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#54 - Ask Us Anything III: Emotional Epistemology
Back again with AUA #3 - we're getting there people! Only, uhh, seven questions to go? Incremental progress baby. Plus, we see a good old Vaden and B…
2 years, 9 months ago
#53 - Ask Us Anything II: Disagreements and Decisions
Ask us anything? Ask us everything! Back at it again with AUA Part 2/N. We wax poetic and wane dramatic on a number of subjects, including:
Ben's da…2 years, 10 months ago
#52 - Ask Us Anything I: Computation and Creativity
We debated calling this episode "An ode to Michael," because we set out to do an AMA but only get through his first two questions. But never fear, th…
2 years, 11 months ago
#51 - Truth, Moose, and Refrigerated Eggplant: Critiquing Chapman's Meta-Rationality
Vaden comes out swinging against David Chapman's work on meta-rationality. Is Chapman pointing out a fatal flaw, or has Popper solved these problems …
3 years ago
#50 - On the Evolutionary Origins of Storytelling, Art, and Science
Fifty godd*** episodes! 'Tis been a ride full of debate, drinks, questionable arguments, Ben becoming both a dualist and a social media addict, and V…
3 years, 2 months ago
#49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)
When big bearded men wearing fedoras begin yelling at you that the end is nigh and superintelligence is about to kill us all, what should you do? Vad…
3 years, 3 months ago
#48 (C&R Chap. 18) - Utopia and Violence
You may, perchance, have noticed that the sweeping utopian movements of the past did not end well. And most of them involved an horrific amount of vi…
3 years, 4 months ago
#47 (Bonus) - Dualism, Reductionism, and Explanation Pancakes
Second holiday season bonus episode! Vaden joins Chesto on The Declaration podcast to talk about monism, dualism, the reality of abstractions, emerge…
3 years, 5 months ago
#46 (Bonus) - Arguing about probability (with Nick Anyos)
We make a guest appearance on Nick Anyos' podcast to talk about effective altruism, longtermism, and probability. Nick (very politely) pushes back on…
3 years, 6 months ago
#45 - Four Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)
We were delighted to be joined by Davis Professor at the Sante Fe Insitute, Melanie Mitchell! We chat about our understanding of artificial intellige…
3 years, 7 months ago