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Ep 225: Livestream from November 27, 2024

Episode 226

A long "ask me anything" episode live and off the cuff. Apologies for the audio quality.

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 224: Shapes, Time, and Holism - by Julian Barbour

Episode 225

Julian Barbour is an independent British Physicist and the author of technical and popular books including the best selling "The End of Time" and most recently "The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time"…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 223: The Deutsch Files IV (ToKCast version)

Episode 224

After a short introduction by me, the remainder of this episode is a reproduction of "The Deutsch Files IV" the latest in a series of conversations between myself, Naval Ravikant and David Deutsch ab…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 222: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 12 ”TimeTravel” Part 1

Episode 223

Is time travel into the past and the future possible? What is time dilation? Subjective and objective senses of "time travel". David Deutsch's own documentary on Time Travel from the BBB (192) https:…

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Ep 221: Do Not Destroy The Means of Error Correction

Episode 222

Here I present a "positive vision" of the kind I complained was absent in the episode right before this ("Criticism is never enough"). Here I am riffing off a line which contains a deep truth out of …

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 220: Criticism is never enough

Episode 221

Another response episode. This time to Douglas Murray and Jordan Peterson. Douglas and Jordan are seeking a way to construct a positive vision for society, but they seem at a loss for what in fundame…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 219: Response to Peter Boghossian Part 3, Appendix

Episode 220

Parts 1 and 2 were, admittedly, long. So if you could not persevere through those, this gets the major points out serving both as an appendix to tie up some loose ends and as a summary of parts 1 and…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 218: Peter Boghossian Response PART 2

Episode 219

Here I get to the part of the discussion Peter has about my own "airchat" explanation of "anyone can understand anything". I go through arguments based on the Church-Turing Principle, computational u…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep: 217 Peter Boghossian Response Part 1

Episode 218

The great epistemologist, Peter Boghossian, created a video on Youtube that responded to me, in part. It's to be found in full here: https://youtu.be/5Vf-T8K0_zE?si=T2XkG8h8iNj1ZXGR

This first part i…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 216: Astrobiology and Cancer

Episode 217

Part 2 in a series about the work of researcher Charley Lineweaver. In this episode, a targeted focus on the one thing we did not discuss out of all of Charley's scientific interests in my interview …

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago