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#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, 7 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, 8 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, 10 months ago
#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, 11 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…
4 years 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…
4 years, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 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, 6 months ago