Episode Transcripts for the Theory of Anything Podcast

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Episodes

• Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch

• Episode 134: The Deutsch Slot Machine

• Episode 133: The Constitution of Knowledge

• Episode 132: Roughly Testable Theories (and Ancaps)

• Episode 131: Knowledge as a Concept

• Episode 130: The “Pseudo Deutsch Theory of Knowledge”

• Episode 129: Is Probability Real?

• Episode 128: Induction’s Immunizing Strategy

• Episode 127: Hofstadter vs Popper on Concepts

• Episode 126: The Concept of Concepts

• Episode 125: Our Lovecraftian Universe?

• Episode 124: Popper’s Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge

• Episode 123: Campbell vs Deutsch: Incremental vs Cosmic Significance

• Episode 122: The Case Against Logical Fallacies

• Episode 121: Beliefs

• Episode 120: Popper on Trial

• Episode 119: New Right vs Libertarianism w/Logan Chipkin

• Episode 118: Christian Transhumanism (with Micah Redding)

• Episode 117: Jonathan Rauch

• Episode 116: The Knowledge Machine

• Episode 115: Is Falsification Falsifiable?

• Episode 114: Campbell’s Evolutionary Epistemology

• Episode 113: Evolution, Collective Minds, and Static Societies

• Episode 112: Words vs Concepts: Does ‘Randomness’ Exist?

• Episode 111: Static vs Dynamic Societies

• Episode 110: Brave New World vs. 1984 (round table discussion)

• Episode 109: Genes, Emergence, and Platonism (round table with Sadia and Ivan)

• Episode 108: AI and Obedience (with Dan Gish)

• Episode 107: Was Popper a Fideist?

• Episode 106: Karl Popper and God

• Episode 105: Michael Levin’s Unseen World of Cell Cognition

• Episode 104: 3rd Way Evolution vs the Critics

• Episode 103: Neo-Darwinism vs Post-Darwinism

• Episode 102: Is IQ a Bit Scientifically Valid?

• Episode 101: Wolfram, Rucker, and the Computational Nature of Reality

• Episode 100: Interview with David Deutsch

• Episode 99: Critical Rationalism and Solipsism

• Episode 98: Objectively Beautiful Flowers?

• Episode 97: Karl Popper On Conservatism in Music (w/Chris Johansen)

• Episode 96: Kenneth Stanley on the Pursuit of What’s Interesting

• Episode 95: On Morality, Moralizing, and Elephant Jockeys (Round Table)

• Episode 94: Stephen Hicks on Critical Rationalism vs Objectivism

• Episode 93: Philosophical Theories vs Bad Explanations

• Episode 92: Popper on Philosophical Theories

• Episode 91: The Critical Rationalist Case For Induction!?

• Episode 90: Bayesianism for Critical Rationalists!?

• Episode 89: Tradition as a Source of Knowledge: Popper vs. Chesterton

• Episode 88: The Myth of the Objective

• Episode 87: Is the Universal Explainer Hypothesis Falsifiable?

• Episode 86: Fuzzy Categories, Essentialism, and Epistemology (Hofstadter Part 2)

• Episode 85: Critical Rationalism and Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1)

• Episode 84: Are Video Games Harmful to Children?

• Episode 83: Popper’s Second Axis (aka Bruce’s Epistemology?)

• Episode 82: Popper’s Ratchet

• Episode 81: Easy to Varyness vs Ad Hocness

• Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge

• Episode 79: Perspiration vs Inspiration

• Episode 78: Are Animal Memes Knowledge In the Genes?

• Episode 77: Counter Examples To Deutsch’s Theory of Knowledge?

• Episode 76: The Constructor Theory of Knowledge

• Episode 75: Deutsch’s Theory of Knowledge: The Walking Robot

• Episode 74: The Problem of Open-Endedness

• Episode 73: Argue Me Everything

• Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance

• Episode 71: Can Values be Objective?

• Episode 70: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence?

• Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism

• Episode 68: Caldwell’s “Clarifying Popper”

• Episode 67: Disagreements with Deutsch

• Episode 66: The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and the Search For Meaning

• Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will

• Episode 64: What is a “Refutation”?

• Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability

• Episode 62: Aliens!?!?

• Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration

• Episode 60: Learning, Work, and Art in the Age of ChatGPT

• Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)

• Episode 58: Deutsch’s “Creative Blocks”: A Decade Later

• Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment

• Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point

• Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)

• Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)

• Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1

• Episode 52: Is Being Dogmatic Ever a Good Thing?

• Episode 51: Was Karl Popper Dogmatic?

• Episode 50: The Turing Test 2.0 (aka is LaMDA Sentient?)

• Episode 49: AGI Alignment and Safety

• Episode 48: Genetics and Universality (part 2): How Our Genes Coerce Us

• Episode 47: Genetics and Universality (part 1): How Our Genes Influence Us

• Episode 46: Narcissism and Other Mental Disorders

• Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television

• Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch’s Views of “Knowledge”

• Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning

• Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)

• Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)

• Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence

• Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)

• Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)

• Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)

• Episode 36: Failure is an Option!

• Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour

• Episode 34: Alpha Go and Creativity

• Episode 33: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 4 - Possible Solutions and Criticisms

• Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty

• Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism

• Episode 30: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 1 - The Mystery of Time

• Episode 29: The Marvel[ous] TV Shows

• Episode 28: Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning

• Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory

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

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

• Episode 24: What is Artificial Intelligence?

• Episode 23: Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics

• Episode 22: Avoiding Self Coercion Through Intuitive Eating

• Episode 21: Evolution Outside the Genome

• Episode 20: Command and Control Business Leadership

• Episode 19: Why Don’t Businesses Emphasize Error Correction?

• Episode 18: Idea Development through Error Correction

• Episode 17: Shiri’s Scissor: Polarization and Politics

• Episode 16: Radical Candor - How to Give Effective Criticism

• Episode 15: Radical Candor - Giving Criticism In a Business Environment

• Episode 14: Theories of Artificial General Intelligence

• Episode 13: Objections to Artificial General Intelligence

• Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence

• Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence

• Episode 10: What Use is Computational Theory?

• Episode 9: Introduction to Computational Theory

• Episode 8: The Disneyfication of Star Wars

• Episode 7: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

• Episode 6: Dancing the Ancient Forms

• Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition

• Episode 4: What Makes a Good Explanation?

• Episode 3: The Popper-Deutsch Solution

• Episode 2: Is the Scientific Method Wrong?

• Episode 1: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Experts

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