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Nassim Taleb
 
I love his books but he is insufferable during interviews, can't talk properly. Better to ask him... more
by ashnur
1
 
Makes a very strong and important case against a very pernicious type of intellectualism.
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yasha, Thunderchief, Michael Scott and 27 more

Scott Adams
Why Trump isn’t so bad
 
pass on anyone who just wants to shill Trump's agenda
 
He is often favorable to Trump, but I think it is more in a "I'll hold my nose and vote for him" ... more
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Much like Eric, he was able to see past the dominant narrative and predict that Trump's election ... more
by Matt C. Wilson
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Paul, Matt, Trey and 16 more

David Deutsch
 
Possible base to talk about: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_chemical_scum_that_dream_of_... more
by jedao
1
 
His application of Popper's philosophy to "bad philosophy," art, politics, and of course science ... more
by robnormal
 
Agree with both suggestions above. More thoughts: His rational/anti-rational meme theory is re... more
by Louis
 
The theories consequences for AI are also counter the mainstream narrative. It may all sound ... more
by Louis
 
Can discuss moral philosophy, the future of physics, & technological progress in an era of of eco... more
by Tom
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Julian, Juan Carlos, JustaTry and 14 more

Yuval Noah Harari
 
a man who seems able to look at humanity with a telescope and a microscope. He seems like genuine... more
by OdinWest
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an IYI
 
The need for polymaths does not excuse shallow generalists. I tried to get through his book on 21... more
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Marbles, Julian, Hilliard and 13 more

Jonathan Haidt
 
best book on the reasons for polarization
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a man who is willing to be charitable to conservatives and promotes conversation between the left... more
by OdinWest
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Josh, Hilliard, yo and 12 more

Stephen Wolfram
computer scientist working on his own grand theory
 
"They lust for battle, they don't even care if the war is just"
by Popcorn
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Marbles, Yasha, Julian and 12 more

Steve Bannon
 
The more you hear him, the more the fact that he is for the working class becomes apparent. A per... more
by alanwespen
3
 
just say no
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Paul, Matt, Trey and 10 more

Edward Snowden
by DML
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Julian, Anthony, lm and 10 more

Elon Musk
 
Publicly against gerontocracy
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Jake, Marbles, Yasha and 8 more

Slavoj Zizek
 
Žižek is an absolutely original thinker, never boring and nearly ever predictable. With quick wit... more
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Although entertaining, most of this talks are dead ends. For someone who claims himself to be a m... more
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Trey, Ashley, lm and 8 more

Eliezer Yudkowsky
 
best book on becoming less irrational: https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/
 
Also Inadequate Equilibria, a book which bears on three of Eric's major themes: the DISC, the ina... more
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Christian, Sapienite, bradmacneil and 6 more

Matt Taibbi
by jedao
Political journalist for the Rolling Stone. Latest appearance on Joe Rogan: https://www.yout... more
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yasha, BJ, Julian and 6 more

George Hotz
 
Another innovator with a large internet following, George is the founder of Autonomous driving co... more
 
George was also the first person to jailbreak an iPhone, he is a career hacker!
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He raps about technology.
by suorm
 
A quite original thinker who non-nerds can relate to as well. Highly recommended.
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Yasha, yo, CoronaChan and 4 more

Dave Chappelle
by Sessh
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BJ, HB, Justin F and 5 more

Grant Sanderson
 
3Blue1Brown
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Jake, Michael, HB and 4 more

Joe Rogan
 
His show holds more influence than any other source of media not controlled by a gated institutio... more
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Trey, nesty, HB and 4 more

Jonathan Blow
by Alexander Buhl
- a prodigy, - highly critical of the world and counterproductive people and ideas, - revolut... more
 
I want to see Eric play Jonathan's games. Both Braid and The Witness.
 
Explore the potential to express art and teach through video games.
 
Seems like one of those decent people who values the work their code produces. Genuinely smart.
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yasha, AC, robMerriMath and 3 more

John Vervaeke
by Jeff Loveland
John Vervaeke, PhD is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments o... more
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Matt, Vincent, pmweng and 4 more

Niall Ferguson
by Jeff Loveland
Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Lauren... more
 
Ferguson’s book The Square and the Tower explains the evolution of complexity and the order of th... more
by MothPaul
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kevmarch, Matt, HB and 3 more

David Lynch
 
Worth it just for something even weirder than the Werner Herzog episode.
by pmweng
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Anthony, Max, pmweng and 3 more

Dominic Cummings
 
The only politician with a long term plan and an ability to execute
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Silas, Olivia, Jake B and 3 more

Jordan Peterson
by LibertyClick.org
 
I feel like his content is already out there. I doubt we'd hear anything new.
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Peterson believes in IQ tests ...
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osthanes, HB, olmick and 4 more

Sean Caroll
 
The air between the two needs to be cleared and a great conversation could be had. They are both ... more
by DML
 
Has the unshakable belief that although every experiment says our universe is quantum, something ... more
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Petter, Lucas, ChillingCat and 3 more

Jonathan Pageau
 
Christian icon carver and symbolic thinker who would maybe provide some contrast to Eric's thinking.
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nmss, Shawn, Joe and 2 more

Dennis McKenna
 
Dennis is part of the OG intellectual dark web, he's just focused on doing the actual work on hyp... more
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Le, CoronaChan, JoeB and 2 more

Douglas Murray
by Sessh
 
Great opportunity for you two to discuss your view on immigration.
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Thunderchief, Trey, HB and 2 more

Peter Joseph
by Tiago
Zeitgeist writer. Talking about the DISC and "The self appointed guardian of the status quo"
 
Has had a lot of influence that people generally dont talk about. Has some great points and well ... more
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Yasha, Gavin Palmer, Sapienite and 2 more

Naval Ravikant
 
Autodidact, insightful, iconoclast
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cws, M, Sean and 2 more

Jeffrey Epstein
 
Exhume him! Now!
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BJ, Poppa Squat, Sessh and 2 more

Nick Szabo
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M, Ako, LibertyClick.org and 2 more

Fed Reserve / With Peter Schiff
by Josh - Blue Falcon Actual
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Gavin Palmer, Lucas, Marcus and 2 more

Bernie Sanders
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ChillingCat, Kyle, L and 2 more

Alan Moore
 
V for Vendetta comic
 
Critiques of modernity
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Yasha, CoronaChan, Sapienite and 1 more

Douglas Hofstadter
by Lee
 
Incredible work on the intersection of mathematics, language, art, music
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Matt, GSITG, Simon and 1 more

Jaron Lanier
Pioneer of virtual reality; polymath on the same level as Eric; overall cool dude.
 
He is sanest person to talk about AI
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michaelz4, CCS, Dobby and 1 more

David Graeber
 
The phenomenon of BS jobs.
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Author of the brilliant book on the history of debt
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Anthropologist with actual field work in Madagascar and Syria. Wrote the definitive history of mo... more
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Sapienite
Tom
Yasha
More Bret Weinstein!
by LibertyClick.org
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HB, CoronaChan, Sapienite and 1 more

James Watson
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HB, lucas, kyle and 1 more

Michael Stevens
 
VSAUCE
 
I'd imagine really open-minded interesting discussions
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Focusless
Marcus
Trey
Mark Blyth
by Sessh
 
Mark's view on current economic instability is very different from Eric's. This should be a very ... more
 
Mark is a very likeable, witty and clever economist. Eric will love him!
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CoronaChan
Sessh
Yasha
Donald Hoffman
 
This guy is an amazing thinker. I'm pretty sure he stated on Sam's podcast that he doesn't think ... more
 
Duplicate
by robMerriMath
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Evan
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Russell Brand
by Sessh
 
Brand always comes across as a pedantic pseudo intellectual to me. But it would be interesting to... more
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CoronaChan, Sapienite, LibertyClick.org and 1 more

Felix Kjellberg
 
He has also been targeted by the media in a very negative way (although he has done some rather c... more
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Focusless
Jake
Sapienite
Nathan Fielder
 
Doing things with the medium totally outside what could be predicted possible. Could be a great e... more
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Ashley
HB
Max
Ken Wilber
 
Although his health is questionable with travel, his Integral Theory has been a Theory of Everyth... more
 
He is someone whose brilliant ideas are rarely ever talked about, despite having an Integral Inst... more
 
He has shown fascination with the IDW and is interested in reaching out to who he believes to be ... more
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focusless
Sapienite
Norman Wildberger
by ChillingCat
A mathematician who doesn't believe in infinite sets. He's on a quest to rebase math on solid fou... more
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ChillingCat
LibertyClick.org
Logan
Robert Sapolsky
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Laiqh
robMerriMath
Sapienite
Neil Gaiman
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joe
M
sikander
Michael Green (Logica Capital)
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Myles
Sergey
Winterflags
Dennis Prager
by Sessh
 
lol
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Gavin Palmer
LibertyClick.org
Sessh
Ivor Cummins
 
Glad to see Ivor on this list. Would love to see him on the podcast talking about health, the cau... more
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Sessh
Zoe
Karl Friston
 
He’s doing very important work modelling the way brains function. Could be the new paradigm for b... more
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Matt
Simon
Robin Hanson
by Sikander
Known for his work on Futarchy, a prediction market. Latelly a proponent of Varilation to take c... more
 
Robin has shown great bravery in sharing his ideas and in defending them. I think he would fit v... more
by sikander
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Christian
Sikander
two guests
by Lukas Müller
Of course The Portal is a one on one show so far. But why does it have to remain that? Bringin... more
 
I enjoyed the Rubin group with Eric, Peterson & Shapiro
by CoronaChan
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CoronaChan
yasha
Ross Douthat
by Sean
Writer of the new book: "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success". Rec... more
 
“When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.” - Jacques Barzun... more
by bradmacneil
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bradmacneil
Sean
Peter Attia
 
Physician and host of The Drive podcast. He has a broad range of interest ranging from health, me... more
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Josh
Marcus
Alexander Wendt
by Josh M.
We need a science to study UFOs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_RquOChJuE https://www.vox.... more
 
Expand discussion of advancing theoretical physics
 
Challenge taboo (GIN) on discussing and studying UFO
 
Momentum re: US Navy recent confirmation of the phenomena, press for additional disclosures (form... more
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Josh M
Naom Chomsky
by LibertyClick.org
 
It would be great but I think he's been struggling with health the last few years, now 91 years old.
 
guy is almost 100, let him be.
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lm
Sapienite
Stoya
Stoya is an American pornographic actress, actress, model and writer. https://zerospaces.com/
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BJ
Ted
Matthew Stoller
Former congressional aid and think tanker.
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BJ
Peter Watts
by lm
Peter Watts is a Canadian scientist and science fiction author. His blog ( https://www.rifters.co... more
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BJ
lm
Andreas Antonopolous
by LibertyClick.org
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AKo
sikander
Bran Ferren
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Josh
Sapienite
Leonard Susskind
Boomer sure, but also an outsider who got into the center of academia, also one of the fathers of... more
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DML
TylerDurdenTelemach
Robin Hanson
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I’m the leader of DISC
Olivia
Gabor Mate
by Jeff Loveland
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is a sought after for his expertise on... more
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Jeff Loveland
Tiago
Scott Santens
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Bo
CoronaChan
Curtis Yarvin
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Felix
Olivia
Jared Taylor
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Jack Kruse
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Donald Hoffman
 
Attempting to reformulate physics over a theory of interacting conscious agents.
by robMerriMath
 
Provides effective metaphors for bootstrapping layperson thinking towards his ideas.
by robMerriMath
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robMerriMath
Scott Alexander
 
Scott shines in writing. Not so much in live talking
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M
somefingguy
David Chapman
by Matt
 
If anyone is a candidate for the type of philosophy that Daniel Schmachtenberger's podcast episod... more
by Matt
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Matt
Yaron Brook
 
Good opportunity for some economic discussion/debate
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Trey
Paul Sztorc
by Sikander
Creator of Bitcoin Hivemind, a predictionmarket on Bitcoin
 
Prediction markets would be a revolution in politics, business, and anywhere you need to make har... more
by Sikander
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Sikander
Daniel Schmachtenberger
 
Has refreshingly critical things to say about our current 'sensemaking' systems and what epistemo... more
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Sapienite
Douglas Rushkoff
 
His criticisms of Boomernomics and the establishment, coupled with his 'techno-utopian' interest ... more
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Sapienite
Doshin Roshi
 
Integral Zen teacher interested in transcending the postmodern paradigm.
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Sapienite
Judea Pearl
by Conrad WS
 
Has fought against traditional statics application and was been right in the last 5. Would have a... more
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HB
Nick Szabo
by LibertyClick.org
 
This comes in double, this one has to be deleted.
by Ako
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Ako
Wachowski's
by LibertyClick.org
Matrix
 
Brilliant choice!
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Justin F
Daniel Ellsberg
by LibertyClick.org
 
Famous whistleblower
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Olivia
Charlie Brooker
 
Because he's brilliant.
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Sean
Adam Carolla
by Max
 
Mostly just to hear stories about how bad LA was in the 70s. And general complaining about the 70... more
by Max
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Justin F
Christopher Ryan
by Max
 
Love to see where Civilized to Death ideas mesh with Weinstein's vision of how America got f'd up.
by Max
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kyle
Peter C. Gøtzsche
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Tyller Stone
Johann Hari
 
How the war on drugs only seems to exacerbate the problem. The slow/ inability to make progress a... more
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Jeff Loveland
Sam Hyde
 
+Sam is a notorious and influential content creator who has been making a difference despite bein... more
by Jesse E
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Jesse
Alex Jones
by Sessh
Heh, it would be very entertaining and probably interesting.
 
Knowledgable
 
Doesn't always dive deeply well with others
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Sessh
Jean Francois Gariepy
 
The Revolutionary Phenotype, academia and genetic engineering
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Mama JF
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Benjamin Wolf
Stephen Hicks
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Trey
Geoff Lawton
His work on permaculture could change the world and provide the food security many of us badly need.
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Chris
chamath palihapitiya
by Marshall
Venture Capitalist, former Facebook exec, technologist and like you calls out societies flaws thr... more
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Michael
Dave Snowden
Not the whistleblower but the inventor of Cynefin, a sense-making framework. Very good interview ... more
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HB
Joe Rohde
Disney Imagineer, philosopher, themed design functional narrative & science. If you read his post... more
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Sapienite
Ted Nelson
Inventor of Hyperlink, founders of the internet, had version hyperlinks that would have fundament... more
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Sapienite
Rhonda Patrick
by LibertyClick.org
Epigenetics, foundmyfitness
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Frank
Persi Diaconis
Brilliant statistician (Stanford Prof.) with an incredible life story (ran away from home to beco... more
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Lane
Mark Hyman
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Josh
Richard Gage
by Sessh
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Sessh
Dr. Zoe Harcombe
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Story2
Dee Simon
by theidiot666
The host of a podcast called Sick and Wrong, which was going on for 14 years now but is still not... more
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theidiot666
Philip E. Tetlock
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Olivia
Nick Land
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Andrew Gallimore
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by Kai
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Geoffrey West
He's a theoretical physicist and has brought more of a quantitative approach to biological scalin... more
 
First principles thinking and data analysis has led him to notice rats are an outlier on the canc... more
 
Would be an awesome episode! West is a bit neo-malthusian with his theory on scale and innovation... more
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Michio Kaku
by Sessh
 
This guy's like the DISC incarnate, he can't be talked to properly.
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Sessh
Peter Turchin
 
Great choice! Seems to be have been fairly accurate about societal instability.
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Chris Hedges
 
Look no further than the linked speech at the bottom. Chris Hedges is one of the finest living jo... more
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Norm Macdonald
by Joselito
Brilliant mind who plays the fool on stage, legendary career, lives outside of the Hollywood bubble.
 
Best humour
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I would like some Eric Weinstein content regarding the Federal Reserve. Maybe with Peter Schiff?
 
This is a duplicate idea that needs to be removed. The website screwed up not me = )
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Bill Binney
by LibertyClick.org
 
Honest former NSA insider
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Vinay Gupta
by David
 
- Inventor of the Hexayurt (Buckminster Fuller lineage... Game B actor) - Hexayurt is a design ... more
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Frédéric Leroy
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Dr. Jack Kruse
 
Neurosurgeon - Biophysics & Mitocondria
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Elizabeth Warren
 
Least appealing idea of 2020
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Evan
Ben Hunt (Epsilon Theory)
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Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.
by Kat
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Michael Malice
Michael Malice, is a New York City-based author, anarchist, columnist, and media personality. He ... more
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Lubos Motl
Theoretical physicist, who scooped leading string theorists as an undergraduate, working alone. A... more
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Sahil Lavingia
by Aaron
Discuss his San Francisco to Utah (bubble-to-bubble) as well as his ideas on how to run campaigns... more
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Judy Mikovits
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David Blaine
by suorm
Illusionist
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Matthew Mercer
by suorm
The Dungeon Master of Critical Role. Critical Role is an online experience where you watch a grou... more
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Kirk Sorensen
by suorm
An ex-NASA American scientist who spearheaded the effort made by a whole bunch of people to show ... more
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Sabine Hossenfender
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Dr Heidi Huntner
by see
Director of Sustainability Studies Stony Brook. A scholar of Nuclear and Environmental history.
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by RIP-TV
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Pierre-Marie Robitaille
Nobel laureate, contrarian astrophysicist.
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Norman J. Wildberger
Mathematician, constructivist, ultrafinitist, inventor of Universal Hyperbolic Algebra, if there ... more
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John Mayer
by Joselito
Pop star turned torchbearer of the Grateful Dead. Cocky teen turned philisophical ponderer. Has a... more
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Norm Macdonald
by Joselito
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Christian Von Koenigsegg
by Mikel
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Peter Adeny (Mr. Money Mustache)
by Marcus
Adeny retired from his day job at 30. He advocates a modest lifestyle and claims that consumerism... more
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Grant Morrison
Comic book writer and counterculture activist
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Mike Rugnetta (Prev. the Idea Channel guy)
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John Perkins
by LibertyClick.org
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
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Adam Curry / John C Dvorak
by LibertyClick.org
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Glenn Greenwald
by LibertyClick.org
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deadmau5
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Kantbot
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Logo Daedalus
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Dylan Ratigan
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Adam Curtis
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Warren Mosler
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Randall Wray
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Stephanie Kelton
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Bill Mitchell
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Michael Hudson
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Demis Hassabis
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john ioannides
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Robin Hanson
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Errol Morris
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Dan Winter
Interesting ideas around ground truth - health and well-being
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Mark Manson
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Alex Wellerstein
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Michael Nielsen
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JJ MacNab
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Andrew Sabisky
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Devon Zuegel
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Michael Story
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Jane Coaston
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Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons)
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