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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 #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”.…

The Portal Podcast #004: Prof. Timur Kuran – The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

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What if everything we are taught in economics 101 is not only wrong, but may even be setting us up for populism, dictatorship or revolution? On this episode of the Portal, Eric is joined by renegade Economist Professor Timur Kuran whose…

The Portal Podcast #001: Peter Thiel – An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure

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Welcome to The Portal. Episode 1 is a conversation with Peter Thiel. Please subscribe to The Portal anywhere you listen to podcasts, and leave us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts. Transcript Eric Weinstein: Hello…

The Many Costs of Social Media Addiction

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“Founding father” of virtual reality explores the ways digital platforms change economic relationships. Computer scientist Jaron Lanier explains the uneasy relationship between an analog world and a corporate digital infrastructure.