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Ep 250: The Farthest Reaches - Audiobook

Episode 251

The Farthest Reaches is a book about "Explanatory Universality". Explanatory Universality is a concept introduced by physicist and philosopher David …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 249: The Farthest Reaches Part 4 and Conclusion

Episode 250

Chapters and Timestamps

00:06 Chapter 13: Explanatory Universality, Hangups and Sexuality

08:07 Chapter 14: The Woke Left and the Woke Right

15:38 Ch…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 248: AI and Philosophy of Science

Episode 249

This is the extended "director's cut" of a talk delivered for "RatFest 2025" (next year to be "Conjecture Con"). This also serves as a supplement to …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 247: The Farthest Reaches Part 3

Episode 248

Chapters and Timestamps

00:07 Chapter 10 Explanatory Universality and Ethnicity

24:51 Chapter 11 Explanatory Universality and Multiculturalism

37:47 …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 246: The Farthest Reaches Part 2

Episode 247

Chapters and Timestamps:

 

00:06 Chapter 5 Explanatory Universality, Psychology and IQ

03:30 Chapter 6 Explanatory Universality and Adopting Culture

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 245: The Farthest Reaches (Part 1)

Episode 246

Chapters 1 to 4 of a multi-chapter series about the reach of what I argue is one of the most important lessons to learn in order to solve many pressi…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 244: Deep learning is not "inductive".

Episode 245

We are told by people working in the field, researchers and those who publish academic papers on the topic that artificial intelligence or deep learn…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 243: In praise of ignorance - the podcast. With Liberty Fitz-Claridge

Episode 244

This episode is a reading of and reflection upon more writing by David Deutsch - an article you can find at https://takingchildrenseriously.com/in-pr…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 242: Is religion worth preserving?

Episode 243

  Woke is a rejection of the truth, the good, the beautiful. Is the best response a return to traditional religion? Are some dogmas worth defending?

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 241: AI 2027 Reaction Part 5: Summary and Conclusions

Episode 242

A summary of some arguments made in the previous 4 parts, and a conclusion to my evaluation of https://ai-2027.com I refer to Daniel Kokotajlo's pape…

10 months, 1 week ago

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