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Episode 49: AGI Alignment and Safety
Season 1 Episode 49
Is Elon Musk right that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research is like 'summoning the demon' and should be regulated?
In episodes 48 and 49, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 48: Genetics and Universality (part 2): How Our Genes Coerce Us
Season 1 Episode 48
How do we square genetically influenced mental disorders with the theory of explanatory universality?
In a previous episode, Tracy asked Bruce how to…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 47: Genetics and Universality (part 1): How Our Genes Influence Us
Season 1 Episode 47
How do we square genetically influenced mental disorders with the theory of explanatory universality?
In our last episode, Tracy asked Bruce how to r…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 46: Narcissism and Other Mental Disorders
Season 1 Episode 46
Tracy leads a discussion about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We discuss various other mental dis…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television
Season 1 Episode 45
What responsibility do the creators of a TV series or movie have to be faithful to the original source material? What risks are involved with either …
3 years, 11 months ago
Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"
Season 1 Episode 44
Bruce had a chance to talk to David Deutsch and ask him questions about his views of knowledge to clarify if he disagreed with Popper and Campbell ab…
4 years ago
Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Season 1 Episode 43
In this video upload available on Spotify (we'll try this once and see how it's received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episod…
4 years ago
Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)
Season 1 Episode 42
Over the years Bruce collected a series of 'problems' with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scho…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
Season 1 Episode 41
Over the years Bruce collected a series of 'problems' with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scho…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence
Season 1 Episode 40
In this (mostly) standalone episode, we cover how Deutsch and Byrne each interpret Byrne's theory differently. Deutsch emphasizes the micro-level act…
4 years, 2 months ago