Increments
Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem
About the show
Vaden Masrani, a PhD student in machine learning at UBC and Ben Chugg, a research fellow at Stanford Law School, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and law. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon.
Love, bribes, suggestions, and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
Episodes
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#26 - Moral Philosophy Cage Match (with Dan Hageman)
June 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 33 mins
cluelessness, derek parfit, meta-ethics, thought experiments, wild animal suffering
Dan Hageman joins us to celebrate our completely fair treatment of Derek Parfit, to utterly agree with our use of thought experiments, and to deem us the world's most renown meta-ethicists.
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#25 - Mathematical Explanation with Mark Colyvan
May 24th, 2021 | 2 hrs 7 mins
counterfactual, explanation, logic, philosophy of mathematics, probability, thought experiments
We're joined by professor Mark Colyvan to talk about the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and thought experiments.
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#24 - Popper's Three Worlds
May 11th, 2021 | 1 hr 13 mins
abstractions, explanation, logic, popper, reality
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#23 - Physics, Philosophy, and Free Will with Sam Kuypers
May 3rd, 2021 | 1 hr 33 mins
education, free will, justice, learning, quantum mechanics, scientific realism
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#22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments
April 14th, 2021 | 1 hr 16 mins
derek parfit, einstein, peter singer, thought experiments
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#21 (C&R Series, Ch.1) - The Problem of Induction
March 23rd, 2021 | 53 mins 58 secs
induction, law, popper, science
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#20 (HTI crossover episode) - Roundtable Longtermism Discussion
March 8th, 2021 | 3 hrs 14 mins
debate, effective altruism, longtermism
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#17 - Against Longtermism
December 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 30 mins
bayesianism, effective altruism, expected value, longtermism
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#16 - Social Media II: Conversation, Privacy, and Odds & Ends
December 9th, 2020 | 50 mins 12 secs
outrage, privacy, progress, social media, technology, violence
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#15 - Social Media I: Manipulation, Outrage, and Documentaries
November 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 22 mins
disagreement, documentaries, echo chambers, ideology, polarization, social media
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#14 (C&R Series, Ch.16) - Prediction, Prophecy, and Fascism
October 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
communism, fascism, historicism, prediction, prophecy, social science
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#13 - Privacy with Stephen Caines
October 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
facial recognition, privacy, security, surveillance
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#12 (C&R Series, Ch. 17) - Public Opinion and Liberal Principles
October 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 15 mins
diversity, free speech, horseshoe politics, polarization, public opinion
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#11 - Debating Existential Risk w/ Mauricio
September 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 29 mins
bayesianism, existential risk, probability, progress, rationality