Devon Eriksen: Theft of Fire

0:00 – Intro: Devon Eriksen and Theft of Fire
0:40 – Tech billionaires who back the estate tax
3:22 – How progress really happens: trial and error
4:24 – Telling billionaires no on Twitter
7:29 – From power by deception to power by persuasion
8:17 – Is mainstream media a threat to democracy?
10:01 – Technology as the arrow of history
12:00 – Space flight, biotech, and AI in Theft of Fire
13:47 – Why colonize the solar system?
17:00 – Gold bullets and asteroid mining
19:00 – Gold, copper, and Mars as a launch pad
22:04 – Nuclear power and the "radiothermal steam plant"
26:37 – Biohackers, Bryan Johnson, and voluntary experiments
31:54 – Gene Epstein and debating socialists
33:02 – Richard Wolff and the socialist PlayStation
35:25 – Socialism swaps money hierarchies for political ones
38:57 – Where to find Theft of Fire
40:40 – Finding your own writing process
44:16 – Writing a novel like software engineering
45:24 – Twitter, brand building, and selling books
50:05 – Why reading takes real effort
51:16 – Why he won't sell the film rights
52:26 – Godzilla Minus One and indie filmmaking
53:45 – A full-cast audiobook on Kickstarter
55:39 – Why he won't sell on Audible
59:59 – Brandon Sanderson and pushing back on Audible
1:02:44 – Lou's book on Audible and wrap-up