web02.fireside.fm Mon, 18 May 2026 21:31:14 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Increments - Episodes Tagged with “Free Speech” https://www.incrementspodcast.com/tags/free%20speech Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:00:00 -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 #12 (C&R Series, Ch. 17) - Public Opinion and Liberal Principles https://www.incrementspodcast.com/12 Buzzsprout-5860924 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:00:00 -0700 Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani full Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani 1:15:27 no <p>In the lead up to the American presidential election, one of the largest and most consequential expressions of public opinion, Ben and Vaden do what they always do and ask: "What does Popper say about this?" The second in the Conjectures and Refutations series, we cover Chapter 17: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/6a6xkqlw7q5psx5/public_opinion.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Public Opinion and Liberal Principles</a>.  Largely irrelevant and probably unhelpful, we touch </p><ul> <li>A thesis that the far left and right are converging vis-a-vis reactionary politics</li> <li>The idea that "truth is manifest", i.e. obvious </li> <li>The role of free speech and diversity of opinion</li> <li>Political polarization</li> <li>Libertarians and their hate of seatbelts</li> </ul><p>Send us some hate or some love at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. <br><br>Chapter excerpt:<br><em>The following remarks were designed to provide material for debate at an international conference of liberals (...). My purpose was simply to lay the foundations for a good general discussion. Because I could assume liberal views in my audience I was largely concerned to challenge, rather than endorse, popular assumptions favourable to these views.</em><br><br></p> horseshoe politics, public opinion, polarization, free speech, diversity In the lead up to the American presidential election, one of the largest and most consequential expressions of public opinion, Ben and Vaden do what they always do and ask: "What does Popper say about this?" The second in the Conjectures and Refutations series, we cover Chapter 17: Public Opinion and Liberal Principles.  Largely irrelevant and probably unhelpful, we touch 

  • A thesis that the far left and right are converging vis-a-vis reactionary politics
  • The idea that "truth is manifest", i.e. obvious 
  • The role of free speech and diversity of opinion
  • Political polarization
  • Libertarians and their hate of seatbelts

Send us some hate or some love at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

Chapter excerpt:
The following remarks were designed to provide material for debate at an international conference of liberals (...). My purpose was simply to lay the foundations for a good general discussion. Because I could assume liberal views in my audience I was largely concerned to challenge, rather than endorse, popular assumptions favourable to these views.

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]]> In the lead up to the American presidential election, one of the largest and most consequential expressions of public opinion, Ben and Vaden do what they always do and ask: "What does Popper say about this?" The second in the Conjectures and Refutations series, we cover Chapter 17: Public Opinion and Liberal Principles.  Largely irrelevant and probably unhelpful, we touch 

  • A thesis that the far left and right are converging vis-a-vis reactionary politics
  • The idea that "truth is manifest", i.e. obvious 
  • The role of free speech and diversity of opinion
  • Political polarization
  • Libertarians and their hate of seatbelts

Send us some hate or some love at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

Chapter excerpt:
The following remarks were designed to provide material for debate at an international conference of liberals (...). My purpose was simply to lay the foundations for a good general discussion. Because I could assume liberal views in my audience I was largely concerned to challenge, rather than endorse, popular assumptions favourable to these views.

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