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#100 - Celebrating the Centennial
100 episodes! To celebrate, Vaden tries to get personal with Ben, while Ben dodges his questions and wants to know how Vaden feels about incest. All …
10 hours ago
#99 - Debating Trump in Good Faith (w/ Don Robinson)
Ben is hesitant to talk too much about politics on the podcast. So, naturally, we're having a political debate. We have on a pseudonymous guest to ta…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
#98 (C&R Chap 10, Part III) - What is truth?
"What is Truth?", said jesting podcasters, who then stuck around for an answer. Back at it again with The Conjectures and Refutations Series (part th…
1 month, 1 week ago
#97 - Did Effective Altruism Have Ulterior Motives From the Beginning?
Two years without discussing effective altruism -- did you miss it? Not as much as Vaden, surely. And probably a right bit more than Ben.
Well, we'r…
2 months ago
#96 (Bonus) - On the Limits of Introspection
Happy Christmas and Merry Festivus y'all! Today we're releasing a patreon episode, as both of us are away on vacation with the family for the holiday…
3 months ago
#95 (C&R Chap 10, Part II) - A Problem-First View of Scientific Progress
After a long hiatus where we both saw grief counsellors over our fight about Popper's theory of content in the last C&R episode, we are back. And we'…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
#94 - Is AI Just a Tool? (w/ Scott Aaronson)
The time has come for Vaden to defend his faith in the face of cold, hard scientific rationality. Will AI take over the world, automating away everyt…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#93 (C&R Chap 10, Part I) - An Introduction to Popper's Theory of Content
Back to basics baby. We're doing a couple introductory episodes on Popper's philosophy of science, following Chapter 10 of Conjectures and Refutation…
5 months, 1 week ago
#92 - Confronting the Paradox of Tolerance: Christianity in the age of Trump (w/ Jonathan Rauch)
We're joined by Jonathan Rauch to discuss what it means to be a radical incrementalist, how to foment revolution on geological timescales, and whethe…
6 months ago
#91 - The Uses and Abuses of Statistics (w/ Ben Recht)
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science Ben Recht joins us to defend Bayesianism, AI doom, and assure us that the statisticians have…
6 months, 3 weeks ago