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EpistikEpisode 18, feat. Alexander SiegenfeldTIMESTAMPS
2:35 Natural Scientists vs. Social Scientists in Complexity Science
8:29 Alex’ paper about elections
27:00 Professor Friston’s work in relation to Complexity Science
36:13 Can data be to weak to be useful?
40:35 Complexity Science in relation to philosophy and empiricism vs. rationality
46:29 What is the hardest thing in your work?
55:38 Successful people in academia
1:02:00 Circles & Loops
1:05:00 Measuring success
1:10:30 Are religions circular?
1:17:09 Language compression and emotion transfer devices
1:21:00 Meta-talk
1:24:29 Why is it hard to talk about ”deep things”?
1:28:22 The nature of learning
1:31:30 Memory
1:36:50 A subagent in our embodied cognition that is ”higher” than us?
1:49:11 What advice do you have for younger stud...
2021-07-291h 52
EpistikEpisode 17, feat. Karl FristonTIMESTAMPS:
6:15 Is the reduction of uncertainty in the Free Energy Principle more compareable with Occam’s razor or simple deterministic laws?
18:03 Tautologies and compression of information.
30:00 Free will
37:48 Where does the first prior probability distribution come from? Do you believe in revelation?
49:20 How can we describe parameters of epistemic foraging in terms of the Free Energy Principle and Philosophy?
1:04:15 Practical applications of Friston’s work in relation to policy-making in the corporate world and the public sector.
1:16:10 Should people aspiring to work in Public Admin study maths?
Links to Prof. Friston’s previous pertinent appearances:
TOE Podcas...
2021-07-151h 19
EpistikEpisode 16, feat. Jacob LagerrosTIMESTAMPS:
23:39 Subagents in our heads.
35:00 What can we learn from how we perceive people we encounter on the street?
42:26 The Game of Life in relation to RL and MDPs.
58:35 Summarizing question
2021-07-021h 11
EpistikEpisode 15, feat. Kiran GarimellaTIMESTAMPS
13:00 Computer scientist vs social scientists
17:50 Is quantification effective?
24:00 Why did you choose to work with CSS?
49:00 NLP & Marketing
54:10 NLP vs regression
57:20 What kind of variable would you like to maximize?
Dr. Garimella’s website and GitHub: https://users.ics.aalto.fi/kiran/ https://github.com/gvrkiran
Sorry for bad audio from my side.
2021-06-191h 05
EpistikEpisode 14, feat. Davood GozliTIMESTAMPS
2:00 How do you choose which books to read?
4:00 Random decision-making
8:00 The potential of a emotion transfer device
18:30 The leap of faith
25:27 Who are the genuine atheists?
28:00 Links between dualism vs non-dualism and idealism vs materialism
35:58 Infinite vs finite games in the evolution of religions
39:50 Objectivity in contrast to the personification of God
43:00 Virtue ethics and tautologies
46:10 Turning infinite into finite games – from the micro-level to the macro-level
49:21 What percentage of the world population do you think that people would accept and abide by a coherent and somewhat fair axiomatic system?
50:43 Is there any variable that you can pi...
2021-06-071h 16
EpistikEpisode 13, feat. Devdeepta Bose
4:26 What did you learn from Prof. Collin Camerer
10:10 Neuroeconomics vs Metabolomics
14:07 Defining wellbeing
15:30 A proxy for wellbeing
20:00 The theory of reflexivity and the delta between money and value
25:33 Hedonic recalibration/calibration
28:08 Can our projection of wellbeing be 100% epistemically correct?
31:35 Is computational power or lack of information the primarily limiting factor in deriving a path to wellbeing?
46:15 Do we have a tendency to turn infinite games into finite games?
57:50 Simple stats vs sophisticated maths
1:17:20 Can one force oneself to like any smell?
1:19:25 “When we have to cooperate but don’t have the same purpose of goals, we make transactions.”
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2021-05-241h 25
EpistikEpisode 12, feat. Dario KrpanTIMESTAMPS
8:00 Hegelian dialectical logic vs. statistical inference in Psychology.
13:45 Problems with defining wellbeing.
23:30 Data gathering
31:10 Subconscious hard-limiter.
40:00 Behavioral Scientists' impact in society
53:00 Paternalism v libertarianism.
Links to Professor Krpan's social media:
Linkedin
Twitter
Google Scholar
2021-05-1059 min
EpistikEpisode 11, feat. William Hedley ThompsonTIMESTAMPS
20:25 Comp. Neuroscience & Public Policy
31:50 Comparing brains with computers.
38:00 When should we note something down?
52:40 Does logic have to be mathematical?
1:02:10 Why is it so important for us that some other consciousness has registered our acts/experience?
William's podcast: akademiskasmadad.se
2021-04-291h 14
EpistikEpisode 10, feat. David EbbeviTIMESTAMPS
27:20 Could you explain your research project at the Stockholm School of Economics?
32:50 The balance between using computers and brains
40:00 Could we have a subconscious hard limiter that prevents us from having it ”too good”?
43:00 Do you think that doctors have a place in management consulting?
57:29 How vulnerable is Swedens healthcare?
2021-04-161h 01
EpistikEpisode 9, feat. Paolo VineisTIMESTAMPTS:
3:56 What insights from your research has surprised you the most?
8:35 Advice to researchers when it comes to international collaboration?
17:45 Data linking
21:35 Finding the balance between finding new ideas and focusing on ongoing projects.
Sorry for bad audio quality.
2021-04-0835 min
EpistikEpisode 8, feat. Jonathan GorardTIMESTAMPS
0:20 Are the laws of logic a priori or a posteriori?
7:55 Ideas in applied mathematics
27:50 Why did you choose to work with automated theorem proving?
43:50 An argument for theism and deism
1:06:44 Can automated theorem proving be applied in the field of philosophy?
1:24:10 Our emotional states, wellbeing, and rationality
2021-03-201h 54
EpistikEpisode 7, feat. Tomas BokströmTIMESTAMPS
7:40 Normative ethics and public policy
14:40 The definition of wellbeing.
24:07 Social Anthropologists vs Comp. Social Scientists in Public Policy
39:30 Hedonic wellbeing vs eudemonic wellbeing.
51:25 How can engineers get into policy?
2021-03-101h 11
EpistikEpisode 6, feat. Mats LekanderTIMESTAMPS
3:00 The definition of health
22:30 Qualitative analysis in Psychoneuroimmunology
33:45 Alternative medicine.
39:20 What are your views on the explanatory gap?
53:30 Are the faith problems that western health workers experience in the third world due to problems in allopathic medicine?
Website: Epistik.wordpress.com
2021-02-2556 min
EpistikEpisode 5, feat. Anna HerlandTIMESTAMPS:
0:27 Insights from working with Donald Ingber.
6:00 What motivates researchers?
19:00 Regulations in research
33:12 Measuring success in the public sector.
36:15 Researchers and collaboration with the wider society.
42:55 How do you define learning something new?
2021-02-1253 min
EpistikEpisode 4, feat. Alf MånssonTIMESTAMPS
00:10 Why did you study medicine?
3:43 How suitable does the medical program make you for research?
13:12 How has the student experience changed since you studied in med school?
21:35 Multidisciplinary vs. focused education.
27:53 Materialsim vs. Idealism in regards to the peace in Sweden.
31:37 For how long will the world be able to sustain its standard of living?
37:25 Should business grads make all the money from the work of researchers?
40:11 Philosophical incentives in research.
47:00 What are the biggest obstacles for researchers?
52:32 How should researchers collaborate with the public sector, e.g. the EU?
56:34 Limiting effects of computing power.
58:25 Where do...
2021-01-301h 16
EpistikEpisode 3, feat. Zaher El-ShamiTIMESTAMPS
6:12 Kantian ethics
20:38 Communication
33:10 Is it important for society to learn history as a school subject?
44:30 The negative form of the ”Golden rule”
1:33:00 Why do people want to have children?
1:53:15 Would you go on a vacation If you would know that you would forget about it after getting back?
2:00:00 Goal in life
2021-01-162h 04
EpistikEpisode 2, feat. Jens FustPre Scriptum: Audio quality improves after around 10 mins.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:17 How are philosophy and psychology interlinked?
4:00 Why is it so hard for researches to resist the ”Philosopause”?
14:50 Is it more important for a model to be closer to the truth as opposed to effective?
19:50 Can we simulate how we would behave in different circumstances?
35:20 Can the feeling of making the ”right” decision correlate with any bioinformatics data?
53:40 What does it mean to learn something new?
1:00:00 Why are so many undergrads nihilists or absurdists?
1:02:15 Philosophical values across cultures.
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2021-01-031h 11
EpistikEpisode 1, feat. Ario EbrahimpurTIMESTAMPS:
00:13 The we-feeling in Sweden
9:15 Is the role of the law to deter or cure?
10:35 Is it impossible to avoid contradictions in law?
16:35 What is the role of the government?
23:40 What would you do in an enclosed field?
37:30 Idealism in law school.
1:22:00 Is law logical?
1:35:00 Nuclear war & WW3
2:08:04 Objective in life
2020-12-222h 16