Two aspiring rationalists (Gianluca Truda and Jared Tumiel) bring you mind-bending ideas from science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Whether you enjoy wide-ranging discussions or are looking to upgrade your reasoning and critical thinking skills, this podcast will satisfy your intellectual hunger and sharpen your skeptical eye.
Episodes
- 2022-08-17 | 031 | Kat Woods — Effective Altruism, Infohazards, and Brain Hacks
- 2020-12-03 | 030 | Predictive Processing 3: Neurobiology, Prediction, and Computational Psychiatry
- 2020-09-03 | 029 | Predictive Processing 2: Where The Action Is
- 2020-08-17 | 028 | Predictive Processing 1: The World You Thought You Knew
- 2020-08-11 | 027 | 7 Practices to Survive the 2020 Apocalypse
- 2020-03-11 | 026 | Drink and be Rational
- 2020-03-05 | 025 | Self-Supervised Machine Learning: Introduction, Intuitions, and Use-Cases
- 2020-02-04 | 024 | Replacing Guilt
- 2020-01-29 | 023 | Are Brains Just Neural Nets?
- 2020-01-21 | 022 | 6 Books You Need to Read in 2020… and 1 You Probably Shouldn’t
- 2020-01-14 | 021 | The Top 19 Ideas from 2019
- 2019-11-05 | 020 | Mental Models 3: Fantastic Biases and Where To Find Them
- 2019-10-28 | 019 | Mental Models 2: How To Think Like A Bayesian, Avoid Black Swans, & Know The Value of Your Decisions
- 2019-10-22 | 018 | Mental Models 1: How To Have Better Ideas and Improve Your Thinking
- 2019-10-14 | 017 | Bronwyn Williams: Universal Basic Income & Individual Sovereignty
- 2019-09-24 | 016 | Free Will, Compassion, and Reinforcement Learning
- 2019-09-18 | 015 | You have no Choice in the Matter
- 2019-09-09 | 014 | The Art of Looking - Part 1 of ??
- 2019-09-02 | 013 | How To Learn Anything!
- 2019-08-26 | 012 | How Deep Learning Does Magic
- 2019-08-19 | 011 | Slack, attention and focus - or why more is less
- 2019-08-12 | 010 | Flow states, optimal performance, and PhD hunter-gathering
- 2019-08-05 | 009 | How to Win Friends and Influence Reality
- 2019-07-29 | 008 | Design Your Workouts, but Evolve Your Algorithms!
- 2019-07-22 | 007 | Game Theory, Alignment, and Civilisational Inadequacy
- 2019-07-15 | 006 | Libra, crypto, and the future of humanity
- 2019-07-08 | 005 | Habit Frameworks and Sleep
- 2019-07-05 | 004 | Don't Ask a Genie to Cure Cancer
- 2019-07-03 | 003 | Synaesthesia and the Butterfly Effect of Remembrance
- 2019-07-02 | 002 | Self-aware doorways & dog-space
- 2019-06-30 | 001 | You don’t want to be the people in Friends