Episodes
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Table of contents
- Episode 1: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Experts
- Episode 2: Is the Scientific Method Wrong?
- Episode 3: The Popper-Deutsch Solution
- Episode 4: What Makes a Good Explanation?
- Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition
- Episode 6: Dancing the Ancient Forms
- Episode 7: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
- Episode 8: The Disneyfication of Star Wars
- Episode 9: Introduction to Computational Theory
- Episode 10: What Use is Computational Theory?
- Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence
- Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence
- Episode 13: Objections to Artificial General Intelligence
- Episode 14: Theories of Artificial General Intelligence
- Episode 15: Radical Candor - Giving Criticism In a Business Environment
- Episode 16: Radical Candor - How to Give Effective Criticism
- Episode 17: Shiri's Scissor: Polarization and Politics
- Episode 18: Idea Development through Error Correction
- Episode 19: Why Don't Businesses Emphasize Error Correction?
- Episode 20: Command and Control Business Leadership
- Episode 21: Evolution Outside the Genome
- Episode 22: Avoiding Self Coercion Through Intuitive Eating
- Episode 23: Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics
- Episode 24: What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Episode 25: Universal Darwinism - Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?
- Episode 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge Creation?
- Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory
- Episode 28: Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning
- Episode 29: The Marvel[ous] TV Shows
- Episode 30: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 1 - The Mystery of Time
- Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism
- Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty
- Episode 33: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 4 - Possible Solutions and Criticisms
- Episode 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
- Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
- Episode 36: Failure is an Option!
- Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
- Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper's Epistemology (part 2)
- Episode 39: Byrne's Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
- Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence
- Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
- Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)
- Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"
- Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television
- Episode 46: Narcissism and Other Mental Disorders
- Episode 47: Genetics and Universality (part 1): How Our Genes Influence Us
- Episode 48: Genetics and Universality (part 2): How Our Genes Coerce Us
- Episode 49: AGI Alignment and Safety
- Episode 50: The Turing Test 2.0 (aka is LaMDA Sentient?)
- Episode 51: Was Karl Popper Dogmatic?
- Episode 52: Is Being Dogmatic Ever a Good Thing?
- Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1
- Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
- Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)
- Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
- Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
- Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later
- Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
- Episode 60: Learning, Work, and Art in the Age of ChatGPT
- Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
- Episode 62: Aliens!?!?
- Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability
- Episode 64: What is a "Refutation"?
- Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will
- Episode 66: The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and the Search For Meaning
- Episode 67: Disagreements with Deutsch
- Episode 68: Caldwell's "Clarifying Popper"
- Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism
- Episode 70: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence?
- Episode 71: Can Values be Objective?
- Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance
- Episode 73: Argue Me Everything
- Episode 74: The Problem of Open-Endedness
- Episode 75: Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge: The Walking Robot
- Episode 76: The Constructor Theory of Knowledge
- Episode 77: Counter Examples To Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge?
- Episode 78: Are Animal Memes Knowledge In the Genes?
- Episode 79: Perspiration vs Inspiration
- Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge
- Episode 81: Easy to Varyness vs Ad Hocness
- Episode 82: Popper's Ratchet
- Episode 83: Popper's Second Axis (aka Bruce's Epistemology?)
- Episode 84: Are Video Games Harmful to Children?
- Episode 85: Critical Rationalism and Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1)
- Episode 86: Fuzzy Categories, Essentialism, and Epistemology (Hofstadter Part 2)
- Episode 87: Is the Universal Explainer Hypothesis Falsifiable?
- Episode 88: The Myth of the Objective
- Episode 89: Tradition as a Source of Knowledge: Popper vs. Chesterton
- Episode 90: Bayesianism for Critical Rationalists!?
- Episode 91: The Critical Rationalist Case For Induction!?
- Episode 92: Popper on Philosophical Theories
- Episode 93: Philosophical Theories vs Bad Explanations
- Episode 94: Stephen Hicks on Critical Rationalism vs Objectivism
- Episode 95: On Morality, Moralizing, and Elephant Jockeys (Round Table)
- Episode 96: Kenneth Stanley on the Pursuit of What’s Interesting
- Episode 97: Karl Popper On Conservatism in Music (w/Chris Johansen)
- Episode 98: Objectively Beautiful Flowers?
- Episode 99: Critical Rationalism and Solipsism
- Episode 100: Interview with David Deutsch
- Episode 101: Wolfram, Rucker, and the Computational Nature of Reality
- Episode 102: Is IQ a Bit Scientifically Valid?
- Episode 103: Neo-Darwinism vs Post-Darwinism
- Episode 104: 3rd Way Evolution vs the Critics
- Episode 105: Michael Levin's Unseen World of Cell Cognition
- Episode 106: Karl Popper and God
- Episode 107: Was Popper a Fideist?
- Episode 108: AI and Obedience (with Dan Gish)
- Episode 109: Genes, Emergence, and Platonism (round table with Sadia and Ivan)
- Episode 110: Brave New World vs. 1984 (round table discussion)
- Episode 111: Static vs Dynamic Societies
- Episode 112: Words vs Concepts: Does 'Randomness' Exist?
- Episode 113: Evolution, Collective Minds, and Static Societies
- Episode 114: Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology
- Episode 115: Is Falsification Falsifiable?
- Episode 116: The Knowledge Machine
- Episode 117: Jonathan Rauch
- Episode 118: Christian Transhumanism (with Micah Redding)
- Episode 119: New Right vs Libertarianism w/Logan Chipkin
- Episode 120: Popper on Trial
- Episode 121: Beliefs
- Episode 122: The Case Against Logical Fallacies
- Episode 123: Campbell vs Deutsch: Incremental vs Cosmic Significance
- Episode 124: Popper's Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge
- Episode 125: Our Lovecraftian Universe?
- Episode 126: The Concept of Concepts
- Episode 127: Hofstadter vs Popper on Concepts
- Episode 128: Induction’s Immunizing Strategy
- Episode 129: Is Probability Real?
- Episode 130: The "Pseudo Deutsch Theory of Knowledge"
- Episode 131: Knowledge as a Concept
- Episode 132: Roughly Testable Theories (and Ancaps)
- Episode 133: The Constitution of Knowledge
- Episode 134: The Deutsch Slot Machine
- Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch