In this episode, Bruce had a chance to talk to David Deutsch and ask him questions about his views of knowledge to clarify if he…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
In this video upload available on Spotify (we’ll try this once and see how it’s received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episode…
In episode 39, Richard Byrne has spent his whole career trying to determine when animals learned to ‘think.’ We discuss Richard Byrne’s methodology for determining…
How intelligent are animals? In this episode, we introduce our series on animal intelligence rooted primarily in the research of Richard Byrne. Richard Byrne (mentioned…
I previously posted about Deutsch’s argument to Eli Tyre about why induction can’t be the basis for conjecture. And I agreed with that argument. But,…
Deutsch gives a great concise answer to the question of why conjectures are not rooted in induction. (See video here.) The Setup: Eli Tyre starts…
In this episode, we review Alpha Go: The Movie. This is an amazing documentary worth watching before we spoil it for you in this review.…
Reinforcement Learning is a machine learning algorithm that is a ‘general purpose learner’ (with certain important caveats). It generated a lot of excitement with its…
Josh Levent, after listening to our podcast episodes on universal darwinism (part 1, part2), created the following diagram in an attempt to capture the basic…
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…