Hacking State

In search of exploits. www.alexmurshak.com

Hacking State is a society podcast hosted by Alex Murshak, with 105 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Alex Murshak hosts Hacking State, a society show with 105 episodes published.

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  Hacking State 55 - Aneil Mallavarapu: Why AI Can't Be Conscious

  Jul 8, 20251h 51mS0

  <p>Aneil Mallavarapu is a biochemist, award winning computer scientist, and Managing Partner at Humain Ventures; investing in early stage life science and health tech startups. </p><p>We talk about his pioneering work in systems biology at Harvard that led to the creation of Little b, a programming language for modeling biological systems with modularity and abstraction, the phenomenology of consciousness, the “hard problem” of consciousness, taking consciousness as fundamental, the limits of radical materialism, why our brains are not like classical computers, reconciling theories of consciousness with physics, the computational intractability of consciousness, the specter of AI civil righ...

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  Hacking State 54 - Kyle Housley: The Right to Bear Arms and the Wrong Way to Think About Love

  Jun 26, 20251h 5mS0

  <p>Kyle Housley is a writer and co-host of a new podcast, Horizons Review, with longtime friend of the show, Cody Moser, exploring neglected intellectual texts and thinkers. We discuss the pathologization of normal relationship dynamics through misused psychological terminology, and extensively examine Second Amendment jurisprudence, particularly Kyle's disagreement with the Heller case on original meaning grounds.</p><p>Kyle critiques how terms like "narcissism" and "transactional relationships" are misapplied to pathologize healthy interpersonal expectations and natural give-and-take in friendships and romantic partnerships. He argues this reflects broader cultural problems with dismissing relational obligations in favor of personal convenience.</p><...

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  Everything Went Wrong and I Still Did It

  Jun 13, 20253 minS0

  <p>If you’re subscribed to Hacking State you may recall that you were promised not just Poli-Phil and Cog-Sci, but also Compute, and boy do I have some compute for you.</p><p>About 3 weeks ago I got the insatiable bug to build out an MCP server for the Congress.gov API. </p><p>This small, civic-minded project unwittingly became the catalyst for rebooting my startup, and re-grounding myself in a craft and a calling on the heels of one of the most difficult and tumultuous periods of my life.</p><p>For those of you unfamiliar, Model Context Pr...

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  Hacking State 53 - Charles Herrman: Duties of Honor vs. Rights of Dignity

  May 27, 20251 hourS0

  <p>In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Charles Herman, a philosopher and senior research fellow at the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. </p><p>We explore a distinction that Charles has been developing, which revolves around the concepts of honor versus dignity cultures. Drawing insights from his Substack post titled “A Short Survey of Honor and Dignity,” we look at how this theoretical framework can help explain significant pairings throughout Western history, including the philosophical debates between Epicureanism and Stoicism, Romanticism versus Classicism, and the modern cultural divide between liberalism and conservatism.</p><p>To s...

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  Hacking State 52 - Uberboyo: Christ vs. Nietzsche, Moral Revolutionaries

  May 13, 20251h 15mS0

  <p>In this episode, I sit down with Uberboyo, a prominent YouTuber and Nietzschean thinker, to explore the complex relationship between Christianity and Nietzscheanism.</p><p>Our conversation begins by examining what it means to be "Nietzschean" - not as an ideology, but as a methodology for approaching morality and understanding psychological patterns in society. We discuss how moral systems evolve with changing demographics, comparing the nationalist God of the Old Testament with the more universal God of later Christianity. Uberboyo presents a fascinating neurological perspective, discussing how the brain's threat detection center influences both religious belief and tribal identity...

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