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In collaboration with her husband Malcolm Collins, Simone is an author (The Pragmatist's Guide to Life, Relationships, Sexuality, Governance, and Crafting Religion), education reform advocate (CollinsInstitute.org), pronatalism activist (Pronatalist.org), and business operator (Travelmax.com).
Note: the YouTube version of this interview includes video of Steve and Simone.
Steve and Simone discuss:
0:00 Introduction
1:49 Simone's IVF journey, and embryo screening
40:02 Dating; girl...
Published 04/27/23
Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.
Steve and Katherine discuss:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Katherine’s early life and background
21:52 Mass shootings, Manifestos, Nihilism, and Incels
59:35 Trad values, Sex negativity vs Porn and Fleshlights
1:28:54 Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter
1:33:00 TikTok
1:41:41 Adderall
1:44:07 AI/GPT impact on writers and journos
1:49:30 Gen-X generation gap: are the kids alright?
References:
Katherine’s Substack:...
Published 04/13/23
Marc Martinez is the director of Dream Big, a documentary about Gold's Gym and the golden age of bodybuilding in Venice and Santa Monica in the 1970s.
Steve and Marc discuss:
(01:34) - Marc's background in bodybuilding
(05:36) - Reflections on bodybuilding in Southern California
(26:03) - Setting the record straight on steroid use
(33:52) - Frank Zane
(38:33) - Robby Robinson
(40:32) - Butler, Gaines, and Arnold
(42:46) - "Dream Big"
(48:18) - Pumping Iron
(59:44) - Hypersexuality in...
Published 03/16/23
Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Engineering and received his PhD from MIT in Economics. Gilles and Steve discuss the French elite education system, the Yellow Vest movement, French politics and populism, and Saint-Paul’s paper on marriage markets and hypergamy.
0:00 Introduction
1:43 Gilles Saint-Paul's background and education
6:31 French and American higher elite education
14:44 The Yellow Vests
41:46 Mating and...
Published 03/02/23
Steve discusses the competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF policy, and a Science Magazine survey on polygenic screening of embryos.
00:00 Introduction
02:37 Bing vs Bard: LLMs and hallucination
20:52 China demographics & STEM
34:29 China IVF
40:28 Survey on embryo screening in Science
References:
Bing vs Bard and Hallucination
https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1625222378383876119
China demographics and...
Published 02/16/23
Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT.
Published 02/02/23
Dominic Cummings' time in No. 10 Downing Street as Boris Johnson's Chief Advisor was one of the most interesting and impactful periods in modern UK political history.
Published 01/19/23
Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platform. He is the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur and an investor in early-stage startups.
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