The Theory of Anything
A podcast by Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen - Tuesdays
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102 Episodes
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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
Published: 7/17/2023 -
Episode 60: Learning, Work, and Art in the Age of ChatGPT
Published: 7/3/2023 -
Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
Published: 6/12/2023 -
Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later
Published: 5/22/2023 -
Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
Published: 5/1/2023 -
Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
Published: 4/10/2023 -
Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)
Published: 3/31/2023 -
Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
Published: 3/13/2023 -
Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1
Published: 2/17/2023 -
Episode 52: Is Being Dogmatic Ever a Good Thing?
Published: 1/16/2023 -
Episode 51: Was Karl Popper Dogmatic?
Published: 10/2/2022 -
Episode 50: The Turing Test 2.0 (aka is LaMDA Sentient?)
Published: 9/11/2022 -
Episode 49: AGI Alignment and Safety
Published: 8/1/2022 -
Episode 48: Genetics and Universality (part 2): How Our Genes Coerce Us
Published: 7/12/2022 -
Episode 47: Genetics and Universality (part 1): How Our Genes Influence Us
Published: 6/27/2022 -
Episode 46: Narcissism and Other Mental Disorders
Published: 6/13/2022 -
Episode 45: Adapting the The Wheel of Time for Television
Published: 5/30/2022 -
Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"
Published: 5/9/2022 -
Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Published: 4/18/2022 -
Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)
Published: 3/28/2022
A podcast that explores intelligence and the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through the lens of the Popper-Deutsch Theory of Knowledge. David Deutsch has argued that Quantum Mechanics, Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge, and Computational Theory (aka "The Four Strands") represent an early 'theory of everything' be it science, philosophy, computation, politics, or art.