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#57 (Bonus) - A calm and soothing discussion of The Patriarchy
We we're looking for a nice light topic for our patron only episode, so Vaden naturally chosen to chat about the patriarchy. I guess he didn't get in…
2 years, 10 months ago
#56 - Ask Us Anything IV: Certainty, Emergence, and Popperian Imperatives
Perhaps you thought, in your infinite ignorance, that the release of the previous episode marked the end of the age of the AMA! But nay my friends, t…
2 years, 10 months ago
#55 - Is all thought problem-solving?
Our argument at the end of last episode spilled over into discord, DMs, and world news, so we felt compelled to dedicate a full episode to addressing…
2 years, 11 months ago
#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, 11 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…3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 2 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, 3 months 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, 4 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, 5 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, 6 months ago