The Portal Podcast #017: Anna Khachiyan – Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine

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Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works through a bottle of Red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist Anna Khachiyan (co-host of the explosive…

The Portal Podcast #016: Tyler Cowen – The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized

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In this episode, Eric sits down with Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy would choose a commuter school to launch a stealth attack on the self-satisfied economic establishment, various forms of existential risk,…

The Portal Podcast #015: Garrett Lisi – My Arch-nemesis, Myself

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Garrett Lisi, the so called "Surf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)", is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd investments, he has avoided holding…

The Portal Podcast #014: London Tsai – The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians

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What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground.  In this episode of the Portal, Eric begins tracking down the leaders of this hidden movement; one that is smuggling higher…

The Portal Podcast #013: Garry Kasparov – Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics

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In this cordially combative episode, Eric sits down with Russian chess legend, multiple-year champion and (inarguably) one of the greatest players of all time, Garry Kasparov. The two discuss transcending AI-induced demotivation, AI brilliancy…

The Portal Podcast #012: Vitalik Buterin – The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

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In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox economics. Taking note of the new development of blockchain in 2010, Eric wrote an essay called “Go Virtual Young Man”.…