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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with philosopher, professor, and lecturer Dr. Stephen Hicks. They discuss their collaboration through the Peterson Academy, the case for philosophy on the practical level,the evolution of human thought across intellectual movements and waves, the notion that we see reality through a story, and the danger of getting the story wrong. Stephen Hicks' writings have been translated into twenty languages, including Portuguese, Spanish, German, Korean, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, French, Hebrew, Estonian, Urdu, Turkish, and Arabic. He has published in academic journals such as “Business Ethics Quarterly,” “Teaching Philosophy,” and “Review of Metaphysics,” as well as other publications such as “The Wall Street Journal” and “Cato Unbound.” In 2010, he won his university's Excellence in Teaching Award. He was Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois; has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University, Poland; Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio; Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College at Oxford University in England; Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center in New York; and Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. This episode was filmed on November 15th, 2024  | Links | For Stephen Hicks: On Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ On X https://x.com/SRCHicks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Website https://www.stephenhicks.org/ 

In March of this year, 30,000 people, including leading AI figures like Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, signed a letter calling on AI labs to pause the training of AI systems. While it seems unlikely that this letter will succeed in pausing the development of AI, it did draw substantial attention to slowing AI as a strategy for reducing existential risk.While initial work has been done on this topic (this sequence links to some relevant work), many areas of uncertainty remain. I've asked a group of participants to discuss and debate various aspects of the value of advocating for a pause on the development of AI on the EA Forum, in a format loosely inspired by Cato Unbound.On September 16, we will launch with three posts: David Manheim will share a post giving an overview of what a pause would include, how a pause would work, and some possible concrete steps [...] --- First published: September 8th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6SvZPHAvhT5dtqefF/debate-series-should-we-push-for-a-pause-on-the-development --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Debate series: should we push for a pause on the development of AI?, published by Ben West on September 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. In March of this year, 30,000 people, including leading AI figures like Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, signed a letter calling on AI labs to pause the training of AI systems. While it seems unlikely that this letter will succeed in pausing the development of AI, it did draw substantial attention to slowing AI as a strategy for reducing existential risk. While initial work has been done on this topic (this sequence links to some relevant work), many areas of uncertainty remain. I've asked a group of participants to discuss and debate various aspects of the value of advocating for a pause on the development of AI on the EA Forum, in a format loosely inspired by Cato Unbound. On September 16, we will launch with three posts: David Manheim will share a post giving an overview of what a pause would include, how a pause would work, and some possible concrete steps forward Nora Belrose will post outlining some of the risks of a pause Thomas Larson will post a concrete policy proposal After this, we will release one post per day, each from a different author Many of the participants will also be commenting on each other's work Responses from Forum users are encouraged; you can share your own posts on this topic or comment on the posts from participants. You'll be able to find the posts by looking at this tag (remember that you can subscribe to tags to be notified of new posts). I think it is unlikely that this debate will result in a consensus agreement, but I hope that it will clarify the space of policy options, why those options may be beneficial or harmful, and what future work is needed. People who have agreed to participate These are in random order, and they're participating as individuals, not representing any institution: David Manheim (Technion Israel) Matthew Barnett (Epoch AI) Zach Stein-Perlman (AI Impacts) Holly Elmore (AI pause advocate) Buck Shlegeris (Redwood Research) Anonymous researcher (Major AI lab) Anonymous professor (Major University) Rob Bensinger (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) Nora Belrose (EleutherAI) Thomas Larsen (Center for AI Policy) Quintin Pope (Oregon State University) Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

“I'm not going to say that ‘greed is good.' Greed can be made to DO good, but we've got to get the institutional designs right.”— Jason KuznickiWhen people think of freedom, they usually associate it with the idea of being able to do whatever they want… as long as their actions don't harm others. The political ideology of Libertarianism is particularly concerned with institutional restrictions on freedom, and pushes for the idea of less governmental control.But what if freedom alone isn't enough? What if some people in our society NEED government support or regulations in order to thrive?This week's episode of Living Jewishly is an instalment of What Would You Do?, a podcast about ethics in the modern world.In this episode, Dr. Elliot Malamet's guest is Jason Kuznicki, a senior fellow at The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Jason is also the editor of Cato Unbound, its online journal of debate and A Free Society, their quarterly journal of opinion.In this conversation, Elliot and Jason explore the idea of using public v. private provisions for assisting those living in poverty, the role of government in medicine and the market, and whether Libertarian psychology can be considered a little too optimistic.“I am skeptical that everybody has that sense of social responsibility… I always saw external monitoring as the necessary evil.”— Dr. Elliot MalametThis‌ ‌episode discusses:‌ ‌Whether liberating some people from government interference involves abandoning others Areas where government intervention has been more harmful or problematic than the issues it sought to alleviate The risks of exploitation in a capitalist system without government oversight and regulations ‌  Highlights:‌ ‌00:51  Intro03:30  Jason Kuznicki & private provisions05:13  Role of government in medicine07:50  Opioid market example08:58  Libertarian psychology11:08  Exploitation & capitalism15:05  American checks of power17:33  Helping those left behind20:21  Pandethics & Covid-1924:34  Necessary evil & airline example32:00  Freedom of expression36:51  OutroLinks:‌ ‌ Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For? by Jason Kuznickihttps://www.amazon.ca/Technology-End-Authority-What-Government/dp/3319839950 Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Art Cardenhttps://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/product/9780226739663-item.htmlThe Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrelhttps://vpostrel.com/future-and-its-enemies To get in contact or learn more about Living Jewishly:  Visit‌ ‌our ‌website: https://livingjewishly.org  Follow us on Instagram: @living.jewishly  Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2YEegjapKpQeXG6zh6tzw   or send us an email at hello@livingjewishly.org.    Shalom!

“I'm not going to say that ‘greed is good.' Greed can be made to DO good, but we've got to get the institutional designs right.”— Jason KuznickiWhen people think of freedom, they usually associate it with the idea of being able to do whatever they want… as long as their actions don't harm others. The political ideology of Libertarianism is particularly concerned with institutional restrictions on freedom, and pushes for the idea of less governmental control.But what if freedom alone isn't enough? What if some people in our society NEED government support or regulations in order to thrive?This week's episode of Living Jewishly is an instalment of What Would You Do?, a podcast about ethics in the modern world.In this episode, Dr. Elliot Malamet's guest is Jason Kuznicki, a senior fellow at The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Jason is also the editor of Cato Unbound, its online journal of debate and A Free Society, their quarterly journal of opinion.In this conversation, Elliot and Jason explore the idea of using public v. private provisions for assisting those living in poverty, the role of government in medicine and the market, and whether Libertarian psychology can be considered a little too optimistic.“I am skeptical that everybody has that sense of social responsibility… I always saw external monitoring as the necessary evil.”— Dr. Elliot MalametThis‌ ‌episode discusses:‌ ‌Whether liberating some people from government interference involves abandoning others Areas where government intervention has been more harmful or problematic than the issues it sought to alleviate The risks of exploitation in a capitalist system without government oversight and regulations ‌  Highlights:‌ ‌00:51  Intro03:30  Jason Kuznicki & private provisions05:13  Role of government in medicine07:50  Opioid market example08:58  Libertarian psychology11:08  Exploitation & capitalism15:05  American checks of power17:33  Helping those left behind20:21  Pandethics & Covid-1924:34  Necessary evil & airline example32:00  Freedom of expression36:51  OutroLinks:‌ ‌ Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For? by Jason Kuznickihttps://www.amazon.ca/Technology-End-Authority-What-Government/dp/3319839950 Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Art Cardenhttps://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/product/9780226739663-item.htmlThe Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrelhttps://vpostrel.com/future-and-its-enemies To get in contact or learn more about Living Jewishly:  Visit‌ ‌our ‌website: https://livingjewishly.org  Follow us on Instagram: @living.jewishly  Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2YEegjapKpQeXG6zh6tzw   or send us an email at hello@livingjewishly.org.    Shalom!

Carter is joined by special guest Dr. Stephen Hicks for a speedy romp through 200 years of philosophy in search of some of the philosophic errors that manifest in today's "woke" culture. Dr. Hicks provides an overview of the Enlightenment, the counter-Enlightenment, the Frankfurt school, and postmodernism. You'll want to experience this episode more than once. Dr. Stephen Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, the Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. He's the author of six books, including his forthcoming book "Eight Philosophies of Education," as well as what Carter calls a "must-read" for anyone interested in unraveling the philosophical roots of modern Leftistm: "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault." He's published in several academic journals, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Cato Unbound, and The Baltimore Sun. He's also the host of the Open College podcast. You can follow Dr. Hicks at the links below: Twitter: @SRCHicks Web: http://stephenhicks.org/ The video version of this episode is available here: https://unsafespace.com/ep0692 Links Referenced in the Show: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: https://amzn.to/32cj7AU About Dangerous Thoughts Hosted by Carter, "Dangerous Thoughts" is a series dedicated to practical and applied philosophy, as well as deeper dives into other crucial but complex topics. Its goal is to help rational individuals become more dangerous to the intellectual and psychological enemies of the principles upon which Western Civilization was built and has thrived. Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Other video platforms on which our content can be found include: LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@unsafe BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/unsafespace/ Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Censorship-averse platforms: Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Locals: unsafespace.locals.com Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Censorship-happy platforms: Twitter: @_unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Support the content that you consume by visiting: https://unsafespace.com/donate Finally, don't forget to announce your status as a wrong-thinker with some Unsafe Space merch, available at: https://unsafespace.com/shop

Carter is joined by special guest Dr. Stephen Hicks for a speedy romp through 200 years of philosophy in search of some of the philosophic errors that manifest in today's "woke" culture. Dr. Hicks provides an overview of the Enlightenment, the counter-Enlightenment, the Frankfurt school, and postmodernism. You'll want to experience this episode more than once. Dr. Stephen Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, the Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. He's the author of six books, including his forthcoming book "Eight Philosophies of Education," as well as what Carter calls a "must-read" for anyone interested in unraveling the philosophical roots of modern Leftistm: "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault." He's published in several academic journals, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Cato Unbound, and The Baltimore Sun. He's also the host of the Open College podcast. You can follow Dr. Hicks at the links below: Twitter: @SRCHicks Web: http://stephenhicks.org/ The video version of this episode is available here: https://unsafespace.com/ep0692 Links Referenced in the Show: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: https://amzn.to/32cj7AU About Dangerous Thoughts Hosted by Carter, "Dangerous Thoughts" is a series dedicated to practical and applied philosophy, as well as deeper dives into other crucial but complex topics. Its goal is to help rational individuals become more dangerous to the intellectual and psychological enemies of the principles upon which Western Civilization was built and has thrived. Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Other video platforms on which our content can be found include: LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@unsafe BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/unsafespace/ Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Censorship-averse platforms: Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Locals: unsafespace.locals.com Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Censorship-happy platforms: Twitter: @_unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Support the content that you consume by visiting: https://unsafespace.com/donate Finally, don't forget to announce your status as a wrong-thinker with some Unsafe Space merch, available at: https://unsafespace.com/shop

Misinformation (incorrect beliefs about the world) and disinformation (deliberately constructed falsehoods) have always been a part of human history. But they are playing an increasingly important role in politics around the globe, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. Research is showing that people on the political right and people who are inclined toward religious traditionalism are more likely to believe falsehoods about science and the world. What does that mean about the future? Perhaps related to this is that the emergence of Donald Trump as a Republican political figure seems to have accelerated a pre-existing trend of more educated people away from the GOP and less educated people away from the Democrats. Joining us to discuss all this is Will Wilkinson, he's the publisher of Model Citizen, a newsletter about politics, economics, and philosophy. Will is also a former libertarian who once worked at the Cato Institute where he was the managing editor of the magazine Cato Unbound. TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2021/12/americas-polarization-problem-ultimately-epistemic-problem GUEST INFO Will Wilkinson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/willwilkinson Model Citizen: https://modelcitizen.substack.com/ ABOUT THE SHOW Theory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield and is part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet. Theory of Change website: https://flux.community/podcasts/theory-of-change Theory of Change on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheoryChange Matthew Sheffield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattsheffield SUPPORT THE SHOW PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theorychange Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discoverflux If you're not able to support financially, please help us by subscribing and/or leaving a nice review on your favorite podcast app. Doing this helps other people find Theory of Change and our great guests. Thanks for your help!

Gabriel Fernandez was a sweet and loving 7-year-old boy when he began living with his mother and her boyfriend. Over the next 8 months, he would be forced to endure systematic abuse at their hands. And those with authority to remove him turned a blind eye. This week Em and Mad talk about Gabriel's story and how all of us can work together to close the systematic gaps and hopefully save the next child.  To Sign Petition: https://www.change.org/p/create-gabriel-s-law-to-protect-abused-children   For Information about reporting in your state: https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=custom&rs_id=5  Flores-Paniagua, Veronica. “CPS? Safety Net for Children Has Huge Holes.” MySA, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2010, www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/CPS-safety-net-for-children-has-huge-holes-780540.php  Gajanan, Mahita. “The Story Behind Netflix's Docuseries on Gabriel Fernandez.” Time, Time, 3 Mar. 2020, time.com/5790549/gabriel-fernandez-netflix-documentary  Hanlon, Greg, and Christine Pelisek. “Everything to Know About Gabriel Fernandez's Tragic Abuse Case Examined in Netflix Docuseries.” PEOPLE.com, 28 Feb. 2020, people.com/crime/gabriel-fernandez-everything-to-know-abuse-case-netflix-docuseries/  Karlamangla, Soumya, et al. “Boy's Alleged Abuse Described in Graphic Grand Jury Testimony.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2014, www.latimes.com/local/countygovernment/la-me-gabriel-fernandez-20140819-story.html   Knappenberger, Brian, director. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Netflix, 2020.  Murder of GABRIEL FERNANDEZ. 6 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Gabriel_Fernandez   Nicolaou, Elena. “‘The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez' Is Netflix's Most Disturbing Docuseries Yet.” Oprah Magazine, Oprah Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020, www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a31080255/trials-of-gabriel-fernandez-netflix-true-story/   “Palmdale Abuse Case: Uncle Breaks Silence Nearly 7 Years after Gabriel Fernandez's Death.” ABC7 San Francisco, KGO-TV, 23 May 2020, abc7news.com/gabriel-fernandez-family-documentary-anniversary/6206703/   Redleaf, Diane. “When the Child Protective Services System Gets Child Removal Wrong.” Cato Unbound, 9 Nov. 2018, www.cato-unbound.org/2018/11/09/diane-redleaf/when-child-protective-services-system-gets-child-removal-wrong   Tegna. “Case Dismissed against Social Workers Charged in Gabriel Fernandez Torture Death.” wusa9.Com, WUSA, 16 July 2020, www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/case-dismissed-against-social-workers-charged-in-gabriel-fernandez-torture-death/507-bbb9a8b1-3809-4516-9db8-5031a9d7a906   Therolf, Garrett. “An 8-Year-Old Was Brutally Abused for Months. Why Did No One Save Him?” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 3 Oct. 2018, www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/la-county-dcfs-failed-protect-gabriel-fernandez/571384/  Therolf, Garrett. “Gabriel Fernandez, 8 - The Homicide Report.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2013, homicide.latimes.com/post/gabriel-fernandez/

Gabriel Fernandez was a sweet and loving 7-year-old boy when he began living with his mother and her boyfriend. Over the next 8 months, he would be forced to endure systematic abuse at their hands. And those with authority to remove him turned a blind eye. This week Em and Mad talk about Gabriel's story and how all of us can work together to close the systematic gaps and hopefully save the next child.  To Sign Petition: https://www.change.org/p/create-gabriel-s-law-to-protect-abused-children   For Information about reporting in your state: https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=custom&rs_id=5  Flores-Paniagua, Veronica. “CPS? Safety Net for Children Has Huge Holes.” MySA, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2010, www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/CPS-safety-net-for-children-has-huge-holes-780540.php  Gajanan, Mahita. “The Story Behind Netflix's Docuseries on Gabriel Fernandez.” Time, Time, 3 Mar. 2020, time.com/5790549/gabriel-fernandez-netflix-documentary  Hanlon, Greg, and Christine Pelisek. “Everything to Know About Gabriel Fernandez's Tragic Abuse Case Examined in Netflix Docuseries.” PEOPLE.com, 28 Feb. 2020, people.com/crime/gabriel-fernandez-everything-to-know-abuse-case-netflix-docuseries/  Karlamangla, Soumya, et al. “Boy's Alleged Abuse Described in Graphic Grand Jury Testimony.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2014, www.latimes.com/local/countygovernment/la-me-gabriel-fernandez-20140819-story.html   Knappenberger, Brian, director. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Netflix, 2020.  Murder of GABRIEL FERNANDEZ. 6 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Gabriel_Fernandez   Nicolaou, Elena. “‘The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez' Is Netflix's Most Disturbing Docuseries Yet.” Oprah Magazine, Oprah Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020, www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a31080255/trials-of-gabriel-fernandez-netflix-true-story/   “Palmdale Abuse Case: Uncle Breaks Silence Nearly 7 Years after Gabriel Fernandez's Death.” ABC7 San Francisco, KGO-TV, 23 May 2020, abc7news.com/gabriel-fernandez-family-documentary-anniversary/6206703/   Redleaf, Diane. “When the Child Protective Services System Gets Child Removal Wrong.” Cato Unbound, 9 Nov. 2018, www.cato-unbound.org/2018/11/09/diane-redleaf/when-child-protective-services-system-gets-child-removal-wrong   Tegna. “Case Dismissed against Social Workers Charged in Gabriel Fernandez Torture Death.” wusa9.Com, WUSA, 16 July 2020, www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/case-dismissed-against-social-workers-charged-in-gabriel-fernandez-torture-death/507-bbb9a8b1-3809-4516-9db8-5031a9d7a906   Therolf, Garrett. “An 8-Year-Old Was Brutally Abused for Months. Why Did No One Save Him?” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 3 Oct. 2018, www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/la-county-dcfs-failed-protect-gabriel-fernandez/571384/  Therolf, Garrett. “Gabriel Fernandez, 8 - The Homicide Report.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2013, homicide.latimes.com/post/gabriel-fernandez/

What do we need to know now about nuclear weapons policy? Cato's Eric Gomez wrote the lead essay for this month's edition of Cato Unbound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Featuring Donald A. Downs, Author, Free Speech and Liberal Education: A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance; Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science Emeritus; Affiliate Professor of Law and Journalism Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Jason Kuznicki, Editor, Cato Books and Cato Unbound, Cato Institute (@JasonKuznicki); Katie Harbath, Public Policy Director, Global Elections, Facebook (@KatieHarbath); Robby Soave, Senior Editor, Reason Magazine (@RobbySoave); and Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School, and Past President, American Civil Liberties Union; moderated by Kat Murti, Associate Director, Audience Engagement and Acquisition, Cato Institute (@KatMurti). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Made popular by Nobel Laureate and economist Paul Romer, charter city is a new vision for building prosperous cities that can unlock economic potentials and solve common issues in urbanization and poverty for their citizens and countries they are part of. In this episode, Dr. Mark Lutter, Founder of the Charter Cities Institute, discusses what charter cities are, why they are unique compared to special economic zones (SZE), how they can promote progress and growth within a country by reducing regulatory barriers, and how successful examples like Shenzhen and Dubai embody both their advantages and drawbacks. Due to rapid increases of urban population, many governments in the developing world have shown to be ill-equipped to provide the necessary infrastructure to support the cities. Dr. Lutter has long called into question the conventional and popular idea that urbanization leads to increased productivity and economic growth, and he believes that charter cities could be a bold solution to poorly managed urbanization and global poverty. Our conversation goes over how charter cities can address the pent-up demand for urbanization in developing countries while creating opportunities for all the stakeholders involved, from locals to the governments of host countries. In doing so, we also analyze how new projects arise from private partnerships and how they can integrate with the goals of their host countries and communities. While charter cities can address the needs of developing countries, they are also worth exploring in mature economies. Allowing people to build new cities in the US or Europe can provide an alternative to existing cities while creating an incentive for regulatory arbitrage, which can trickle down to the rest of the country. The model of charter city offers a blank slate in commercial law, can be developed on greenfield sites (untouched land with no current residents), and can allow for deep governance reforms to be enacted with minimal interference or resistance because of the lack of existing interest groups. Charter cities may be the perfect place to experiment new governance structures proposed by “techno-utopians” from Silicon Valley to around the world. Dr. Lutter also addresses criticisms for charter cities, such as the possible need for strong central governments during the establishment of charter cities and their incentives to reap the benefits and interfere with organic growth. We also go over a famous charter city blunder in Honduras and the concerns that it would entrench the local elite while limiting freedom of locals. In this context, we also discuss how charter cities can be built so local can actually share the fruits of the progress enabled by the city, as well as how political ideologies intertwine with charter cities and their economic success. Dr. Mark Lutter is the Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute, as well as the host of the Charter Cities Podcast. He is on the Board of Directors of Explorer Academy, a Zambian education platform. He is an advisor to and has a financial interest in the Victoria Harbor Group, a firm that is building a new Hong Kong. He has a PhD in economics from George Mason University where his research focused on charter cities. Prior to launching the Institute, he was Lead Economist for NeWAY Capital, an asset management firm which made early stage investments in charter cities. He has been published in several newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, City Journal, CityAM, and Cato Unbound. Currently, Dr. Mark Lutter is involved with several charter city projects. In this episode we discuss his recent work in Zambia, Nigeria, and with the Hong Kong-based Victoria Harbor Group. We also go over how the Charter Cities Institute was formed and what the next steps are for this nonprofit.

Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall chat with Peter Singer of New America about his new novel Burn In, and why fiction can be useful for our understanding of national security policy. Peter Singer bio, https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/peter-warren-singer/ Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, https://www.burninbook.com/Surveillance Takes Wing: Privacy in the Age of Police Drones, Matthew Feeney, https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/surveillance-takes-wing-privacy-age-police-dronesHow Drones are Changing Warfare, Cato Unbound, https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/january-2012/how-drones-are-changing-warfare See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Mark Lutter is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Governance Research, a nonprofit creating the ecosystem for charter cities. Prior to launching the Center for Innovative Governance Research, he was Lead Economist for NeWAY Capital, an asset management firm which made early stage investments in charter cities. During graduate school, he consulted on several new city projects and special economic zones. He has a PhD in economics from George Mason University where his research focused on charter cities. He has been published in several newspapers and magazines including CityAM, the Daily Caller, and Cato Unbound.   On this episode you'll learn: -What's the difference between a special economic zone and a charter city? -Where in the world can the charter city model have the most impact? -What does Mark think of China's $4 Trillion commitment to their Belt  Road Initiative?

Welcome to Mutual Exchange radio, a project of the Center for a Stateless Society. Today’s guest is Maggie McNeil, an author, journalist, and blogger who is an expert on sex work and a sex worker herself. Maggie has written a series of short stories on sex work, Ladies of the Night,  runs her own blog, The Honest Courtesan, and has had her writings featured in outlets such as The Washington Post, Reason Magazine and Cato Unbound. Most recently, she was featured prominently in the documentary The War on Whores, which you can rent on Vimeo. Today we discussed the legal and moral issues surrounding sex work in which Maggie gave her strongest case for decriminalization and responded to some common objections, as well as the social and moral implications of its decriminalization and normalization. You can tell that Maggie really knows the empirical literature on this topic and that made this an especially informative conversation. I hope you learned as much as I did.

Against ‘Free Speech’ with Anthony Leaker What does it mean to be “against ‘free speech?’” On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we speak with Anthony Leaker. Earlier this year he wrote an essay for Cato Unbound called “Against ‘Free Speech’,” in which he professes skepticism of the prevailing free speech narrative in the West and argues that it is often used as a Trojan Horse for far-right wing and fascist propaganda. Leaker is a principal lecturer in cultural and critical theory at the University of Brighton in England. Show notes: Podcast transcript Against “Free Speech” by Anthony Leaker Cato Unbound, June 2018: Free Speech in International Perspective www.sotospeakpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/freespeechtalk Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast Email us: sotospeak@thefire.org

  "Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution." - Lucan Whether you agree or disagree with prostitution, have you ever thought about when it originated in our society? Or, what impact it has in our lives? Don’t forget to share the episode and join the conversation by adding your comments below!   Episode Shout-out to New World Encyclopedia, BUSINESS INSIDER,  ScienceNordic, LAWS, CATO UNBOUND, MOTHERBOARD, HISTORY ON THE NET, and ati  Music Credits: Music Intro/Outro: “Thoughts” by Killah Smilez Music Outro: “Explained” by Killah Smilez Make sure you check out the Killah Smilez song on Amazon  Catch the music video by Killah Smilez HERE Want to share the episode? Please share the episode on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Soundcloud Don’t forget to subscribe to WokeNFree on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Google Play Do you want to join the show as a guest on an upcoming episode? Contact us HERE Don't forget to submit a scenario to us for SCENARIO TIME!    SCENARIO TIME: How would you respond to these scenarios in SCENARIO TIME? Let's chat HERE!  Have you reviewed our show yet? Pick your platform of choice HERE     Do you want to start a podcast? We are here to HELP! Schedule a FREE consultation with us HERE This post contains affiliate links. That means if you click on a link and buy something, WokeNFree will earn a small commission from the advertiser at no additional cost to you.

On this episode of So to Speak, we chat with lawyer and free speech activist Jacob Mchangama. He is the founder and CEO of the Danish think tank Justitia, a visiting fellow at FIRE, and host of Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech. Mchangama is also the author of the lead essay for the Cato Institute’s June Cato Unbound online debate on the topic of “how censorship crosses borders.” Our conversation focuses on the origins of Mchangama’s interest in free speech issues, the 2005 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, the history of free speech, and the critiques of his Cato Unbound essay. Show notes: Mchangama’s podcast, Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech June Cato Unbound debate, “Free speech in international perspective” Mchangama’s essays for Cato So to Speak episode with Flemming Rose, who commissioned the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons www.sotospeakpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/freespeechtalk Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast Email us: sotospeak@thefire.orgCall in a question: 215-315-0100

This week Jessica Flanigan joins us to discuss the rights of self-medication; rights to purchase and use unapproved treatments, prohibited drugs, and pharmaceuticals without a prescription. As Jessica describes in her most recent publication in Cato Unbound, “For most patients, rights of self-medication needn’t change how they make medical decisions. After all, rights of self-medication do not preclude patients from consulting with physicians or using only government-certified drugs. But if patients had rights of self-medication they would be free to make intimate and personal decisions about their bodies that reflected their values rather than the values of a physician or public official.”Further Readings/References:Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate Book by Jessica FlaniganMore about Jessica FlaniganRespect Patients’ Choices to Self-Medicate by Jessica Flanigan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An audio version of “Fake News and Our Real Problems,” the lead essay from the December 2017 issue of Cato Unbound, “Is Social Media Broken?.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week my guest is Professor Stephen Hicks, a Canadian-American philosopher. I have invited Professor Hicks on the show to walk me through important cultural themes that are happening today and why they matter for you and your business. Aside from that, with my daughter going off to university/college next year, I wanted to understand what is being bred in the Universities on a cultural level. During the interview, Professor Hicks and I take a deep dive into history to trace the rise of post-modernism, and discuss the issue of offense as a weapon in the current social environment. We also talk about business ethics, hiring young talent and structuring your group dynamics as a leader in order to maximize individual thinking in current environment. I hope you will find this interview fascinating and educational as much as I did. With that, enjoy my wide-ranging conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks! Major Take-Aways From This Episode: Learn about the University shift from tradition of classical liberal education with focus on individual and his uniqueness to a post-modern outlook with focus on groups that are fundamental to a person’s identity than their individuality. If you are an entrepreneur/ business leader who has scaled up your business, you are also the chief culture officer and are able to work with people of all different personality types. Walk through the major epochs and find out what brought us to a post-modern era. When you are hiring young people out of college that have dramatically different backgrounds, how do you socially manage them working closely with each other? Post-modernism views involve philosophical argumentation that individuals are either secondary, or ultimately not real. As a leader, how do you structure your group dynamics to maximize the individual thinking? Why Professor Hicks’ take on ethics in business is a “minority position”? What is equality of outcomes perspective and why is that an issue? What are the ways to embrace the new generation that is constantly being offended coming into the workforce and integrate them into society? Why should you should expect to be offended on a regular basis and develop a thick skin? Why you should be aware that the broader culture is everything? About Professor Stephen Hicks Stephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He has published four books and his writings have been translated into fourteen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, German, Korean, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, French, and Arabic. He has published in academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Cato Unbound, and The Baltimore Sun. In 2010, he won his university’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center in New York, and in 2018 he will be Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington. Read full transcript here. How to get in touch with Professor Stephen Hicks LinkedIn Website Contact Form Key Resources: More information about Dr. Hicks’s courses, publications, and blog can be found at his website: www.StephenHicks.org. Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Profile Books: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004; Expanded Edition, 2011). Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010). The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis (co-edited with David Kelley, W. W. Norton & Co., 1994, second edition 1998). Credits: * Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound Other Ways To Listen to the Podcast iTunes | Libsyn | Soundcloud | RSS | LinkedIn Leave a Review If you enjoyed this episode, then please consider leaving an iTunes review here Click here for instructions on how to leave an iTunes review if you're doing this for the first time.

Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit educational foundation, and the co-author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition. Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Sarah writes a regular column for the Freeman Online and blogs for the Fraser Institute and Bleeding Heart Libertarians. Sarah’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in Newsweek, The Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and she is an occasional lecturer for IHS, SFL, and other organizations. Her poetry has appeared, among other places, in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and The Vocabula Review. Sarah graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned a MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Show Notes: www.economicrockstar.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/economicrockstar  

Listen to an audio version of the Cato Unbound essay "Why Libertarians - and Others - Should Care About Gerrymandering." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Algorithms, Algorithmic Discrimination, and Autonomous Vehicles with Caleb Watney Today's guest is Caleb Watney of the R Street Institute. In our conversation, we discuss algorithms, particularly with respect to their role in judicial decision making. Later in the conversation, we discuss the algorithms that will one day replace ape brains as the primary controllers of our cars. Caleb wrote a Cato Unbound essay in response to an article by Cathy O'Neil. O'Neil, a mathematician, argues that algorithms could potentially lead us astray. Her book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy has sounded the alarm about the potential harms of an over-reliance on algorithms. In Caleb's view, O'Neil has pushed too far in the anti-algorithm direction. He points out that private companies have used algorithms to generate amazing innovations. Government is a different story: "The most compelling concerns about the improper use of AI and algorithms stem primarily from government use of these technologies. Indeed, all the tangible examples of harm O’Neil cites in her essay are the result of poor incentives and structures designed by government. Namely, hiring models at a public teaching hospital, teacher value-added models, recidivism risk models, and Centrelink’s tax-fraud detection model. The poor results of these kinds of interactions, in which governments purchase algorithms from private developers, could be viewed primarily as a failure of the government procurement process. Government contracting creates opportunities for rent-seeking, and the process doesn’t benefit from the same kinds of feedback loops that are ubiquitous in private markets. So it should be no surprise that governments end up with inferior technology." We discuss the merits and demerits of algorithms, how different private and public incentives interact with algorithms, and the difficulties in creating algorithms that can be fair and transparent. Caleb's ultimate solution for many of the problems associated with algorithms used by the government is for those algorithms to be open source in order to foster public scrutiny of their processes and outcomes. During the conversation, Caleb alludes to this paper by Kleinberg, Mullainathan, and Raghavan, which shows that there are three competing definitions of algorithmic fairness that cannot all be achieved simultaneously.

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Ballot selfies, 3-D printer guns, and a new trial for a death-row prisoner. Use iTunes? https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/short-circuit/id309062019 Use Android (RSS)? http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:84493247/sounds.rss Newsletter: http://ij.org/about-us/shortcircuit/ Want to email us? shortcircuit@ij.org Ballot selfies: http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/15-2021P-01A.pdf 3-D guns: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/15/15-50759-CV0.pdf?mc_cid=27a733e5bf&mc_eid=6e8e76319f Habeas petition: http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2016/D09-23/C:14-1898:J:Hamilton:dis:T:fnOp:N:1833767:S:0 Cato Unbound: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2016/09/12/evan-bernick/supreme-court-needs-new-judicial-approach-case-judicial-engagement

Evan Bernick is author of the lead essay in this month's Cato Unbound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Campus speech and its censors received a great deal of attention in 2015. In a just-concluded debate at Cato Unbound, Greg Lukianoff argued that fear of regulators drives many campuses to restrict speech. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Does Star Wars have a distinct political viewpoint that we can tease out? Would the Rebel Alliance be considered a terrorist organization? How would we know if a rebellion was justified? Is the Star Wars story libertarian?Show Notes and Further ReadingThe original trilogy of Star Wars movies and the prequel trilogy of the late 90s/early 2000s will be joined by Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the day this podcast is released.Trevor mentions Somin’s work on political ignorance; for a more in-depth study, listeners may want to read his book on the matter: Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (2013), or read the Cato Unbound series on democracy and political ignorance.Listeners may also enjoy the podcast we did earlier this year with Timothy Sandefur on the politics of Star Trek.Ilya Somin was also a guest in a KosmosOnline podcast about Star Trek.Somin frequently mentions the animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maggie McNeill, retired madam, sex worker, and a lead blogger at Cato Unbound http://goo.gl/AsQV1T, joins Bob to discuss the legalization of “the oldest profession.” Why is America the only non-communist country to criminalize sex work? After all, many women expect their dates to pay for their meals and entertainment. Is that a crime? If not, how is that not prostitution? The lines between legal and illegal activity are impossibly blurred, leading to the inescapable conclusion that exchanging sex for money is only illegal if a poor woman does it. Class discrimination at its worst. Theselaws infantilize and demean women, yet they remain on the books. Maggie helps us sort this out. One small step towards the end of hypocrisy about sex in America.

This week we’re discussing a relatively unknown essay by Auberon Herbert called “The Ethics of Dynamite,” wherein Herbert compares the coercive political force of the state (the majority) to the coercive, terroristic use of force by the dynamiter (the minority), a 19-century reference to violent anarchist sects. Herbert points out that the means of the state and those of the dynamiter really do not differ all that much, and offers his solutions for “unmaking” the coercive nature of each.Jason Kuznicki is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound.Show Notes and Further Reading:Adam Smith, The Wealth of NationsThomas Hobbes, LeviathanHerbert Spencer, Social StaticsMurray Rothbard, The Anatomy of the StateSpecialization and Trade (video) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jason Kuznicki, a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound, joins Aaron and Trevor to discuss historicism: the idea that historical forces work to determine the ideas and values of individuals, and that as a result, historical trends have a direction or purpose to them.To understand a person or event in history, you need to look at their historical context. That’s not so crazy all by itself—it’s actually pretty reasonable. But the trouble starts when historicist thinking begins to deny individual agency. Not always—but very often—historicism is at odds with methodological individualism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.