Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman. Joseph Diller: I’m Joseph. Matt Teichman: With us today is Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, co-host of the Minds Almost Meeting podcast, and author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain, and he’s here to talk about prediction markets. ...
Fully Statically-Linked OCaml Executables
What’s kicking, internauts? This is a blog post explaining how to build fully statically-linked OCaml executables in a Docker environment, then copy them out of your Docker environment into your filesystem.1 Prerequisites This post assumes an “I run Linux on my computer” and “I write sofware in a programming language that compiles to machine code” level of tech-savviness. Although I develop in OCaml on Arch Linux, this post is nonetheless likely to be of interest if you are a developer who isn’t on Arch Linux, and it may very well even be of interest if you don’t use OCaml. If you have no idea what any of these computer words mean, please feel free to get in touch with me and I’ll be happy to write a follow-up post explaining whatever you’d like to know about. ...
Episode 157: Robin Hanson discusses prediction markets
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 157 was recorded in September of 2022. Full transcript here. In this episode, Matt and Joseph sit down with Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, to discuss prediction markets. Click here to download Episode 157 of Elucidations. ...
Transcript: Episode 156 with Oliver Traldi on political expertise
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman. Joseph Diller: And I’m Joseph Diller. Matt Teichman: With us today is Oliver Traldi, postdoc at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and visiting assistant professor at the University of Tulsa Honors College. He is here to discuss political expertise. Oliver Traldi, welcome. ...
Transcript: Episode 155 with Rebecca Lowe on speaking freely
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes as Trans-Expert. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Rebecca Lowe, Philosophy Senior Research Fellow and Director of Emerging Scholars at the Mercatus Center, and she’s here to discuss speaking freely. Rebecca Lowe, welcome to Elucidations. ...
Transcript: Episode 148 with Christos Lazaridis on brain death
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Miranda Abainza Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Christos Lazaridis, a neurointensivist at the University of Chicago, and he’s here to discuss brain death. Christos Lazaridis, welcome. ...
Transcript: Episode 149 with Lainie Ross and Christos Lazaridis on defining death
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today are Lainie Ross, Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics at University of Chicago Medicine, and Christos Lazaridis, Associate Professor of Neurology at University of Chicago Medicine. They are here to talk about defining death. Lainie and Christos, welcome. ...
Episode 156: Oliver Traldi discusses political expertise
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 156 was recorded in June of 2024. Full transcript here. For this episode, Matt Teichman and Joseph Diller sit down with Oliver Traldi (University of Toledo, Mercatus Center) to talk about political expertise. Click here to download Episode 156 of Elucidations. ...
Emacs, GPG Agent, and SSH Agent as user-level daemons
Greetings, earthlings. This is a blog post explaining how to run Emacs, GPG Agent, and SSH Agent as user-level daemons, mostly using systemd. I do so on Arch Linux, but in principle, this setup should work fine on any Linux distribution that uses systemd. Prerequisites This post assumes an “I run Linux on my computer” level of tech-savviness. The portions of this post that pertain to Emacs also assume that you are an Emacs user. If you don’t know what any of those words mean, or if this post employs concepts that you don’t understand but would like to, please feel free to get in touch with me and I’ll be happy to write a follow-up post explaining whatever you’d like to know about. ...
Episode 155: Rebecca Lowe discusses speaking freely
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 155 was recorded in October of 2025. Full transcript here. Last episode, we talked about free speech, and this time, we sit down with Rebecca Lowe (Mercatus Center) to discuss the related but slightly different topic of speaking freely. Click here to download Episode 155 of Elucidations. ...