Increments
Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem
Displaying 4 items of Increments with the tag "statistics".
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#105 - The World of Bayesian Statistics (w/ Alex Andorra)
July 17th, 2026 | 1 hr 18 mins
bayes, belief, probabiliity, statistics
The boys switch teams and act as the great defenders of Bayesianism.
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#91 - The Uses and Abuses of Statistics (w/ Ben Recht)
September 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 16 mins
agi, artificial intelligence, rationality, statistics
What is statistics good for? Has it ever discovered anything? Where does the word "robot" come from? Ben Recht joins us to untangle these mysteries.
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#74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch)
October 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 32 mins
belief, certainty, epistemology, mathematics, probability, statistics, truth
We talk with David Deutsch about whether the concept of belief is a useful lens on human cognition, when probability and statistics are actually useful, and whether he disagrees with Karl Popper about the truth.
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#46 (Bonus) - Arguing about probability (with Nick Anyos)
December 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 59 mins
bayesianism, effective altruism, longtermism, probability, statistics
Ben and Vaden make a guest appearance on Nick Anyos' podcast on criticisms of effective altruism. As usual, they end up arguing about probability for most of it.