Podcast Episodes

Episode 29: The Marvel[ous] TV Shows

Season 1 Episode 29

In this episode Cameo, Tracy, and Bruce geek out over how good the Marvel TV shows are and how much they really get right. Spoilers abound, so be war…

4 years, 8 months ago

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Episode 28: Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning

Season 1 Episode 28

Reinforcement Learning is a machine learning algorithm that is a 'general purpose learner' (with certain important caveats). It generated a lot of ex…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory

Season 1 Episode 27

In this episode, we interview Chiara Marletto about her recent book The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfa…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Episode 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge Creation?

Season 1 Episode 26

Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Episode 25: Universal Darwinism - Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?

Season 1 Episode 25

In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Cam…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 24: What is Artificial Intelligence?

Season 1 Episode 24

The popular media confuses Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence. All the progress is in the first while all the interest is in…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 23: Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics

Season 1 Episode 23

Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics is the only current explanation we have of quantum physics. Yet most scientists today still prefer to not have an expla…

4 years, 11 months ago

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Episode 22: Avoiding Self Coercion Through Intuitive Eating

Season 1 Episode 22

"Intuitive Eating (A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach)" by RDN Evelyn Tribole and RDN Elyse Resch is a book about how to use the natural signals in y…

4 years, 11 months ago

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Episode 21: Evolution Outside the Genome

Season 1 Episode 21

In this episode, we discuss how the work of Michael Levine intersects with the work of Raymond and Denise Noble's as well as Donald Campbell's. Levin…

5 years ago

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Episode 20: Command and Control Business Leadership

Season 1 Episode 20

Our discussion with Bart Vanderhaegen finishes with a discussion about why businesses prefer to tell their employees what to do and why this is prefe…

5 years ago

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