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Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
A deep dive into David Deutsch’s “principle of optimism” featuring Sam Kuypers, Vaden Masrani, Hervé Eulacia, Micah Redding, Bill Rugolsky, and Danie…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later
Season 1 Episode 58
Back in 2012, David Deutsch wrote an article called "Creative Blocks: How Close are we to Creating Artificial Intelligence?" This article inspired Br…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
Season 1 Episode 57
Does every one of us live forever in the multiverse? Is death a solvable problem? What is “quantum suicide”? Is quantum torment a concern? Does every…
3 years ago
Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
Season 1 Episode 56
Special guest, Lulie Tanett, asked me if she could come on my podcast and interview me about religion. Lulie and Peter ask me numerous religion-relat…
3 years ago
Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)
Season 1 Episode 55
We continue our discussion of Dwarkesh Patel's article "Contra David Deutsch on AI" compared to Brett Hall's tweet on IQ theory. This time we con…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
In this episode, we continue our discussion of Dwarkesh Patel's article "Contra David Deutsch on AI" compared to Brett Hall's tweet on IQ theory. Thi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 53
Dwarkesh Patel published an article called "Contra David Deutsch on AI". This article was actually a defense of IQ theory against the charge (often m…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 52: Is Being Dogmatic Ever a Good Thing?
In our previous episode, we asked if Karl Popper was Dogmatic. We also introduced the idea that Karl Popper wasn't convinced that dogmatism was alway…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 51: Was Karl Popper Dogmatic?
Season 1 Episode 51
There seems to be broad agreement, even among Karl Popper's own students, that he was a deeply dogmatic individual. In this episode we ask the questi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 50: The Turing Test 2.0 (aka is LaMDA Sentient?)
Season 1 Episode 50
Blake Lemoine, the ex-Google engineer, claims LaMDA -- Google's language model -- is sentient. Is he right?
Alan Turing is perhaps most famous for hi…
3 years, 7 months ago