The Theory of Anything
By Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen
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Episodes: 113
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A podcast that explores the unseen and surprising connections between nearly everything, with special emphasis on intelligence and the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through the lens of Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge.
David Deutsch argued that Quantum Mechanics, Darwinian Evolution, Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge, and Computational Theory (aka "The Four Strands") represent an early 'theory of everything' be it science, philosophy, computation, religion, politics, or art. So we explore everything.
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Episode 112: Words vs Concepts: Does 'Randomness' Exist?
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Episode 111: Static vs Dynamic Societies
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Episode 110: Brave New World vs. 1984 (round table discussion)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Episode 109: Genes, Emergence, and Platonism (round table with Sadia and Ivan)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Episode 108: AI and Obedience (with Dan Gish)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Episode 107: Was Popper a Fideist?
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May 13, 2025 |
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Episode 106: Karl Popper and God
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Episode 105: Michael Levin's Unseen World of Cell Cognition
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Episode 104: 3rd Way Evolution vs the Critics
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Episode 103: Neo-Darwinism vs Post-Darwinism
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Episode 102: Is IQ a Bit Scientifically Valid?
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Episode 101: Wolfram, Rucker, and the Computational Nature of Reality
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Episode 100: Interview with David Deutsch
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Episode 99: Critical Rationalism and Solipsism
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Episode 98: Objectively Beautiful Flowers?
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Episode 97: Karl Popper On Conservatism in Music (w/Chris Johansen)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Episode 96: Kenneth Stanley on the Pursuit of What’s Interesting
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Episode 95: On Morality, Moralizing, and Elephant Jockeys (Round Table)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Episode 94: Stephen Hicks on Critical Rationalism vs Objectivism
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 93: Philosophical Theories vs Bad Explanations
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Episode 92: Popper on Philosophical Theories
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Episode 91: The Critical Rationalist Case For Induction!?
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Episode 90: Bayesianism for Critical Rationalists!?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Episode 89: Tradition as a Source of Knowledge: Popper vs. Chesterton
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Episode 88: The Myth of the Objective
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Episode 87: Is the Universal Explainer Hypothesis Falsifiable?
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Episode 86: Fuzzy Categories, Essentialism, and Epistemology (Hofstadter Part 2)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Episode 85: Critical Rationalism and Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1)
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May 14, 2024 |
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Episode 84: Are Video Games Harmful to Children?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Episode 83: Popper's Second Axis (aka Bruce's Epistemology?)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Episode 82: Popper's Ratchet
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Episode 81: Easy to Varyness vs Ad Hocness
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Episode 79: Perspiration vs Inspiration
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Episode 78: Are Animal Memes Knowledge In the Genes?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Episode 77: Counter Examples To Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Episode 76: The Constructor Theory of Knowledge
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Episode 75: Deutsch's Theory of Knowledge: The Walking Robot
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Episode 74: The Problem of Open-Endedness
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Episode 73: Argue Me Everything
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Episode 72: Moral Progress and Tolerance for Intolerance
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Episode 71: Can Values be Objective?
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Episode 70: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Episode 68: Caldwell's "Clarifying Popper"
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Episode 67: Disagreements with Deutsch
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Episode 66: The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and the Search For Meaning
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Episode 64: What is a "Refutation"?
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Episode 62: Aliens!?!?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 60: Learning, Work, and Art in the Age of ChatGPT
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later
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May 22, 2023 |
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Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
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May 01, 2023 |
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Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Episode 52: Is Being Dogmatic Ever a Good Thing?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Episode 51: Was Karl Popper Dogmatic?
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Episode 50: The Turing Test 2.0 (aka is LaMDA Sentient?)
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Episode 49: AGI Alignment and Safety
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Episode 48: Genetics and Universality (part 2): How Our Genes Coerce Us
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Episode 47: Genetics and Universality (part 1): How Our Genes Influence Us
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Episode 46: Narcissism and Other Mental Disorders
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television
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May 30, 2022 |
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Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"
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May 09, 2022 |
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Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Episode 39: Byrne's Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper's Epistemology (part 2)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Episode 36: Failure is an Option!
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Episode 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Episode 33: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 4 - Possible Solutions and Criticisms
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Episode 30: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 1 - The Mystery of Time
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Episode 29: The Marvel[ous] TV Shows
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Episode 28: Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Episode 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge Creation?
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Episode 25: Universal Darwinism - Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Episode 24: What is Artificial Intelligence?
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Episode 23: Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics
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May 31, 2021 |
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Episode 22: Avoiding Self Coercion Through Intuitive Eating
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May 17, 2021 |
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Episode 21: Evolution Outside the Genome
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May 03, 2021 |
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Episode 20: Command and Control Business Leadership
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Episode 19: Why Don't Businesses Emphasize Error Correction?
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Episode 18: Idea Development through Error Correction
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Episode 17: Shiri's Scissor: Polarization and Politics
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Episode 16: Radical Candor - How to Give Effective Criticism
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Episode 15: Radical Candor - Giving Criticism In a Business Environment
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Episode 14: Theories of Artificial General Intelligence
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Episode 13: Objections to Artificial General Intelligence
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Episode 12: Artificial Intelligence vs Artificial General Intelligence
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Episode 10: What Use is Computational Theory?
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Episode 9: Introduction to Computational Theory
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Episode 8: The Disneyfication of Star Wars
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Episode 7: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Episode 6: Dancing the Ancient Forms
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Episode 4: What Makes a Good Explanation?
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May 09, 2020 |
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Episode 3: The Popper-Deutsch Solution
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Episode 2: Is the Scientific Method Wrong?
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Episode 1: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Experts
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Feb 29, 2020 |