84 Episodes

  1. #63 - Recycling is the Dumps

    Published: 14/02/2024
  2. #62 (Bonus) - The Principle of Optimism (Vaden on the Theory of Anything Podcast)

    Published: 1/02/2024
  3. #61 - Debating Free Will: Frankenstein's Monster and a Filmstrip of the Universe (with Lucas Smalldon)

    Published: 17/01/2024
  4. #60 - Creativity and Computational Universality (with Bruce Nielson)

    Published: 4/01/2024
  5. #59 (C&R, Chap 8) - On the Status of Science and Metaphysics (Plus reflections on the Brett Hall blog exchange)

    Published: 22/12/2023
  6. #58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read

    Published: 29/11/2023
  7. #57 (Bonus) - A calm and soothing discussion of The Patriarchy

    Published: 15/11/2023
  8. #56 - Ask Us Anything IV: Certainty, Emergence, and Popperian Imperatives

    Published: 1/11/2023
  9. #55 - Is all thought problem-solving?

    Published: 9/10/2023
  10. #54 - Ask Us Anything III: Emotional Epistemology

    Published: 18/09/2023
  11. #53 - Ask Us Anything II: Disagreements and Decisions

    Published: 14/08/2023
  12. #52 - Ask Us Anything I: Computation and Creativity

    Published: 10/07/2023
  13. #51 - Truth, Moose, and Refrigerated Eggplant: Critiquing Chapman's Meta-Rationality

    Published: 29/05/2023
  14. #50 - On the Evolutionary Origins of Storytelling, Art, and Science

    Published: 24/04/2023
  15. #49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)

    Published: 22/03/2023
  16. #48 (C&R Chap. 18) - Utopia and Violence

    Published: 24/02/2023
  17. #47 (Bonus) - Dualism, Reductionism, and Explanation Pancakes

    Published: 16/01/2023
  18. #46 (Bonus) - Arguing about probability (with Nick Anyos)

    Published: 19/12/2022
  19. #45 - Four Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)

    Published: 31/10/2022
  20. #44 - Longtermism Revisited: What We Owe the Future

    Published: 3/10/2022

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Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at [email protected].

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