Podcasts about mutual assured destruction

Read on for today's agenda below prepared by David (thank you very much). - Retired US Diplomat to 5 different nations  David Hunter shares his knowledge, passion, interest, and experience.1)US Senator Graham's Grand Bargain for Middle East Peace?: Last week, Sen. Graham announced a 'grand plan' he has been discussing with the government of Saudi Arabia. It involves having US make an official 'defense agreement' with the Saudi Kingdom, and in return for that big US favor, Saudi Arabia will recognize the State of Israel. He adds that, as part of the grand bargain, Israel must move quickly to solve the Palestine crisis. Will Graham's plan work?2)Will Netanyahu Invade Rafah if Hostage Talks Fail?: The Israeli Prime Minister is threatening that if a Peace Deal with Hamas is not reached imminently, he will invade Rafa. This is in direct contradiction to the Biden Administration, who wishes that at minimum, all Rafa's 1.5 million civilians be evacuated safely and given humane conditions after evacuation. And Biden worries a full scale invasion will trigger regional conflicts. So can Netanyahu just ignore US demands and invade?3)How Many US Arms Firms Are Selling Weapons or Military Technology to Israel?: Given the demand of tens of thousands of US students protesting at US Universities demanding they cut ties to US Arms Companies supplying Israel's war machine, how many and which companies are doing this? Is the US military complex contributing in a major way to Israel's Gaza war slaughter?4)Are Nuclear Weapons Still Useful As A Deterrent?: In the Cold War, the US and USSR both had massive amounts of nuclear weapons and could destroy each other. That led to what was called the doctrine of 'Mutual Assured Destruction' or MAD. But with smaller nations now getting nuclear weapons, does MAD still work? If not, why have them? 

Ever since the end of World War II, we have been hearing predictions and warnings about the upcoming Third World War. For almost 80 years the war drums have been beaten, and trillions invested in Mutual Assured Destruction, known as MAD. Not only nations and corporations that can profit from war, but even so-called prophets for profit have been selling imminent war for decades. Now, while the Bible is clear about wars and rumors of wars, too many Christians are obsessed to the point of not fulfilling their true calling. Also on the program, Jim Calhoun stops by to share some thoughts on why the instability in Eastern Europe. Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in advance for your faithfulness to this ministry. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/truth-to-ponder/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/truth-to-ponder/support

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Are we stuck in a Suspended Human Evolution? Is it preventing us to develop a process to "Care for Peace" at a global scale? What can we learn from healthcare professionals to understand this concept from an individual to a systemic level? Why the Mutual Assured Destruction in the early 1960s meant the end of the First Human Evolution? And how can we launch the Second one in this decade? On International Peace Day 2023, the call to rethink the international system to prevent or intervene in growing conflicts and insecurity challenges is expanding in different power circles from governments, IR and Peace fields to feminist, environmental, societal and spiritual ones. How are we each contributing to our race or Planet extinction or... to the quest for long lasting peace? An interview with Jeff Hardy, International Healthcare Facility Futurist and Planner and Author of "To Care for Peace: A Global Mandate to Secure the Second Human Evolution in Perpetuity." Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir and support our work on Patreon http://patreon.com/womanhoodir Listen to related episodes: 24. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution 91. Dr. Paul Slovic & Dr. Scott Slovic on the Science Behind the Limits of Compassion 151. Dr. Luke Moffett on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies Recommended links to this episode:  To Care for Peace: A Global Mandate to Secure the Second Human Evolution in Perpetuity (Book) Care for Peace Website The Heart of Care for Peace

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Fabian Hoffmann is a PhD scholar at the Oslo Nuclear Project. His research focuses on the proliferation, deployment and use of "non-nuclear strategic weapons", particularly conventional precision strike capabilities, and their implications for nuclear strategy and wider nuclear weapons policy (e.g. nuclear proliferation and nuclear disarmament). Before joining the University of Oslo, Fabian worked as a research assistant at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He holds an MA in War Studies from King's College London, UK, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Nuclear weapons pose an enduring challenge to international security. The Oslo Nuclear Project is a research program, which analyzes nuclear challenges to the international security. The program also educates a new generation of experts on nuclear weapons and international security.   Chapters: 00:00 Where did your interest in international relations come from? 10:00 Is preventing war a motivation for studying war? 13:00 Being naïve vs being realistic. Is war a part of our nature? 17:00 Should we be exposed more or less to war? 22:23 Where is the knowledge on nuclear weapons located? 24:40 It's not in Putin's interest to use nuclear weapons. 29:40 Potential different kinds of nuclear strikes  32:57 Tactical nuclear weapons vs. strongest conventional weapons 36:00 Nuclear deterrence 37:50 The hierarchy of military units from firing squad to division and corps 39:39 Potential use of tactical nukes in Ukraine? 40:58 NATO would have to get involved if Russia used nukes 50:00 Could Putin potentially escalate from tactical to strategic ICBM's? 53:42 The current nuclear power balance in the world 57:00 Which countries have nuclear weapons? 58:30 Should Ukraine have kept their nukes, 1994 Budapest memorandun., 01:03:40 Where is the tacit knowledge on creating nuclear weapons located? 01:11:25 The US can't produce the F22 Raptor anymore, due to lack of competent people and tacit knowledge 01:15:00 Would we accept new western countries acquiring nuclear weapons? Like Norway? 01:22:50 Mutual Assured Destruction, communications and retaliation 01:29:25 US tracking russian SSBN's (Sub Surface Ballistic Nuclear subs) in the Atlantic for weeks 01:33:00 How does a nuclear warhead work? 3 different kinds 01:45:25 The Russian Tsar boma, biggest nuclear explosion ever. 01:47:00 Transparency 01:51:00 Iran, Stuxnet, Saudi Arabia and North Korea 02:00:00 Missile defences, the Kinzhal and the US Patriot systems 02:21:21 USS Gerald R. Ford in the Oslo Fjord 02:23:30 F16's, AIM-120 AMRAAM, should we give them to Ukraine? 02:28:20 How long will the western support for Ukraine last? NATO membership? 02:35:49 UN peacekeeping forces, could they enter Ukraine? 02:42:46 Taiwan and China – the next big conflict? Nuclear risk? 02:50:46 Possible outcomes of Ukraine-Russia conflict

Reports that our sovereign air space is being repeatedly penetrated, and that it has evidently been going on unnoticed for some time, are profoundly unsettling. Unfortunately, they highlight a serious national vulnerability heretofore unknown to most Americans. That vulnerability arises from the fact that, after President Nixon signed the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972, America basically gave up on most active and even passive defenses of our country. The theory was that having agreed to forswear effective anti-missile systems, it made little sense to maintain comprehensive air defenses, extensive protection for our leadership or any real civil defense for our population. Instead, we embraced a notion called Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD. Our perfect vulnerability backed by a nuclear deterrent was said to be the formula for security. MAD is, well, mad. Clearly, we need to defend America once again. This is Frank Gaffney.

MAD, het staat in dit geval voor iets anders dan gek. Mutual Assured Destruction. Een term die vanaf de Cuba Crisis de Koude Oorlog voor een lange tijd zou domineren. Het klinkt eng en dat was het ook wel. Alleen waarom dat idee zo groot werd had een minder enge reden.In deze aflevering nemen we jullie mee naar de periode net na de Cuba Crisis. De wereld was aan het bijkomen van de enorme spanningen en ging toch maar eens nadenken over hoe nu verder moest worden omgegaan met kernwapens.Naast deze onderwerpen komen nog de interne problemen van zowel de Sovjet Unie als de VS aan bod, het conflict tussen China en de Sovjet Unie en de Praagse Lente. Support the showHelp ons een handje!.Als je ons wilt helpen en onze podcast mogelijk wilt blijven maken voor de toekomst, kan dat via de link hieronder:.Klik hier om naar de Buzzsprout-website te gaan.Buzzsprout is onze podcasthost en biedt nu een handige manier om ons te steunen. Het maakt het ook voor ons makkelijker om in de toekomst misschien wat extraatjes met jullie te delen. Betalen kan via Google Pay of Credit Card..Social Media.Vergeet niet om lid te worden van onze Geschiedenisreis Facebookgroep. Hier kun je je kennis testen met leuke interacties, je mening delen over onze podcast en praten over geschiedenis met andere liefhebbers!.Volg ons op onze social media kanalen:. Facebookgroep: Groep van geschiedenis enthousiastelingen! Instagram: Hier delen we info over onze podcast, achtergrondverhalen en aankomende onderwerpen. YouTube: Documentaires in samenwerking met VidiVision TikTok: Korte documentaires met beeldmateriaal! Zakelijk emailadres:leethijsgeschi...

Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. His popular biography, The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III - Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family (Oxford University Press, 2010) was followed by publication of The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Collected Works 1957-1980, (Princeton University Press, 2012), co-edited with philosopher of science, Jeffrey A. Barrett, of UC Irvine.Everett's formulation of quantum mechanics, which implies the existence of a quantum multiverse, is favored by a significant (and growing) fraction of working physicists.Steve and Peter discuss:0:00 How Peter Byrne came to write a biography of Hugh Everett18:09 Everett's personal life and groundbreaking thesis as a catalyst for the book24:00 Everett and Decoherence31:25 Reaction of other physicists to Everett's many worlds theory40:46 Steve's take on Everett's many worlds theory43:41 Peter on the bifurcation of science and philosophy49:21 Everett's post-academic life52:58 How Hugh Everett is remembered now References: Many Worlds posts on Infoproc Conversations with Dieter Zeh Macroscopic Superpositions in Isolated Systems Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.

Depending on your age, MAD could mean a few different things.  In the 50s, it was a magazine.  In the 60s and 70s, it was Mutual Assured Destruction.  Now there's a new acronym in town: Massive Attacks of Disruption.  We've seen a few just in the past few years.  Pandemics, riots, and the chip shortage have caused some of the biggest disruptions in the history of humanity, and they all happened in just the past two years.  If these become more frequent or more intense, you may be pining for the days of duck and cover.  Hey, at least it came with a cute duck mascot back then. The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large  -amzn.to/3N9Z1sO See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tom welcomes new guest Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael discusses how people assume war with Russia can't happen because of Mutual Assured Destruction. We do need to think about the risks of conflict escalating and Russia has modernized its strategic arsenal while the United States largely has not. The Russians have also developed anti-ballistic missile systems which are quite advanced. As a result, we are quite unprepared for such a conflict. Meanwhile the U.S. military is mostly focused on implementing woke policies. When the cold war ended we declared ourselves the victors and focused on other parts of our military. 9/11 brought spending on anti-terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq which became large money pits. The military today is increasingly underperforming which we witnessed when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan. U.S. foreign policy has been isolating various countries like Russia, China, and India. This is resulting in these countries coming closer together. Most do not want this war and if we're not careful it could escalate. Countries are likely to take advantage of the United States because Biden is perceived as weak. This is a window of opportunity for other nations. A diplomatic solution that would have kept Russia out of Ukraine was entirely possible but the Biden administration took a hard-line approach. The current method of calculating inflation has been changed multiple times to make it look lower. The actual numbers (ShadowStats.com) are over fifteen percent if it was calculated like it was in the 80s. We've been spending trillions that we don't have and thus diluting the money supply at an ever-increasing pace. Now with the problems in Europe, we're going to have further supply problems and therefore inflation is going to worsen to the next level. We're seeing the energy problems coming out of Europe in part due to their reliance on unreliable green energy solutions. Food supplies are going to get increasingly tight since much of the wheat for Europe comes from Ukraine and Russia. Many farmers are going to be unable to purchase fertilizer due to the costs. Time Stamp References0:00 - Introduction1:05 - War, M.A.D. and Risk8:03 - U.S. Military Spending11:44 - Russia and China17:33 - Signs and Concerns24:09 - Catastrophic Inflation32:34 - Food and Fertilizer36:54 - Civil Unrest Coming?39:40 - Meat & Bird Flu42:37 - Unimaginable Debt45:17 - Dollar Disaster46:39 - Supply Chain Outlook50:20 - Prepping for Problems53:16 - Gold and Silver54:52 - Concluding Thoughts Talking Points From This Episode Risks of a greater conflict with Russia and the west's lack of preparedness.The major problems with U.S. foreign policies.Looming problems with food supplies and fertilizer affordability.Importance of having some preparations. Guest Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Revelation1217Website: https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ Michael Snyder has an undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia, a law degree from the University of Florida law school, and an LLM from the University of Florida law school. He worked as an attorney in Washington D.C. for several years, but became increasingly frustrated that I was having no impact on the world around me. Fortunately, God took him and his wife out of there and brought them to a very quiet location in the middle of nowhere. From the middle of nowhere, they have touched millions of lives all over the planet through the Internet.

MAD TV is the world we are being treated to with every video and audio report about Ukraine. Nearly every major news report from 'snake island' to the 'ghost of Kiev' and front-line Zelensky, has been raw propaganda as if the fiction writers aren't even trying anymore. Putin has placed his Nuclear Deterrence Forces on high alert and the west has chosen to laugh in his face.The U.S. and NATO pushed weapons, troops, sanctions, threats, and Ukrainian membership in NATO, close enough to Russia's front doorstep that Putin was left with essentially no other option. Western media and some politicians have salivated at the conflict and reported virtually nothing accurately, all while virtue signaling their concern for civilians and antagonizing Russia at the same time. Pearl Harbor syndrome has even kicked in with some people developing a hatred for Russians in general. But if you distrust western media and NATO, MAD TV condemns you as a Russian or traitor.

Khrushchev finally makes what he believes will be his master stroke on the island of Cuba. If he can only get those medium range missiles operational in time all his bluff and bluster for the past 7 years will have paid off. But just when success seems within his grasp, disaster strikes.  Kennedy finds out... and not only does he find out but he threatens actual nuclear war.. ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. Meanwhile on Cuba, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara have resolved to to throw their tropical island home onto the nuclear funeral pyre and launch a first strike on America (with nuclear missiles that Uncle Sam has no idea are already locked and loaded). Which city will go up in a mushroom cloud? New York? Washington? Beneath the waves a Soviet Submarine captain and his first mate believe the world has already gone over the edge and order the firing of a "nuclear torpedo." How close can you get to the edge without falling?? Then,  what were the plans for everyday people should the unthinkable happen? What would your government do for you? You probably don't want to know.  Finally... the Soviets will build an actual doomsday machine. Yes, an actual automated system to finish human life on earth should their regime go down.  Pretty nuts eh? Sometimes reality is better than fiction.

In a conversation based on the book Threats: Intimidation and its Discontents, Shermer and Barash discuss: 2020 as the most momentous year of the past half century, judging historical figures based on modern morals (e.g., race and slavery), whether humans are naturally gullible or skeptical, the evolutionary logic of deterrence, how animals deal with threats, how humans deal with threats, game theory of deterring threats, nuclear deterrence (Mutual Assured Destruction) as a threat strategy, the motives behind nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. arms race against the U.S.S.R., the arms race within the U.S. between the Army, Navy, and Airforce, close calls with nuclear weapons and why this is not a sustainable strategy, how to deal with threats like Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, Trump and what he did right with regard to North Korea. David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington. He has written more than 280 peer-reviewed articles and 40 books. Barash has penned op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune, as well as numerous pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nautilus, and Skeptic.

There’s a little tournament that takes place every year that decides the national championship for college basketball.  Its lovingly referred to as “March Madness”. In this series, we look at some compelling parallels between these events and the lives of Jesus' followers.

I am on the Jim Polito show, well actually, it's Danny in today. We talked a little bit about Mutual Assured Destruction when it comes to cybersecurity. What should we be doing? What are we looking at there? The most out of date applications, I'm giving you some real tips and pointers on the applications that are probably very vulnerable to attack. And some you don't even need in the first place. Google warning about password stuffing and ransomware is hitting the Americans and visiting them in a big way. So here we go with Danny on the Jim Polito show. My security summer began last week. If you are not signed up do so today so you don't miss out on any more of the simplified cybersecurity cheat sheets I have prepared for you.  We're releasing almost daily. So check it out online security summit dot com.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Ransomware Attacks Strike 20% of Americans   Missing Updates on Applications Creates Vulnerabilities  What is More Destructive a Nuclear Weapon or Cyber Attack  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

The Dimwits get into the question of Russian Hacking and Influencing the US Election. We talk about to a return to the old foreign policy of Mutual Assured Destruction (or MAD). Did Trump partner with Putin to make Russia great again or do these two secret lovers only pretend not to like each other in public? Who cares. Moreover, we need not worry because artificial intelligent is all most here and it will rescue humanity from it own destructive madness (or at least keeps us entertained and happy so we forget about war). Why are some liberals so up-tight and conservative? Relax the 20th century is not going to repeat itself. Being friends with Russia isn't so bad. The AI will direct us and provide for us. Was the American election hacked? Forget about it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/DimWits/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/DimWits/support

Mutual assured destruction: How some talk about guns. Also Marco Rubio and a town hall meeting, plus news headlines from the week. Visit https://liondenproduction.wordpress.com Music by Fred Walker, Bits & Pieces. Used with permission. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/altitude-adjustment2/support

“Skin in the Game is about four topics in one: a) uncertainty and the reliability of knowledge (both practical and scientific, assuming there is a difference), or in less polite words bullshit detection, b) symmetry in human affairs, that is, fairness, justice, responsibility, and reciprocity, c) information sharing in transactions, and d) rationality in complex systems and in the real world. That these four cannot be disentangled is something that is obvious when one has…skin in the game.” In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and I discuss Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Taleb. In this book, Taleb touches in many of the topics he’s covered in his previous work, such as virtue signaling and probability, and most of all, true risk taking. "[...] what people resent—or should resent—is the person at the top who has no skin in the game [...]" We cover a wide range of topics, including: Academia and its capability —or lack of it— of predicting real life. Having skin in the game and how it affects your behavior. How minorities impose their preferences to majorities. Judging a complex system by its elements. Sam Harris’ scalding opinion of Nassim Taleb. Virtue signaling. And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb. "Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason." If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our episode on Antifragile by Nassim Taleb to dive deeper into Taleb’s work, and our episode on 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson, so you too can imagine the awesome podcast Jordan and Taleb could create together. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. 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[01:09:30] Amazon [01:09:30] Uber [01:09:33] Instacart [01:09:33] Fat Tony [01:09:52] The National Football League (NFL) [01:18:36] Tesla [01:12:54] In-n-Out Burger [1:23:33] Chipotle [1:23:33] D'Souza rips apart smug leftist student over "white privilege" [1:27:30] Humanitarians of Tinder [01:33:17] Toms Shoes [01:33:45] Malaria nets [1:34:33] Sam Harris on Nassim Taleb “insufferable” quotation [1:43:10] The best podcast ever by Sam Harris [1:49:10] Russell Brand Podcast’s Under the Skin [1:49:10] Books mentioned 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson [00:39] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb [01:04] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Taleb [02:00] The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb [02:00] The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb [02:00] Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs by Morton A. Meyers [14:05] Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin [26:30] Merchants of Doubt: by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway [34:54] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter [39:34] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows [52:13] (book episode) Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician by Michihiko Hachiya [01:01:28] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford [01:37:03] A History of Private Life by Paul Veyne [01:40:39] Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris [01:47:35] Lying by Sam Harris [01:47:35] People mentioned: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Antifragile episode) Hillary Clinton [06:58] Steven Pinker [06:58] [1:35:59] Ayn Rand [07:54] Anne Hearst [24:52] Charles Murray [24:57] Aaron Levie [46:51] Donald Trump [01:06:40] Marco Rubio [01:07:22] Chris Christie [01:07:31] Jeff Bezos [01:11:58] Bill Gates [01:12:05] Mark Zuckerberg [01:12:14] J.K. Rowling [01:33:00] Alexander The Great [01:36:39] Jordan B. Peterson [01:41:32] (on this podcast) Sam Harris [01:41:32] Scott Adams [01:49:26] Russell Brand [01:49:47] Jocko [01:53:40] Show Topics 01:30 – Taleb's bibliography, his previous releases. Contrasts and relations between his previous works and Skin in the Game. A greater focus in philosophy and morals, rather than the mathematical focus of his other books. Skin in the game concept for business and non-business people. 06:38 – Taleb's use of criticism of other people, perhaps partially for publicity reasons. Criticizing people at your own weight vs needless harassment. The Ayn Rand effect. 08:50 – The books’ introduction. Academia vs real life. You can’t predict the behavior of a system by studying the behavior of individual elements within the system. Emerging qualities of complex systems. Academia back-explaining knowledge that’s created practically. Skin in the game for Roman architects and medicine scientists. 14:57 – True progress is only possible when you actually stand to lose something should you fail. Defining “rent-seeking” as opposite for “skin in the game”. Different types sorts of investments and whether they constitute rent-seeking. 19:25 – The contents of the book can become a lens through which you see the world. 20:03 – Sponsors. Get a shot of Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee mixed with MCT oil powder from Perfecto Keto. Follow our advice, we have skin in the coff… in the game. 20:59 – You can’t judge whether something is robust, if it can survive stressors, if you’re not at risk in case it can’t. The test of time. 23:30 – Business plans and their usefulness, or usefulness for procrastination. 24:54 – Book 2: A First Look at Agency. Advice, and knowing when to listen to it. Advice that’s helpful to the person offering it, rather than who’s being advised. Incentives and metrics under judgement. 26:50 – Judging actions by their intentions, rather than their effects. Nazism vs Communism. Diets, cholesterol, weight, and its effects on health as single elements of a complex system. 35:36 – Avoiding doctors when you have low-risks health issues. Prayer and religion developing related to health, and the high risk of medical procedures. The Placebo Effect. 39:20 – Book 3: That Great Asymmetry. Ant and ant colony metaphor. Predicting a complex system’s behavior through the behavior of singular elements. A small vocal minority affecting the behavior of large groups. The minority effect on holiday greetings and restaurant choices. 45:56 – Gun regulation, and changes in policy meant for advertising. Virtue signaling and what you do out of your beliefs, versus what’s done for public recognition. Standing up for your opinions even if, or specially if, it has social consequences. 50:57 – The free market, bottom-up or top-down models. Changing the parameters of individuals will not change the parameters of the emerging system. 52:57 – Book 4: Wolves Among Dogs. The trade off between security and freedom. Working as a dog, comfortably but restrained, versus working as a wolf, with much more freedom, but less safety. Tactics big companies use domesticating their employees. English manners as a way to domesticate lower classes. 00:59:39 – Suicide bombers and Mutual Assured Destruction. Reasoning and incentives in terrorists perspective, and how to discourage them to commit suicide. Sacrificing oneself and sacrificing the whole nation. 01:02:26 – Freedom and social media. Voluntarily adopting habits of the lower class as a signal of freedom. Nassim Taleb and Twitter. 01:05:53 – Book 5: Being Alive Means Taking Certain Risks. Politicians and relatability. Feeling like a politician is a real person, or simply a scripted facade. The case for Trump and his relatability. 01:08:36 – Resentment against people at the top who don’t have skin in the game, who are not really risking anything. Economic equality and what it truly means. Unfair barriers put up to keep people in the 1% when they might not really be earning their spot anymore. Florence example, where a handful of  families has kept the power for more than 5 centuries. 01:14:38 – Peer approval, the minority effect, and real freedom. 01:17:06 – Book 6: Being Alive Means Taking Certain Risks. Between two people who are equally qualified, the person who looks less “the part” is a wiser choice, as they have had to overcome more challenges to get to where they are. Quarterbacks vs common sense. Elitism and food: steaks, fast-food, and wine. Big mansions and living away from everything. 01:27:38 – Virtue signaling. Protesting or complaining without putting action behind your beliefs. Charity that’s mostly for show and its negative consequences. 01:35:12 – History and violent events: decreasing in frequency, but increasing rapidly in intensity. War, urban violence, and the magnitude of violence. Life that isn’t covered in history outside of big, dramatic events. 01:41:26 – Book 7: Deeper Into Agency. Religion, Beliefs, and Skin in the Game. Sam Harris, Nassim Taleb, and Jordan Peterson. Religion, science, and scientism. 01:49:22 – Sam Harris’ podcast and its infamous guests. 01:50:38 – Book 8: Risk and Rationality. The last section of the book, and concepts in it that are being explored in-depth by Taleb for the first time. “Skin in the Game” as an entry point for Taleb’s work. 01:52:26 – You don’t necessarily need to know what is the reason for something, even if you know that there is a reason. 01:54:31 – Ergodicity and non-ergodicity, or assembled probability vs individual probability. Paranoia and risk reversion. Risk taking and relative risk rather than objective risk. Bathtubs’ and bullets’ potential to scale to kill people. Terrorism, gun violence and non-multiplicative risks. 02:01:35 – Ties back to Taleb’s previous work. Static and dynamics probabilities and life expectancy. 02:05:37 – Wrapping up and sponsor time! Make sure to grab your own copy of “Skin in the Game” through our Amazon sponsored link. To help the podcast maintain the freedom of the market, check out as well our sponsors: Kettle & Fire for all your delicious bone broth needs, with up to 30% OFF! We recommend Perfecto Keto’s coffee-flavored exogenous ketones. Four Sigmatic: for your mushroom coffee and all your other mushroom needs. And as always, don’t forget to check out our Support page. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe at https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com    

Mutual assured destruction: How some talk about guns. Also Marco Rubio and a town hall meeting, plus news headlines from the week.  Visit https://liondenproduction.wordpress.comMusic by Fred Walker, Bits & Pieces. Used with permission.

In which the human race barely survives the 20th century. (Well, not all of it, obviously. Picasso didn't, for example.) Certificate #27008

The New York Times has a splashy interactive editorial, "Trump’s Nuclear Arsenal." It's good, but gets a few things wrong -- things that matter like Mutual Assured Destruction, Robert McNamara's famous thought experiment on sizing US nuclear forces, and how the US targets nuclear weapons. Also, they misuse decimate.   Aaron and Jeffrey talk through the problems with US nuclear policy and Jeffrey's proposal to state that the US will not use nuclear weapon against a target if a conventional one will do.   Links of Note:   The NYT Op Ed.   Jeffrey and Scott Sagan's article, and its shorter, op-ed version in the Washington Post.    Aaron's recently revived podcast, Turkey Wonk.  

@TinDogPodcast Reviews The Brilliant SILURIAN CANDIDATE #DoctorWho Main Range 229 from @BigFinish     This title was released in September 2017. It will be exclusively available to buy from the BF website until October 31st 2017, and on general sale after this date. The year is 2085, and planet Earth remains on the edge of a nuclear precipice. At any moment, either of two vast rival power blocs, to the West and the East, might unleash a torrent of missiles, bringing about the terrible certainty of Mutual Assured Destruction. But there is another way – or so Professor Ruth Drexler believes. Hence her secret mission deep in Eastern bloc territory, to uncover a hidden city, never before glimpsed by human eyes: the Parliament of the Silurians, the lizard people who ruled the Earth before humankind. There, she’ll encounter a time-travelling Doctor, who knows the Silurians well. A Doctor on a secret mission of his own. Written By: Matthew J Elliott Directed By: Ken Bentley Cast Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford (Mel), Fiona Sheehan (Ruth Drexler/ Avvox), Nicholas Asbury (Chairman Bart Falco), Nicholas Briggs (Chordok), Caitlin Thorburn (Karlas), Ignatius Anthony (Gorrister), Louise Mai Newberry (Director Shen). Other parts played by members of the cast. Producer David Richardson Script Editor Alan Barnes

George and Peter get the True Baloney ball rolling with Tom, former missile commander.

In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck discuss nuclear profliferation, nuclear parity and the Cold War strategic doctrine called Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck discuss nuclear profliferation, nuclear parity and the Cold War strategic doctrine called Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. Topics include: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven and other authors he has been friends with; how the downfall of the Soviet Union was an engineered event, planned decades in advance, which worked exactly as planned (and specifically what that plan was); how he orchestrated the political campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Jr., and Sam Yorty; his friends and involvement in the Survivalist Movement, and his being editor of the magazine Survive which was closely allied with the magazine Soldier of Fortune; political stories from The Cold War and Mutual Assured Destruction; a few words about his and Larry Niven's new novel Escape from Hell; the difficulties of his chemotherapy; the good news that he is now cancer free. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 28, 2009 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 65 minutes] Doctor Jerry Pournelle has written more than thirty novels and at least thirteen books of non-fiction. More than a dozen of his novels, he coauthored with his friend Larry Niven, including The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, Footfall, Inferno; and their new sequel to Inferno: Escape Fom Hell. Novels, however, have been only a portion of Jerry Pournelle's work. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he acquired Master's degrees in both experimental statistics and systems engineering, and Doctorates in both psychology and political science. He cowrote a military textbook called The Strategy of Technology which was required reading at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He helped to write a portion of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Address concerning a missile defense system which the media at the time enjoyed making fun of and calling Star Wars, since they believed the technology needed to shoot down incoming missiles with our own missiles was impossible. He worked in operations research at Boeing, The Aerospace Corporation, and North American Rockwell Space Division. He was founding President of the Pepperdine Research Institute. And he was a columnist for Byte Magazine beginning in 1982.  

During the Cold War, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. stockpiled weapons, eventually holding enough power to destroy the world several times over. Yet neither side actually used these weapons. Learn more about M.A.D. in our article on HowStuffWorks. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers