ist Redaktor beim «Schweizer Monat» und betreibt den Podcast Change My Mind zu Freiheit, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft.
Physicist and author of “The Beginning of Infinity” David Deutsch joins Alex Buxeda to discuss what makes a good explanation, why entropy is our friend, why belief has no place in rational thought, and why death is just a failure of engineering.
Matt Ridley joins Alex Buxeda to discuss sex, COVID’s lab-leak theory, the West’s turn against nuclear power, renewables’ poor energy returns, cheap energy and the Industrial Revolution, patents and innovation, and his upcoming book, The Rational Pessimist.
Patente versuchen, Ideen zu besitzen – und scheitern daran. Sie bremsen Innovation und besteuern unser gemeinsames geistiges Erbe.
Patents attempt to own ideas and fail. They deter innovation and tax our common inheritance.
Der Staat sollte Marktversagen heilen. Doch das Gegenmittel wird selbst zum Gift. Wer verstehen will warum, muss zurück zu den Grundlagen des Handels.
The state emerged to fix market failure, it turns out that too much antidote is a poison in its own right. The state behaves very differently, it taxes others, doesn’t pay net taxes and state-owned businesses run on a deficit if costs are properly measured.
Michael Shermer and Alex Buxeda get into where morality actually comes from, and why "God did it" doesn't explain a thing. From the Bible and abortion to evolution, markets, tolerance and demographic collapse, they make the case that ethics comes from human nature, not sacred books.
Solomon Schmidt, the 22-year-old author of A Pen to Change the World, the only complete biography of J.K. Rowling, sits down with Alex Buxeda for a wide-ranging conversation about the woman behind Harry Potter and the courage it took her to speak out during the trans controversy.
Stephan Kinsella sits with Alex Buxeda to ask whether ideas can be owned. They explore Kinsella’s case against patents and copyrights, scarcity, innovation without IP, pharmaceutical patents, entrepreneurship, pricing, and the philosophical foundations of ownership.
Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale joins Alex Buxeda to discuss why Bitcoin was discovered rather than invented, whether identity is just recognized pattern-persistence, and what forks and cryptoeconomics show about consensus, trust, and free will.
Die Gegner des Transhumanismus ziehen eine scharfe Grenze zwischen Natur und Technologie. Doch diese Grenze existiert nicht. Es gab keinen Urknallmoment, in dem der Mensch auf Technologie stiess – nur einen fortlaufenden Prozess der Koevolution.
Die Fertilitätsraten in Europa sind auf einem historischen Tiefstand. Die Gründe sind kulturell und technologisch – die Lösungen ebenso.
Bevor Bewegung etwas wurde, das wir trainieren, war sie etwas, das unser Überleben sicherte. Unser Körper erinnert sich besser daran als der Kopf.
We built a world on the belief that human nature didn’t exist. The result has been repeated catastrophe.
There was no moment when humans met technology. No crossing of a line. No before and after. Only a continuous process of offloading and coevolving.
Robert Plomin talks with Alex Buxeda about 50 years of behavioral genetics research showing that your parents didn’t make who you are, and your school didn’t either. Who you become is strongly influenced by something set at conception: your DNA.
