If something is true for you, is it true for everyone else? Why can two otherwise reasonable people arrive at very different conclusions? In my senior year of high school I produced an original philosophical framework for analyzing "the Truth."

The Elephant in the Classroom

Aug 30th, 2023 13m 32s

In the current moment it feels like every field is being disrupted by AI, and that includes even the most stubborn of institutions. In the field of education, we are at an inflection point: adopt or reject?In this episode, I argue for the embr

Futureproofing Humanity: Future

Aug 2nd, 2023 19m 16s

To conclude this series on how humans will have to adapt to survive the future, I wanted to further examine my ambitious idea for a technology which connects us in an even deeper way than ever before. To do this, I will try to resolve five esse

Futureproofing Humanity: The Present

Sep 2nd, 2022 22m 12s

The present day sees humans more capable of changing ourselves and our environment than ever before. So, what can we do to change for the better? In this episode, I speculate on the adoption of a powerful new communication tool and social ethos

Futureproofing Humanity: The Past

Aug 10th, 2022 19m 52s

Nukes, Bioweapons, and logistics collapse: these are just three threats that incredibly powerful human technologies have spawned. How must we as humans change our behaviors, society, or biology to use the power we attain through technology for

Morality: Evolved

Apr 2nd, 2022 16m 35s

In this episode I build from my previous episode titled "Question of the Century: Is there Morality Without Religion?" With the goal of establishing a secular basis for religion and morality, I walk through the Ten Commandments from a practical

Hitler and Putin: How History Repeats Itself

Mar 12th, 2022 22m 27s

In this episode, I cover the similarities between Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler in how they undermined democracy and utilized brinksmanship to rise to power, use ideology to justify their means and ends, and pursue a larger strategy. I also l

The Ghost in the Voting Machine

Mar 12th, 2022 15m 55s

What if an advanced algorithm could vote for you? Humans are limited by time and attention, but machines? Not so much. If a computer could learn exactly how you behave, it could help you vote on every little matter without you noticing. In this

Digital Luxury - A New Age of Consumerism

Nov 19th, 2021 26m 18s

In this episode, I argue that humanity should emphasize buying luxury goods which exist only online rather than physical products, which pollute. To better understand how this might work, I interviewed my expert friend Kai.Sources: [1] [2]

Death: What would it Feel Like?

Sep 7th, 2021 12m 41s

Given the biological and neurological processes which happen to an individual right before death, I speculate on how the conscious self and the body would feel in the very moments before death. This episode's intent is to walk through my model

On The Internet, Who Are You? - Internet Archetypes

Jul 22nd, 2021 12m 44s

Archetypes are said to be the most basic groupings of behaviors humans express. In this episode, I postulate whether the internet and social media reveal things about preexisting archetypes or creates totally new or reformed ones.Links: https:

Question of the Century: Is there Morality Without Religion?

May 21st, 2021 26m 23s

This week's show is in collaboration with my 20th Century History Class. I talk about how religion faded from cultural relevance, how morality is created and shared, and how we can hope to share a common set of morals going forward.Thought i

Memory Without Experience

Feb 2nd, 2021 8m

In this episode I talk about memory during quarantine, and how having a lack of new experience and socialization causes us to recall events now with less detail.Sources:LS, Mayo Clinic, NLMMusic: "Joy" Yakov Golman CC BY, "Homeroad" Kai E

Economic Systems Pt.3: The Caliphates & Industrial Nations

Dec 6th, 2020 29m 10s

In this final (for now) episode of my series on monetary/economic history I talk about the economic mode of the Islamic Caliphates from around 800 - 1200 CE. Then I talk about how global trade and empire, coupled with industrialization created

Economic Systems Pt.2: Classical Age

Nov 13th, 2020 12m 42s

This is the second part of my series on economic modes/climates throughout history. I talk about the Greek and Roman oligarchic/ slave owning societies. The next episodes in the series I plan to talk more about the theory and less on the histor

Appeasement: Making Concessions to a Weaker Enemy

Oct 4th, 2020 23m 12s

Today I am joined by my friend Lukas Schubert to talk about current and historical examples of Appeasement: the act of giving disproportionate concessions to a lesser political entity to avoid war. We offer a game-theory based solution to this

Economic Systems Pt.1: The Beginning

Sep 18th, 2020 9m 10s

The first episode in a mini-series of episodes about economic theory and civilization. I talk about Neolithic settlements, the birth of economies, the Bronze Age civilizations, and the first economic policies.Source: "Guns, Germs, and Steel"

Escape the Draw of Conspiracy Theories

Sep 9th, 2020 8m 30s

It's likely that if someone believes in one conspiracy theory, they believe in multiple. Why is this? What makes some people more prone than others?Sources: Scientific American and The Doubling Down of Ideals (Winslow Morgan)Music Credit: "

What is Climate Inactivism?

Sep 8th, 2020 7m 17s

In this episode I talk about the reasoning behind, history of, and remedy for the belief that the climate always balances itself out.Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/balance-of-nature-explained/Music Cre

The Evolution of Laziness

Sep 7th, 2020 9m 32s

After much procrastinating: my first episode! In this episode I ask: does evolution agree with laziness? I look at how energy is a driving force of evolution and how creatures evolve to save energy.Music Credit: "Remedy for Melancholy" by Ka

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