Epistik

By Epistik

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Epistemology + Ethics = Epistik

"Whoever questions you openly with genuine reason is loyal to you."

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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

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July 29, 2021Episode 18, feat. Alexander Siegenfeld
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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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1h 53min
July 14, 2021Episode 17, feat. Karl Friston
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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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1h 20min
July 01, 2021Episode 16, feat. Jacob Lagerros
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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
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1h 12min
June 19, 2021Episode 15, feat. Kiran Garimella
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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.
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1h 6min
June 07, 2021Episode 14, feat. Davood Gozli
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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
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1h 17min
May 24, 2021Episode 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
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1h 26min
May 10, 2021Episode 12, feat. Dario Krpan
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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
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April 29, 2021Episode 11, feat. William Hedley Thompson
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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
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1h 15min
April 16, 2021Episode 10, feat. David Ebbevi
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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?
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1h 2min
April 08, 2021Episode 9, feat. Paolo Vineis
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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.
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