Conjecture Institute
Conjecture Institute
Podcast Description
A podcast all about https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/ with approximately bi-monthly interviews with the Fellows
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Content Themes
Explores themes of epistemology, aesthetics, and the intersection of science and art, with episodes that highlight innovative concepts like Wonderism, optimism in knowledge creation, and quantum information. Specific examples include episodes with Tom Hyde discussing the balance of reason and feeling, and Arjun Khemani's views on knowledge theory and optimism.
A podcast all about https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/ with approximately bi-monthly interviews with the Fellows
Conjecture Institute Advisor, Lord Daniel Hannan is in conversation today about democracy, free trade and freedom broadly. Lord Hannan has a comprehensive website containing his work which is found at https://danielhannan.info/ while his Youtube channel is a catalogue of speeches, talks, interviews, lectures and more defending the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment and Western Civilization.
Chapters/Timestamps are below
00:00 Introduction
00:04 Preview
00:56 Introduction to Lord Hannan
01:29 Upper Houses and the functions of a Parliament.
09:21 Democracy and the EU Parliament
17:19 “The Will of the People” and referenda.
23:47 The English vs Spanish “Western” civilisations” and political stability. 29:00 The Invention of Freedom and Resource Extraction
37:31 Climate Change, Net Zero and Politics
39:53 Doomerism, Regulation and Social Control.
43:39: Lord Hannan on Nick Bostrom, Techno-Pessimism and AI
45:47 Existential Risk, Property Rights, Wealth
49:56 Common Law, Property Rights and Conservationism
52:12 Free speech and The First Amendment
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