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This is a podcast largely about the work of David Deutsch and his books ”The Beginning of Infinity” and ”The Fabric of Reality”.
This episode is heavily focussed on Dawkin's "Selfish Gene" explanation of Darwin's evolution by natural selection. Obviously there are read...
Do not destroy the means of error correction. A deep unification of knowledge akin to unifying quantum theory with computation to create the...
Response to a question about my discussion with @drpeterboghossian here: https://youtu.be/72vhtT0pFmA?si=hAx1kPho4DkLkBFN This is yet anothe...
In this, the third and final part of a series, I break down some work Michael Levin has done with sorting algorithms. That seems very dry un...
This is the second in a multipart series where I react to some interviews with @drmichaellevin a biologist who, among other things, specia...
This is the first in a multipart series where I react to some interviews with @drmichaellevin - a biologist who, among other things, special...
Comparing Kuhn and Popper on Quantum Theory: Here we go deeper into the differences between Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn's account of how sci...
I take a look at these three papers: 1. https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.22471 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23752 3. https://arxiv.org/abs/25...
This is effectively part 3 in a series of responses to the Prime Minister of Australia about censorship, legislation, policy, philosophy, Bo...
Here I remark on comments made by Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and Education Minister Jason Clare and then make some broader...
A reaction "episode" where I make some remarks about a speech by Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, in the wake of the Bondi Bea...
This is a reproduction of a talk I gave to some trainee surgeons in Sydney who, among other things, were learning about AI as it was affecti...
The Farthest Reaches is a book about "Explanatory Universality". Explanatory Universality is a concept introduced by physicist and philosoph...
Chapters and Timestamps 00:06 Chapter 13: Explanatory Universality, Hangups and Sexuality 08:07 Chapter 14: The Woke Left and the Woke Right...
This is the extended "director's cut" of a talk delivered for "RatFest 2025" (next year to be "Conjecture Con"). This also serves as a suppl...
Chapters and Timestamps 00:07 Chapter 10 Explanatory Universality and Ethnicity 24:51 Chapter 11 Explanatory Universality and Multiculturali...
Chapters and Timestamps: 00:06 Chapter 5 Explanatory Universality, Psychology and IQ 03:30 Chapter 6 Explanatory Universality and Adopting C...
Chapters 1 to 4 of a multi-chapter series about the reach of what I argue is one of the most important lessons to learn in order to solve ma...
We are told by people working in the field, researchers and those who publish academic papers on the topic that artificial intelligence or d...
This episode is a reading of and reflection upon more writing by David Deutsch - an article you can find at https://takingchildrenseriously....
Woke is a rejection of the truth, the good, the beautiful. Is the best response a return to traditional religion? Are some dogmas worth defe...
A summary of some arguments made in the previous 4 parts, and a conclusion to my evaluation of https://ai-2027.com I refer to Daniel Kokotaj...
Note that Part 3 is episode 239 or can be found here: https://youtu.be/7P-UlHiTins Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/o3Rdj37UJjw Part 1 is he...
Episode 238 contains Part 2 of this podcast and Episode 237 is Part 1. Also all parts are available on Youtube as almost always. Eg here for...
Note that Part 1 is found in Episode 237 or can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_txKy-XMQ I react to the contents of this...
I react to the contents of this article https://ai-2027.com with some further general comments on @DwarkeshPatel 's interview with two of...
Max is a tax lawyer who is applying Popperian epistemology to legal science and issues in AI. Links to some more of his work, and the slides...
This is a "megasode" combining two episodes from Youtube all about the Simulation Hypothesis. In the first part I provide the philosophical...
I recently had the opportunity to participate in "Spectrum Street Epistemology" with @drpeterboghossian and a number of others including @de...
The first part of my discussion of the differing visions of science and how scientific knowledge "grows" (or not) according to Thomas Kuhn v...
The second in the series on "The Myth of the Framework" paper. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction with some reflections on Joe Rogan and Gad Saa...
I take another deep dive into a deeply insightful and original lecture by Karl Popper: The Myth of the Framework. In this first part (of 4)...
The best part! If you missed the others, don't miss this one. All four strands come together to explain the possibility of time travel and t...
An outside broadcast as you will hear. Image generation and virtual reality provide a window on the physics of time travel. Why is that? And...
An assortment of topics looking forward to 2025. Timestamps: 00:00 Truth is indispensable 04:06 The “search for truth” is error correction 0...
Live from Sydney, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos join me on stage to discuss capitalism, liberty, personhood, energy policy, Israel an...
I discuss the point of philosophy and how "concrete" the work of Karl Popper and David Deutsch are in marshalling examples taken directly fr...
A long "ask me anything" episode live and off the cuff. Apologies for the audio quality.
Julian Barbour is an independent British Physicist and the author of technical and popular books including the best selling "The End of Time...
After a short introduction by me, the remainder of this episode is a reproduction of "The Deutsch Files IV" the latest in a series of conver...
Is time travel into the past and the future possible? What is time dilation? Subjective and objective senses of "time travel". David Deutsch...
Here I present a "positive vision" of the kind I complained was absent in the episode right before this ("Criticism is never enough"). Here...
Another response episode. This time to Douglas Murray and Jordan Peterson. Douglas and Jordan are seeking a way to construct a positive visi...
Parts 1 and 2 were, admittedly, long. So if you could not persevere through those, this gets the major points out serving both as an appendi...
Here I get to the part of the discussion Peter has about my own "airchat" explanation of "anyone can understand anything". I go through argu...
The great epistemologist, Peter Boghossian, created a video on Youtube that responded to me, in part. It's to be found in full here: https:/...
Part 2 in a series about the work of researcher Charley Lineweaver. In this episode, a targeted focus on the one thing we did not discuss ou...
A conversation with physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, polyglot and polymath - Charley Lineweaver. 00:00 - My introduction 08:57 - Char...
The title is long enough so you look for more here? ;) This one is largely, in truth about energy and what it can do for us. Across the almo...
This is a recording (with a brief introduction first) of a keynote address I gave to open the 2024 "Naturalistic Decision Making Association...