web02.fireside.fm Fri, 15 May 2026 17:24:52 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Increments - Episodes Tagged with “Reality” https://www.incrementspodcast.com/tags/reality Tue, 11 May 2021 10:00:00 -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 #24 - Popper's Three Worlds https://www.incrementspodcast.com/24 Buzzsprout-8500607 Tue, 11 May 2021 10:00:00 -0700 Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani full Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani 1:13:16 no <p>This episode begins with a big announcement! Ben has officially become a cat person, and is now Taking Cats Seriously. Vaden follows up with some news of his own, before diving into the main subject for today's episode - <a href="https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/p/popper80.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Popper's Three Worlds</a>. <br>In this episode we discuss:</p><ul> <li>The <a href="https://fallibleideas.com/taking-children-seriously" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">TCS</a> parenting movement </li> <li>Chesto's <a href="https://twitter.com/mynameisChesto/status/1381798896960086016" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tweet</a> to Deutsch</li> <li>How Popper's Three Worlds differs from Deutsch's Things/Qualia/Abstractions classification</li> <li>Would prime numbers exist if humans didn't exist?</li> <li>What constitutes reality?</li> <li>The existence of non-physical entities and the reality of abstractions </li> </ul><p> <br>Having a quick glance at the following wikipedia pages will help ground the conversation:</p><ul> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_system" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Formal systems</a> </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Formal languages</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Modular Arithmetic</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rules_of_inference#:~:text=Rules%20of%20inference%20are%20syntactical,conclusion%2C%20if%20it%20is%20sound." target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Rules of inference</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-classical_logic#:~:text=Non%2Dclassical%20logics%20(and%20sometimes,extensions%2C%20deviations%2C%20and%20variations." target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Alternative Logics</a></li> </ul><p><br>Errata:</p><ul><li>Somewhere Vaden says English is a formal language. Nope definitely not - English is <em>natural</em> language, which is distinct from a <em>formal</em> language.  </li></ul><p><br>Send us your best guess for whether or not we're real at <em>incrementspodcast@gmail.com.</em>  <em><br><br></em><br></p> abstractions, reality, logic, explanation, popper This episode begins with a big announcement! Ben has officially become a cat person, and is now Taking Cats Seriously. Vaden follows up with some news of his own, before diving into the main subject for today's episode - Popper's Three Worlds.
In this episode we discuss:

  • The TCS parenting movement 
  • Chesto's tweet to Deutsch
  • How Popper's Three Worlds differs from Deutsch's Things/Qualia/Abstractions classification
  • Would prime numbers exist if humans didn't exist?
  • What constitutes reality?
  • The existence of non-physical entities and the reality of abstractions 

 
Having a quick glance at the following wikipedia pages will help ground the conversation:


Errata:

  • Somewhere Vaden says English is a formal language. Nope definitely not - English is natural language, which is distinct from a formal language.  


Send us your best guess for whether or not we're real at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. 


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]]> This episode begins with a big announcement! Ben has officially become a cat person, and is now Taking Cats Seriously. Vaden follows up with some news of his own, before diving into the main subject for today's episode - Popper's Three Worlds.
In this episode we discuss:

  • The TCS parenting movement 
  • Chesto's tweet to Deutsch
  • How Popper's Three Worlds differs from Deutsch's Things/Qualia/Abstractions classification
  • Would prime numbers exist if humans didn't exist?
  • What constitutes reality?
  • The existence of non-physical entities and the reality of abstractions 

 
Having a quick glance at the following wikipedia pages will help ground the conversation:


Errata:

  • Somewhere Vaden says English is a formal language. Nope definitely not - English is natural language, which is distinct from a formal language.  


Send us your best guess for whether or not we're real at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. 


Support Increments

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