Ep 262: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 3
This episode is heavily focussed on Dawkin's "Selfish Gene" explanation of Darwin's evolution by natural selection. Obviously there are read...
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20 of 262 episodesEp 261: Objective Morality II
Do not destroy the means of error correction. A deep unification of knowledge akin to unifying quantum theory with computation to create the...
Ep 260: I don't believe it!
Response to a question about my discussion with @drpeterboghossian here: https://youtu.be/72vhtT0pFmA?si=hAx1kPho4DkLkBFN This is yet anothe...
Ep 259: Reaction to Michael Levin Part 3: Bait and Switch, Podcastistan and Surprising(?) algorithms.
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...
Ep 258: Reaction to Michael Levin, Part 2: Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Knowing
This is the second in a multipart series where I react to some interviews with @drmichaellevin a biologist who, among other things, specia...
Ep 257: Reaction to Michael Levin, Part 1: Categories and Continuums.
This is the first in a multipart series where I react to some interviews with @drmichaellevin - a biologist who, among other things, special...
Ep 256: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 13 ”The Four Strands” Part 2
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...
Ep 255: Does this research explain how LLMs work?
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...
Ep 254: Australia: The Land of Bans. (Social Media prohibited for under-16s. Analysis of the arguments "for".)
This is effectively part 3 in a series of responses to the Prime Minister of Australia about censorship, legislation, policy, philosophy, Bo...
Ep 253: Further Comments on the Bondi Massacre.
Here I remark on comments made by Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and Education Minister Jason Clare and then make some broader...
Ep 252: Response to the Prime Minister of Australia
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...
Ep 251: OK Doomer!
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...
Ep 250: The Farthest Reaches - Audiobook
The Farthest Reaches is a book about "Explanatory Universality". Explanatory Universality is a concept introduced by physicist and philosoph...
Ep 249: The Farthest Reaches Part 4 and Conclusion
Chapters and Timestamps 00:06 Chapter 13: Explanatory Universality, Hangups and Sexuality 08:07 Chapter 14: The Woke Left and the Woke Right...
Ep 248: AI and Philosophy of Science
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...
Ep 247: The Farthest Reaches Part 3
Chapters and Timestamps 00:07 Chapter 10 Explanatory Universality and Ethnicity 24:51 Chapter 11 Explanatory Universality and Multiculturali...
Ep 246: The Farthest Reaches Part 2
Chapters and Timestamps: 00:06 Chapter 5 Explanatory Universality, Psychology and IQ 03:30 Chapter 6 Explanatory Universality and Adopting C...
Ep 245: The Farthest Reaches (Part 1)
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...
Ep 244: Deep learning is not "inductive".
We are told by people working in the field, researchers and those who publish academic papers on the topic that artificial intelligence or d...
Ep 243: In praise of ignorance - the podcast. With Liberty Fitz-Claridge
This episode is a reading of and reflection upon more writing by David Deutsch - an article you can find at https://takingchildrenseriously....