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Computing Up episodes
- Living Computation and Society - Computing Up Twenty-Ninth Conversation
Dave and Michael revisit the meaning of life (the subject of the second Computing Up conversation) in the context of politics and society and human destiny.
[Photo by Jeffrey Lee on Unsplash]
40 min - Theories of Theories of Everything - Computing Up Twenty-Eighth Conversation
Inspired by a WIRED profile of Karl Friston, Dave and Michael talk about theories of everything, and theories thereof.
[WIRED Article: https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/ ]
36 min - Brian Christian's Algorithms - Computing Up Twenty-Seventh Conversation
Author Brian Christian talks about "Algorithms to Live By", and computing writ large, with Michael and Dave.
[Cover photo by Michael Langan courtesy of Brian Christian]
48 min - Technologies more true: Glen Weyl is recomputing democracy - Computing Up Twenty-Sixth Conversation
Glen Weyl joins Michael and Dave to talk about democracy, mechanism design, quadratic finance, blockchain, and the RadicalXChange.
[Image courtesy of Gley Weyl]
49 min - Is Progress Real? - Computing Up Twenty-Fifth Conversation
Democratic debates and Dave darkness raise the question of whether progress is even possible.
39 min - Is the Answer Intersubjectivity? - Computing Up Twenty-Fourth Conversation
Intersubjectivity is what everybody is talking about.
36 min - David Jensen: Because Causality - Computing Up Twenty-Third Conversation
David Jensen, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks with Michael and Dave because of causality.
[Cover image used by permission of David Jensen]
44 min - Bitter, Better, and Beyond - Computing Up Twenty-Second Conversation
Michael and Dave discuss Rich Sutton's The Bitter Lesson and Rod Brook's A Better Lesson.
37 min - What is Computation? - Computing Up Twenty-First Conversation
Michael is preparing an award lecture on computation while Dave, with the sniffles, tries to help.
36 min - Computational vs Systems Thinking - Computing Up Twentieth Conversation
Discussion of Dave's 2018 'Christmas Rant' about systems thinking.
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About Computing Up
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Conversations about computation writ large, with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.