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Back to SearchJohn Schulman: OpenAI and recent advances in Artificial Intelligence – #16
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John Schulman is a research scientist at OpenAI. He co-leads the Reinforcement Learning group and works on agent learning in virtual game worlds (e.g…
6 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Max on Writing a Literary non-Fiction Classic and Prion Diseases Then and Now – #15
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Daniel Max, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Every Love Story is A Ghost Story, a biography of David Foster Wallace, speaks with Corey an…
6 years, 11 months ago
Stuart Firestein on Why Ignorance and Failure Lead to Scientific Progress – Episode #14
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Steve and Corey speak with Stuart Firestein (Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, specializing in the olfactory system) about his two bo…
6 years, 11 months ago
Joe Cesario on Political Bias and Problematic Research Methods in Social Psychology – #13
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Corey and Steve continue their discussion with Joe Cesario and examine methodological biases in the design and conduct of experiments in social psych…
7 years ago
James Cham on Venture Capital, Risk Taking, and the Future Impacts of AI – Episode #12
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James Cham is a partner at Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm focused on the future of work. James invests in companies applying machine intellig…
7 years ago
Joe Cesario on Police Decision Making and Racial Bias in Deadly Force Decisions – Episode #11
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Corey and Steve talk with Joe Cesario about his recent work showing that, contrary to many activist claims and media reports, there is no widespread …
7 years, 1 month ago
Ron Unz on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, The Unz Review, and the Harvard Admissions Scandal – Episode #10
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Ron Unz is the publisher of the Unz Review, a controversial, but widely read, alternative media site hosting opinion outside of the mainstream, inclu…
7 years, 1 month ago
Philosopher Sam Kerstein on the Morality of Genome Engineering, Inequality, and Star Trek – Episode #9
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Corey and Steve speak with Samuel Kerstein, Professor of Philosophy and expert in Medical Ethics at the University of Maryland. They discuss the ethi…
7 years, 2 months ago
Sabine Hossenfelder on the Crisis in Particle Physics and Against the Next Big Collider – #8
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Hossenfelder is a Research Associate at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies. Her research areas include particle physics and quantum gravity.…
7 years, 2 months ago
David Skrbina on Ted Kaczynski, Technological Slavery, and the Future of Our Species – Episode #7
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David Skrbina is a philosopher at the University of Michigan. He and Ted Kaczynski published the book Technological Slavery, which elaborates on the …
7 years, 2 months ago