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We take on the harrowing topic of existential risk and examine the many ways that things could go very badly for humanity. On the bright side, Nick Bo...
It’s widely known that humans tend to sacrifice long term rewards for smaller, more immediate gains. We tackle a less widely disseminated model of beh...
We’re back! Today we tackle cryonics, the movement that suggests cryo-preserving the body moments after legal death will enable humanity to one day gr...
We have a wacky one for you today! Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment grounded in decision theory, suggests that a future AI could be incentivized ...
We take a break from heavy philosophy to discuss a fun topic: Jazz! This serves as a good introduction to the genre for any novice jazz listener or pl...
Today we have an informal discussion about free will, possibility, and what it means to have agency. This was a fascinating conversation for us and we...
We continue our discussion of anthropic reasoning from last episode by examining a very troubling thought experiment. Can we logically deduce that hum...
We return from our hiatus to discuss the Anthropic Principle and its applications to statistical reasoning. How should we think about probability when...
Today we take a look at the political philosophy of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers: John Rawls. We discuss his notion of an ideal...