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Fluidity

148 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings

After the collapse of the 20th-century systematic mode of social organization, how can we move from our internet-enabled atomized mode, toward a fluid mode? We take problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turn them into practical problems, which are more tractable.

"Meaningness" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/an-appetizer-purpose

"Meaningness And Time" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/meaningness-and-time-how-meaning-fell-apart

'In The Cells Of The Eggplant" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/intro-to-metarationality

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

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This is a nonfiction audiobook narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, David Chapman. Full text at: https://meaningness.com

Please email me at [email protected].

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Bonus Episode 8: Going Down On The Phenomenon

April 17, 2024 15:00 - 8 minutes - 8.24 MB

Forgive the sound quality on this episode; I recorded it live in front of an audience on a platform floating in a lake during the 2024 solar eclipse. This is a standalone essay by David Chapman on metarationaity.com. How scientific research is like cunnilingus: a phenomenology of epistemology. https://metarationality.com/going-down-on-the-phenomenon You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you...

The Role Of Intelligence In Science

April 07, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

What Is The Role Of Intelligence In Science? Actually, what are “science” and “intelligence”? Precise, explicit definitions aren’t necessary, but discussions of Transformative AI seem to depend implicitly on particular models of both. It matters if those models are wrong. https://betterwithout.ai/intelligence-in-science Katja Grace, “Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case”. https://aiimpacts.org/counterarguments-to-the-basic-ai-x-risk-case/   What Do Unusually Intelligent Pe...

Radical Progress Without Scary AI

March 10, 2024 15:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

Radical Progress Without Scary AI: Technological progress, in medicine for example, provides an altruistic motivation for developing more powerful AIs. I suggest that AI may be unnecessary, or even irrelevant, for that. We may be able to get the benefits without the risks. https://betterwithout.ai/radical-progress-without-AI What kind of AI might accelerate technological progress?: “Narrow” AI systems, specialized for particular technical tasks, are probably feasible, useful, and safe. L...

AI Is Net Harmful, and, A Negative Public Image For AI

February 18, 2024 15:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MB

Recognize that AI is probably net harmful: Actually-existing and near-future AIs are net harmful—never mind their longer-term risks. We should shut them down, not pussyfoot around hoping they can somehow be made safe. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-is-harmful Create a negative public image for AI: Most funding for AI research comes from the advertising industry. Their primary motivation may be to create a positive corporate image, to offset their obvious harms. Creating bad publicity for AI...

Spurn Artificial Ideology

February 04, 2024 15:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

“Apocalypse now” identified the corrosive influence of new viral ideologies, created unintentionally by recommender systems, as a major AI risk. These may cause social collapse if not tackled head-on. You can resist. https://betterwithout.ai/spurn-artificial-ideology Announcement tweet for the Opening Awareness, Opening Rationality discussion group starting on February 1: https://twitter.com/openingBklyn/status/1751314312415567956 Document with more details: https://docs.google.com/doc...

Announcement: Opening Awareness, Opening Rationality Group

January 29, 2024 00:51

Announcement tweet for a discussion group based on David Chapman's In The Cells Of The Eggplant, starting on February 1: https://twitter.com/openingBklyn/status/1751314312415567956   Document with more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YPaos3zTgdraF9VouWkHUouVHVsrbYBluUO3Kh--Ezs/edit

Fight DOOM AI with SCIENCE! and ENGINEERING!!

January 14, 2024 15:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

Current AI practices produce technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering investigations can bring better understanding of specific risks of current AI technology, and can lead to safer technologies.   https://betterwithout.ai/fight-unsafe-AI You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show...

Mistrust Machine Learning

December 31, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MB

The technologies underlying current AI systems are inherently, unfixably unreliable. They should be deprecated, avoided, regulated, and replaced. https://betterwithout.ai/mistrust-machine-learning You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Music is by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons A...

Develop And Mandate Intrinsic Cybersecurity

December 17, 2023 15:00 - 13 minutes - 12 MB

Gaining unauthorized access to computer systems is a key source of power in many AI doom scenarios. That is easy now, because there are scant incentives for serious cybersecurity; so nearly all systems are radically insecure. Technical and political initiatives must mitigate this problem. https://betterwithout.ai/cybersecurity-vs-AI   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like th...

Practical Actions You Can Take Against AI Risks, and, End Digital Surveillance

December 10, 2023 15:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MB

Practical Actions You Can Take Against AI Risks: We can and should protect against current and likely future harmful AI effects. This chapter recommends practical, near-term risk reduction measures. I suggest actions for the general public, computer professionals, AI ethics and safety organizations, funders, and governments. https://betterwithout.ai/pragmatic-AI-safety End Digital Surveillance: Databases of personal information collected via internet surveillance are a main resource for...

Social Collapse: Apocalyptic Incoherence

December 03, 2023 23:51 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

This concludes the "Apocalypse Now" section of Better Without AI.   AI systems may cause near-term disasters through their proven ability to shatter societies and cultures. These might potentially cause human extinction, but are more likely to scale up to the level of the twentieth century dictatorships, genocides, and world wars. It would be wise to anticipate possible harms in as much detail as possible.   https://betterwithout.ai/incoherent-AI-apocalypses   You can support the...

Who Is In control Of AI? What An AI Apocalypse May Look Like

November 12, 2023 14:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

Who is in control of AI? - It may already be too late to shut down the existing AI systems that could destroy civilization. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-is-out-of-control What an AI apocalypse may look like - Scenarios in which artificial intelligence systems degrade critical institutions to the point of collapse seem to me not just likely, but well under way. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-safety-failure   This episode mentions the short story "Sort By Controversial" by Scott Alexander....

Apocalypse Now - At War With The Machines

November 06, 2023 21:28 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB

"In this audiobook... A LARGE BOLD FONT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS SOUNDS LIKE THIS."   Apocalypse now - Current AI systems are already harmful. They pose apocalyptic risks even without further technology development. This chapter explains why; explores a possible path for near-term human extinction via AI; and sketches several disaster scenarios.   https://betterwithout.ai/apocalypse-now   At war with the machines - The AI apocalypse is now.   https://betterwithout.ai/AI-already...

Fear Power, Not Intelligence

October 22, 2023 23:38 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

Superintelligence should scare us only insofar as it grants superpowers. Protecting against specific harms of specific plausible powers may be our best strategy for preventing catastrophes.   https://betterwithout.ai/fear-AI-power   For much of the AI safety community, the central question has been “when will it happen?!” That is futile: we don’t have a coherent description of what “it” is, much less how “it” would come about. Fortunately, a prediction wouldn’t be useful anyway. An A...

Artificial General Intelligence And Transformative AI

October 15, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 9.19 MB

Many people call the future threat “artificial general intelligence,” but all three words there are misleading when trying to understand risks.   https://betterwithout.ai/artificial-general-intelligence   AI may radically accelerate technology development. That might be extremely good or extremely bad. There are currently no good explanations for how either would happen, so it’s hard to predict which, or when, or whether. The understanding necessary to guide the future to a good outco...

Motivation, Morals, and Monsters

October 08, 2023 14:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MB

Thanks for your patience while I ran Fluidity Forum. We now resume "Better Without AI" by David Chapman.   Speculations about autonomous AI assume simplistic theories of motivation. They also mistakenly confuse those with ethical theories. Building AI systems on these ideas would produce monsters. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-motivation   Coherent Extrapolated Volition https://betterwithout.ai/AI-motivation#fn_Turchin:~:text=%E2%80%9C-,Coherent%20Extrapolated%20Volition,-%E2%80%9D...

Diverse Forms Of Agency

September 18, 2023 00:27 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MB

It’s a mistake to think that human-like agency is the only dangerous kind. That risks overlooking AIs causing agent-like harms in inhuman ways. https://betterwithout.ai/diverse-agency#fn_meme_critics You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Cre...

Autonomous AI Agents

September 10, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.73 MB

Most apocalyptic scenarios involve an AI acting as an autonomous agent, pursuing goals that conflict with human ones. Many people reject AI risk, saying that machines can’t have real goals or intentions. However, agency seems nebulous; and subtracting “real” agency from the scenario doesn’t seem to remove the risk.   https://betterwithout.ai/agency   A video in which white blood cells look as if they have agency:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrCmBNiJRI   The US National...

Mind-Like AI

September 04, 2023 03:40 - 9 minutes - 8.92 MB

We have a powerful intuition that some special mental feature, such as self-awareness, is a prerequisite to intelligence. This causes confusion because we don’t have a coherent understanding of what the special feature is, nor what role it plays in intelligent action. It may be best to treat mental characteristics as in the eye of the beholder, and therefore mainly irrelevant to AI risks. https://betterwithout.ai/mind-like-AI You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by ...

Scary AI, and, Superintelligence

August 27, 2023 14:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

Scary AI: Apocalyptic AI scenarios usually involve some qualitatively different future form of artificial intelligence. No one can explain clearly what would make that exceptionally dangerous in a way current AI isn’t. This confusion draws attention away from risks of existing and near-future technologies, and from ways of forestalling them. https://betterwithout.ai/scary-AI Superintelligence: Maybe AI will kill you before you finish reading this section. The extreme scenarios typically ...

Only You Can Stop An AI Apocalypse

August 20, 2023 12:41 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MB

We now begin narrating the book Better Without AI, by David Chapman.   https://betterwithout.ai/only-you-can-stop-an-AI-apocalypse   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold] Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License...

Resisting Or Embracing Metarationality

June 04, 2023 14:00

This concludes "In The Cells Of The Eggplant" by David Chapman. The podcast will go on a hiatus through the month of June. It's natural to react to meta-rationalism with skepticism or hostility initially. You may come to delight in it. https://metarationality.com/meta-rationality-resistance-enjoyment Christopher Lövgren and Jake Orthwein discuss meta-rationality on the Do Explain podcast: Meaning and Meta-Rationality: https://www.doexplain.org/episodes/28-meaning-and-meta-rationality...

A Fully Metarational Workplace

May 22, 2023 03:03 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

A meta-rational organization may appear chaotic (although productive and innovative), until you notice how smoothly routine rational work gets done. https://metarationality.com/meta-rational-workplace This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version. You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudio...

Doing Being Rational

May 14, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

Fine-grained analysis of a molecular biology how-to video reveals significant features of rationality in practice. https://metarationality.com/rational-pcr   This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version.   The Britannica entry on PCR: https://www.britannica.com/science/polymerase-chain-reaction   The Khan Academy explainer on PCR: https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Upgrade Your Cargo Cult For The Win

May 07, 2023 14:20 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

Part V of In The Cells Of The Eggplant: Taking Rational Work Seriously   Putting meta-rationality to work, in statistics, experimental science, software development, and entrepreneurship. https://metarationality.com/applications   Richard Feynman derided “cargo cult science” that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry. https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult   This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapm...

What They Don’t Teach You At STEM School

April 23, 2023 14:30 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB

The syllabus for a curriculum teaching meta-rational skills: how to evaluate, combine, modify, discover, and create effective systems. https://metarationality.com/meta-rationality-curriculum   This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version.   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudio...

Ignorant, Irrelevant, And Inscrutable

April 16, 2023 14:30 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

Distinguishing irrational, anti-rational, and meta-rational critiques of rationalism helps reply effectively. https://metarationality.com/rationalism-critiques This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version. You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider b...

Judging Whether A System Applies

April 09, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

Just as in the last episode, this is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version. It fits well into Part 4: Taking Meta-Rationality Seriously.   Rationality requires judging whether a system of reasoning applies to a situation — but that judgement cannot be systematic! https://metarationality.com/meta-systematic-judgement   Links mentioned in this episode:   A webcomic...

Part 4: Taking Meta-Rationality Seriously

April 02, 2023 14:30 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

The heart of the meta-rationality book: what meta-rationality is, why it matters, and how to do it.   https://metarationality.com/meta-rationality   A first lesson in meta-rationality, or stage 5 cognition, using Bongard problems as a laboratory. This is an essay from metarationality.com edited and inserted into In The Cells Of The Eggplant, with the permission of the author.   https://metarationality.com/bongard-meta-rationality   Some links in the episode:   Index of Bon...

Ontological Remodeling

March 26, 2023 14:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MB

Reconfiguring categories, properties, and relationships is a meta-rational skill—key in scientific revolutions.   https://metarationality.com/remodeling   Be advised, this episode is an hour long.   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast...

Hiatus Today

March 19, 2023 14:03

There will be no episode today, as the podcast will be on a one-week hiatus.

The Parable Of The Pebbles

March 12, 2023 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB

Even counting, the simplest rational method, works only with the aid of non-rational support. https://metarationality.com/pebbles You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 Lice...

Hiatus This Week

February 26, 2023 14:00

Due to a combination of factors, discussed on the Patreon, I've set myself back by a week, and will be on hiatus until next week.

Reasonable Ontology

February 19, 2023 15:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

Reasonableness works with nebulous, tacit, interactive, accountable, purposeful ontologies, which enable everyday routine activity. https://metarationality.com/reasonable-ontology   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creativ...

Instructed Activity

February 12, 2023 15:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

Using instructions requires figuring out what they mean in the context of your activity, and relative to your purposes. https://metarationality.com/reasonable-ontology You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Comme...

Reasonable Believings

February 05, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB

This episode is more than an hour long.   The epistemological categories—truth, belief, inference—are richer, more complex, diverse, and nebulous than rationalism supposes. https://metarationality.com/reasonable-epistemology   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kev...

The Purpose Of Meaning

January 22, 2023 15:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MB

Peculiar features of language make sense as tools to enable collaboration, rather than to express objective truths. https://metarationality.com/purpose-of-meaning You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercia...

Meaningful Perception

January 15, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

We actively work to perceive aspects of the world as meaningful, in terms of our purposes, in context. https://metarationality.com/perception   Here are the images mentioned in this episode:   In this episode is a mention of a perception test of tracking basketball players passing a ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo Also mentioned in this episode is a more advanced version of the perception test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY   You can suppor...

Accountability And Routine

January 08, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

You are accountable for reasonableness: Accountability is the key concept in understanding mere reasonableness, as contrasted with systematic rationality. https://metarationality.com/accountability   Reasonableness is routine: Routine activity usually goes smoothly overall, despite frequent minor glitches, because we have methods for repairing trouble. https://metarationality.com/routine   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: http...

Aspects Of Reasonableness - and - Reasonableness Is Meaningful Activity

January 01, 2023 15:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

Aspects of reasonableness: A summary explanation of everyday reasonable activity, with a tabular guide and a concrete example. https://metarationality.com/reasonableness-aspects   Reasonableness is meaningful activity: Understanding concrete, purposeful activity is a prerequisite to understanding the formal rationality that depends on it. https://metarationality.com/meaningful-activity   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https...

Part Two: Taking Reasonableness Seriously

December 25, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB

Everyday reasonableness is the foundation of technical, formal, and systematic rationality. https://metarationality.com/reasonableness   This is not cognitive science - The Eggplant is neither cognitive nor science, although it seeks a better understanding of some phenomena cognitive science has studied. https://metarationality.com/cognitive-science   The ethnomethodological flip - A dramatic perspective shift: understanding rationality as dependent on mere reasonableness to co...

Acting On The Truth, And Overcoming Post-Rationalist Nihilism

December 18, 2022 15:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

The conclusion of Part One of In The Cells Of The Eggplant: Taking Rationalism Seriously.   Acting On The Truth   Rationalist theories of action try to deduce optimal choices from true beliefs. This is rarely possible in practice.   https://metarationality.com/action-in-rationalism   Overcoming Post-Rationalist Nihilism   Realizing rationalism is wrong can be devastating. Antidotes to the ensuing rage, anxiety, and depression are available, fortunately!   https://meta...

Probabilism, Part Two

December 11, 2022 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB

The probability of green cheese: A thought experiment shows why probability theory and statistics cannot address uncertainty in general.   https://metarationality.com/small-world   Statistics and the replication crisis: The mistaken belief that statistical methods can tell you what to believe drove the science replication crisis.   https://metarationality.com/probabilism-crisis   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https...

Probabilism, Part One

December 04, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB

Probability theory seems an attractive foundation for rationalism—but it is not up to the job. https://metarationality.com/probabilism   Leaving the casino - Probabilistic rationalism encourages you to view the whole world as a gigantic casino—but mostly it is not like that. https://metarationality.com/probabilism-applicability   What probability can’t do - If probability theory were an epistemology, we’d want it to tell us how confident to be in our beliefs. Unfortunately, it ca...

Propositions, Hypothesis Generation, and Unknown Unknowns

November 27, 2022 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

Three short chapters from In The Cells Of The Eggplant.   What can you believe? - Propositions are whatever sort of thing it is you can believe. Nothing can play that role; so we need a different understanding of belief.   https://metarationality.com/propositions   Where did you get that idea in the first place? - Rationalism does not explain where hypotheses, theories, discoveries, inventions, or other new ideas come from.   https://metarationality.com/no-new-ideas   The Sp...

Is This An Eggplant Which I See Before Me?

November 20, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

Rationalist theories assume perception delivers an objective description of the world to rationality. It can’t, and doesn’t try to. https://metarationality.com/rationalist-perception   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creat...

Objects, Objectively

November 13, 2022 15:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB

Rational methods assume objects are objectively separable; but they aren’t. How do we use rationality effectively anyway? https://metarationality.com/objective-objects   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribut...

Reference And Identity

November 06, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB

Reference: rationalism’s reality problem - The correspondence theory of truth doesn’t work by metaphysical magic. We must do the work to make it work—by any means necessary. https://metarationality.com/rational-reference   The National Omelet Registry - Rationalism implicitly or explicitly assumes that every object in the universe has a unique ID number. https://metarationality.com/identity   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: h...

Overdriving Approximation

October 30, 2022 14:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB

Approximation is a powerful technique, but is not applicable in all rational work, and so is not a good general theory of nebulosity.   https://metarationality.com/approximation   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a...

When Will You Go Bald?

October 23, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MB

“Shades of gray” is sometimes a good way to think about nebulosity—the world’s inherent fuzziness—but not always.   https://metarationality.com/vagueness   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribut...

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