Palladium Podcast

Digital Salon with Roman Krznaric: Being a Good Ancestor

Roman Krznaric joins the salon from UK to discuss his book, intergenerational thinking, and how we can be good ancestors. His latest book is The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking, coming soon in the U.S. as of November 2020.

Roman grew up in Sydney and Hong Kong. He studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, and gained a PhD in political sociology. He is a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation, and founder of the Empathy Museum. His previous books, including Empathy, The Wonderbox, and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than 20 languages.

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Palladium Podcast 46: Samo Burja on Why Regulating Online Speech Is Unavoidable

Samo Burja comes on the podcast to talk about when it's appropriate to regulate online speech and the proper relationship between state and media.

Samo Burja is the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm. He is also a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation. You can follow him on Twitter @SamoBurja.

Palladium Podcast 45: It's Time to Kill Science

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss what we can learn from ancient Greek modernity, the collapse of the scientific mythos, and how both knowledge and statecraft can find new grounds for legitimacy.

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Palladium Podcast 44: Breaking out of the Postmodern Condition

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the postmodern condition, the failures of objectivity and neutrality, and how truth and meaning can survive. They also responded to a number of themes brought up in David Chapman's recent Twitter thread on these topics.

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Palladium Podcast 43: Mary Harrington on Relational Morality and the Mirror of Princes

Mary Harrington comes on the podcast with Wolf Tivy to build out a model of relational vs. transactional conceptions of justice and morality, and to discuss bringing back the mirror of princes literature.

Mary Harrington is a columnist for the UK current affairs magazine UnHerd. She can be found on Twitter @moveincircles.

Digital Salon with Laura Deming: Self-Education and the State of Longevity

Laura Deming joins the salon to speak with Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton about education, where talent comes from, and the state of longevity research. Discussion topics included how to cultivate talent, where the most fruitful life extension research is happening, and whether intellectually productive communities are necessarily doomed to stagnation.

Laura Deming is the founder of The Longevity Fund, a Venture Capital firm that focuses on life extension. She was homeschooled in New Zealand, taught herself mathematics, literature, and history, and was working in a biological research lab on aging research by age 12. She was accepted to MIT at age 14, but later dropped out for the Thiel Fellowship.

Digital Salon with Michael O'Sullivan: Dawn of the Multipolar World

Michael O'Sullivan joins the salon to speak with Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton about his book The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization, which includes discussion on the future multipolar world, Europe's increasingly cohesive development as a geopolitical pole, and how to fix economic inequality produced by globalization.

Michael O’Sullivan is a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on the New Economy, a Forbes contributor, and a speaker at the 2020 TED Talk conference. He is a former Chief Investment Officer in the International Wealth Management Division of Credit Suisse, where he worked for 12 years. He was also the lead contributor to Credit Suisse’s think tank, the CS Research Institute. He also writes a weekly blog called The Levelling.

Palladium Podcast 42: John Dulin on How War Drives Technological Progress

John Dulin comes on the podcast with Wolf Tivy to discuss recent advances in weapons systems, how war is one of the most important drivers of technological progress, and the role of both the public and private sectors in fundamental research and mass marketization.

John Dulin is CEO and founder of a defense industry startup. Previously, he was a machine learning research engineer at Numerai and Freenome. He can be found on Twitter @JohnDDulin.

Digital Salon with HSH Prince Michael: Small States and Long-Termist Elites

His Serene Highness Prince Michael of Liechtenstein speaks with Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton about his perspective on changes in international politics and economics—especially the importance of statecraft for small countries as the moral fashions and taboos of the great powers become more influential through a globalized internet culture.

Prince Michael is Executive Chairman of Industrie- und Finanzkontor Ets. as well as Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG Vaduz. He is also co-founder of the International Institute of Longevity.

Palladium Podcast 41: Byrne Hobart on the Economy After COVID

Byrne Hobart comes on the podcast to talk to Wolf Tivy about what parts of the American economy are real, the phenomenon of inequality increasing during crises, and the impact of COVID-19 on the real economy.

Byrne Hobart works in the financial services industry and writes one of the top newsletters on Substack called The Diff. He has worked at research companies, a hedge fund, and a cryptocurrency startup.