The internet's first source for Rationalist Fiction in audio format!
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Monthly video game club. For the love of games. You know that video game you’ve always talked about playing? Well now is your chance! Join three friends Brian, Eric and Nolan as they laugh and talk about their love of indies, AAAs or a game from the backlog. During each episode they’ll dive into what they are currently playing, latest industry news and a long form discussion on the selected Game of the Month. Listen in and join a community that celebrates all things video games.
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A podcast with episodes loosely tied together by Popper-Deutsch Theory of Knowledge. David Deutsch's 4 Strands tie everything together, so we discuss everything we find interesting be it science, philosophy, computation, politics, or art. But there is a heavy emphasis on the exploration of intelligence and the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/four-strands/support
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Hi, my name is Elliott, also known as Hilster or MrHilster on this wonderful place called the internet! I'm a Programmer, Gamer and Objectivist!
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Fallout 09 – Uranium Fever Aftermath
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Buckle up as Eneasz and Steven discuss some of the feedback about this short series and then have an untamed discussion about how capitalism/capitalists are portrayed in popular culture full of all kinds of digressions and random thoughts. We hope you enjoy it! :)Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Fallout 09 – Uranium Fever Aftermath
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Buckle up as Eneasz and Steven discuss some of the feedback about this short series and then have an untamed discussion about how capitalism/capitalists are portrayed in popular culture full of all kinds of digressions and random thoughts. We hope you enjoy it! :)Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 89: Tradition as a Source of Knowledge: Popper vs. Chesterton
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This week we discuss the book Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (1908), perhaps the most famous defense of the Christian tradition. We contrast this with Karl Popper’s talk, “Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition” (1948), from his collection of essays, Conjectures and Refutations. We consider: What is the role of tradition in science and knowledge? Is …
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Steven and Eneasz wrap up their discussion on the Fallout TV show and plan out future content.Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Steven and Eneasz wrap up their discussion on the Fallout TV show and plan out future content.Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 88: The Myth of the Objective
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Here Bruce reflects on AI researcher Kenneth Stanley’s assertion that setting specific, measurable goals may actually hinder discovery and innovation, which he writes about in his book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective. How does Stanley’s insight relate to critical rationalism, education, and life in general? We cover topi…
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Enjoy the 7th episode of Uranium Fever! Everyone’s always trying to get some head. In this case it’s more literal.Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Enjoy the 7th episode of Uranium Fever! Everyone’s always trying to get some head. In this case it’s more literal.Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 87: Is the Universal Explainer Hypothesis Falsifiable?
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Is the universal explainer hypothesis falsifiable? How does the concept of universality relate to human minds? Is anything truly beyond human comprehension? And how would you frame universality as an interesting topic at a party? This week we also feature a guest, Dan Gish, a fellow traveler Bruce has connected with on Twitter. Dan (on Twitter) had…
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Fallout 06 – The One-Eyed Monster
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Our heroes get trapped by evil mutants! Plus we get some ghoulishly awesome flashbacks from before the end of the world. Don’t forget to check out AskWho’s awesome Substack. Eneasz recommended this reading of a book review of the Old Testament and it’s awesome.Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Fallout 06 – The One-Eyed Monster
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Our heroes get trapped by evil mutants! Plus we get some ghoulishly awesome flashbacks from before the end of the world. Don’t forget to check out AskWho’s awesome Substack. Eneasz recommended this reading of a book review of the Old Testament and it’s awesome.Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz and Steven chat about the fifth episode of the Fallout tv show. Remember when we thought we’d keep these around 15 minutes each? Ha!Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz and Steven chat about the fifth episode of the Fallout tv show. Remember when we thought we’d keep these around 15 minutes each? Ha!Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 86: Fuzzy Categories, Essentialism, and Epistemology (Hofstadter Part 2)
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How do humans form 'fuzzy categories'? How does this all relate to essentialism? Is essentialism false? Or is it partially true? And how does this all relate to Critical Rationalism? Picking up where we left off last week, Bruce getsdeeper into Douglas Hofstadter’s ideas on language and the mind and his assertion that “analogy-making lies at the he…
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Fallout 04 – Golden Rule, Motherfucker
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This episode gets us back into awesome character stuff and we had a blast (bomb pun intended).Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Fallout 04 – Golden Rule, Motherfucker
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This episode gets us back into awesome character stuff and we had a blast (bomb pun intended).Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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This was more of a plot moving episode and less of a deep diving conversation starter, but we still found some stuff to talk about. I hope you enjoy the transition between the main episode and the last few minutes – the sophisticated among you will get it. ;)Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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This was more of a plot moving episode and less of a deep diving conversation starter, but we still found some stuff to talk about. I hope you enjoy the transition between the main episode and the last few minutes – the sophisticated among you will get it. ;)Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 85: Critical Rationalism and Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1)
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This is the first of our two part series (that may or may not be released back-to-back) where Bruce delves into the work Douglas Hofstadter, specifically the book Surfaces and Essences. We consider what is the relationship—if there is any—between critical rationalism and Hofstadter's idea that analogy is a core mechanism of human cognition. Is it f…
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Eneasz and Steven continue the discussion about the Fallout tv show and digress hard about the role of luck in our life circumstances. The outro song is from The Righteous Gemstones sung by Walton Goggins. :)Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz and Steven continue the discussion about the Fallout tv show and digress hard about the role of luck in our life circumstances. The outro song is from The Righteous Gemstones sung by Walton Goggins. :)Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz and Steven wanted to chat about the new and awesome Fallout tv series. We were under the delusion we could keep this to like 15 minutes but you know us and that was never going to happen.Autor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz and Steven wanted to chat about the new and awesome Fallout tv series. We were under the delusion we could keep this to like 15 minutes but you know us and that was never going to happen.Autor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 84: Are Video Games Harmful to Children?
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Here we discuss a 1992 interview with David Deutsch where he makes the case that video games are inherently educational, not addictive, and that children should not be stopped from playing as much as they want. We contrast the view of humans, science, and knowledge promoted there by David Deutsch with the more pessimistic view of thinkers such as J…
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Episode 83: Popper's Second Axis (aka Bruce's Epistemology?)
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Bruce summarizes his (unique?) understanding of Karl Popper’s epistemology that (possibly?) straddles the line between orthodox and unorthodox and is Influenced both by Deutsch, more old school Popperians, and his own unique interpretation of critical rationalism. Bruce claims that the key difference between regular "folk epistemology" (i.e. how hu…
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In an episode that may (or may not) be his magnum opus, Bruce introduces his term for Karl Popper’s idea that you are only allowed to solve problems with your (scientific) theory by making it more empirical, not less empirical. Bruce makes the case that this is one of Karl Popper’s least appreciated ideas, as all of us are tempted by ad hoc saves t…
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Episode 81: Easy to Varyness vs Ad Hocness
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Bruce sympathetically critiques David Deutsch’s concept of “easy to varyness” as a way to judge our explanations. Are our best theories about reality truly hard to vary? Bruce makes the case that Popper’s concept of “ad hocness” may be a strangely interwoven concept. Along the way we get deeper into whether Popperian epistemology is best seen as an…
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Oscar Catch-Up 2023 – Not Everything Bad Is A Satire – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse
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Is the 2023 winner for animated short a brilliant work of satirical performance art, or just bad, or just good? Eneasz, Matt, and Jen have different opinions, and fortunately we totally decide which one is right. Watch it hereAutor: The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Oscar Catch-Up 2023 – Not Everything Bad Is A Satire – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse
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Is the 2023 winner for animated short a brilliant work of satirical performance art, or just bad, or just good? Eneasz, Matt, and Jen have different opinions, and fortunately we totally decide which one is right. Watch it hereAutor: podcast – The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge
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Bruce wraps up his epic 6 part series on knowledge and the 'two sources hypothesis' (i.e. Deutsch's theory that all 'knowledge' comes from only two sources: Biological evolution and human minds). What happens if we take all the non-two sources examples of 'adapted information that cause itself to remain so' (e.g. the walking robot, the immune syste…
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