Increments
Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem
About the show
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 incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
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Episodes
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#31 - The Fall of the Weinstein Republic
September 14th, 2021 | 54 mins 51 secs
animal suffering, physics, secular guru, tim nguyen, weinstein
We had a semi-serious conversation about environmentalism in store for you, but we got trapped by the WIN (Weinsteinian institutional narrative). Like a black hole, the epic meltdown of Weinstein's and the confrontation with Tim Nguyen -- apparently the only adult in the room -- pulled us in, and we couldn't avoid talking about it.
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#30 - Let's all just have a good cry (w/ Christofer Lövgren)
August 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 39 mins
community, criticism, crying, david deutsch, free will, labels
Christofer Lövgren joins us for a wide ranging discussion on community, criticism, and crying.
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#29 - Some Scattered Thoughts on Superforecasting
August 16th, 2021 | 45 mins 20 secs
good judgement project, philip tetlock, politics, probability, superforecasting
We discuss Philip Tetlock's work on Superforecasting.
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#28 (C&R Series, Ch. 9) - Why is Logic Applicable to Reality?
July 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
arithmetic, logic, philosophy of mathematics, rules of inference
We discuss Chapter 9 of Conjectures and Refutations: Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality?
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#27 - A Conversation with Marianne
June 28th, 2021 | 2 hrs 1 min
activism, police, politics, race, social media
Marianne recounts her summer. That's all we'll say for now.
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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
epistemology, induction, natural law, philosophy of science, popper
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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