#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…

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 3 weeks 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…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

#87 - Gullibility, Belief, and Conformity (with Hugo Mercier)

Ben and Vaden test their French skills and have Hugo Mercier on the podcast to discuss who we trust and what we believe. Are humans gullible? Do we f…

9 months ago

#86 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 2)

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

#85 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 1)

We all knew that Vaden would release his inner Youtube debate bro at some point. Well he finally paid Ben enough to do it, and here we are: our first…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

#84 - A Primer on Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier

Some thoughts (arguments?) on Hugo Mercier's Not Born Yesterday, which advances the thesis that humans are not as gullible as is commonly thought. Th…

11 months, 1 week ago

#83 - The Anxious Generation Round II: Alternative Explanations

Round two on the anxious generation. Well, honestly, round three. But we had a false start with round two, which is why this episode is a little late…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

#82 - Are Screens Really That Bad? Critiquing Jon Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"

Anxiety, dispair, loneliness, depression -- all we need is a social media recession! A popular thesis is that All The Bad Things things are on the ri…

1 year ago

#81 - What Does Critical Rationalism Get Wrong? (w/ Kasra)

As whores for criticism, we wanted to have Kasra on to discuss his essay The Deutschian Deadend. Kasra claims that Popper and Deutsch are fundamental…

1 year, 1 month ago