app03 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:07:45 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Increments - Episodes Tagged with “Natural Law” https://www.incrementspodcast.com/tags/natural%20law Tue, 23 Mar 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 #21 (C&R Series, Ch.1) - The Problem of Induction https://www.incrementspodcast.com/21 Buzzsprout-8195969 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -0700 Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani full Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani 53:58 no <p>After a long digression, we finally return to the Conjectures and Refutations series. In this episode we cover Chapter 1: <em>Science: Conjectures and Refutations</em>. In particular, we focus on one of the trickiest Popperian concepts to wrap one's head around - the problem of induction.&nbsp; <br> <br><em>References:</em></p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law" rel="nofollow noopener">Wiki on scientific laws </a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogues_Concerning_Natural_Religion" rel="nofollow noopener">Hume's dialogues concerning natural religion</a> &nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://vmasrani.github.io/assets/pdf/prob_induction_disproof.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener">Proof of the impossibility of probability induction</a>&nbsp;</li><li>One of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1U_MC_p3M&amp;ab_channel=AeonVideo" rel="nofollow noopener">YouTube videos</a> on induction.&nbsp;</li></ul><p>And in case you were wondering what happened to the two unfalsifiable theories Popper attacks in this chapter, you'll be pleased to know that they have merged into a super theory. We give you <em>Psychoanalytic-Marxism: </em><a href="http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/janmohamed/Psychoanalytic-Marxism.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener">http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/janmohamed/Psychoanalytic-Marxism.pdf</a>.<br> <br>Sent us your favorite unfalsifiable theory at <em>incrementspodcast@gmail.com</em></p> <p><em>audio updated: 29/08/2021</em> </p> science, induction, law, popper After a long digression, we finally return to the Conjectures and Refutations series. In this episode we cover Chapter 1: Science: Conjectures and Refutations. In particular, we focus on one of the trickiest Popperian concepts to wrap one's head around - the problem of induction. 

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And in case you were wondering what happened to the two unfalsifiable theories Popper attacks in this chapter, you'll be pleased to know that they have merged into a super theory. We give you Psychoanalytic-Marxism: http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/janmohamed/Psychoanalytic-Marxism.pdf.

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References:

And in case you were wondering what happened to the two unfalsifiable theories Popper attacks in this chapter, you'll be pleased to know that they have merged into a super theory. We give you Psychoanalytic-Marxism: http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/janmohamed/Psychoanalytic-Marxism.pdf.

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