
#333 - Devon Eriksen - Property Rights, Rent Seekers, AI, Communism, Why Culture is Upstream of Law
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Show Notes
Devon Eriksen grew up with images of the galaxy and the imagined worlds of the golden age of science fiction. Now a retired software engineer, he writes with one purpose in mind: to give the reader something to love.
On this episode, Chris and Devon discuss:
- Why culture is upstream of law
- The era of whining being over
- Property Rights
- Why we need to push back on bad ideas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rent-Seekers
Links:
Devon's Book: Theft of Fire
https://www.thefortpod.com/survey
Topics:
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:23) - Devon’s multiple careers
(00:03:42) - “Culture is upstream of law, and law affects us.”
(00:17:33) - How does the non-left get back into the cultural dialogue?
(00:30:54) - The era of whining is over.
(00:34:43) - Property Rights
(00:41:48) - Pushing back on bad ideas
(00:46:13) - Artificial Intelligence
(01:00:26) - Predicting the future
(01:03:11) - Rent-Seeking
(01:07:05) - Who are the fiction gatekeepers?
(01:14:18) - Who is ‘they’?
(01:16:53) - The Principle-Agent Problem
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