Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

Christofer and entrepreneur Aaron Nesmith-Beck speak about practical tips for having a useful psychedelic experience in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss if using drugs is cheating, dealing with bad/challenging trips, ceremonial containers for a trip, nested arcs, fractal insights, tripping in a group, psilocybin retreats in Holland, DMT, QRI and neural annealing, meeting extra dimensional beings, and other related topics.

Aaron Nesmith-Beck is a writer and entrepreneur most interested in psychedelics as a way to effectively do good. He founded Atman, one of the first legal psilocybin retreats. Atman Retreat allows people to explore the transformative potential of psychedelics safely, legally, and in a setting designed to maximize their benefits. Before that, he travelled for several years while blogging at Freedom & Fulfilment, which has now reached almost a million people worldwide. He's currently based in Toronto, Canada and was previously a board member of Mapping the Mind, one of Canada’s largest psychedelic science conferences, and a volunteer organizer for Effective Altruism Toronto. Other interests of his include meditation, applied ethics, personality and transpersonal psychology, and nonduality.

Website: https://anesmithbeck.com/
Atman Retreat: https://atmanretreat.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/anesmithbeck

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Christofer and entrepreneur Aaron Nesmith-Beck speak about the transformative powers of psychedelics in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss how nice Canadians really are, common objections to using psychedelics, Aaron's most memorable psychedelic experiences, Atman Retreat, tripping solo or with a sitter, crying as a therapeutic tool, bodymind tension, highly sensitive people (HSP), the experience of Oneness, the metaphysics of mystical insight, and other related topics.

Aaron Nesmith-Beck is a writer and entrepreneur most interested in psychedelics as a way to effectively do good. He founded Atman, one of the first legal psilocybin retreats. Atman Retreat allows people to explore the transformative potential of psychedelics safely, legally, and in a setting designed to maximize their benefits. Before that, he travelled for several years while blogging at Freedom & Fulfilment, which has now reached almost a million people worldwide. He's currently based in Toronto, Canada and was previously a board member of Mapping the Mind, one of Canada’s largest psychedelic science conferences, and a volunteer organizer for Effective Altruism Toronto. Other interests of his include meditation, applied ethics, personality and transpersonal psychology, and nonduality.

Website: https://anesmithbeck.com/
Atman Retreat: https://atmanretreat.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/anesmithbeck

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Christofer and executive coach Joe Hudson speak about resisting positive emotions in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss crying at bus stops, laughing, dealing with anger, the shadow, inherent goodness, original sin, love what you do vs. do what you love, parts work, and other related topics.

Joe Hudson is a sought after executive coach and creator of The Art of Accomplishment, an online learning platform for personal development.  As a venture capitalist Joe found that the most rewarding aspect, and the part he was most successful at, was the mentorship and coaching of the leadership of his portfolio companies. This insight moved him to his present role as a coach, business consultant and teacher. He now coaches 12 CEOs and leaders in prominent companies and runs transformative programs for both individuals and businesses. He is practicing a craft that makes big, lasting, and overwhelmingly positive impacts on the lives of people in his programs and in the companies he works with.

Website: https://artofaccomplishment.com/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-accomplishment/id1540650504

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This is part 2 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com).

In the second episode they focus on why the search for a universal theory of epistemology is problematic. They talk about mathematical and semantic information, the difference between nebulosity and fallibilism, and Chapman's division of reasonableness, rationality and meta-rationality. 

Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein
Website: https://frameproblems.com/

Article by David Deutsch mentioned in the intro:
https://www.warpnews.org/premium-content/david-deutsch-optimism-pessimism-and-cynicism/

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This is part 1 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com).

In the first episode they focus on problematic cognitivist assumptions that undergird much of Deutsch's critical rationalism. They talk about Heidegger's idea of coping with the world, the relationship between cognition, perception and action, how representations get their meaning, and how Wittgenstein got some shit right.

Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein
Website: https://frameproblems.com/

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Christofer and executive coach Joe Hudson speak about emotional fluidity in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss fishing in Alaska, the value of being impartial in conversation, connection, repressed emotion and physical tension, rationality vs. emotion, improving decision making, cognitive deconstruction, enlightenment, non-duality, the self, depersonalization and zen sickness, and other related topics.

Joe Hudson is a sought after executive coach and creator of The Art of Accomplishment, an online learning platform for personal development.  As a venture capitalist Joe found that the most rewarding aspect, and the part he was most successful at, was the mentorship and coaching of the leadership of his portfolio companies. This insight moved him to his present role as a coach, business consultant and teacher. He now coaches 12 CEOs and leaders in prominent companies and runs transformative programs for both individuals and businesses. He is practicing a craft that makes big, lasting, and overwhelmingly positive impacts on the lives of people in his programs and in the companies he works with.

Timestamps:

(1:54) - Who Joe is and what he does

(4:13) - Lessons from fishing in Alaska

(7:42) - What is impartiality and the VIEW state of mind? 

(17:45) - Imperfection and oscillation

(22:48) - Emotional fluidity

(27:40) - Are emotions rational? 

(33:14) - Prejudice against emotions

(38:30) - Bottling up and bodily tension

(44:27) - Intellectual and emotional deconstruction

(49:14) - Different methodologies for achieving emotional fluidity

(55:44) - Stages of the sense of self

(1:04:14) - Every epiphany leads to a rut

(1:08:10) - The phenomenology of being Joe 

Website: https://artofaccomplishment.com/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-accomplishment/id1540650504

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Christofer, Walter Veit, Dennis Hackethal, and Matt Guttman speak about whether animals are sentient in this episode of Do Explain. Walter argues "yes", Dennis argues "no" and Matt argues that the hard problem really is hard. They discuss the difference between sentience and consciousness, the special way humans learn, consciousness as a binary jump vs. gradually evolving, animals as mere robots, information processing and computation, the hard problem of consciousness, anthropomorphism, panpsychism, different animal behaviors, and other related topics.

Walter Veit is a theoretical scientist and philosopher with interests stretching widely across science and philosophy. His primary research interests are located at the intersection of the biological, social, and mind sciences in addition to empirically informed philosophy and ethics.
 
Website: https://walterveit.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrwveit

Dennis Hackethal is a software engineer and intelligence researcher in Silicon Valley, California. He hosts a podcast called Artificial Creativity about how to create AGI and also writes regularly about philosophy on his blog.

Website: https://blog.dennishackethal.com/
Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/dchacke
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dchackethal

Matt Guttman is a software engineer and analyst in Chicago, Illinois. He holds degrees in philosophy, business management, English literature, and education, and have an active and intriguing online presence on Twitter, @RealtimeAI.

Links provided by Dennis:

- https://www.windowonintelligence.com/
- https://blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/animal-sentience-faq
- https://blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/buggy-dogs
- https://blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/evidence-is-ambiguous

Studies provided by Walter:

Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2021). The Measurement Problem of Consciousness. Philosophical Topics. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23082.75207

Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2021). Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and Suffering. In S. Ferrarello (Ed.), Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived-Experience, pp. 73-88. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65613-3_6

Veit, W. & Huebner, B. (2020). Drawing the boundaries of animal sentience. Animal Sentience 29(13). http://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1595

Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2020). Is Humane Slaughter Possible? Animals, 10(5), 799. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10050799

Veit, W., Dewhurst, J., Dołega, K., Jones, M., Stanley, S., Frankish, K. & Dennett, D.C. (2019). The Rationale of Rationalization – Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43, e53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002164

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Christofer joins Josh Levent on the Humans podcast (Josh's episode description below): 

"Christofer Lövgren calls himself the irrevocably curious dickhead. Born and raised in Sweden, he grew up playing with Legos, Gameboy and Trading Cards. When he was 5 he picked up the guitar from his granddad and fell in love with it.

He only gave it up at age 19, when his workout addiction led to extreme pain in his hands and forearms making guitar-playing impossible.

Luckily he’s now again at a place where he can play guitar and is even playing with a band.

Christofer is someone who loves conversations. He told me that exploring the outer world doesn’t interest him much, because he is so fascinated by his own and others’ inner worlds, which he can tap into through conversations.

One of the places he does this is on his podcast, Do Explain, which he started 2 years ago to explore the work of David Deutsch and Critical Rationalism more broadly.

At school, Christofer loved maths when he had fun textbooks until 6th Grade. At that point the serious textbooks with fewer interesting pictures and colours, and a separate book for doing the work made him lose interest. He now says that anyone having fun is learning, even if just on an inexplicit level.

While we also talked about serious and difficult topics related to mental and physical health, at the end, we had a lot of fun recording this episode and you will hear us laughing a lot. And at the end that encapsulates Christofer’s personality completely for me. He is deep, and a great conversationalist for serious topics, but he will always make it fun as well."

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Christofer, Marek Doyle and Dr. Purvi Parikh speak about the COVID-19 vaccines in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss their effectiveness/efficacy, CDC's change in reporting of breakthrough infections, methodological limitations of certain studies, vaccine safety, comparing COVID-19 with the flu, natural immunity, self-reporting, and other related topics.

Marek Doyle is a functional nutritional therapist based in London, England. He has spent the last 15 years reconciling the data from 2,000 patient outcomes and 9,000 test results to build a model of personalized nutrition, and has been featured by a range of media, such as Sky Sports, the Daily Mail, Mens Health and Marie Claire.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marekdoylenutrition
Website: https://www.marekdoyle.com/

Purvi Parikh, MD, is an immunologist and allergy specialist at NYU who has been involved in the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trials. Dr. Parikh practices in New York City at Allergy and Asthma Associates of Murray Hill and New York University School of Medicine. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the advocacy council of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and have appeared as a medical expert on CNN, CNBC and CBS News, among others.
 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/panipurvinyc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/purviparikhmd

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Christofer joins Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani on the Increments podcast (their episode description below):

"Christofer Lövgren, host of the marvelous Do Explain podcast and the world's most famous Swede (second perhaps only to that Alfred fellow with the peace prize), joins us on the pod to teach us how podcasting is really done. And how to pronounce his last name. When we're not all sobbing, we touch on:

• Does Deutschian epistemology give us with Free Will?
• Should one identify as a critical rationalist?
• Does membership in a community, or identification with a label, affect our ability to give and receive criticism?
• How has reading Deutsch and Popper changed our lives?
• Can trauma get stored in the body?
• How often do we cry?

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References:

• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Behave by Robert Sapolsky
• Lecture on Depression by Sapolsky
• Do Explain episode with Chris and Matt Goldenberg on emotional processing
• Temple Grandin discussing the "black-hat" horse.
• Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Sir Peter Brian Medawar whom Richard Dawkins referred to as 'the wittiest of all scientific writers'.

Blow your nose, dry your eyes, and send us a tear-stained email at [email protected]."

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Christofer and writer Jake Orthwein speak about the interaction between self and the world in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Jake's Youtube-channel, the tension behind your face, nonduality, monism and Cartesian dualism, embodiment, the difference between conjectural knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance, representation, existential benefits of CR, and other related topics.

Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein

Timestamps:

(2:20) - Jake’s new YouTube venture

(5:56) - Chris’ favorite meditation tweets by Jake

(16:01) - Chris’ experience of no-self when hiking

(20:44) - Nonduality vs monism

(27:54) - Embodiment and the boundary between self and other

(33:28) - Gay thought afternoon

(37:31) - The nature of life

(44:17) - Psychedelic experiences of unity

(49:50) - What is consciousness? 

(51:27) - Knowledge by description and by acquaintance

(59:03) - The dualism within CR 

(1:06:20) - Reifying the creative program

(1:10:50) - Existentialism and CR 

(1:16:52) - Embodiment and the brain in the vat

(1:22:14) - Ideas and propositions

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Christofer and podcaster Ben Chugg speak about probability and prediction in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Pascal's mugging, bayesian decision theory, historicism and cliodynamics, AI-risk, immortality, moral cluelessness, and other related topics.

Ben Chugg is a research fellow at Stanford law school. He has a background in math and computer science and, along with Vaden Masrani, hosts the increments podcast. He also writes insightful philosophy articles at Medium.

Website: https://benchugg.com/
Medium: https://benchugg.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BennyChugg
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/increments/id1514221797

Vaden Masrani's article series against Longtermism:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/82awH6SZDtuHxxzoG/a-sequence-against-strong-longtermism

Timestamps:

(1:54) - Pascal’s mugging

(9:32) [TQ] - What is the proper use of probability?

(20:22) [TQ] - Would you bet that humans will land on Mars by 2030?

(25:02) - Cliodynamics

(34:06) - Chris and Ben psychoanalyse each other

(36:37) [TQ] - What are your thoughts on racism against AI?

(42:16) - Should we want to be immortal?

(49:14) - The importance of solving mental health

(52:40) - Is there meaning to be found in suffering?

(59:30) - The value of loss

(1:05:25) - Moral cluelessness and ‘longtermism’

(1:15:11) - How Effective Altruism could be improved

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Christofer and podcaster Ben Chugg speak about evolutionary psychology in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss listening to podcasts at faster speed, information addiction, the role of neurobiology, impatience, the fun criterion, universal explainers, the salience of memory/speed in intelligence, and other related topics.

Ben Chugg is a research fellow at Stanford law school. He has a background in math and computer science and, along with Vaden Masrani, hosts the increments podcast. He also writes insightful philosophy articles at Medium.

Website: https://benchugg.com/
Medium: https://benchugg.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BennyChugg
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/increments/id1514221797

Timestamps:

(6:43) - Ben’s Twitter bio

(9:28) - Listening to audio at above 1x speed

(14:58) - The urge for constant improvement

(21:28) - The pressure for productivity

(26:10) - The skill of enjoying non-productivity

(29:30) - The fun criterion and dopamine

(35:06) - Universal explainers vs. evolutionary psychology

(42:50) - The definition of evolutionary psychology

(49:58) - Cultures and institutions 

(56:12) - On not dismissing fields as scientism

(59:26) - Why is evolutionary psychology incompatible with Popperian epistemology?

(63:45) - Quantitative and qualitative differences in intelligence

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Christofer and CEO Mathias Sundin speak about how the world is getting better in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss bitcoin, anti-dancing laws, Starcraft, why Mathias got into politics, bad criticism, human potential, law of Jante, echo chambers, social media, AI, the importance of progress, extreme poverty, colonizing space, idea sex, moral relativism, liberal democracy, fact-based optimism, the Warp Institute, and other related topics.

Mathias Sundin is co-founder and executive chairman of the Warp Institute Foundation, whose mission is to connect optimistic, forward thinking people in communities to make the future come sooner. He is also a former Member of Parliament and former Deputy Mayor, a TEDx and international keynote speaker, and a fact-based optimist.  

Website: https://www.warpnews.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MathiasSundin 
TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIOJ5sOBEww

Timestamps:

(2:29) - The first political candidate to accept Bitcoin donations only

(9:32) - Protesting Swedish laws through illegal dancing

(14:19) - Starcraft

(18:34) - Getting into – and out of – politics

(26:05) - Non-constructive criticism

(30:41) - The influence of David Deutsch

(36:08) - The law of Jante and the principle of mediocrity

(46:46) - Almost anyone can be an expert in almost anything

(51:45) - Is the world getting better?

(55:09) - Western pessimism about progress

(1:02:56) - The benefits of social media

(1:08:33) - Echo chambers and filter bubbles

(1:13:14) - Does AI pose a risk?

(1:20:50) - Why use resources on space travel instead of on Earth?

(1:27:03) - The Warp Institute

(1:30:21) - The importance of freedom of speech for progress

(1:41:59) - Beyond Atlas and a new age of exploration

(1:46:57) - What we can achieve by working together

(1:51:33) - What project would you focus on more if you could?

(1:57:50) - What is something that encourages you about humankind's recent progress?

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Christofer and writer Sarah Fitz-Claridge speak about romantic relationships in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss problems with open relationships, why the standard take on monogamy is mistaken, the importance of commitment, relationship as a knowledge-creating institution, depth vs. breadth of knowledge, sexual connection, cheating, genetic impulses, love and acceptence, non-coercion, boundaries, and other related topics.

Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a Popperian writer, editor, coach and speaker with a background in Psychology and an irrepressibly optimistic, freedom-oriented world view. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in the early 1990s and is currently working on her book on the subject.

Website: https://www.fitz-claridge.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FitzClaridge

Shout-out links: 
https://amarokoberle.com/ 
https://www.cgbessellieu.com/
https://twitter.com/optimysticism

Timestamps:

(2:27) - Sarah's historical view

(7:32) - Problems with open relationships

(12:28) - Monogamy as a knowledge-creation institution

(17:07) - Common misunderstandings of monogamy

(20:35) - Is a committed marriage for everybody?

(22:11) - Cheating and sex 

(30:55) - Is sex fundamental? 

(32:31) - Possessiveness

(37:14) - Selling out on your relationship

(43:30) - What makes monogamy better than singledom?

(48:19) - Epistemology of sex 

(52:04) - Attachment

(54:56) - [TQ] Is self-love essential for good relationships?

(57:04) - Your perfect match

(1:01:35) - Being best friends with your partner

(1:03:24) - The role of love

(1:04:50) - Non-coercion and acceptance

(1:07:40) - The importance of boundaries

(1:12:00) - Are relationships necessary for a good life?

(1:16:32) - [TQ] Relationships and political systems

(1:18:25) - [TQ] When should a relationship end?

(1:19:56) - Deep disagreements and having children

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Christofer and writer Jake Orthwein speak about the mind and introspection in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss meditation, empiricism, suffering, the self, dzogchen vs. vipassana, non-duality, free will, perception, computation, logic, correspondence theory of truth, and other related topics.

Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein

Timestamps: 

(1:12) - Jake's history with meditation

(3:26) - Dzogchen 

(5:24) - Why is nonduality desirable? 

(8:30) - Noticing subjectivity 

(11:30) - Epistemology of nonduality

(16:24) - 'The thinker' is another thought  

(19:36) - Self  

(22:46) - Shades of agency 

(27:15) - Creativity in involuntary feats of perception 

(35:56) - Perception as a computation 

(39:34) - The logical asymmetry of verification and falsification 

(41:26) - Jake's thoughts on CR 

(42:49) - David Deutsch's theory of truth 

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Christofer and communicator Brett Hall speak about epistemological misconceptions in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the nature of knowledge, morality, bayesianism, objectivism, free will and the self, meditation and empiricism, the fun criterion, probability, people being equally creative, autism, evolutionary psychology, incrementalism, and other related topics.

Brett Hall is the host of 'ToKCast', a podcast largely devoted to the work of David Deutsch and the worldview as set out in both 'The Fabric of Reality' and 'The Beginning of Infinity'. Brett has spend most of his life at university gaining undergraduate degrees in the philosophy of science, the teaching of science and mathematics, English grammar, and also has a masters in Astronomy from Swinburne University where he completed projects in computational astrophysics. He has previously worked as a security guard/mall cop in Sydney Australia, a science communicator with the University of New South Wales, and more recently as an advisor to some global educational institutions where he has tried to incrementally undo the amount of coercion involved in teaching. He is currently working with entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant on a number of projects associated with promoting the worldview in 'The Beginning of Infinity'.

Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tokcast/id1447087694
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/naval/id1454097755

Website: http://www.bretthall.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher 

Timestamps:

(1:12) - The critical nature of knowledge

(6:50) - Free will and problem-situations

(13:27) - Interpretation of subjective experience

(21:26) - Agency and responsibility

(25:40) - The fun criterion

(31:38) - When is probability useful?

(34:47) - The inductive nature of Bayesianism

(37:42) - Cultural resistance to the conjectural nature of knowledge

(40:45) - A practical example of probability

(43:49) - Autism, biology and universality

(49:18) - Are some people more creative?

(55:30) - Incrementalism in politics

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Christofer and writer Jake Orthwein speak about David Chapman's critiques of rationality and potential problems with Deutschian critical rationalism in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss their common adoration for Sam Harris, meaning, nebulosity and pattern, representational view of mind, concrete activity vs. abstract reasoning, realism, ontology and the world, affordances, and other related topics.

Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein

Timestamps:

(3:58) - Jake's intellectual backstory

(6:58) - Optics and bias against Deutschian CR

(11:02) - The Chapmanian worldview

(14:29) - Pattern and nebulosity

(19:49) - What is the problem Chapman tries to solve?

(24:23) - The pseudo-problem of the meaning of life

(27:08) - Subjectivity and objectivity

(30:00) - Where Jake's views diverge from CR

(33:30) - Conscious and unconscious ideas

(37:17) - Abstract reasoning from concrete activity

(41:57) - Top-down and bottom-up processes

(46:07) - Ontology as a tool for how to relate to the world

(48:19) - Is there a world separate from our perception?

(52:25) - Ontological nebulosity vs. epistemological fallibilism

(59:21) - Problem-ladenness

(1:03:42) - What objectively makes a cup a cup?

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Christofer and communicator Brett Hall speak about the explanatory power of people in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Brett's history, the double-slit experiment, wave-particle duality, quantum theory, fungibility and multiverses, computational and explanatory universality, why the brain must be a computer, optimism vs. pessimism, common epistemological mistakes, and other related topics.

Brett Hall is the host of 'ToKCast', a podcast largely devoted to the work of David Deutsch and the worldview as set out in both 'The Fabric of Reality' and 'The Beginning of Infinity'. Brett has spend most of his life at university gaining undergraduate degrees in the philosophy of science, the teaching of science and mathematics, English grammar, and also has a masters in Astronomy from Swinburne University where he completed projects in computational astrophysics. He has previously worked as a security guard/mall cop in Sydney Australia, a science communicator with the University of New South Wales, and more recently as an advisor to some global educational institutions where he has tried to incrementally undo the amount of coercion involved in teaching. He is currently working with entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant on a number of projects associated with promoting the worldview in 'The Beginning of Infinity'.

Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tokcast/id1447087694
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/naval/id1454097755

Website: http://www.bretthall.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher 

Timestamps:

(2:32) - A brief history of Brett

(10:52) - The thrill of understanding new ideas

(13:40) - Thinking for oneself

(18:31) - Quantum theory and logic

(24:24) - Interpretations of quantum mechanics

(29:56) - Quantum theory for dummies 

(40:20) - What is the multiverse?

(46:31) - Determinism 

(51:10) - Could we have behaved differently if we rewound time?

(55:11) - Different kinds of universality

(1:03:13) - The brain is a computer

(1:11:58) - Turing completeness

(1:17:41) - Progressing as a society

(1:23:39) - Alternatives to universality of computation 

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Christofer and psychiatrist Michael Golding speak about psychiatry in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss psychiatric diagnosis, physiology and psychology, capitalist vs. buddhist antidepressants, faulty error-correction in a mind, if psychiatry is explanationless, misconceptions about the field, effectiveness of different therapies and drugs, panic attacks, fear of dying, the importance of sleep, vagal nerve stimulation, and other related topics.

Michael Golding is a Board Certified psychiatric physician with more than 20 years of experience treating psychiatrically disordered patients in back wards of psychiatric hospitals, in prisons, and in outpatient clinics. He has also been the Chief Psychiatrist of one of the largest prison system in the country. He completed psychiatric residency training at the University of North Carolina and completed a National Institure of Mental Health Fellowhip in Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology. He is an evolutionary epistemologist and loves the ideas of Charles Darwin, Karl Popper, and David Deutsch and is currently applying them to model knowledge growth in economic systems. He is also writing a book on psychiatric differential diagnosis to help the lay person understand the relationship between general medical and psychiatric practice.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgoldingmd

Timestamps:

(3:12) - How does a psychiatrist diagnose a patient?

(16:45) - Is psychiatry an explanationless field?

(25:45) - Types of interference with the mind

(35:33) - What is the best kind of therapy?

(43:45) - Specific disorders and their treatments

(52:25) - Fight or flight

(59:50) - The role of sleep

Notes on discussed topics provided by Michael:

https://www.hopefordepression.org/about-us/depression-task-force/helen-s-mayberg/
Stimulation of key sections of the brain helps with depression.
Helen Mayberg

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16254997/
Anterior Cingulate controls emotional and physical reactivity to stress.
Hugo Critchley

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25549913/
Alterations in sleep wake cycles, for example using light therapy, decreases need for sleep, improves physiology, and decreases depression.

https://www.healthyplace.com/depression/depression-treatment/vagus-nerve-stimulation-vns-for-treating-depression
Vagus Nerve Stimulation for treatment of refractory depression.

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2020/03/30/12/17/takotsubo-syndrome
Takotsubo Syndrome

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Christofer and researcher Carlos De la Guardia speak about a knowledge-based view of the world and have a silly goose time in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss separating the art from the artist, morality, accents, humor, music, writing, how to think about making plans, memes, machine learning, AGI, and other related topics.

Carlos De la Guardia is a researcher and musician, looking to make minds and make music. He’s also worked in robotics, data science, and longevity research.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dela3499

Timestamps:

(3:02) - Chris D'Elia and the Congratulations Cult

(6:55) - Separating art from the artist

(18:50) - Carlos' newsletter, 'Making minds and making progress'

(27:05) - The universality of humor

(34:55) - The power of music

(49:23) - Writing and its uses

(54:45) - How to apply principles of knowledge growth in daily life

(56:56) Fallibilism and planning 

(1:07:56) - AGI research and memes

(1:17:08) - Machine learning and other techniques

(1:26:21) - Creating habits and schedules without self-coercion 

(1:30:50) - What do you disagree with other CritRats about the most?

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Christofer and motivational coach Matt Goldenberg speak about heaven vs. enlightenment-oriented motivation and demonstrate some emotional processing centered around memory reconsolidation theory in this episode of Do Explain. They also discuss the difference between unconditional and conditional love, and other related topics.

Matt Goldenberg is a coach and teacher at http://ProcrastinationPlaybook.net, where he teaches people how to process their emotions and develop positive and consistent motivation systems. He can also be found at Twitter: @mattgoldenberg.

[NOTE: The second half of the emotional processing-session ended up being edited by Matt and released on his two podcasts, 'Pure Transformation' and 'Transformational Perspectives' instead.]

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Christofer and motivational coach Matt Goldenberg speak about how to overcome procrastination and build non-coercive motivation systems in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the mechanism of procrastination, coercive vs. non-coercive motivation, why most productivity systems fail, why self-love matters, practical tips and exercises, Memory Reconsolidation Theory, shadowwork, how to stay motivated during Covid-19, and other related topics.

Matt Goldenberg is a coach and teacher at http://ProcrastinationPlaybook.net, where he teaches people how to process their emotions and develop positive and consistent motivation systems. He can also be found at Twitter: @mattgoldenberg. 

Timestamps:

(4:30) - Matt's story 

(14:15) - What are the root causes of procrastination?

(17:00) - The philosophical and practical implications of non-coercion

(32:00) - Why coercion leads to inconsistent motivation

(40:00) - How to create self-love exercise

(49:00) - How to transition from self-loathing to self-love exercise

(58:00) - How to generate motivation exercise

(1:10:25) - Are people naturally productive?

(1:22:00) - What is memory reconsolidation? The root of emotional transformation

(1:34:52) - Basic tools for emotional transformation

(1:38:00) - Bodywork and somatic processing

(1:41:30) - The role of grieving in emotional processing.

(1:44:41) - What is shadow work?

(1:49:22) - Are all desires for violence and sexual deviance the result of trauma?

(1:51:52) - What causes procrastination?

(1:52:20) - How do you prioritize between projects?

(1:54:20) - How do you motivate yourself when working from home during quarantine?

(1:57:11) - How do you think about long-term planning?

(1:59:20) - How does overthinking relate to non-coercion?

(2:01:20) - How do you balance the 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' approaches to self-improvement?

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Christofer and psychologist Filip Bromberg speak about all things psychedelics in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the history of psychedelics, psychedelic therapy, psychedelic research, ACT and the importance of integration, potential dangers and risk management, set and setting, low vs. high dose, metaphysical pitfalls, the hypothesized mechanism of psychedelics, twitter-questions, and other related topics.

Filip Bromberg is a licensed clinical psychologist, Executive Director of The Swedish Network for Psychedelic Science, and chairman of the Osmond Foundation. He is also a therapist in the upcoming psilocybin study at the Karolinska Institute and has a private practice where he helps clients with integration of- and preparation for psychedelic experiences.

Websites: 

https://www.psykedeliskvetenskap.org/
https://www.osmond-foundation.org/
https://www.psykologiskintegration.se/

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Christofer, Matt Guttman and Sam Kuypers speak about whether it makes sense to talk about free will in a fully deterministic universe in this episode of Do Explain. Matt argues 'no', Sam argues 'yes'.

Matt Guttman is a software engineer and analyst in Chicago, Illinois. He holds degrees in philosophy, business management, English literature, and education, and have an active and intriguing online presence on Twitter, @RealtimeAI.

Sam Kuypers, known as Crit_Rat on Twitter, is a DPhil student in physics at the University of Oxford. He researches foundational issues in quantum theory and, besides physics, is mainly interested in the philosophy of science, as his twitter-handle suggests (@Crit_Rat).

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Christofer and software engineer Matt Guttman answer questions from Twitter in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss animal consciousness, the substrate independence of epistemology, morality and sentience, suffering, Panpsychism, Taoism, Buddhism, the illusion of self, how rich is too rich, death, and other related topics. 

Matt Guttman is a software engineer and analyst in Chicago, Illinois. He holds degrees in philosophy, business management, English literature, and education, and have an active and intriguing online presence on Twitter, @RealtimeAI.

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Christofer and software engineer Matt Guttman speak about philosophy of mind and different levels of explanations, in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the hard problem of consciousness, objective morality, determinism and prediction, reductionism, the reality of abstractions, epiphenomenalism, free will, the predictability of the growth knowledge, meaning, and other related topics.

Matt Guttman is a software engineer and analyst in Chicago, Illinois. He holds degrees in philosophy, business management, English literature, and education, and have an active and intriguing online presence on Twitter, @RealtimeAI.

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Christofer and physicist Sam Kuypers speak about the importance of understanding the problem situation when explaining any knowledge creating system in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss determinism and evolution, reductionism, eastern philosophy and enlightenment, phenomenological self-representation, if dinosaurs were people, Pickle Rick, knowledge in the multiverse, Thomas Szasz and mental illness, the paradox of discussion, and other related topics.

Sam Kuypers, known as Crit_Rat on Twitter, is a DPhil student in physics at the University of Oxford. He researches foundational issues in quantum theory and, besides physics, is mainly interested in the philosophy of science, as his twitter-handle suggests (@Crit_Rat).

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Christofer and psychiatrist Michael Golding speak about the interaction between creativity and physiology, and mental illness, in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the evolutionary process of the mind, psychiatry, IQ, the analogy between cancer and schizophrenia, the dangers of cannabis, LSD and MDMA, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and other related topics.

Michael Golding is a Board Certified psychiatric physician with more than 20 years of experience treating psychiatrically disordered patients in back wards of psychiatric hospitals, in prisons, and in outpatient clinics. He has also been the Chief Psychiatrist of one of the largest prison system in the country. He completed psychiatric residency training at the University of North Carolina and completed a National Institure of Mental Health Fellowhip in Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology. He is an evolutionary epistemologist and loves the ideas of Charles Darwin, Karl Popper, and David Deutsch and is currently applying them to model knowledge growth in economic systems. He is also writing a book on psychiatric differential diagnosis to help the lay person understand the relationship between general medical and psychiatric practice.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgoldingmd

Notes on discussed syndromes provided by Michael:

Klüver Bucy Syndrome: Docility, Fearless, Hypersexual. Stimulation of parts of amygdala in normals creates fear and rage. Activation or inactivation of different brain regions predictably creates different qualia, as experienced by conscious humans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klüver–Bucy_syndrome (includes bilateral damage to amygdala)

Phenylketonuria: IQ varies from completely normal (if severely restrict phenylalanine consumption) to profound intellectual disability (if no dietary restrictions). Is the intellectual disability due to poor ideas (not restricting phenylalanine) or poor genetics (not being able to properly metabolize phenylalanine)? Those with different genetic/psychiatric disorders have varying levels of ability to learn based on differences in their diet. In the case of Phenylketonuria, the more the phenylalanine consumed, the lower the IQ.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria

Angelman’s Syndrome: Consistent intellectual understanding of a 3 year old. Stops learning beyond that. So patient has human level understanding, but consistently does not progress intellectually due to physiological interference with learning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelman_syndrome

Prader-Willi: Constant hunger and just a bit of intellectual disability. So similar (in some ways) genetic problem to those with Angelman's Syndrome, but only mild intellectual disability. Differences in hardware/physiology interfere or promote efficiency in learning.

REM behavioral disorder: 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rem-sleep-behavior-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20352920

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Christofer and writer Sarah Fitz-Claridge speak about Taking Children Seriously, a non-coercive educational philosophy, in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss creativity and fallibility, why Taking Children Seriously is not passive parenting, psychological coercion, parental authority, Popper's bucket theory of mind, keeping your child safe, problems with school, common objections to Taking Children Seriously, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and other related topics.

Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a Popperian writer, editor, coach and speaker with a background in Psychology and an irrepressibly optimistic, freedom-oriented world view. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in the early 1990s and is currently working on her book on the subject.

Website: https://www.fitz-claridge.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FitzClaridge

Other mentioned resources:

Taking Children Seriously website: https://www.takingchildrenseriously.com
Vivek Patel: https://www.youtube.com/c/meaningfulideas/videos

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Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim answer questions from Twitter in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss issues with school and traditional education, explanationless science, human violence, self-driving cars, how physiology interacts with creativity, Covid-19, and other related topics.

Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, California. He makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the philosophy of Karl Popper and David Deutsch and can be found on various platforms:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hermesofreason
Website: http://hermesofreason.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HermesofReason

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Christofer and teacher Michael Ashcroft speak about Alexander Technique (AT) and expanded awareness in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the theory and purpose of AT, similarities and differences from other meditative frameworks, non-doing, bodymind, posture, mindfulness, contracted vs. expanded awareness, flow, and other related topics. They also answer questions from Twitter.

Michael Ashcroft is a teacher of the Alexander Technique, having trained for three years part time at the South Bank Alexander Technique center in London. He is also a life coach and energy system innovation consultant applying himself to facilitating personal as well as societal transformation.

Newsletter: https://expandingawareness.substack.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft
Article: https://www.michaelashcroft.org/blog/how-to-be-superman

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Christofer and metabolic nutritionist Marek Doyle speak about the human metabolism and chronic fatigue in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Marek's six principles of health, the three stages of metabolic functioning, evidence-based medicine, the interaction between physiology and psychology, intermittent fasting, the myth of oversleeping, weight loss, exercise frequency, veganism, and other related topics.

Marek Doyle is a functional nutritional therapist based in London, England. He has spent the last 13 years reconciling the data from 2,000 patient outcomes and 9,000 test results to build a model of personalized nutrition, and has been featured by a range of media, such as Sky Sports, the Daily Mail, Mens Health and Marie Claire.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marekdoylenutrition
Website: https://www.marekdoyle.com/
Article: http://www.blueprintfitness.co.uk/can-you-sleep-too-much/

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Christofer and management consultant Bart Vanderhaegen speak about management consulting through a Popperian lens  in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss workplace hierarchies and problems with the standard model, the importance of error-correction in organizations, distributed problem solving, organizational reductionism, cooperation, autonomy, internal vs. external motivation, the concept of flow, and other related topics.

Bart Vanderhaegen is a management consultant from Belgium. He studied physics at the University of Ghent, and obtained an MBA, before starting a career in management consulting. He has spent the last 20 years working with organisations on problems related to growth, performance and productivity.Five years ago he founded his own company, Pactify, which is a new management approach for problem solving in organizations. The approach incorporates ideas from the epistemology of Karl Popper and David Deutsch as well as concepts of behaviour change like autonomy and flow. The essence of the approach is a process for increased and more distributed problem solving in organizations, thereby simultaneously driving both productivity and engagement in the organization.

Ted-Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPy3uVc3xo
Website: https://www.pactifymanagement.com/

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Christofer and intelligence researcher Dennis Hackethal speak about his new book, 'A Window on Intelligence', about the philosophy of people and why we need a unification of philosophy and software engineering to continue making progress in various fields, in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss problems with current AI-research and potential solutions, the biological evolution of intelligence, why animals aren't intelligent or conscious, open problems with Popperian epistemology, psychotherapy as a software engineering problem, how to think about space travel, and other related topics. "A Window on Intelligence" is available for purchase now on Amazon, and soon on other platforms like Apple Books as well:

https://www.windowonintelligence.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Window-Intelligence-Philosophy-Evolution-Implications/dp/1734696133/

Dennis Hackethal is a software engineer and intelligence researcher in Silicon Valley, California. He hosts a podcast called Artificial Creativity about how to create AGI and can also be found on Twitter:

Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/dchacke
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dchackethal

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Christofer and physicist David Deutsch speak about why neither genetic nor 'environmental' determinism explain human choices in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the horrors of prehistoric existence, gender norms, twin studies, the brain/mind distinction, universality of computation, cognitive bias, and other related topics.

David Deutsch is a Visiting Professor of Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation at Oxford University and the author of two books: 'The Fabric of Reality' and 'The Beginning of Infinity'. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory.

Timestamps: 

(2:43) - The grim lives of prehistoric humans

(9:30) - Genetic determinism and human choice 

(12:30) - Explaining human choice and human nature

(20:46) - Gender roles and correlation vs. explanation 

(28:58) - Twin studies and the blank slate

(36:24) - Philosophy of mind and information processing

(44:43) - Brains, minds, hardware and software

(48:28) - Why the brain and mind are different kinds of universal

(52:03) - What is the purpose of neuroscience?

(55:41) - Unconscious vs. conscious mind

(1:03:39) - Why cognitive biases might make you biased

(1:10:10) - On meeting Karl Popper and Bryce DeWitt

Website: www.daviddeutsch.org.uk
Twitter: @DavidDeutschOxf

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Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about how to think about meditation in a Deutschian/Popperian framework in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Kobe Bryant's recent passing, misconceptions of death, the value and pitfalls of meditation, the self, and other related topics.

Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, California. He makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the philosophy of Karl Popper and David Deutsch and can be found on various platforms:

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Website: http://hermesofreason.com/
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Christofer and physicist Sam Kuypers speak about why the world is not best described as a mechanical clockwork of atoms in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss determinism and causality, myths in quantum physics, evolutionary psychology, and other related topics.

Sam Kuypers, known as Crit_Rat on Twitter, is a DPhil student in physics at the University of Oxford. He researches foundational issues in quantum theory and, besides physics, is mainly interested in the philosophy of science, as his twitter-handle suggests (https://twitter.com/Crit_Rat).

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Christofer and writer Lulie tanett speak about epistemology and its fundamental connection with fun in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Justified True Belief, the Duhem-Quine Problem, meta discussion, hangups, suffering, willpower, and other related topics.

Lulie Tanett is a writer from Oxford, England, specialising in applied critical rationalism. She writes about all things epistemology — from education and memetics, to productivity and motivation, to how coercion affects rationality, progress and happiness. You can find her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ReasonIsFun).

Website: http://www.reasonisfun.com/

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Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about how to apply David Deutsch's Critical Rationalism to one's life in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss meaning and interpretation, personal insight, Deutschian optimism, the usefulness of drugs, and other related topics. They also answer listener questions from Twitter.

Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, California. He makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the philosophy of Karl Popper and David Deutsch and can be found on various platforms:

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Website: http://hermesofreason.com/
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Christofer and political writer Logan Chipkin speak about 'The Big Three' and the philosophical case against government in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Constructor Theory and its implications, Praxeology and Austrian economics, Economic Creationism, and other related topics.

Logan Chipkin is a freelance writer from Philadelphia who's articles have been featured in online magazines such as Quillette, Areo and The Libertarian Institute to name a few. He hosts a podcast called Fallible Animals about our deepest theories across science and philosophy, as well as the history of ideas and can also be found on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan).

Website: https://loganchipkin.com

Articles mentioned:
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-nature-of-economics/
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/economic-creationism/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspa.2014.0540

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Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about various aspects of David Deutsch's  worldview in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the immorality of moral relativism, free will and the reality of abstractions, reductionism, and other related topics.

Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, California. He makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the philosophy of Karl Popper and David Deutsch and can be found on various platforms:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hermesofreason
Website: http://hermesofreason.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HermesofReason

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Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about David Deutsch's latest Ted Talk, 'After Billions of Years of Monotony, the Universe is Waking Up', in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss cultural evolution, memes, morality, the difference between closed and open societies, and other related topics.

Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, California. He makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the philosophy of Karl Popper and David Deutsch and can be found on various platforms:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hermesofreason
Website: http://hermesofreason.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HermesofReason

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Christofer and software engineer Dennis Hackethal speak about everything to do with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss the problem of induction and how knowledge grows, the difference between AI and AGI, issues with current research approaches, the universality of computation, AI-risk, and other related topics.

Dennis Hackethal is a software engineer and intelligence researcher in Silicon Valley, California. He hosts a podcast called Artificial Creativity about how to create AGI and can also be found on Twitter:

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/dchackethal

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Christofer and his buddy Charlie Jungheim speak about David Deutsch's latest book, 'The Befinning of Infinity', in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss human progress and its relation to problem-solving, good and bad explanations, what people fundamentally are, and other related topics.

Charlie Jungheim is a philosophy YouTuber, impressionist, and musician from Laguna Beach, currently residing in Palm Springs, California. He makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the philosophy of Karl Popper and David Deutsch and can be found on various platforms:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hermesofreason
Website: http://hermesofreason.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HermesofReason

Support the podcast at:
https://www.patreon.com/doexplain (monthly)
https://ko-fi.com/doexplain (one-time)

Find Christofer on Twitter:
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