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Ep 273: Super Intelligence: Then and Now. Fiction and Reality. Part 2
October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 48 minComparing ideas around "superintelligence" over the last decade. How have visions of what "SI" or "AI" or "ASI" and AGI evolved since Bostrom wrote "Superintelligence". This is the combination of various recent YouTube videos but counts as…
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Ep 272: Is science truly explanatory?
October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 17 minA reaction to @CosmicSkeptic and @SabineHossenfelder discussing the nature, or even possibility of, genuine scientific explanation in this video: https://youtu.be/KWBm0_1QBDs?si=3JwIDGAtumO3mfBz Which of them is correct? Or are they…
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Ep 271: Super Intelligence: Then and Now. Fiction and Reality. Part 1
October 6, 2026 · 57 minThis is Part 1 of 2 where I compare and contrast what philosophers were saying about the possibility of "Super Intelligence" many years ago with respect to the discourse today. What did Nick Bostrom say over a decade ago, and what is he…
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Ep 270: The Gradient Descent into Doom.
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 44 minA spontaneous set of comments on the ongoing AI scare of 2026. What's happening in the media right now, on social media, in culture and at the highest levels of government. Why the pessimism and catastrophism? What can be done? Quite a few…
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Ep 269: The Quantum Observer Effect?
September 22, 2026 · 15 minYoutuber Warren Smith of https://www.youtube.com/@SecretScholars made some remarks about the double slit experiment. I assess his claims.
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Ep 268: AGI has arrived podcast
September 7, 2026 · 35 minToday CEO of the world's most valuable company, Nvidia, Jensen Huang, announced "AGI has arrived". https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2096700264569090384?s=20 Some reflections on all that.
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Ep 267: The Orthogonality Thesis is Moral Relativism. (Response to Sam Harris on AI).
August 26, 2026 · 27 minThis is in response to episode 489 of Sam Harris' "Making Sense" podcast - in a section only available via subscription. I have clipped the approximately 60 seconds worth of material I am narrowly responding to for fair use in this…
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Ep 266: Facts, Fantasy and Critical Thinking
August 20, 2026 · 33 minA analysis in Popperian style of Candace Owens' "mode" of debate and discussion, approach to evidence and thinking and a comparison to the more mainstream evaluations of this debate.
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Ep 265: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 14 "The Ends of the Universe" Part 2 The Omega Point
August 15, 2026 · 1 hr 29 minAll about the distant future. What does cosmology tell us about the fate of the universe, life and intelligence in some ultimate sense? Frank Tipler's The Omega Point Theory is the primary focus, but throughout we consider the centrality…
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Ep 264: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 14 "The Ends of the Universe" Part 1
July 30, 2026 · 44 minWhat do our best explanations tell us about the ultimate ends of the universe? What is the difference between forming a world view about any one of the four strands (evolution, epistemology, quantum physics or computation) versus taking…
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Ep 263: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 4 - and final.
July 4, 2026 · 1 hr 31 minHow do the Four Strands of the Fabric of Reality - Quantum Physics, Computation, Epistemology and Evolution by Natural Selection hold together? What does taking them each seriously and all of them together seriously? Is it possible to…
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Ep 262: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 13 "The Four Strands" Part 3
May 4, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minThis episode is heavily focussed on Dawkin's "Selfish Gene" explanation of Darwin's evolution by natural selection. Obviously there are readings from the relevant part of this chapter from The Fabric of Reality but I augment that with…
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This is a podcast largely about the work of David Deutsch and his books ”The Beginning of Infinity” and ”The Fabric of Reality”.