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54. Do You Really Need a Muse to Be Creative?

From 🇺🇸 No Stupid Questions, published at 2025-12-28 01:00

Also: is shortsightedness part of human nature? This episode originally aired on May 30th, 2021.

One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parra and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation

From 🇺🇸 Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast, published at 2025-12-27 23:35

One year ago, Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a simple, open standard to connect AI applications to the data and tools they need. Today, MCP has exploded from a local-only experiment into the de facto protocol for agentic systems, adopted by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Block, and hundreds of enterprises building internal agents at scale. And now, MCP is joining the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, alongside Block's Goose coding agent, with founding members spanning the biggest names in AI and cloud infrastructure. We sat down with David Soria Parra (MCP lead, Anthropic), Nick Cooper (OpenAI), Brad Howes (Block / Goose), and Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation CEO) to dig into the one-year journey of MCP—from Thanksgiving hacking sessions and the first remote authentication spec to long-running tasks, MCP Apps, and the rise of agent-to-agent communication—and the behind-the-scenes story of how three competitive AI labs came together to donate their protocols and agents to a neutral foundation, why enterprises are deploying MCP servers faster than anyone expected (most of it invisible, internal, and at massive scale), what it takes to design a protocol that works for both simple tool calls and complex multi-agent orchestration, how the foundation will balance taste-making (curating meaningful projects) with openness (avoiding vendor lock-in), and the 2025 vision: MCP as the communication layer for asynchronous, long-running agents that work while you sleep, discover and install their own tools, and unlock the next order of magnitude in AI productivity. We discuss: The one-year MCP journey: from local stdio servers to remote HTTP streaming, OAuth 2.1 authentication (and the enterprise lessons learned), long-running tasks, and MCP Apps (iframes for richer UI) Why MCP adoption is exploding internally at enterprises: invisible, internal servers connecting agents to Slack, Linear, proprietary data, and compliance-heavy workflows (financial services, healthcare) The authentication evolution: separating resource servers from identity providers, dynamic client registration, and why the March spec wasn't enterprise-ready (and how June fixed it) How Anthropic dogfoods MCP: internal gateway, custom servers for Slack summaries and employee surveys, and why MCP was born from "how do I scale dev tooling faster than the company grows?" Tasks: the new primitive for long-running, asynchronous agent operations—why tools aren't enough, how tasks enable deep research and agent-to-agent handoffs, and the design choice to make tasks a "container" (not just async tools) MCP Apps: why iframes, how to handle styles and branding, seat selection and shopping UIs as the killer use case, and the collaboration with OpenAI to build a common standard The registry problem: official registry vs. curated sub-registries (Smithery, GitHub), trust levels, model-driven discovery, and why MCP needs "npm for agents" (but with signatures and HIPAA/financial compliance) The founding story of AAIF: how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block came together (spoiler: they didn't know each other were talking to Linux Foundation), why neutrality matters, and how Jim Zemlin has never seen this much day-one inbound interest in 22 years — David Soria Parra (Anthropic / MCP) MCP: https://modelcontextprotocol.io https://uk.linkedin.com/in/david-soria-parra-4a78b3a https://x.com/dsp_ Nick Cooper (OpenAI) X: https://x.com/nicoaicopr Brad Howes (Block / Goose) Goose: https://github.com/block/goose Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zemlin/ Agentic AI Foundation https://agenticai.foundation Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: MCP's First Year and Foundation Launch 00:01:17 MCP's Journey: From Launch to Industry Standard 00:02:06 Protocol Evolution: Remote Servers and Authentication 00:08:52 Enterprise Authentication and Financial Services 00:11:42 Transport Layer Challenges: HTTP Streaming and Scalability 00:15:37 Standards Development: Collaboration with Tech Giants 00:34:27 Long-Running Tasks: The Future of Async Agents 00:30:41 Discovery and Registries: Building the MCP Ecosystem 00:30:54 MCP Apps and UI: Beyond Text Interfaces 00:26:55 Internal Adoption: How Anthropic Uses MCP 00:23:15 Skills vs MCP: Complementary Not Competing 00:36:16 Community Events and Enterprise Learnings 01:03:31 Foundation Formation: Why Now and Why Together 01:07:38 Linux Foundation Partnership: Structure and Governance 01:11:13 Goose as Reference Implementation 01:17:28 Principles Over Roadmaps: Composability and Quality 01:21:02 Foundation Value Proposition: Why Contribute 01:27:49 Practical Investments: Events, Tools, and Community 01:34:58 Looking Ahead: Async Agents and Real Impact

4 kinds of regret -- and what they teach you about yourself | Daniel H. Pink (re-release)

From 🇺🇸 TED Talks Daily, published at 2025-12-27 16:00

Regret is one of our most powerful emotions -- and also one of the most misunderstood. Over the past two years, author Daniel H. Pink has collected a trove of more than 16,000 regrets from people in 105 countries in an effort to better understand this mysterious emotion. He shares the key patterns that emerged (it all boils down to the same four core regrets, he says) and explains how to transform your own regrets in order to create the life you've always wanted to live. (This talk and conversation, hosted by TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your rings, your commitments

From 🇪🇬 اشتري مني, published at 2025-12-27 15:03

So, I mean, you listening to a new episode of the "Buy From Me" podcast, is that an obligation or not? And us releasing a new episode for you every week, is it an obligation or love? In a new episode, we talked about the obligations that are forced upon us and the obligations that we love. We even doubted each other's information, but for the second time, Gemini was with us, and he was correcting all our facts as we sat. The episode is out now on all podcast platforms and will be released on Monday on YouTube.

Data is useless if the goal is unclear #BookSummary Decision-Driven Analytics | MM EP.2574

From 🇹🇭 Mission To The Moon, published at 2025-12-27 13:00

No matter how much data you have, it's worthless if you don't know what decisions to make with it. Many organizations invest heavily in Big Data, but ultimately get bogged down with data that doesn't lead to real action because they started wrong from the beginning: "Collect data first, then think about what to use it for." The book "Decision-Driven Analytics" proposes a concept that turns the entire process on its head, starting with the "decisions" that need to be made and then working backward to find the truly necessary data. This episode will explore the pitfalls of the Big Data era, the war between Divers and Runners in organizations, the illusion of massive data, and how to turn a Decision into a Question that leads to actionable answers. Because resources are limited, choosing wisely is more important than collecting everything. #BigData#BookSummary#MissionToTheMoon#missiontothemoonpodcast

To an unknown country

From 🇳🇱 Boekestijn en De Wijk, published at 2025-12-27 10:55

How do we stay on course in this great and dangerous period of transition? A conversation about leadership and the power of stories with Jaap Smit, former King's Commissioner in South Holland and a pastor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 113 | Getting Closer with Questions

From 🇹🇷 Bir Aile Meselesi, published at 2025-12-27 07:23

In the 113th episode of our podcast, our title was ''Getting Closer with Questions''. We hope you like it, enjoy listening.

Chapter 112 I Parenting Guide

From 🇹🇷 Bir Aile Meselesi, published at 2025-12-27 07:20

In the 112th episode of our podcast, our title was "Parenting Guide". We hope you like it, enjoy.

#1038 - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - The Environmental Toxins Killing Your Health

From 🇺🇸 Modern Wisdom, published at 2025-12-27 06:00

Dr Gabrielle Lyon is a functional medicine physician and Founder of the Institute of Muscle-Centric Medicine. The most overlooked aspect of health optimisation might be hiding in plain sight. Your environment shapes your health far more than you probably realise. So how exactly does your environment affect your body, and what practical steps can you take to regain control and move toward better health? Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a free bottle of D3K2, a Welcome Kit, Travel Packs, plus bonus gifts (US only) when you first subscribe at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom New pricing since recording: Function is now just $365, plus get $25 off at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most Replayed Moment: Is Modern Parenting Causing ADHD? Your Decisions Shape Your Child’s Mind!

From 🇬🇧 The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, published at 2025-12-27 06:00

Erica Komisar is a psychoanalyst renowned for her work on parenting, early childhood development, and the root causes of behavioural issues. In today’s moment, Erica discusses the rise in ADHD diagnoses and reveals which modern parenting practices may be significantly contributing to this trend, and to stress in early childhood. Listen to the full episode here! Spotify: https://g2ul0.app.link/e/OoL7GFnplZb Apple: https://g2ul0.app.link/TBgRlfrplZb Watch the Episodes On YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Independent research (this clip comes from a longer episode. The accompanying research covers that full episode): https://stevenbartlett.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DOAC-Erica-Komisar-Independent-research-further-reading.pdf Erica Komisar: https://www.ericakomisar.com/

12 Life Lessons from the Lives of Birds

From 🇹🇷 Ortamlarda Satılacak Bilgi, published at 2025-12-27 02:00

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Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE

From 🇺🇸 Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast, published at 2025-12-26 22:21

Note: Steve and Gene’s talk on Vibe Coding and the post IDE world was one of the top talks of AIE CODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtu2bilcFs&t=1019s&pp=0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv From building legendary platforms at Google and Amazon to authoring one of the most influential essays on AI-powered development (Revenge of the Junior Developer, quoted by Dario Amodei himself), Steve Yegge has spent decades at the frontier of software engineering—and now he's leading the charge into what he calls the "factory farming" era of code. After stints at SourceGraph and building Beads (a purely vibe-coded issue tracker with tens of thousands of users), Steve co-authored The Vibe Coding Book and is now building VC (VibeCoder), an agent orchestration dashboard designed to move developers from writing code to managing fleets of AI agents that coordinate, parallelize, and ship features while you sleep. We sat down with Steve at AI Engineer Summit to dig into why Claude Code, Cursor, and the entire 2024 stack are already obsolete, what it actually takes to trust an agent after 2,000 hours of practice (hint: they will delete your production database if you anthropomorphize them), why the real skill is no longer writing code but orchestrating agents like a NASCAR pit crew, how merging has become the new wall that every 10x-productive team is hitting (and why one company's solution is literally "one engineer per repo"), the rise of multi-agent workflows where agents reserve files, message each other via MCP, and coordinate like a little village, why Steve believes if you're still using an IDE to write code by January 1st, you're a bad engineer, how the 12–15 year experience bracket is the most resistant demographic (and why their identity is tied to obsolete workflows), the hidden chaos inside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as they scale at breakneck speed, why rewriting from scratch is now faster than refactoring for a growing class of codebases, and his 2025 prediction: we're moving from subsistence agriculture to John Deere-scale factory farming of code, and the Luddite backlash is only just beginning. We discuss: Why Claude Code, Cursor, and agentic coding tools are already last year's tech—and what comes next: agent orchestration dashboards where you manage fleets, not write lines The 2,000-hour rule: why it takes a full year of daily use before you can predict what an LLM will do, and why trust = predictability, not capability Steve's hot take: if you're still using an IDE to develop code by January 1st, 2025, you're a bad engineer—because the abstraction layer has moved from models to full-stack agents The demographic most resistant to vibe coding: 12–15 years of experience, senior engineers whose identity is tied to the way they work today, and why they're about to become the interns Why anthropomorphizing LLMs is the biggest mistake: the "hot hand" fallacy, agent amnesia, and how Steve's agent once locked him out of prod by changing his password to "fix" a problem Should kids learn to code? Steve's take: learn to vibe code—understand functions, classes, architecture, and capabilities in a language-neutral way, but skip the syntax The 2025 vision: "factory farming of code" where orchestrators run Cloud Code, scrub output, plan-implement-review-test in loops, and unlock programming for non-programmers at scale — Steve Yegge X: https://x.com/steve_yegge Substack (Stevie's Tech Talks): https://steve-yegge.medium.com/ GitHub (VC / VibeCoder): https://github.com/yegge-labs Where to find Latent Space X: https://x.com/latentspacepod Substack: https://www.latent.space/ Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Steve Yegge on Vibe Coding and AI Engineering 00:00:59 The Backlash: Who Resists Vibe Coding and Why 00:04:26 The 2000 Hour Rule: Building Trust with AI Coding Tools 00:03:31 The January 1st Deadline: IDEs Are Becoming Obsolete 00:02:55 10X Productivity at OpenAI: The Performance Review Problem 00:07:49 The Hot Hand Fallacy: When AI Agents Betray Your Trust 00:11:12 Claude Code Isn't It: The Need for Agent Orchestration 00:15:20 The Orchestrator Revolution: From Cloud Code to Agent Villages 00:18:46 The Merge Wall: The Biggest Unsolved Problem in AI Coding 00:26:33 Never Rewrite Your Code - Until Now: Joel Spolsky Was Wrong 00:22:43 Factory Farming Code: The John Deere Era of Software 00:29:27 Google's Gemini Turnaround and the AI Lab Chaos 00:33:20 Should Your Kids Learn to Code? The New Answer 00:34:59 Code MCP and the Gossip Rate: Latest Vibe Coding Discoveries

⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI

From 🇺🇸 Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast, published at 2025-12-26 22:18

From the frontlines of OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5 training teams, Bryan and Bill are building the future of AI-powered coding—where agents don't just autocomplete, they architect, refactor, and ship entire features while you sleep. We caught up with them at AI Engineer Conference right after the launch of Codex Max, OpenAI's newest long-running coding agent designed to work for 24+ hours straight, manage its own context, and spawn sub-agents to parallelize work across your entire codebase. We sat down with Bryan and Bill to dig into what it actually takes to train a model that developers trust—why personality, communication, and planning matter as much as raw capability, how Codex is trained with strong opinions about tools (it loves rg over grep, seriously), why the abstraction layer is moving from models to full-stack agents you can plug into VS Code or Zed, how OpenAI partners co-develop tool integrations and discover unexpected model habits (like renaming tools to match Codex's internal training), the rise of applied evals that measure real-world impact instead of academic benchmarks, why multi-turn evals are the next frontier (and Bryan's "job interview eval" idea), how coding agents are breaking out of code into personal automation, terminal workflows, and computer use, and their 2026 vision: coding agents trusted enough to handle the hardest refactors at any company, not just top-tier firms, and general enough to build integrations, organize your desktop, and unlock capabilities you'd never get access to otherwise. We discuss: What Codex Max is: a long-running coding agent that can work 24+ hours, manage its own context window, and spawn sub-agents for parallel work Why the name "Max": maximalist, maximization, speed and endurance—it's simply better and faster for the same problems Training for personality: communication, planning, context gathering, and checking your work as behavioral characteristics, not just capabilities How Codex develops habits like preferring rg over grep, and why renaming tools to match its training (e.g., terminal-style naming) dramatically improves tool-call performance The split between Codex (opinionated, agent-focused, optimized for the Codex harness) and GPT-5 (general, more durable across different tools and modalities) Why the abstraction layer is moving up: from prompting models to plugging in full agents (Codex, GitHub Copilot, Zed) that package the entire stack The rise of sub-agents and agents-using-agents: Codex Max spawning its own instances, handing off context, and parallelizing work across a codebase How OpenAI works with coding partners on the bleeding edge to co-develop tool integrations and discover what the model is actually good at The shift to applied evals: capturing real-world use cases instead of academic benchmarks, and why ~50% of OpenAI employees now use Codex daily Why multi-turn evals are the next frontier: LM-as-a-judge for entire trajectories, Bryan's "job interview eval" concept, and the need for a batch multi-turn eval API How coding agents are breaking out of code: personal automation, organizing desktops, terminal workflows, and "Devin for non-coding" use cases Why Slack is the ultimate UI for work, and how coding agents can become your personal automation layer for email, files, and everything in between The 2026 vision: more computer use, more trust, and coding agents capable enough that any company can access top-tier developer capabilities, not just elite firms — Bryan & Bill (OpenAI Codex Team) http://x.com/bfioca https://x.com/realchillben OpenAI Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/ Where to find Latent Space X: https://x.com/latentspacepod Substack: https://www.latent.space/ Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Latent Space Listeners at AI Engineer Code 00:01:27 Codex Max Launch: Training for Long-Running Coding Agents 00:03:01 Model Personality and Trust: Communication, Planning, and Self-Checking 00:05:20 Codex vs GPT-5: Opinionated Agents vs General Models 00:07:47 Tool Use and Model Habits: The Ripgrep Discovery 00:09:16 Personality Design: Verbosity vs Efficiency in Coding Agents 00:11:56 The Agent Abstraction Layer: Building on Top of Codex 00:14:08 Sub-Agents and Multi-Agent Patterns: The Future of Composition 00:16:11 Trust and Adoption: OpenAI Developers Using Codex Daily 00:17:21 Applied Evals: Real-World Testing vs Academic Benchmarks 00:19:15 Multi-Turn Evals and the Job Interview Pattern 00:21:35 Feature Request: Batch Multi-Turn Eval API 00:22:28 Beyond Code: Personal Automation and Computer Use 00:24:51 Vision-Native Agents and the UI Integration Challenge 00:25:02 2026 Predictions: Trust, Computer Use, and Democratized Excellence

BJPod Christmas Special- Relook at the best of Quora

From 🇮🇳 Bharatiya Junta Podcast, published at 2025-12-26 20:12

As the title suggests, a relook of what Quora offered in the Modi Years.

Consumption in Argentina: Christmas sales rose 1.3% driven by promotions

From 🇦🇷 Cara o Ceca, published at 2025-12-26 19:44

This was shown by a report from the Argentine Confederation of Medium-sized Enterprises (CAME), but each sector showed contrasts. Perfumery led the growth with a year-on-year jump of 27.8%, but Toy Stores suffered a 6.6% decline. "There is a slowdown in inflation, but even so, there is a deterioration of purchasing power because remunerations do not have nominal increases; they only multiply with more hours of work. If one adds up the total family income and confronts it with expenses, the impossibility of sustaining them appears," said Isaac Rudnik, director of the Institute of Social, Economic and Citizen Policy Research (ISEPCi), on Cara o Ceca.

Gold, Crypto, the Debt Crisis, and How to Survive When the US Needs a Bailout

From 🇺🇸 The Tucker Carlson Show, published at 2025-12-26 19:00

The U.S. government is nearly $40 trillion in debt, a fact that pretty much guarantees exciting times ahead. Coleman Church on what comes next. (00:00) Debt Trading and Emerging Markets Debt (08:58) The IMF's Role in American Foreign Policy (28:57) How the Fed Is Secretly Destroying Free Market Capitalism (1:07:59) What Is the Alternative to Investing in the Stock Market? (1:12:07) Is Crypto the Next Global Reserve Currency? Paid partnerships with: Dutch: Get $50 a year for vet care with Tucker50 at https://dutch.com/tucker TCN: Watch our new outdoor series at https://tuckercarlson.com/americangame Last Country Supply: Real prep starts with the basics. Here’s what we keep stocked: https://lastcountrysupply.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why your life needs novelty, no matter your age | Kenneth Chabert (re-release)

From 🇺🇸 TED Talks Daily, published at 2025-12-26 16:00

To truly savor life, pursue "powerful first experiences," says storyteller and nonprofit founder Kenneth Chabert. Learn more about how to create these meaningful moments, where mundane routine is broken by novel experiences in small but significant ways -- no matter how old you are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Brutal Questions for a $20B Founder

From 🇺🇸 My First Million, published at 2025-12-26 15:19

Get Sam's AI Executive Coach Playbook - his exact system for everything from revenue optimization to life decisions: https://clickhubspot.com/dhn Episode 778: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) talks to Brian Halligan ( https://x.com/bhalligan ) about the highs and lows of building HubSpot. — Show Notes: (0:00) Are you happy? (2:57) Does it ever stop sucking? (5:18) Do you have imposter syndrome? (6:55) Were the trade offs worth it? (11:53) Is AI a bubble? (14:47) Do you have to be liked? (17:02) What would you do if you had to start over? (29:36) What did you get wrong? — Links: • Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead - https://tinyurl.com/ydmyh6f9 — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano //

Create a Healthy and Sustainable Lifestyle - Dr. Air #WorkSmartHealHarder | MM EP.2573

From 🇹🇭 Mission To The Moon, published at 2025-12-26 13:00

Working people often experience health problems. Some don't have time, some have time but are inconsistent, and some, no matter how hard they try, never see good results. In this EP. of Work Smart Heal Harder, we will talk to 'Dr. Air' (Dr. Akanit Srisukwattana), a cardiologist specializing in Sports Cardiology, about what common traps prevent people's exercise efforts from ever showing results, and how we can create a sustainable healthy lifestyle for working adults. #health #podcast #podcast #missiontothemoon #missiontothemoonpodcast

Yi Fuxian: "The Executioner" Peng Peiyun and the Misguided Population Policy

From 🇨🇳 不明白播客, published at 2025-12-26 13:00

A few days ago, Peng Peiyun, who had long served as the director of China's National Family Planning Commission, passed away.In the 1990s, Peng Peiyun promoted the 'one-vote veto system for family planning' from local experience to the entire country, directly linking the promotion of local officials to the implementation of family planning, which initiated a precipitous decline in China's birth rate. China abolished the one-child policy in 2016, but it was too late. In recent years, China's birth population has fallen to its lowest level since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and its fertility rate has dropped into the ranks of the world's lowest.In this episode, we will discuss who Peng Peiyun was, why it's said that her 'hands were stained with fetal blood,' and why a policy later acknowledged as a mistake persisted for decades before being corrected. When the birth rate had already fallen below replacement levels, what forces prevented a policy shift? Are China's demographic data truly credible? How do population changes affect the economy, elder care, social stability, and even the long-term trajectory of the country? Could China's pro-natalist policies be effective?Joining us to discuss these issues is Yi Fuxian, an expert on population issues and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past two decades, he has consistently challenged China's official demographic data and population policy judgments, and has consequently been blocked and attacked for a long time. In this episode, we start with Peng Peiyun, and combining his research and personal experience, discuss how family planning was implemented at the grassroots level, and look back at the formation, implementation, and belated correction of China's population policy.Timeline:01:43 Why are Peng Peiyun's hands said to be stained with fetal blood?04:33 How did Peng Peiyun long influence China's population policy?07:06 'If you don't abort, they'll tear down your house and take your cattle': The systemic violence of family planning09:58 Was the one-child policy a case of 'concentrating efforts on doing bad things'?12:32 Who was obstructing the correction of family planning policies?18:59 Are China's pro-natalist policies destined to be futile?24:44 What is China's true population?30:00 What are the consequences of distorted demographic data?35:09 How to view the claim that 'too many bachelors can easily lead to war'?39:43 Does population aging actually make the CCP's rule more stable?40:32 How does the vicious cycle of the younger generation not marrying and not having children arise?42:44 Guest RecommendationsGuest RecommendationsXin Wang, Ma Guochuan (Editors) "Selected Economic Essays on Forty Years of Reform"Liang Zhongtang "Struggling Left and Right — Chen Muhua, Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, and Family Planning"Yi Fuxian "Big Country with an Empty Nest" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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