All Episodes
The Theory of Anything — 146 episodes
Episode 145: Pascal’s Wager and Probability Theory
Episode 144: Memes, Words, and Concepts
Episode 143: Is AGI Possible? (State of the Debate)
Episode 142: Self Deception and Dogmatism
Episode 141: Probability and Reality (with Sam Kuypers)
Episode 140: Immunizing Stratagems
Episode 139: The Rational Doomers
Episode 138: "Popperian" vs "Deutschian" Epistemology
Episode 137: Ray Scott Percival on Incurable Mind Viruses
Episode 136: Michael Golding on Mental Illness and Universal Explainers
Episode 135: Coercion and Critical Rationalism
Episode 134: The Deutsch Slot Machine
Episode 133: The Constitution of Knowledge
Episode 132: Roughly Testable Theories (and Ancaps)
Episode 131: Knowledge as a Concept
Episode 130: The "Pseudo Deutsch Theory of Knowledge"
Episode 129: Is Probability Real?
Episode 128: Induction’s Immunizing Strategy
Episode 127: Hofstadter vs Popper on Concepts
Episode 126: The Concept of Concepts
Episode 125: Our Lovecraftian Universe?
Episode 124: Popper's Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge
Episode 123: Campbell vs Deutsch: Incremental vs Cosmic Significance
Episode 122: The Case Against Logical Fallacies
Episode 121: Beliefs
Episode 120: Popper on Trial
Episode 119: New Right vs Libertarianism w/Logan Chipkin
Episode 118: Christian Transhumanism (with Micah Redding)
Episode 117: Jonathan Rauch
Episode 116: The Knowledge Machine
Episode 115: Is Falsification Falsifiable?
Episode 114: Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology
Episode 113: Evolution, Collective Minds, and Static Societies
Episode 112: Words vs Concepts: Does 'Randomness' Exist?
Episode 111: Static vs Dynamic Societies
Episode 110: Brave New World vs. 1984 (round table discussion)
Episode 109: Genes, Emergence, and Platonism (round table with Sadia and Ivan)
Episode 108: AI and Obedience (with Dan Gish)
Episode 107: Was Popper a Fideist?
Episode 106: Karl Popper and God
Episode 105: Michael Levin's Unseen World of Cell Cognition
Episode 104: 3rd Way Evolution vs the Critics
Episode 103: Neo-Darwinism vs Post-Darwinism
Episode 102: Is IQ a Bit Scientifically Valid?
Episode 101: Wolfram, Rucker, and the Computational Nature of Reality
Episode 100: Interview with David Deutsch
Episode 99: Critical Rationalism and Solipsism
Episode 98: Objectively Beautiful Flowers?
Episode 97: Karl Popper On Conservatism in Music (w/Chris Johansen)
Episode 96: Kenneth Stanley on the Pursuit of What’s Interesting
Episode 95: On Morality, Moralizing, and Elephant Jockeys (Round Table)
Episode 94: Stephen Hicks on Critical Rationalism vs Objectivism
Episode 93: Philosophical Theories vs Bad Explanations
Episode 92: Popper on Philosophical Theories
Episode 91: The Critical Rationalist Case For Induction!?
Episode 90: Bayesianism for Critical Rationalists!?
Episode 89: Tradition as a Source of Knowledge: Popper vs. Chesterton
Episode 88: The Myth of the Objective
Episode 87: Is the Universal Explainer Hypothesis Falsifiable?
Episode 86: Fuzzy Categories, Essentialism, and Epistemology (Hofstadter Part 2)
Episode 85: Critical Rationalism and Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1)
Episode 84: Are Video Games Harmful to Children?
Episode 83: Popper's Second Axis (aka Bruce's Epistemology?)
Episode 82: Popper's Ratchet
Episode 81: Easy to Varyness vs Ad Hocness
Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge
Episode 79: Perspiration vs Inspiration
Episode 78: Are Animal Memes Knowledge In the Genes?
Episode 77: Counter Examples To Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge?
Episode 76: The Constructor Theory of Knowledge
Episode 75: Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge: The Walking Robot
Episode 74: The Problem of Open-Endedness
Episode 73: Argue Me Everything
Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance
Episode 71: Can Values be Objective?
Episode 70: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence?
Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism
Episode 68: Caldwell's "Clarifying Popper"
Episode 67: Disagreements with Deutsch
Episode 66: The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and the Search For Meaning
Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will
Episode 64: What is a "Refutation"?
Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability
Episode 62: Aliens!?!?
Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
Episode 60: Learning, Work, and Art in the Age of ChatGPT
Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later
Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)
Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1
Episode 52: Is Being Dogmatic Ever a Good Thing?
Episode 51: Was Karl Popper Dogmatic?
Episode 50: The Turing Test 2.0 (aka is LaMDA Sentient?)
Episode 49: AGI Alignment and Safety
Episode 48: Genetics and Universality (part 2): How Our Genes Coerce Us
Episode 47: Genetics and Universality (part 1): How Our Genes Influence Us
Episode 46: Narcissism and Other Mental Disorders
Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television
Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"
Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)
Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence
Episode 39: Byrne's Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper's Epistemology (part 2)
Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
Episode 36: Failure is an Option!
Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
Episode 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
Episode 33: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 4 - Possible Solutions and Criticisms
Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty
Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism
Episode 30: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 1 - The Mystery of Time
Episode 29: The Marvel[ous] TV Shows
Episode 28: Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning
Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory
Episode 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge Creation?
Episode 25: Universal Darwinism - Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?
Episode 24: What is Artificial Intelligence?
Episode 23: Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics
Episode 22: Avoiding Self Coercion Through Intuitive Eating
Episode 21: Evolution Outside the Genome
Episode 20: Command and Control Business Leadership
Episode 19: Why Don't Businesses Emphasize Error Correction?
Episode 18: Idea Development through Error Correction
Episode 17: Shiri's Scissor: Polarization and Politics
Episode 16: Radical Candor - How to Give Effective Criticism
Episode 15: Radical Candor - Giving Criticism In a Business Environment
Episode 14: Theories of Artificial General Intelligence
Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch
Episode 13: Objections to Artificial General Intelligence
Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence
Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence
Episode 10: What Use is Computational Theory?
Episode 9: Introduction to Computational Theory
Episode 8: The Disneyfication of Star Wars
Episode 7: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Episode 6: Dancing the Ancient Forms
Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition
Episode 4: What Makes a Good Explanation?
Episode 3: The Popper-Deutsch Solution
Episode 2: Is the Scientific Method Wrong?
Episode 1: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Experts