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#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…
7 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 weeks 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'…
9 months, 2 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…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 months, 4 weeks 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…
11 months, 2 weeks 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…
1 year ago
#90 (Reaction) - Disbelieving AI 2027: Responding to "Why We're Not Ready For Superintelligence"
Always the uncool kids at the table, Ben and Vaden push back against the AGI hype domininating every second episode of every second podcast. We react…
1 year ago
#89 (C&R, Chap 6) - Berkeley vs Newton: The Battle Over Gravity
Phlogiston? Elan Vital? Caloric? Mention of any of these at a party, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be sure to take you out back and kick you in your e…
1 year, 1 month ago
#88 (Bonus) - Homer's Odyssey
This week we take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to listen to Ben, Rich, and Cam loutishly pontificate on one of the oldest poems i…
1 year, 2 months ago