who say everything is hopeless, and others who tell us there is nothing to worry about. Leopold Aschenbrenner graduated valedictorian from Columbia in 2021 when he was only 19 years old. He is currently a research affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford, and previously helped run Future Fund, which works on phil...
Understanding Right and Left | Bryan Caplan & Richard Hanania
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Bryan Caplan joins the podcast to talk about his new book, "Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrationality." Bryan at first explains why he hates politics. Much of the conversation then centers around Caplan’s simplistic theory of the right and left. This is compared and contrasted with Scott Alexander’s thrive/survive theory of the political spectrum, Robin Hanson’s theory of farm...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "Succession" S4: Ep 2-4
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Rob Henderson joins Richard once again to talk about Succession, S4:Ep 2-4. Of course, their conversation revolves around the shocking death of Logan. Richard really appreciated how the episode gave a realistic perspective on what happens when someone dies. It’s not always dramatic, or foreshadowed all that much. We usually don’t get to see the moment they grab their chest and keel over or hear...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "Succession" S4E1
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Rob joins Richard to discuss Succession, Season 4: Episode 1. For previous conversation about the first three seasons of the show, click here: richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-conservative-elites-make-for-222 One thing Richard likes about the show is how it straddles differences in class, aesthetics, and politics. The producers are walking a tightrope, and it’s very easy to make a show like th...
Marc Andreessen On Venture Capital, Science, Tech, Progress, and More (Rerelease)
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This week we’re rereleasing a previous episode with Marc Andreessen, originally released on August 16, 2021. He is co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Earlier in life, he was the co-founder of the companies Opsware, Ning, and Netscape. Marc joins the podcast to talk about what’s gone wrong with science, the prerequisites for progress, and h...
Deadwood: The Movie (2019), with Rob Henderson and Marc Andreessen
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Rob Henderson and Marc Andreessen join Richard to discuss the Deadwood: The Movie (2019), along with our thoughts about the series more generally. They converge on the idea that the main protagonists of the show, that is, Swearengen, Bullock, and Hearst, represent three eras of civilization, with each of the first two leading to the next one. Marc sees the Hearst character, who apparently has l...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson on Deadwood, Season 3
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Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson come together to talk about Deadwood, Season 3. They decided to not do any research on the real life story of Deadwood or the making of the series until finishing all three seasons and the movie. So here, the debate is in part over whether the Season 3 finale was meant to be the end, or there were loose threads that were meant to be picked up in Season 4. Richa...
Waiting for the Betterness Explosion | Robin Hanson & Richard Hanania
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Robin Hanson joins the podcast to talk about the AI debate. He explains his reasons for being skeptical about “foom,” or the idea that there will emerge a sudden superintelligence that will be able to improve itself quickly and potentially destroy humanity in the service of its goals. Among his arguments are: * We should start with a very low prior about something like this happening, given the...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson on Deadwood, Season 2
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Rob is back to talk about Deadwood, this time through the end of Season 2. Richard and Rob discuss Al’s development, comparing it to that of Tolliver. They also spend a strange amount of time on whether white actors can still say the N-Word, a debate they do not settle here. Conversation also centers around the show evolving from one about personalities to a political thriller. One thing both R...
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson on Deadwood, S1 and S2:Ep. 1 and 2
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Rob Henderson joins Richard to talk about Deadwood. The conversation covers all of Season 1, and Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2. They discuss what makes Al Swearengen an anti-hero and whether he or Bullock is the main character of the show. The golden age of TV was really the golden age of anti-heroes, each show centering around a charismatic figure, and both Rob and Richard agree that Deadwood is ...
Administrative Procedure and the Common Good | Nicholas Bagley & Richard Hanania
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Administrative Procedure and the Common Good | Nicholas Bagley & Richard Hanania
Right-Wing Populism and Moral Corrosion | Tim Miller & Richard Hanania
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Right-Wing Populism and Moral Corrosion | Tim Miller & Richard Hanania
Why the Singularity Might Never Come | Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, and Richard Hanania
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Why the Singularity Might Never Come | Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, and Richard Hanania
Why is the West Special? | Joe Henrich & Richard Hanania
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Why is the West Special? | Joe Henrich & Richard Hanania
Understanding the Flows of History | Garett Jones & Richard Hanania
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Understanding the Flows of History | Garett Jones & Richard Hanania
Sam Bankman-Fried, Racial Politics, and Dirty Cops: Hanania, Andreessen and Henderson on The Shield
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Sam Bankman-Fried, Racial Politics, and Dirty Cops: Hanania, Andreessen and Henderson on The Shield
Getting at True Heritability | Alexander Young & Richard Hanania
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Getting at True Heritability | Alexander Young & Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "The White Lotus," Season 2: Finale
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Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "The White Lotus," Season 2: Finale
Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "The White Lotus," Season 2: Ep. 5-6.
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Richard Hanania and Rob Henderson Discuss "The White Lotus," Season 2: Ep. 5-6.
The Right-Wing Echo Chamber | Aaron Sibarium & Richard Hanania
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The Right-Wing Echo Chamber | Aaron Sibarium & Richard Hanania
Rob Henderson and Richard Hanania Discuss "White Lotus" Season 2: Episodes 1-4
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Rob Henderson and Richard Hanania Discuss "White Lotus" Season 2: Episodes 1-4
Blame Elites...or the Masses? | Rob Henderson, Zach Goldberg, & Richard Hanania
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Blame Elites...or the Masses? | Rob Henderson, Zach Goldberg, & Richard Hanania
Identity and Elite Polarization | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania
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Identity and Elite Polarization | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania
Underpoliced and Overprisoned | Alex Tabarrok & Richard Hanania
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Underpoliced and Overprisoned | Alex Tabarrok & Richard Hanania
Teachers Hate The Most Effective Teaching Method | Alex Tabarrok & Richard Hanania
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Teachers Hate The Most Effective Teaching Method | Alex Tabarrok & Richard Hanania

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  • @wrenchposting9097
    @wrenchposting9097 4 дні тому

    The Lasker Disaster.

  • @findbridge1790
    @findbridge1790 5 днів тому

    SP = MI6/CIA imo

  • @TylerAyyy
    @TylerAyyy 7 днів тому

    From everything between Russian military tech, to hypersonics, to the chinese economy this aged so terribly that it could almost been seen as parody

  • @dontevenworryk
    @dontevenworryk 9 днів тому

    Just lmao at Aaron Sibarium's nasally voice and Jewish-appearing mouth. Richard, judging by the state of affairs, you are en route to being the most Chad Jew in the RW.

  • @nickcalmes8987
    @nickcalmes8987 18 днів тому

    Roosevelt decided we had to fight the moment France fell

  • @firstal3799
    @firstal3799 18 днів тому

    Hitler war. Author ID an idiot

  • @christophernova1152
    @christophernova1152 18 днів тому

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @JoeyStarley
    @JoeyStarley Місяць тому

    Lenin wanted communism to be a world wide revolution.

  • @angelav1452
    @angelav1452 2 місяці тому

    Oh I LOVE HER ❤

  • @findbridge1790
    @findbridge1790 2 місяці тому

    all this was once said about jews LOL

  • @RobertPentangelo
    @RobertPentangelo 2 місяці тому

    No doubt-Stalin was more evil as was his regime.

  • @deepcosmiclove
    @deepcosmiclove 2 місяці тому

    Women don't play fair.

  • @SerikPoliasc
    @SerikPoliasc 2 місяці тому

    Smith Steven Lopez Jeffrey Johnson Robert

  • @agrameroldoctane_66
    @agrameroldoctane_66 2 місяці тому

    WW2 was just a sequel of WW1 which was started by Serbians, which were encuraged by Brits, and then trained and paid by Russians.

  • @hezkyden
    @hezkyden 2 місяці тому

    Richard is still a bit of a smart-a**.

  • @nannycrackers
    @nannycrackers 3 місяці тому

    Based Jeremy Piven

  • @Heath580
    @Heath580 3 місяці тому

    Honestly at this point I'm convinced that FDR just was a communist (or became one during his reign), but he knew it was political su*cide to be open about it

  • @Retotion
    @Retotion 3 місяці тому

    This guy is Cremieux Recueil?

  • @ds6914
    @ds6914 4 місяці тому

    On Musk Saudi Royals comparison . Right wingers are more concerned about Hilary Clinton than the president of Venezuella or China, Mao thingy thingy..... Of course people care more about things in their country/culture. If you actually ask them which is worse of course they say the actual bad guy. The truth is that reasonable, informed people who disagree with Brian like markets they just don't like them as much as he does and have other reasonable concerns. Maybe right, maybe wrong but with in the bounds of reasonable disagreement. But no, I, Brian am the One and the Only Man of Objectivty and Truth

  • @ds6914
    @ds6914 4 місяці тому

    Left wing people who like markets - Chris Dillow - Stumbling and Mumbling; Paul Krugman; Simon Wren-Lewis - Mainly Macro.

  • @gjermund8053
    @gjermund8053 4 місяці тому

    Very good discussion..

  • @martinjaramillo3227
    @martinjaramillo3227 4 місяці тому

    Terrible interviewing

  • @2410manchester
    @2410manchester 5 місяців тому

    Covid Vaccines are a bad example

  • @warmflash
    @warmflash 5 місяців тому

    Get a SHURE MV7 USB MIC Richard.

  • @JonDOE-up4on
    @JonDOE-up4on 5 місяців тому

    In US we have idiotocracy.

  • @nomoresunforever3695
    @nomoresunforever3695 6 місяців тому

    Discovering truth about existence is valuable in itself.

  • @richiezed
    @richiezed 6 місяців тому

    Polack is not a slur. A Polack is a male Pole. A Polka would be the corresponding female form of the word.

  • @OptimusMonk01
    @OptimusMonk01 6 місяців тому

    So Brian Chau, if you are an expert on AI risk, tell me about the Collingdale Dilemma

  • @emmar7504
    @emmar7504 6 місяців тому

    This is amazing

  • @user-qm7nw7vd5s
    @user-qm7nw7vd5s 6 місяців тому

    I bought the HARDCOVER book. Highly recommend! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @odrammurks1497
    @odrammurks1497 6 місяців тому

    Why is he interviewing 001 from stranger things 🙃

  • @kurtjensen5798
    @kurtjensen5798 6 місяців тому

    ai it can't transscript? but here on yt it can auto generate subtitles almost perfectly (not sure, maybe it couldn't do that 1 year ago when you had this interview)

  • @BabaTasya
    @BabaTasya 6 місяців тому

    Enjoyed it. thanks

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 6 місяців тому

    Glad someone with so much energy and positivity is working hard on alignment. It's much easier to complain than to propose solutions. I prefer talking about solutions.

  • @GrinGillis
    @GrinGillis 7 місяців тому

    Dude looks evil

  • @darinjohnson2289
    @darinjohnson2289 7 місяців тому

    I wasn't expecting Hanania to be so obtuse about the effects of mass immigration. The rare jewel of Western liberal democracy deserves better than "maybe it's gone."

    • @TheUltimegaMan
      @TheUltimegaMan 6 місяців тому

      No, it doesn’t. Western liberal democracy deserves the fruit of its labors. It wanted everyone to be equal and universal and it got its wish. If this was isolated, I’d believe it could be reformed, but it’s not.

  • @idk13627
    @idk13627 7 місяців тому

    Physiognomy says everything.

  • @redtree732
    @redtree732 7 місяців тому

    So much fucking misinformation (not politically motivated post) in this. I don’t know how Steve doesn’t know how to do basic IQ research. There has been shown time and time again to be a peak in IQ/“success” correlation around 2 SD above the mean (IQ 130). Lookup the communication gap. With Steve’s extremely sloppy reasoning and lack of basic fact checking, I’d be willing to bet he’s sub 140 (and that’s being optimistic/generous). And Bezos exactly fits predictive models. He’s probably in the 140s range but has other traits that set him apart in a positive sense. The one thing he got right was that a lot of big moves/advances are probably made by 160+, but tests break down after the 140 range due to several factors. Further, this implies in no way a linear correlation. Success correelates generally up to 130 and then goes downhill before a small peak around 160/170. The key point he’s missing is all the genius that falls through the cracks (most of it). He’s only seeing/talking about the survivors, or most self realized. It’s like the “bulletholes in the plane” fallacy.

  • @guangxidavidliu
    @guangxidavidliu 7 місяців тому

    I completely understand her. The affirmative action students are JOKES. And the professor can't even "fail" them the courses without raising eyebrows with the deans.

  • @shaiaheyes2c41
    @shaiaheyes2c41 8 місяців тому

    Apropos Soviet subversion and propaganda, many of the crimes of the "nazis" were just that. Just like they tried to blame the "nazis" for the Katyn Massacre. That's what "The Liberators" (also a title of one of Viktor Suvorov's books) do - the lie.

  • @guangxidavidliu
    @guangxidavidliu 8 місяців тому

    There wouldn't be any WWII style beach landings, or any landings. It will be brand new style of war, if Chinese any smarter as Israelis. Chinese should use their IQ advantage, Imagination and think OUTSIDE the box type of war. .

  • @guangxidavidliu
    @guangxidavidliu 8 місяців тому

    Chinese Meritocracy has been more than 2000 years ancient, or even longer.

  • @guangxidavidliu
    @guangxidavidliu 8 місяців тому

    How many Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Gauss, Michelangelo, James Watson, .....out of billions people ever on this earth? Genius is a million times than smart. Genius is unreachable for ours common smart people. Admire and respect the fact.

  • @MymilanitalyBlogspot
    @MymilanitalyBlogspot 8 місяців тому

    Super interesting, thanks so much!

  • @spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069
    @spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 8 місяців тому

    I am guessing you don't read any of the comments on these videos Richard, and that is very wise if true, but just in case you don't, I think at least a handful of your poignant push backs were very perceptive. It made me think you should consider reading a book that came out last year called The Myth of Left and Right. Some of what you said was consistent with its thesis.

  • @Brett323
    @Brett323 8 місяців тому

    chris looks like he's taking a shit the whole time

  • @lovelymslC
    @lovelymslC 8 місяців тому

    This is an abomination.

  • @slumerville
    @slumerville 8 місяців тому

    Two years later, we see the Russian hypersonic missiles didn't make much difference in ukr for whatever reason.

  • @abdulmoyeen9578
    @abdulmoyeen9578 8 місяців тому

    Subtitles required can not follow his speaking

  • @SqueakyMcGee
    @SqueakyMcGee 9 місяців тому

    He looks like a trans woman disguised as a man