Manifold | Philippe Lemoine: Bad Covid Science, Ukraine Analysis, and Philosophy — #62 @ManifoldPodcast | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Philippe Lemoine is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in philosophy and a widely-read public intellectual. We discuss philosophy, the scientific research used to justify COVID lockdowns, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Philippe’s writing: philippelemoine.com
Philippe on X: twitter.com/phl43
00:00 Introduction and Guest Background
00:54 Philippe's Academic Journey
08:29 Philosophical Insights and Career Shift: Public Intellectual
46:17 Russian Energy and European Economy
48:27 Covid Epidemic Modeling: Bad Science
56:22 Critique of Scientific and Policy Incentives
01:31:54 The Messy Reality of Ukraine Maidan Uprising
01:32:59 Could Security Guarantees Have Prevented the Ukraine War?
02:07:21 Ukraine War: Long-Term Predictions
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on X @hsu_steve.
Philippe Lemoine is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in philosophy and a widely-read public intellectual. We discuss philosophy, the scientific research used to justify COVID lockdowns, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Philippe’s writing: philippelemoine.com
Philippe on X: twitter.com/phl43
00:00 Introduction and Guest Background
00:54 Philippe's Academic Journey
08:29 Philosophical Insights and Career Shift: Public Intellectual
46:17 Russian Energy and European Economy
48:27 Covid Epidemic Modeling: Bad Science
56:22 Critique of Scientific and Policy Incentives
01:31:54 The Messy Reality of Ukraine Maidan Uprising
01:32:59 Could Security Guarantees Have Prevented the Ukraine War?
02:07:21 Ukraine War: Long-Term Predictions
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on X @hsu_steve.
