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#44 - Longtermism Revisited: What We Owe the Future
Like moths to a flame, we come back to longtermism once again. But it's not our fault. Will MacAskill published a new book, What We Owe the Future, a…
3 years, 8 months ago
#43 - Artificial General Intelligence and the AI Safety debate
Some people think that advanced AI is going to kill everyone. Some people don't. Who to believe? Fortunately, Ben and Vaden are here to sort out the…
3 years, 9 months ago
#42 (C&R, Chap 12+13) - Language and the Body-Mind Problem
Ben and Vaden sit down to discuss what is possibly Popper's most confusing essay ever: Language and the Body-Mind Problem: A restatement of Interacti…
3 years, 11 months ago
#41 - Parenting, Epistemology, and EA (w/ Lulie Tanett)
We're joined by the wonderful Lulie Tanett to talk about effective altruism, pulling spouses out of burning buildings, and why you should prefer crit…
4 years ago
#40 - The Myth of The Framework: On the possibility of fruitful discussion
Is there any possibility of fruitful dialogue with your mildly crazy, significantly intoxicated uncle at Thanksgiving dinner? We turn to Karl Popper'…
4 years ago
#39 - The Enigma of Reason
The most reasonable and well-reasoned discussion of reason you can be reasonably expected to hear. Today we talk about the book The Enigma of Reason …
4 years, 2 months ago
#38 (C&R Series, Ch. 2) - Wittgenstein vs Popper
We cover the spicy showdown between the two of the world's most headstrong philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. In a dingy Cambridge c…
4 years, 3 months ago
#37 - Montessori Education w/ Matt Bateman
We're joined today by Matt Bateman, one of the founders of Higher Ground Education, to discuss the Montessori method of education and how it compares…
4 years, 4 months ago
#36 - Analyzing Effective Altruism as a Social Movement
In what is hopefully the last installment of Vaden and Ben debate Effective Altruism, we ask if EA lies on the cultishness (yes, that's a word) spect…
4 years, 5 months ago
#35 - Climate Change III: Fossil Fuels
Come experience the thrill of the shill as we discuss the somewhat-controversial natural resource called "fossil fuels". In this episode, we drill d…
4 years, 6 months ago