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Back to SearchEp 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
Episode 131
This chapter continues the themes from Chapter 5 and purports to be an exploration of the use of so-called "rational choice theory". I discuss this "…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
Episode 130
This serves as an introduction to the chapter proper. I cover what justification is, David's stated ways in which he might revise the wording chosen …
3 years, 8 months ago
Ep 128: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 5 ”Beliefs & Evidence (Bayesian Reasoning” Remarks & Analysis
Episode 129
This chapter continues the themes from Chapter 4 as well as my episode all about probability, risk and Bayesianism found here: https://www.youtube.co…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ep 127: The End of Global Order (A response).
Episode 128
A quick reaction video to the first 10 minutes of Sam Harris' "Making Sense" episode number 288 "The End of Global Order" - found here https://www.po…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ep: 126 Origins
Episode 127
I strongly recommend watching this episode on Youtube as it is heavy on the visuals. That video can be found here: https://youtu.be/s3tMRgAHXgw
A ver…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ep 125: Livestreams 1, 2 & 3
Episode 126
These is the audio from knitted together livestreams conducted on YouTube recently. Lots of new questions and common topics discussed. A special intr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”
Episode 125
This chapter traverses a terrain of "computers" - the abstract ideas of Turing and Church, the physical computers envisaged by Deutsch and hence quan…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ep 123: Ask Me Anything 3
Episode 124
This is an ask me anything episode. The questions and timestamps are as follows:
01:13 Arjun Khemani “Why are problems inevitable?"
06:41 Jiten Terri…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
Episode 123
In this episode - unlike the other also titled "Work and Heat" - we actually cover the content of Chiara's book and go through some readings. We look…
3 years, 9 months ago
(Episode 121) Energy
Episode 122
This is an extended Substack Newsletter article on the issue of energy production and associated issues. The article with rather many links and refer…
3 years, 9 months ago