Increments
A podcast by Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani
84 Episodes
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#63 - Recycling is the Dumps
Published: 14/02/2024 -
#62 (Bonus) - The Principle of Optimism (Vaden on the Theory of Anything Podcast)
Published: 1/02/2024 -
#61 - Debating Free Will: Frankenstein's Monster and a Filmstrip of the Universe (with Lucas Smalldon)
Published: 17/01/2024 -
#60 - Creativity and Computational Universality (with Bruce Nielson)
Published: 4/01/2024 -
#59 (C&R, Chap 8) - On the Status of Science and Metaphysics (Plus reflections on the Brett Hall blog exchange)
Published: 22/12/2023 -
#58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read
Published: 29/11/2023 -
#57 (Bonus) - A calm and soothing discussion of The Patriarchy
Published: 15/11/2023 -
#56 - Ask Us Anything IV: Certainty, Emergence, and Popperian Imperatives
Published: 1/11/2023 -
#55 - Is all thought problem-solving?
Published: 9/10/2023 -
#54 - Ask Us Anything III: Emotional Epistemology
Published: 18/09/2023 -
#53 - Ask Us Anything II: Disagreements and Decisions
Published: 14/08/2023 -
#52 - Ask Us Anything I: Computation and Creativity
Published: 10/07/2023 -
#51 - Truth, Moose, and Refrigerated Eggplant: Critiquing Chapman's Meta-Rationality
Published: 29/05/2023 -
#50 - On the Evolutionary Origins of Storytelling, Art, and Science
Published: 24/04/2023 -
#49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)
Published: 22/03/2023 -
#48 (C&R Chap. 18) - Utopia and Violence
Published: 24/02/2023 -
#47 (Bonus) - Dualism, Reductionism, and Explanation Pancakes
Published: 16/01/2023 -
#46 (Bonus) - Arguing about probability (with Nick Anyos)
Published: 19/12/2022 -
#45 - Four Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)
Published: 31/10/2022 -
#44 - Longtermism Revisited: What We Owe the Future
Published: 3/10/2022
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].
