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Episode 79: Perspiration vs Inspiration
Season 1 Episode 79
Is human creativity algorithmic? What is the difference between an Inspiration and a perspiration algorithm? Can mechanical processes ever create kno…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 78: Are Animal Memes Knowledge In the Genes?
Season 1 Episode 78
Do animals create knowledge? Deutsch claims they don't because all their knowledge is in their genes. Yet he admits that animals do have memes! But a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 77: Counter Examples To Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge?
Season 1 Episode 77
Bruce continues to consider what our best theories tell us about knowledge. Is there something special (or even physically different) about the knowl…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 76: The Constructor Theory of Knowledge
Season 1 Episode 76
In the previous episode, Bruce pointed out an apparent contradiction between Deutsch's criteria for knowledge as 'adapted information that causes its…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 75: Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge: The Walking Robot
Season 1 Episode 75
What is the “two sources hypothesis,” or the idea that there exist only two sources of knowledge in the known universe: Darwinian natural selection a…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 74: The Problem of Open-Endedness
Season 1 Episode 74
What is the “problem of open-endedness”? Bruce explores how what might sound like an esoteric machine-learning issue may actually be interwoven with …
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 73: Argue Me Everything
Season 1 Episode 73
Here we move three arguments from social media to the podcast. 1. Given Deutsch’s universal explainer hypothesis, does it make sense to say that men…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance
Season 1 Episode 72
Here we use Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s essay “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority” as a springboard to discuss majority rul…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 71: Can Values be Objective?
Season 1 Episode 70
With guest Ivan Phillips, we discuss and debate subjective vs objective morality. Does the concept of objective morality ever make sense given “Hume’…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 70: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence?
Season 1 Episode 70
How does ChatGPT really work? Is there a relationship between a program like ChatGPT and artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
This time we review …
2 years, 5 months ago