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Fluidity — 160 episodes · page 1 of 2
A Better Future, Without Backprop
Better Text Generation With Science And Engineering
Classifying Images: Massive Parallelism And Surface Features
Do AI As Engineering Instead
Do AI As Science Instead
Do AI As Science And Engineering Instead
Backpropaganda: Anti-Rational Neuro-Mythology
Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful, Part 2
Gradient Dissent- Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful, Part 1
Futurism, Politics, and Responsibility
A Future We Would Like
Scientific Progress Without AI
Limits To Experimental Induction
Bonus Episode 8: Going Down On The Phenomenon
The Role Of Intelligence In Science
Radical Progress Without Scary AI
AI Is Net Harmful, and, A Negative Public Image For AI
Spurn Artificial Ideology
Fight DOOM AI with SCIENCE! and ENGINEERING!!
Mistrust Machine Learning
Develop And Mandate Intrinsic Cybersecurity
Practical Actions You Can Take Against AI Risks, and, End Digital Surveillance
Social Collapse: Apocalyptic Incoherence
Who Is In control Of AI? What An AI Apocalypse May Look Like
Apocalypse Now - At War With The Machines
Fear Power, Not Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence And Transformative AI
Motivation, Morals, and Monsters
Diverse Forms Of Agency
Autonomous AI Agents
Mind-Like AI
Scary AI, and, Superintelligence
Only You Can Stop An AI Apocalypse
A Fully Metarational Workplace
Doing Being Rational
Upgrade Your Cargo Cult For The Win
What They Don't Teach You At STEM School
Ignorant, Irrelevant, And Inscrutable
Judging Whether A System Applies
Part 4: Taking Meta-Rationality Seriously
Ontological Remodeling
The Parable Of The Pebbles
Taking Rationality Seriously
Reasonable Ontology
Instructed Activity
Reasonable Believings
The Purpose Of Meaning
Meaningful Perception
Accountability And Routine
Aspects Of Reasonableness - and - Reasonableness Is Meaningful Activity
Part Two: Taking Reasonableness Seriously
Acting On The Truth, And Overcoming Post-Rationalist Nihilism
Probabilism, Part Two
Probabilism, Part One
Propositions, Hypothesis Generation, and Unknown Unknowns
Is This An Eggplant Which I See Before Me?
Objects, Objectively
Reference And Identity
Overdriving Approximation
When Will You Go Bald?
Are Eggplants Fruits?
Reductio Ad Reductionem
The Truth Of The Matter
Logic
Positive And Logical
Rationalism's Responses To Trouble
Taking Rationality Seriously
A Credibility Revolution In The Post-Truth Era
Bonus Metacast: Fluidity Forum Glossary
Rationality And Refrigerators
Intro To Metarationality
Bonus Metacast: Fluidity Forum Announcement
Miserabilism, Angst, and Existentialism
The Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 7: 180 Proof
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 6: Justification
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 5: Objectivity
Eternalist Ploys
The Cofounders, Part 2: Epilogue
Bonus Metacast: Pretending To Believe, Part 2
The Cofounders, Part 1
Bonus Metacast: Pretending To Believe
Fluidity
Atomization
Archipelago
Subcultures
Completing The Countercultures
Wreckage: The Culture War
Counter-cultures Thick And Wide - And - Why Both Countercultures Failed
Modern Mythologies, & Fundamentalism Is Countercultural Modernism
Rotating Politics 90 Degrees Clockwise
The Personal Is Political
Rejecting Rationality, Reinventing Religion, Reconfiguring The Self
Renegotiating Self And Society
Hippies And Evangelicals: Monist & Dualist Countercultures
A Bridge To Meta-Rationality Vs. Civilizational Collapse
Countercultures: Modernity's Last Gasp
The Collapse Of Rational Certainty
Systems Of Meaning All In Flames
Invented Traditions And Timeworn Futures
The Glory Of Systems