#100 - Celebrating the Centennial

#100 - Celebrating the Centennial

From Increments by Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani

March 26, 2026 · 1h 21m

About this episode

In this centennial episode, Vaden attempts to delve into personal topics with Ben, leading to a typical yet engaging discussion.

100 episodes! To celebrate, Vaden tries to get personal with Ben, while Ben dodges his questions and wants to know how Vaden feels about incest. All in all, a pretty typical episode. The questions From Vaden to Ben: How is your side hustle going? Who are some of your major influences outside of Popper? How has the Popperian worldview influenced your day-to-day? What is the life of a nomadic academic like? What would you say to people who are considering mathematics as a career? Which charities do you recommend? From Ben to Vaden: How do you feel about looksmaxxing? Thoughts on medical assistance in dying? Ethics of Alex Honnold free soloing Taipei 101? Thoughts on Nation-Buiding? Incest - into it? Episode References #22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments #66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella) #58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows) #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira) References Angus Deaton debates Abhijit Banerjee: https://nyudri.wordpress.com/initiatives/deaton-v-banerjee/ Christopher Hitchens and Robert Wright Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov…

People in this episode

Host: Ben Chugg

Guest: Vaden Masrani

Topics covered

  • centennial celebration
  • personal questions
  • philosophy
  • ethics
  • mathematics
  • nomadic academics

Keywords

  • centennial
  • incest
  • Popper
  • looksmaxxing
  • ethics
  • mathematics
  • nomadic academic

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

More episodes of Increments

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Increments podcast page.