Podcast Episodes

Ep 245: The Farthest Reaches (Part 1)

Episode 246

Chapters 1 to 4 of a multi-chapter series about the reach of what I argue is one of the most important lessons to learn in order to solve many pressing problems: explanatory universality. This podcas…

Published on 7 hours ago

Ep 244: Deep learning is not "inductive".

Episode 245

We are told by people working in the field, researchers and those who publish academic papers on the topic that artificial intelligence or deep learning or LLMs or Machine Learning or Recurrent Neura…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Ep 243: In praise of ignorance - the podcast. With Liberty Fitz-Claridge

Episode 244

This episode is a reading of and reflection upon more writing by David Deutsch - an article you can find at https://takingchildrenseriously.com/in-praise-of-ignorance/

Joining me is philosopher and l…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ep 242: Is religion worth preserving?

Episode 243

  Woke is a rejection of the truth, the good, the beautiful. Is the best response a return to traditional religion? Are some dogmas worth defending?

Published on 2 months ago

Ep 241: AI 2027 Reaction Part 5: Summary and Conclusions

Episode 242

A summary of some arguments made in the previous 4 parts, and a conclusion to my evaluation of https://ai-2027.com I refer to Daniel Kokotajlo's paper which contained an earlier set of predictions ma…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 240: AI 2027 Reaction Part 4

Episode 241

Note that Part 3 is episode 239 or can be found here: https://youtu.be/7P-UlHiTins Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/o3Rdj37UJjw Part 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_txKy-XMQ I react to …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 239: AI 2027 Reaction Part 3

Episode 240

Episode 238 contains Part 2 of this podcast and Episode 237 is Part 1. Also all parts are available on Youtube as almost always. Eg here for part 2: https://youtu.be/o3Rdj37UJjw Part 1 is here: https…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 238: AI 2027 Reaction Part 2

Episode 239

Note that Part 1 is found in Episode 237 or can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_txKy-XMQ

I react to the contents of this article https://ai-2027.com with some further general co…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 237: AI 2027 Reaction. Part 1

Episode 238

I react to the contents of this article https://ai-2027.com with some further general comments on ‪@DwarkeshPatel‬ 's interview with two of the authors here:    • 2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-b…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 236: Max Velthoven, legal science, AI and epistemology.

Episode 237

Max is a tax lawyer who is applying Popperian epistemology to legal science and issues in AI. Links to some more of his work, and the slides to accompany part of this video are below. Slides for Max'…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago