Increments

Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem

About the show

Vaden Masrani, a PhD alum in machine learning at UBC, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics at CMU, 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 incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

January 14th, 2021 | 34 mins 19 secs

addiction, grad school, obsession, work

December 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 30 mins

bayesianism, effective altruism, expected value, longtermism

December 9th, 2020 | 50 mins 12 secs

outrage, privacy, progress, social media, technology, violence

November 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 22 mins

disagreement, documentaries, echo chambers, ideology, polarization, social media

October 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins

communism, fascism, historicism, prediction, prophecy, social science

October 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min

facial recognition, privacy, security, surveillance

October 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 15 mins

diversity, free speech, horseshoe politics, polarization, public opinion

September 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 29 mins

bayesianism, existential risk, probability, progress, rationality

August 13th, 2020 | 1 hr 15 mins

criticism, knowledge, progress, rationality, tradition

August 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 22 mins

ai, clearview, creepy af, facial recognition, law

July 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 10 mins

ben does a 180, conjectures and refutations, karl popper, probability

July 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 37 mins

ai, bayesianism, existential risk, expected value

July 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 17 mins

bayesianism, epistemology, frequency, induction, probability

June 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 16 mins

conversation, error-correction, police, politics

June 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 31 mins

ai, computer science, hubris

May 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 22 mins

abolition, incrementalism, progress, revolution