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#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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
#74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch)
What do you do when one of your intellectual idols comes on the podcast? Bombard them with disagreements of course. We were thrilled to have David De…
1 year, 11 months ago
#73 - The Unfairness of Proportional Representation
Want to make everyone under 30 extremely angry? Tell them you don't like proportional representation. Tell them proportional representation sucks, ju…
2 years ago
#72 (C&R, Chap. 19: Part II) - On the (alleged) Right of a Nation to Self-Determination
Part two on Chapter 19 of Conjectures and Refutations! Last time we got a little hung up arguing about human behavior and motivations. Putting that d…
2 years ago
#71 (C&R, Chap 19: Part I) - The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View
Back to the Conjectures and Refutations series, after a long hiatus! Given all that's happening in the world and the associated rampant pessimism, we…
2 years, 1 month ago
#70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows)
Sick of hearing us shouting about Bayesianism? Well today you're in luck, because this time, someone shouts at us about Bayesianism! Richard Meadows,…
2 years, 2 months ago
#69 - Contra Scott Alexander on Probability
After four episodes spent fawning over Scott Alexander's "Non-libertarian FAQ", we turn around and attack the good man instead. In this episode we re…
2 years, 2 months ago
#68 - Libertarianism IV: Political Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson)
The final part in a series which has polarized the nation. We tackle -- alongside Bruce Nielson as always -- the remaining part of Scott's FAQ: Polit…
2 years, 3 months ago