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#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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months ago
#80 (C&R Series, Chap. 7) - Dare to Know: Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant was popular at his death. The whole town emptied out to see him. His last words were "it is good". But was his philosophy any good? In …
1 year, 5 months ago
#79 (Bonus) - The Mitford Sisters
Hope everyone is having a great holiday! Today we're releasing a short lil' bonus episode from the patreon archives before we get back into the serio…
1 year, 5 months ago
#78 - What could Karl Popper have learned from Vladimir Nabokov? (w/ Brian Boyd)
Where do you arrive if you follow Vaden's obsessions to their terminus? You arrive at Brian Boyd, the world expert on the two titanic thinkers of the…
1 year, 6 months ago
#77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira)
Back on Liron's Doom Debates podcast! Will we actually get around to the subject of superintelligent AI this time? Is it time to worry about the end …
1 year, 7 months ago
#76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)
Liron Shapira, host of [Doom Debates], invited us on to discuss Popperian versus Bayesian epistemology and whether we're worried about AI doom. As on…
1 year, 7 months ago
#75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers)
When Very Bad Wizards meets Very Culty Popperians. We finally decided to have a real life professional philosopher on the pod to call us out on our …
1 year, 8 months ago