Pause. Think aloud. Repeat. Epistemology + Ethics = Epistik
"Whoever questions you openly with genuine reason is loyal to you."
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Pause. Think aloud. Repeat. Epistemology + Ethics = Epistik "Whoever questions you openly with genuine reason is loyal to you." Thank you for listening! Email: contact.epistik@gmail.com Twitter: @prefixiffus
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Recent Episodes
July 29, 2021
Episode 18, feat. Alexander Siegenfeld
<p><strong>TIMESTAMPS</strong></p> <ul> <li>2:35 Natural Scientists vs. Social Scientists in Complexity Science</li> <li>8:29 Alex’ paper about elections</li> <li>27:00 Professor Friston’s work in relation to Complexity Science</li> <li>36:13 Can data be to weak to be useful?</li> <li>40:35 Complexity Science in relation to philosophy and empiricism vs. rationality</li> <li>46:29 What is the hardest thing in your work?</li> <li>55:38 Successful people in academia</li> <li>1:02:00 Circles & Loops</li> <li>1:05:00 Measuring success</li> <li>1:10:30 Are religions circular?</li> <li>1:17:09 Language compression and emotion transfer devices</li> <li>1:21:00 Meta-talk</li> <li>1:24:29 Why is it hard to talk about ”deep things”?</li> <li>1:28:22 The nature of learning</li> <li>1:31:30 Memory</li> <li>1:36:50 A subagent in our embodied cognition that is ”higher” than us?</li> <li>1:49:11 What advice do you have for younger students?</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>Intrested in CS? Award-winning intro to Complexity Science by Alex: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/</p> <p>Mentioned resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions"><u>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions</u></a> (Note from Alex: It seems less original now than at the time it was written)</li> <li>The Master and His Emmissary by Iain McGilchrist</li> <li>Another book recommended by Alex: I and Thou by Martin Buber (he recommends the translation by Smith)</li> <li>The review article in Nature Physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11489</li> </ul> <p>Regarding proxies to internal goals, I’d recommend the following Medium article: <a href="https://adamahm.medium.com/data-linkage-visualization-for-assisting-policy-makers-d4ba40715693x">https://adamahm.medium.com/data-linkage-visualization-for-assisting-policy-makers-d4ba40715693x</a></p> <p>Give Epistik a follow and fill the following form: <a href="https://forms.gle/MSZwUEFm1kzMTuia6">https://forms.gle/MSZwUEFm1kzMTuia6</a></p>
July 14, 2021
Episode 17, feat. Karl Friston
<p><strong>TIMESTAMPS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>6:15 Is the reduction of uncertainty in the Free Energy Principle more compareable with Occam’s razor or simple deterministic laws?</li> <li>18:03 Tautologies and compression of information.</li> <li>30:00 Free will</li> <li>37:48 Where does the first prior probability distribution come from? Do you believe in revelation?</li> <li>49:20 How can we describe parameters of epistemic foraging in terms of the Free Energy Principle and Philosophy?</li> <li>1:04:15 Practical applications of Friston’s work in relation to policy-making in the corporate world and the public sector.</li> <li>1:16:10 Should people aspiring to work in Public Admin study maths?</li> </ul> <p><strong>Links to Prof. Friston’s previous pertinent appearances:</strong></p> <ul> <li>TOE Podcast: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA (good for getting an elementary understanding of the Free Energy Principle and it's applications)</li> <li>Lex Fridman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzuibY5kUs&t=688s (a fun conversation)</li> <li>Dartmouth's CCN Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1hEc6vay_k (good for stats-people)</li> <li>ML Streettalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR24ieh5Ow (good for ML-people)</li> <li>Serious Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0JnjgCO3o&t=520s (about a slightly separate area: Embodied Cognition)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Give Epistik a follow! Suggest ideas here: https://forms.gle/MSZwUEFm1kzMTuia6</strong></p>
July 1, 2021
Episode 16, feat. Jacob Lagerros
<p>TIMESTAMPS:</p> <ul> <li>23:39 Subagents in our heads.</li> <li>35:00 What can we learn from how we perceive people we encounter on the street?</li> <li>42:26 The Game of Life in relation to RL and MDPs.</li> <li>58:35 Summarizing question</li> </ul>
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