web01.fireside.fm Tue, 05 May 2026 14:43:34 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Increments - Episodes Tagged with “Crying” https://www.incrementspodcast.com/tags/crying Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0700 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. en-us episodic Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem 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 incrementspodcast@gmail.com. no Philosophy,Science,Ethics,Progress,Knowledge,Computer Science,Conversation,Error-Correction Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani incrementspodcast@gmail.com #30 - Let's all just have a good cry (w/ Christofer Lövgren) https://www.incrementspodcast.com/30 d6a3bee2-95f2-4d67-bdfc-67519b8b4605 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0700 Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani full Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani Christofer Lövgren joins us for a wide ranging discussion on community, criticism, and crying. 1:39:14 no <p>Christofer Lövgren, host of the marvelous <a href="https://www.doexplain.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Do Explain</a> podcast and world's most famous Swede (second perhaps only to that Alfred fellow with the peace prize), joins us on the pod to teach us how podcasting is really done. And how to pronounce his last name. When we're not all sobbing, we touch on: </p> <ul> <li>Does Deutschian epistemology give us with Free Will? </li> <li>Should one identify as a critical rationalist? </li> <li>Does membership in a community, or identification with a label, affect our ability to give and receive criticism? </li> <li>How has reading Deutsch and Popper changed our lives? </li> <li>Can trauma get stored in the body? </li> <li>How often do we cry? </li> </ul> <p>Check out Chris on twitter (@ReachChristofer) and Do Subscribe to <a href="https://www.doexplain.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Do Explain</a>.</p> <p><em>References:</em></p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;pldnSite=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>The Beginning of Infinity</em></a> by David Deutsch</li> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;pldnSite=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Behave</em></a> by Robert Sapolsky </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc&amp;ab_channel=Stanford" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Lecture on Depression</a> by Sapolsky</li> <li> <a href="https://www.doexplain.org/episodes/24-emotional-processing-with-matt-goldenberg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Do Explain episode</a> with Chris and Matt Goldenberg on emotional processing</li> <li>Temple Grandin <a href="https://www.lakeforest.edu/news/still-thinking-in-pictures-a-conversation-with-temple-grandin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">discussing</a> the "black-hat" horse. </li> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;pldnSite=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Body Keeps the Score</em></a> by Bessel van der Kolk</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sir Peter Brian Medawar</a> whom Richard Dawkins referred to as 'the wittiest of all scientific writers'. </li> </ul> <p>Blow your nose, dry your eyes, and send us a tear-stained email at <em><a href="mailto:incrementspodcast@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">incrementspodcast@gmail.com</a></em>. Special Guest: Christofer Lövgren.</p> free will, David Deutsch, community, labels, crying, criticism Christofer Lövgren, host of the marvelous Do Explain podcast and world's most famous Swede (second perhaps only to that Alfred fellow with the peace prize), joins us on the pod to teach us how podcasting is really done. And how to pronounce his last name. When we're not all sobbing, we touch on:

  • Does Deutschian epistemology give us with Free Will?
  • Should one identify as a critical rationalist?
  • Does membership in a community, or identification with a label, affect our ability to give and receive criticism?
  • How has reading Deutsch and Popper changed our lives?
  • Can trauma get stored in the body?
  • How often do we cry?

Check out Chris on twitter (@ReachChristofer) and Do Subscribe to Do Explain.

References:

Blow your nose, dry your eyes, and send us a tear-stained email at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

Special Guest: Christofer Lövgren.

Support Increments

]]> Christofer Lövgren, host of the marvelous Do Explain podcast and world's most famous Swede (second perhaps only to that Alfred fellow with the peace prize), joins us on the pod to teach us how podcasting is really done. And how to pronounce his last name. When we're not all sobbing, we touch on:

  • Does Deutschian epistemology give us with Free Will?
  • Should one identify as a critical rationalist?
  • Does membership in a community, or identification with a label, affect our ability to give and receive criticism?
  • How has reading Deutsch and Popper changed our lives?
  • Can trauma get stored in the body?
  • How often do we cry?

Check out Chris on twitter (@ReachChristofer) and Do Subscribe to Do Explain.

References:

Blow your nose, dry your eyes, and send us a tear-stained email at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

Special Guest: Christofer Lövgren.

Support Increments

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