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Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
Aug 26, 2024One common feature of complex systems is sensitive dependence on initial conditions: a small change in how systems begin evolving can lead to large differences in their later behavior. In the social s...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Aug 19, 2024Understanding how life began on Earth involves questions of chemistry, geology, planetary science, physics, and more. But the question of how random processes lead to organized, self-replicating, info...
Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
Aug 12, 2024Being rational necessarily involves engagement with probability. Given two possible courses of action, it can be rational to prefer the one that could possibly result in a worse outcome, if there's al...
AMA | August 2024
Aug 05, 2024Welcome to the August 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patr...
Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
Jul 29, 2024The human brain does a pretty amazing job of taking in a huge amount of data from multiple sensory modalities -- vision, hearing, smell, etc. -- and constructing a coherent picture of the world, const...
Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
Jul 22, 2024Change is scary. But sometimes it can all work out for the best. There's no guarantee of that, however, even when the change in question involves the introduction of a powerful new technology. Today's...
Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
Jul 15, 2024The philosophy of mathematics would be so much easier if it weren't for infinity. The concept seems natural, but taking it seriously opens the door to counterintuitive results. As mathematician and ph...
Ask Me Anything | July 2024
Jul 08, 2024Welcome to the July 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreo...
Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
Jul 01, 2024Just like with physics, in biology it is perfectly possible to do most respectable work without thinking much about philosophy, but there are unmistakably foundational questions where philosophy becom...
François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
Jun 24, 2024Which is more intelligent, ChatGPT or a 3-year old? Of course this depends on what we mean by "intelligence." A modern LLM is certainly able to answer all sorts of questions that require knowledge far...