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Brett Hall

This is a podcast primarily about the work of philosopher and physicist David Deutsch and related matters (such as Popperian epistemology). I read from and comment upon the books ”The Beginning of Infinity” & ”The Fabric of Reality” (both by Deutsch), ”The Science of Can & Can’t” (by Deutsch’s collegue Marletto) and ”Rationality” by Pinker (so far). In addition I make stand alone episodes about topics like resources, environmentalism, economics, science, philosophy, epistemology (especially explanations) and reason broadly.

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Episódios

273 episódios

  1. Ep 273: Super Intelligence: Then and Now. Fiction and Reality. Part 2 1:47:52
  2. Ep 272: Is science truly explanatory? 1:17:10
  3. Ep 271: Super Intelligence: Then and Now. Fiction and Reality. Part 1 56:42
  4. Ep 270: The Gradient Descent into Doom. 1:43:38
  5. Ep 269: The Quantum Observer Effect? 15:11
  6. Ep 268: AGI has arrived podcast 34:54
  7. Ep 267: The Orthogonality Thesis is Moral Relativism. (Response to Sam Harris on AI). 27:17
  8. Ep 266: Facts, Fantasy and Critical Thinking 32:57
  9. Ep 265: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 14 "The Ends of the Universe" Part 2 The Omega Point 1:28:35
  10. Ep 264: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 14 "The Ends of the Universe" Part 1 44:29
  11. Ep 263: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 4 - and final. 1:30:56
  12. Ep 262: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 3 1:03:31
  13. Ep 261: Objective Morality II 38:58
  14. Ep 260: I don't believe it! 1:06:31
  15. Ep 259: Reaction to Michael Levin Part 3: Bait and Switch, Podcastistan and Surprising(?) algorithms. 59:35
  16. Ep 258: Reaction to Michael Levin, Part 2: Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Knowing 1:38:57
  17. Ep 257: Reaction to Michael Levin, Part 1: Categories and Continuums. 1:08:04
  18. Ep 256: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 13 ”The Four Strands” Part 2 1:09:36
  19. Ep 255: Does this research explain how LLMs work? 1:22:45
  20. Ep 254: Australia: The Land of Bans. (Social Media prohibited for under-16s. Analysis of the arguments "for".) 1:33:08
  21. Ep 253: Further Comments on the Bondi Massacre. 35:18
  22. Ep 252: Response to the Prime Minister of Australia 1:05:05
  23. Ep 251: OK Doomer! 31:08
  24. Ep 250: The Farthest Reaches - Audiobook 4:19:29
  25. Ep 249: The Farthest Reaches Part 4 and Conclusion 1:12:15
  26. Ep 248: AI and Philosophy of Science 1:25:39
  27. Ep 247: The Farthest Reaches Part 3 47:19
  28. Ep 246: The Farthest Reaches Part 2 56:26
  29. Ep 245: The Farthest Reaches (Part 1) 44:43
  30. Ep 244: Deep learning is not "inductive". 22:35
  31. Ep 243: In praise of ignorance - the podcast. With Liberty Fitz-Claridge 1:36:22
  32. Ep 242: Is religion worth preserving? 17:36
  33. Ep 241: AI 2027 Reaction Part 5: Summary and Conclusions 42:18
  34. Ep 240: AI 2027 Reaction Part 4 22:01
  35. Ep 239: AI 2027 Reaction Part 3 46:19
  36. Ep 238: AI 2027 Reaction Part 2 48:15
  37. Ep 237: AI 2027 Reaction. Part 1 52:51
  38. Ep 236: Max Velthoven, legal science, AI and epistemology. 1:09:37
  39. Ep 235: The Simulation Hypothesis 1:50:15
  40. Ep 234: On the Evolution of Reason 42:32
  41. Ep 233: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 13 ”The Four Strands" Part 1 1:10:56
  42. Ep 232: Karl Popper's "The Myth of the Framework" Sections IV to VI. "The Critical Method": deep dive 1:22:46
  43. Ep 231: Karl Popper's "The Myth of the Framework" Sections I to III. Discussing discussions: deep dive 1:36:01
  44. Ep 230: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 12 ”Time Travel” Part 3 1:33:17
  45. Ep 229: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 12 ”TimeTravel” Part 2 52:51
  46. Ep 228: Knowledge Beyond Belief 55:30
  47. Ep 227: "What is Capitalism?" - an encounter between Objectivism and Critical Rationalism. 1:50:59
  48. Ep 226: Realism and the purposes of philosophy. 2:16:58
  49. Ep 225: Livestream from November 27, 2024 1:56:19
  50. Ep 224: Shapes, Time, and Holism - by Julian Barbour 1:53:50