All Models Are Wrong

NEW SERIES: Overthrowing the Network State in collaboration with Blockchaingov In the first episode of our series 'Overthrowing The Network State' (OTNS), we dive into the world of Balaji Srinivasan'...

29 Jan 20231h 14min

For this interview I spoke to Dr. Phillipp Dapprich, a post doc at the University of Potsdam in political theory who did his doctors thesis on socialist central planning studying under Paul Cockshott....

21 Jan 20231h 5min

For this bonus episode, I dive into the Anticapture framework by Spencer Graham which professes a taxonomy and structure for creating "capture-resistant governance" for an organization. While the piec...

14 Jan 20232min

I spoke to Yazan Khalili and Sami Khaldi, Palestinian activists who started a project called The Question of Funding which is an art collective that presented at Documenta 15 this past year. They had...

25 Des 20221h 37min

For this interview I spoke to Ian Wright (@ianpaulwright), the author of the Dark Marxism blog which explores Marxism and the occult. Ian is also a programmer who has worked in machine learning and ar...

11 Des 20221h 33min

I'm sure most reading this probably have heard the news about the collapse of FTX and the ensuing crypto financial contagion it's caused. A lot of strange and bad analyses are being spread around cryp...

4 Des 20221h 17min

For this interview I spoke to Izzy Meckler (@izmeckler), the Chief Science Officer of 0(1) Labs which is currently building the Mina Protocol. Mina is a blockchain that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs ...

27 Nov 20221h 11min

I interviewed Vitalik Buterin about his thoughts on the political aspects of crypto. It was a candid discussion about his book "Proof of Stake", the evolution of Ethereum, and the dangers of the far r...

20 Nov 20221h 15min