All Episodes

#108 - The OpenAI/HuggingFace "incident": Responding to Sam Harris and Ryan Greenblatt

#107 - Is Too Much Therapy Ruining a Generation?

#106 - The Successes, Failures, and Grifters of Neuroscience (w/ Tommy Blanchard)

#105 - The World of Bayesian Statistics (w/ Alex Andorra)

#104 (C&R Chap 10, Part V) - The Duhem-Quine Thesis

#103 - AI, Evolution, and The God Test (w/ Robert Wright)

#102 - Criticizing Crit-rats (w/ Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen)

#101 (C&R Chap 10, Part IV) - Was Popper Wrong about Verisimilitude?

#100 - Celebrating the Centennial

#99 - Debating Trump in Good Faith (w/ Don Robinson)

#98 (C&R Chap 10, Part III) - What is truth?

#97 - Did Effective Altruism Have Ulterior Motives From the Beginning?

#96 (Bonus) - On the Limits of Introspection

#95 (C&R Chap 10, Part II) - A Problem-First View of Scientific Progress

#94 - Is AI Just a Tool? (w/ Scott Aaronson)

#93 (C&R Chap 10, Part I) - An Introduction to Popper's Theory of Content

#92 - Confronting the Paradox of Tolerance: Christianity in the age of Trump (w/ Jonathan Rauch)

#91 - The Uses and Abuses of Statistics (w/ Ben Recht)

#90 (Reaction) - Disbelieving AI 2027: Responding to "Why We're Not Ready For Superintelligence"

#89 (C&R, Chap 6) - Berkeley vs Newton: The Battle Over Gravity

#88 (Bonus) - Homer's Odyssey

#87 - Gullibility, Belief, and Conformity (with Hugo Mercier)

#86 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 2)

#85 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 1)

#84 - A Primer on Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier

#83 - The Anxious Generation Round II: Alternative Explanations

#82 - Are Screens Really That Bad? Critiquing Jon Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"

#81 - What Does Critical Rationalism Get Wrong? (w/ Kasra)

#80 (C&R Series, Chap. 7) - Dare to Know: Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment

#79 (Bonus) - The Mitford Sisters

#78 - What could Karl Popper have learned from Vladimir Nabokov? (w/ Brian Boyd)

#77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira)

#76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)

#75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers)

#74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch)

#73 - The Unfairness of Proportional Representation

#72 (C&R, Chap. 19: Part II) - On the (alleged) Right of a Nation to Self-Determination

#71 (C&R, Chap 19: Part I) - The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View

#70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows)

#69 - Contra Scott Alexander on Probability

#68 - Libertarianism IV: Political Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson)

#67 - Libertarianism III: Social Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson)

#66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella)

#65 - Libertarianism II: Economic Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson)

#64 - Libertarianism I: Intro and Moral Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson)

#63 - Recycling is the Dumps

#62 (Bonus) - The Principle of Optimism (Vaden on the Theory of Anything Podcast)

#61 - Debating Free Will: Frankenstein's Monster and a Filmstrip of the Universe (with Lucas Smalldon)

#60 - Creativity and Computational Universality (with Bruce Nielson)

#59 (C&R, Chap 8) - On the Status of Science and Metaphysics (Plus reflections on the Brett Hall blog exchange)

#58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read

#57 (Bonus) - A calm and soothing discussion of The Patriarchy

#56 - Ask Us Anything IV: Certainty, Emergence, and Popperian Imperatives

#55 - Is all thought problem-solving?

#54 - Ask Us Anything III: Emotional Epistemology

#53 - Ask Us Anything II: Disagreements and Decisions

#52 - Ask Us Anything I: Computation and Creativity

#51 - Truth, Moose, and Refrigerated Eggplant: Critiquing Chapman's Meta-Rationality

#50 - On the Evolutionary Origins of Storytelling, Art, and Science

#49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)

#48 (C&R Chap. 18) - Utopia and Violence

#47 (Bonus) - Dualism, Reductionism, and Explanation Pancakes

#46 (Bonus) - Arguing about probability (with Nick Anyos)

#45 - Four Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)

#44 - Longtermism Revisited: What We Owe the Future

#43 - Artificial General Intelligence and the AI Safety debate

#42 (C&R, Chap 12+13) - Language and the Body-Mind Problem

#41 - Parenting, Epistemology, and EA (w/ Lulie Tanett)

#40 - The Myth of The Framework: On the possibility of fruitful discussion

#39 - The Enigma of Reason

#38 (C&R Series, Ch. 2) - Wittgenstein vs Popper

#37 - Montessori Education w/ Matt Bateman

#36 - Analyzing Effective Altruism as a Social Movement

#35 - Climate Change III: Fossil Fuels

#34 - Climate Change II: Growth, Degrowth, Reactions, Responses

#33 (C&R Series, Ch. 3) - Instrumentalism and Essentialism

#32 - Climate Change I: Initial Thought-Crimes

#31 - The Fall of the Weinstein Republic

#30 - Let's all just have a good cry (w/ Christofer Lövgren)

#29 - Some Scattered Thoughts on Superforecasting

#28 (C&R Series, Ch. 9) - Why is Logic Applicable to Reality?

#27 - A Conversation with Marianne

#26 - Moral Philosophy Cage Match (with Dan Hageman)

#25 - Mathematical Explanation with Mark Colyvan

#24 - Popper's Three Worlds

#23 - Physics, Philosophy, and Free Will with Sam Kuypers

#22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments

#21 (C&R Series, Ch.1) - The Problem of Induction

#20 (HTI crossover episode) - Roundtable Longtermism Discussion

#19 - Against Longtermism FAQ

#18 - Work Addiction

#17 - Against Longtermism

#16 - Social Media II: Conversation, Privacy, and Odds & Ends

#15 - Social Media I: Manipulation, Outrage, and Documentaries

#14 (C&R Series, Ch.16) - Prediction, Prophecy, and Fascism

#13 - Privacy with Stephen Caines

#12 (C&R Series, Ch. 17) - Public Opinion and Liberal Principles

#11 - Debating Existential Risk

#10 (C&R Series, Ch. 4) - Tradition

#9 - Facial Recognition Technology with Stephen Caines