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  • Episode 18, feat. Alexander Siegenfeld

    TIMESTAMPS

    • 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 students?


      • Intrested in CS? Award-winning intro to Complexity Science by Alex: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/

      Mentioned resources:

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions (Note from Alex: It seems less original now than at the time it was written)
      • The Master and His Emmissary by Iain McGilchrist
      • Another book recommended by Alex: I and Thou by Martin Buber (he recommends the translation by Smith)
      • The review article in Nature Physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11489

        • Regarding proxies to internal goals, I’d recommend the following Medium article: https://adamahm.medium.com/data-linkage-visualization-for-assisting-policy-makers-d4ba40715693x

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        1 hr 53 min
      • Episode 17, feat. Karl Friston

        TIMESTAMPS:

        • 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 Podcast: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA (good for getting an elementary understanding of the Free Energy Principle and it's applications)
          • Lex Fridman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzuibY5kUs&t=688s (a fun conversation)
          • Dartmouth's CCN Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1hEc6vay_k (good for stats-people)
          • ML Streettalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR24ieh5Ow (good for ML-people)
          • Serious Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0JnjgCO3o&t=520s (about a slightly separate area: Embodied Cognition)

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            1 hr 20 min
          • Episode 16, feat. Jacob Lagerros

            TIMESTAMPS:

            • 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
              • 1 hr 12 min
            • Episode 15, feat. Kiran Garimella

              TIMESTAMPS 

              • 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.

                1 hr 6 min
              • Episode 14, feat. Davood Gozli

                TIMESTAMPS

                • 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 pinpoint and say that you want to maximize or minimize in life?
                • 1:00:55 When do you think that Hegelian dialectical logic is better than using statistical inference in psychology?
                • 1:05:57 The impact of instantaneous emotions
                • 1:10:00 ”Chicken and egg”-problems, tautologies, and circular systems
                • 1:14:40 What social science subject would you recommend for engineers or scientists?


                  • Professor Gozli’s…

                  YT-channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XWPTuBcXjkPoeP_MGCjug

                  Website: dgozli.com

                  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dgozli

                  1 hr 17 min
                • Episode 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.”


                    • Dr. Bose's website: https://sites.google.com/view/devdeeptabose

                    1 hr 26 min
                  • Episode 12, feat. Dario Krpan

                    TIMESTAMPS

                    • 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


                        • 1 hr
                      • Episode 11, feat. William Hedley Thompson

                        TIMESTAMPS

                        • 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

                          1 hr 15 min
                        • Episode 10, feat. David Ebbevi

                          TIMESTAMPS

                          • 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?
                            • 1 hr 2 min
                          • Episode 9, feat. Paolo Vineis

                            TIMESTAMPTS:

                            • 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.


                              36 min

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