Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

OCTOBER 16th CHAT TOPICS
Indexed by topic, so you can scan.

TOPICS
0:0:00 Introduction and list of topics
0:5:24 First Topic: P-Law is now close to accessible to a college freshman level
0:15:47 Second Topic: Female Prosocial Behavior

0:29:44 Q&A Part One (some very good ideas in here)
0:29:52 Can we Bring it Down to High School Level
0:32:10 The Explanatory power of P for the behavior of men and women.
0:34:04 Trifunctionalism and Flywheels
0:35:42 Seduction spectrum vs force spectrum : they’re value-neutral resources
0:41:00 The most valuable thing we can offer women is the metrics of their value to the commons
0:44:12 The Noble Task

0:45:40 Third Topic: The Trivial Mathematics of Human Nature (The Future)

0:59:43 Q&A Part Two – some great ideas in here.
0:59:56 Neandertal brains – can’t deduce much
1:00:45 Should we continue space exploration?
1:04:08 Need for Free Cities vs States
1:04:52 New Energy Sources?
1:06:34 Scarcity and the Infinite Universe?
1:07:03 Mathematical Platonism in Physics (Mathiness)

1:11:41 Fourth Topic: China. Xi/CCP vs our high cost of helping china evolve.

1.17:30 Q&A Part Three
1:17:38 Brain, Consciousness: Yes consciousness is solved, and it’s not complicated.
1:33:05 Do we have a soul? Well…
1:34:55 More on consciousness and memory
Closing