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ToKCast — 270 episodes
Ep 270: The Gradient Descent into Doom.
Ep 269: The Quantum Observer Effect?
Ep 268: AGI has arrived podcast
Ep 267: The Orthogonality Thesis is Moral Relativism. (Response to Sam Harris on AI).
Ep 266: Facts, Fantasy and Critical Thinking
Ep 265: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 14 "The Ends of the Universe" Part 2 The Omega Point
Ep 264: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 14 "The Ends of the Universe" Part 1
Ep 263: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 4 - and final.
Ep 262: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 3
Ep 261: Objective Morality II
Ep 260: I don't believe it!
Ep 259: Reaction to Michael Levin Part 3: Bait and Switch, Podcastistan and Surprising(?) algorithms.
Ep 258: Reaction to Michael Levin, Part 2: Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Knowing
Ep 257: Reaction to Michael Levin, Part 1: Categories and Continuums.
Ep 256: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 13 ”The Four Strands” Part 2
Ep 255: Does this research explain how LLMs work?
Ep 254: Australia: The Land of Bans. (Social Media prohibited for under-16s. Analysis of the arguments "for".)
Ep 253: Further Comments on the Bondi Massacre.
Ep 252: Response to the Prime Minister of Australia
Ep 251: OK Doomer!
Ep 250: The Farthest Reaches - Audiobook
Ep 249: The Farthest Reaches Part 4 and Conclusion
Ep 248: AI and Philosophy of Science
Ep 247: The Farthest Reaches Part 3
Ep 246: The Farthest Reaches Part 2
Ep 245: The Farthest Reaches (Part 1)
Ep 244: Deep learning is not "inductive".
Ep 243: In praise of ignorance - the podcast. With Liberty Fitz-Claridge
Ep 242: Is religion worth preserving?
Ep 241: AI 2027 Reaction Part 5: Summary and Conclusions
Ep 240: AI 2027 Reaction Part 4
Ep 239: AI 2027 Reaction Part 3
Ep 238: AI 2027 Reaction Part 2
Ep 237: AI 2027 Reaction. Part 1
Ep 236: Max Velthoven, legal science, AI and epistemology.
Ep 235: The Simulation Hypothesis
Ep 234: On the Evolution of Reason
Ep 233: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 13 ”The Four Strands" Part 1
Ep 232: Karl Popper's "The Myth of the Framework" Sections IV to VI. "The Critical Method": deep dive
Ep 231: Karl Popper's "The Myth of the Framework" Sections I to III. Discussing discussions: deep dive
Ep 230: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 12 ”Time Travel” Part 3
Ep 229: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 12 ”TimeTravel” Part 2
Ep 228: Knowledge Beyond Belief
Ep 227: "What is Capitalism?" - an encounter between Objectivism and Critical Rationalism.
Ep 226: Realism and the purposes of philosophy.
Ep 225: Livestream from November 27, 2024
Ep 224: Shapes, Time, and Holism - by Julian Barbour
Ep 223: The Deutsch Files IV (ToKCast version)
Ep 222: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 12 ”TimeTravel” Part 1
Ep 221: Do Not Destroy The Means of Error Correction
Ep 220: Criticism is never enough
Ep 219: Response to Peter Boghossian Part 3, Appendix
Ep 218: Peter Boghossian Response PART 2
Ep: 217 Peter Boghossian Response Part 1
Ep 216: Astrobiology and Cancer
Ep 215: Charley Lineweaver
Ep 214: Resources, Wealth, Technology, Error Correction and Knowledge Creation
Ep 213: ToKCast in Auckland - live
Ep 212: Livestream 3, June 28 2024
Ep 211: Livestream 2, June 26 2024
Ep 210: Livestream - Question, Answer and repeat for 2+ hours
Ep 209: Rational Decision Making
Ep 208: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” Part 3
Ep 207: Variations on a Conjecture
Ep 206: Sam Kuypers (Time: The First Quantum Concept Part 3 - and more).
Ep 205: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” *Part 2*
Ep 204: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” Part 1
Ep 203: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 4
Ep 202: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 3
Ep 201: Progress: Conserving the means of Error Correction. Free Speech, Free Trade and Democracy.
Ep 200: Chiara Marletto
Ep 199: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 2
Ep 198: Bayesianism
Ep 197: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 1: Introduction
Ep 196: The Mother Military
Ep 195: Knowledge, Wealth and Constructors
Ep 194: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 4: Shor’s Algorithm
Ep 193: Effortless Stoicism
Ep 192: Where do ideas come from?
Ep 191: Science News 2: Dark Matter, Fusion, JWST Latest
Ep 190: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part3
Ep 189: Epiphenomena
Ep 188: Nick Bostrom on AI on ”Talk TV” - analysis
Ep 187: Red Pens and Fallibilism
Ep 186: Brett, Naval and more on AI & AGI
Ep 185: Possibility and Actuality. Facts and Counterfactuals.
Ep 184: ToKCast Digest - An Overview of Optimism
Ep 183: St George in retirement syndrome on St Patrick’s day.
Ep 182: Livestream Science News and AMA
Ep 181: The Big Bang Livestream ToKCast
Ep 180: Livestream: ”The Open Hand of Reason”
Ep 179: Livestream March 14, 2023
Ep 178: Its, Bits, Qubits *Part 2*
Ep 177: Its, Bits, Qubits. Part 1
Ep 176: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 2
Ep 175: Science News 1: Population III - The First Generation of Stars in the Universe Observed?
Ep 174: A message for next millennium.
Ep 173: Brett Talks Twitter 2
Ep 172: Talents and Testing
Ep 171: Knowledge and Ignorance 6
Ep 170: Are creativity and consciousness the same thing?
Ep 169: Livestream & Happy New Year
Ep 168: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 1
Ep 167: ”Degrowth” - the plan for civilisational decline and disaster.
Ep 166: Newsletter 18: A weekend of Twitter
Ep 165: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 5
Ep 164: Knowledge and Ignorance Part4
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1
Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.
Ep 160: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 3
Ep 159: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 2
Ep 158: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 1
Ep 157: (Preview) Popper vs Other Philosophers
Ep 156: Induction under Objectivist Epistemology - Part 2
Ep 155: The Logical Leap - ”Induction in Physics”
Ep 154: Breakthrough (in Quantum Computation) Prize!
Ep 153: ”Induction” under Objectivist Epistemology - Part 1
Ep 152: ”Observing the facts of reality”.
Ep 151: ”Objectivist” ”Epistemology” - The errors of objectivism
Ep 150: ”A Journey There & Back Again” -Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can & Can’t” Ch 6 Readings & Discussion.
Ep 149: Meaning
Ep 148: Memetics
Ep 147: Memes
Ep 146: Mindless
Ep 145: Minds
Ep 144: Monarchy
Ep 143: Metaphysics
Ep 142: Multiverses
Ep 141: The Mathematicians’ Misconception
Ep 140: Mathematics
Ep 139: Misconceptions
Ep 138: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 5: Minds II - Part the Second
Ep 137: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 4: Minds - Part the First
Ep 136: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 3: Multiverses
Ep 135: Lookouts
Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
Ep 133: Things that make you go mmmmmm? Part 1: Many Misconceptions
Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
Ep 131:Corroboration? Excerpts and Analysis of Popper’s ”Realism & The Aim of Science”.
Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
Ep 128: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 5 ”Beliefs & Evidence (Bayesian Reasoning” Remarks & Analysis
Ep 127: The End of Global Order (A response).
Ep: 126 Origins
Ep 125: Livestreams 1, 2 & 3
Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”
Ep 123: Ask Me Anything 3
Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
(Episode 121) Energy
(Episode 120) Newsletter 10: The Jubilee, Peace, Progress and Policing
Ep 119: Work and Heat: An introduction to thermodynamics (a prelude to Ch 6 of ”The Science of Can & Can’t).
(Ep 118: The Planetary Health Authority)
(Ep 117: Heat, Work, Universality and Exams)
Ep 116: Objective Knowledge
Ep 115: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 5 “Virtual Reality”
(Ep 114) Newsletter 3: Manners and Misattributions
Ep: 113 Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 4 ”Probability and Randomness” Remarks and Analysis
(Ep 112) The 3Rs: Reality, Reason and Rationality. Newsletter 1
Ep 111: Probability - Reality, Rationality and Risk
Ep 110: A Tradition of Criticism
Ep: 109 ”Objective Morality I: The Principle of Optimism”
Ep: 108 Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality”Chapter 3 ”Logic and Critical Thinking” - reflections and analysis.
Ep 107: What is a good explanation?
Ep 106: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 2
Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1
Ep 104: Are We Running Out Of Resources?
Ep 103: Ask Me Anything #2
Ep 102: The Thin Veneer
Ep 101 Ask Me Anything 1
Ep 100: David Deutsch
Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
Ep 98: ”Knowledge” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can and Can‘t” Ch 5 Readings and discussion.
Ep 97: David Deutsch answers a question about dark energy. A question for David number 10.
Ep 96: Computational Universality: Yaron Brook vs Sam Harris response
Ep: 95 Steven Pinker‘s ”Rationality” Chapters 1 & 2 Remarks and Analysis
Ep 94: Wealth and the Conflict of Ideas
Ep 93: David Deutsch answers a question about the nature of mind. A question for David number 9.
Ep 92: David Deutsch answers a question about observations. A question for David number 8
Ep 91: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 2
Ep 90: Fallibilism
Ep: 89 ”Quantum Information” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can & Can‘t” Ch 4 readings and discussion
Ep: 88 Critically Creative (Critical and Creative Thinking 2.0).
Ep 87: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 1
Ep 86: The Aim of Science
Ep 85: ToKCast Do Explain Part 2
Ep 84: David Deutsch answers a question about the nature of the laws of physics (a question for David: 7).
Ep 83: "The Science of Information" (Chiara Marletto's "The Science of Can & Can't" (Pt 2: Readings & more)
Ep 82: David Deutsch answers a question about Gödel and undecidability. (A question for David number 6).
Ep 81: "The Science of Information" (Chiara Marletto's "The Science of Can & Can't" (A prelude to Ch 3)
Ep 80: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 2 “Shadows”
Ep 79: David Deutsch answers a question about our environment. A question for David 5.
Ep 78: ToKCast's "Do Explain" Part 1
Ep 77: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 1 "The Theory of Everything" Part 3
Ep 76: David Deutsch and Tyler Cowen: Reaction
Ep 75: It's not scientific and it's not American
Ep 74: Chiara Marletto's "The Science of Can and Can't" Episode 3
Ep 73: David Deutsch on "Truth". A question for David 4.
Ep 72: David Deutsch comments on recent UFO sighting (The "Tictac" issue). A question for David 3.
Ep 71: David Deutsch explains "explanations" further. (A "question for David" 2)
Ep 70: A question for David 1
Ep 69: "The Beginning" Part 4. The Final episode.
Ep 68: Crypto Comments
Ep 67:"The Fabric of Reality" episode 2.
Ep 66: “The Science of Can and Can’t” episode 2
Ep 65: Quasars
Ep 64 Ch 18 "The Beginning" Part 3
Ep 63: "The Fabric of Reality" episode 1
Ep 62: "The Science of Can and Can't" episode 1.
Ep 61 Ch 18 "The Beginning" Part 2
Ep 60: The Nexus (No music version).
Ep 59: The Nexus
Ep 58 Ch 18 "The Beginning" Part 1
Ep 57 "Existential Risk".
Ep 56: Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 4
Ep 55:Existence
Ep 54 Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 3
Ep 53: Understanding Universality
Ep 52 Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 2
Ep 51 Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 1
Ep 50 Ch 16 "The Evolution of Creativity" Part 2
Ep 49: An introduction to epistemology
Ep 48: Cosmological Economics
Ep 47: Are we alone?
Ep 46 "The Evolution of Creativity" Part 1
Ep 45 Free Will Exists
Ep 44 Ch 16 "The Evolution of Creativity" Part 0
Ep 43 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 3
Ep: 42 An autobiography of wealth
Ep 41: Deutsch Discoveries: Part 2 of an introduction to the philosophy of David Deutsch
Ep 40: Popper Pieces - Part 2 of an Introduction to Popper
Ep 39 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 2
Ep 38 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 1
Ep 37: An intermittent introduction to Popper and Deutsch
Ep 36: The Borders of Ideas
Ep 35 Ch 14 "Why are Flowers Beautiful?"
Ep 34 Ch 13 “Choices” Part 2. Some readings and remarks.
Ep 33 Ch 13 "Choices" Part 1. Some readings and remarks.
Ep 32 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 3. Some readings and remarks
Ep: 31 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 2: Some readings and remarks.
Ep: 30 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 1: The Introduction
Ep: 29 Ch 11 "The Multiverse" Part 5
Ep 28: Ch 11 "The Multiverse" Part 4
Ep 27: Christian Atheists
Ep 26: Problems, Knowledge and Wealth
Ep 25: Ch 11 "The Multiverse" Part 3
Ep 24: The Multiverse, Part 2
Ep 23: The Multiverse, Part 1
Ep 22: The Logic of Experimental Tests
Ep 21: Ch 10, Part 2 "A Dream of Socrates"
Ep 20: Ch 10, Part 1 "A Dream of Socrates"
Ep 19: Mr. Popper's Problems
Ep 18: Ch 9, Part 3: “Optimism”
Ep 17: Ch 9, Part 2: "Optimism"
Ep 16: Ch 9, Part 1: "Optimism"
Ep 15: A diversion on Free Will and Artificial Intelligence
Ep 14: Ch 8, Part 2: "A Window on Infinity"
Ep 13: Ch 8 "A Window on Infinity" Part 1
Ep 12 "Artificial Creativity" Ch 7 Pt 2
Ep 11 "Artificial Creativity" Ch 7 Part 1
Ep 10 "The Jump to Universality" Ch.6
Ep 9 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5 Part 2
Ep 8 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5, Part 1
Ep 7 "Creation" Ch.4, Part 2
Ep 6 "Creation" Ch.4, Part 1
Episode 5: Chapter 3, Part 2 "The Spark"
Episode 4: Chapter 3, Part 1 "The Spark"
Episode 3: Chapter 2 "Closer to Reality"
Episode 2: Chapter 1 "The Reach of Explanations"
ToKCast Episode 1: An introduction to the podcast and this first series