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Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani

Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at [email protected].

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110 episodios

  1. #109 - Vaden on The Bayesian Conspiracy [FULL UNEDITED DEBATE] 1:59:18
  2. #108 - The OpenAI/HuggingFace "incident": Responding to Sam Harris and Ryan Greenblatt 1:17:27
  3. #107 - Is Too Much Therapy Ruining a Generation? 1:24:31
  4. #106 - The Successes, Failures, and Grifters of Neuroscience (w/ Tommy Blanchard) 1:18:36
  5. #105 - The World of Bayesian Statistics (w/ Alex Andorra) 1:18:44
  6. #104 (C&R Chap 10, Part V) - The Duhem-Quine Thesis 1:03:29
  7. #103 - AI, Evolution, and The God Test (w/ Robert Wright) 1:47:27
  8. #102 - Criticizing Crit-rats (w/ Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen) 1:46:40
  9. #101 (C&R Chap 10, Part IV) - Was Popper Wrong about Verisimilitude? 1:17:01
  10. #100 - Celebrating the Centennial 1:21:16
  11. #99 - Debating Trump in Good Faith (w/ Don Robinson) 2:09:51
  12. #98 (C&R Chap 10, Part III) - What is truth? 1:24:54
  13. #97 - Did Effective Altruism Have Ulterior Motives From the Beginning? 1:41:42
  14. #96 (Bonus) - On the Limits of Introspection 41:26
  15. #95 (C&R Chap 10, Part II) - A Problem-First View of Scientific Progress 57:59
  16. #94 - Is AI Just a Tool? (w/ Scott Aaronson) 1:24:46
  17. #93 (C&R Chap 10, Part I) - An Introduction to Popper's Theory of Content 1:47:23
  18. #92 - Confronting the Paradox of Tolerance: Christianity in the age of Trump (w/ Jonathan Rauch) 1:07:09
  19. #91 - The Uses and Abuses of Statistics (w/ Ben Recht) 1:16:59
  20. #90 (Reaction) - Disbelieving AI 2027: Responding to "Why We're Not Ready For Superintelligence" 1:35:32
  21. #89 (C&R, Chap 6) - Berkeley vs Newton: The Battle Over Gravity 1:11:26
  22. #88 (Bonus) - Homer's Odyssey 1:12:00
  23. #87 - Gullibility, Belief, and Conformity (with Hugo Mercier) 54:13
  24. #86 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 2) 1:20:07
  25. #85 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 1) 1:49:48
  26. #84 - A Primer on Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier 1:09:39
  27. #83 - The Anxious Generation Round II: Alternative Explanations 1:21:20
  28. #82 - Are Screens Really That Bad? Critiquing Jon Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" 1:52:49
  29. #81 - What Does Critical Rationalism Get Wrong? (w/ Kasra) 1:39:05
  30. #80 (C&R Series, Chap. 7) - Dare to Know: Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment 1:06:47
  31. #79 (Bonus) - The Mitford Sisters 24:32
  32. #78 - What could Karl Popper have learned from Vladimir Nabokov? (w/ Brian Boyd) 1:00:39
  33. #77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira) 2:21:22
  34. #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira) 2:50:58
  35. #75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers) 1:41:13
  36. #74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch) 1:32:02
  37. #73 - The Unfairness of Proportional Representation 1:25:12
  38. #72 (C&R, Chap. 19: Part II) - On the (alleged) Right of a Nation to Self-Determination 51:18
  39. #71 (C&R, Chap 19: Part I) - The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View 1:12:50
  40. #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows) 1:30:34
  41. #69 - Contra Scott Alexander on Probability 1:45:09
  42. #68 - Libertarianism IV: Political Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson) 1:50:16
  43. #67 - Libertarianism III: Social Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson) 1:45:32
  44. #66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella) 1:06:36
  45. #65 - Libertarianism II: Economic Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson) 1:33:02
  46. #64 - Libertarianism I: Intro and Moral Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson) 1:52:38
  47. #63 - Recycling is the Dumps 1:06:49
  48. #62 (Bonus) - The Principle of Optimism (Vaden on the Theory of Anything Podcast) 2:45:37
  49. #61 - Debating Free Will: Frankenstein's Monster and a Filmstrip of the Universe (with Lucas Smalldon) 1:42:49
  50. #60 - Creativity and Computational Universality (with Bruce Nielson) 1:58:42