Hacking State

I speak with Doomer Optimist cofounder and faculty in the Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University, Jason Snyder, about finding the others, using the internet to encourage localism, Balaji Srinivasan’s The Network State, homesteading, the value of embodied work, regenerative agriculture, resource independence, and our disagreement on degrowth. Doomer Optimism is an eclectic metamodern movement building a template for post-collapse. “I don’t think the industrial food system as its currently composed is sustainable.” - Jason Snyder Jason Snyder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cognazor About Doomer Optimism: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoomerOptimism Website: https://www.doomeroptimism.com/ Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

Jonah Davids' new Substack, Mental Disorder, explores the science and politics of mental health from a data-driven perspective. Jonah is also Communications Director at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. We spoke about why being a psychologist has no noticeable effect on the efficaciousness of talk therapy, the lack of evidence in mental health treatment, how CBT became the gold standard and why its not more effective than other therapies, the case for fixing your material conditions to improve mental health, lowering barriers to entry for mental health workers, how mental health professionals are less mentally healthy than the general population, and more... Jonah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonahdavids1 Jonah on Substack: https://mentaldisorder.substack.com/ Related writings: On CBT: https://mentaldisorder.substack.com/p/is-cbt-superior-jonah-davids On the sadness of psychologists: https://www.mentaldisorder.ca/p/how-sad-are-psychologists Whether loneliness should be considered a public health problem: https://www.mentaldisorder.ca/p/loneliness-public-health-problem-jonah-davids Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

Cody 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 Cody Moser's blog: https://culturologies.co/ His Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTF_01 UC Merced bio: https://cogsci.ucmerced.edu/content/cody-moser Paper on core-periphery networks in innovation: https://culturologies.co/files/coreperiphery.pdf All Intelligence is Collective Intelligence: https://www.neuralpress.org/_files/ugd/1dd990_f5fc8a4eef6142b48e387daa9c4454e7.pdf The Ties That Bind Us: https://culturologies.co/files/HungarianConservative.pdf Internet polarization: https://culturologies.substack.com/p/internet-polarization-reform-and?nthPub Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

Jae Yang and John Bugnacki of Tacen join me to discuss financial sovereignty, the regulatory state of crypto in the United States, the Wyoming stabelcoin, and why you have to go to the frontier for better governance and technology. Tacen is working on a crypto exchange that is fast, non-custodial, and cross-chain. Project TXA is a settlement network that allows cross-chain settlement. Jae Yang is the founder and CEO of Tacen and the Chief Architect of Project TXA. John Bugnacki is Deputy General Counsel and Director of Regulatory Policy at Tacen. Jae Yang: https://twitter.com/jae_tacen Tacen: https://www.tacen.com/ Tacen Twitter: https://twitter.com/tacen_app Project TXA: https://www.txa.app/ Project TXA Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjectTXA Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

Matthew Mehan is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Government for Hillsdale College’s Steve and Amy Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington D.C. We spoke about the relationship of poetry to philosophy, the value of a classical liberal arts education, technology and the Tyranny of Velocity, raising children with social media, politicization of education, the moral training of self-government, and how to create leaders of tomorrow. Hillsdale profile: https://dc.hillsdale.edu/Profiles/Matthew-Mehan/ Matthew Mehan is also the author of popular children's books: Mr. Mehan's Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals: https://www.amazon.com/Mehans-Mildly-Amusing-Mythical-Mammals/dp/1505112494 The Handsome Little Signet: https://www.amazon.com/Handsome-Little-Cygnet-Matthew-Mehan/dp/1505120608 Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

Robin Hanson and I discuss prediction markets, decision markets, Futarchy, and Demarchy. We cover simple and more elaborate applications of prediction markets, common objections to them and barriers to implementation at the organization level, when a prediction market becomes a decision market, his vision for Futarchy--a proposed system of government whereby elected officials use prediction markets to inform policy decisions based on measurable objectives--and Demarchy, another alternative governance mechanism where policy-makers are chosen at random from among the population. Professor Robin Hanson is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Robin Hanson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson Personal site: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html University bio: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/rhanson On prediction markets: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/ideafutures.html On Futarchy: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe