100 episodes! To celebrate, Vaden tries to get personal with Ben, while Ben dodges his questions and wants to know how Vaden feels about incest. All in all, a pretty typical episode.

The questions

From Vaden to Ben:

1. How is your side hustle going?
2. Who are some of your major influences outside of Popper?
3. How has the Popperian worldview influenced your day-to-day?
4. What is the life of a nomadic academic like?
5. What would you say to people who are considering mathematics as a career?
6. Which charities do you recommend?

From Ben to Vaden:

1. How do you feel about looksmaxxing?
2. Thoughts on medical assistance in dying?
3. Ethics of Alex Honnold free soloing Taipei 101?
4. Thoughts on Nation-Buiding?
5. Incest - into it?

Episode References

• #22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments
• #66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella)
• #58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read
• #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows)
• #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)

References

• Angus Deaton debates Abhijit Banerjee: https://nyudri.wordpress.com/initiatives/deaton-v-banerjee/
• Christopher Hitchens and Robert Wright
• Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov
• Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
• The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

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