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Why Philosophy of Biology?
Sep 3000:27:45Tap to summarizePodcast: Closer To Truth (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why Philosophy of Biology?Pub date: 2024-03-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGet 20% off tickets to this year's HowtheLightGetsIn Hay Festival with code CTT24 at checkout. Philosophy of biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what are its challenges? How to consider race, sex/gender, cognition, culture, morality, healthcare, religion, alien life, and alien intelligences. Featuring interviews with Michael Ruse, Elliot Sober, Elisabeth Lloyd, Peter Godfrey-Smith, John Dupré, Paul Griffiths, Richard Dawkins, Josh Swamidass, Quayshawn Nigel Julian Spencer, Denis Noble, Alexander Rosenberg, Samir Okasha, Massimo Pigliucci, Alan Love, and Philip Kitcher.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Closer To Truth, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Peter Thiel
Apr 27, 2025Tap to summarizePodcast: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Peter ThielPub date: 2024-12-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPeter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, started in 1998, redefining the world of secure and fast e-commerce. Shortly thereafter, Thiel was the first outside investor in Facebook in 2004. Additionally, he co-founded Founders Fund, which has backed transformative companies like SpaceX and Airbnb, With a background in law and finance, Thiel has consistently championed innovation, whether through his venture capital firm, Thiel Capital, or the Thiel Fellowship, which provides $100,000 grants to young entrepreneurs who have a vision for a new product. Known for his contrarian thinking, Thiel is also the author of #1 New York Times bestselling book, Zero to One, which challenges conventional ideas about innovation and offers optimistic insight into future progress. ------Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team:Vivo Barefoothttp://vivobarefoot.com/tetraUse code 'TETRA25'------LMNT Electrolyteshttps://drinklmnt.com/tetraUse code 'TETRA'------Athletic Nicotinehttps://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetraUse code 'TETRA'------Squarespacehttps://squarespace.com/tetraUse code 'TETRA'------Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissionshttps://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletterThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rick Rubin, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Antisemitism in Britain - An Interview With David Deutsch #928
Feb 24, 202500:31:14Tap to summarizePodcast: The Daily Objective (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Antisemitism in Britain - An Interview With David Deutsch #928Pub date: 2023-12-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationYoutube link: https://youtube.com/live/QYQcC3pz_fISupport the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ayn Rand Centre UK, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Physicist Dr. David Deutsch Returns - Science, Mathematics & Jew-Hatred (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_749)
Feb 24, 202501:23:54Tap to summarizePodcast: The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Physicist Dr. David Deutsch Returns - Science, Mathematics & Jew-Hatred (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_749)Pub date: 2024-11-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe discuss the hierarchy of the sciences, Fermat's Last Theorem, woke physicists, and Jew-hatred among many other fascinating topics. David's website: https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on November 11, 2024 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1763: https://youtu.be/ZcPExkCWzRM _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________ The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from thesaadtruthwithdrsaad, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
Feb 24, 202501:42:06Tap to summarizePodcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and ExplanationPub date: 2023-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and explain the natural world as best we can. He was a pioneer in quantum computing, and has long been an advocate of the Everett interpretation of quantum theory. He is also the inventor of constructor theory, a new way of conceptualizing physics and science more broadly. But he also has a strong interest in philosophy and epistemology, championing a Popperian explanation-based approach over a rival Bayesian epistemology. We talk about all of these things and more, including his recent work on the Popper-Miller theorem, which specifies limitations on inductive approaches to knowledge and probability.Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/16/253-david-deutsch-on-science-complexity-and-explanation/Support Mindscape on Patreon.David Deutsch received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford. He is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford. He is a pioneer in quantum computation as well as initiating constructor theory. His books include The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. Among his awards including the Dirac Prize, the Dirac Medal, the Edge of Computation Science Prize, the Isaac Newton Medal, the Breakthrough Physics Prize, and a Royal Society Fellowship.Web siteOxford web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsAmazon author pageWikipediaTED talk: After Billions of Years of Monotony, the Universe is Waking UpSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean Carroll | Wondery, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real
Feb 24, 202501:35:41Tap to summarizePodcast: Within Reason (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: #57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is RealPub date: 2024-03-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia.) Buy David Deutsch's book, The Beginning of InfinityThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alex J O'Connor, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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TCC Podcast #415: Copythinking with David Deutsch
Feb 24, 202501:00:44Tap to summarizePodcast: The Copywriter Club Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: TCC Podcast #415: Copythinking with David DeutschPub date: 2024-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMost writers focus on the writing part of copywriting, which only makes sense as we're writers. But maybe we should be doing more copythinking before we start to write. Our guest for the 415th episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast is A-List Copywriter David Deutsch. And when it comes to thinking about copy, David has few peers. He talked about strategy, writing emotional copy, coming up with big ideas, and much more. Click the play button below, or scroll down for a full transcript. Stuff to check out: David's website The How to Write Emotional Copy Workshop The Copywriter Club Facebook Group The Copywriter Underground Full Transcript: Rob Marsh: When we started The Copywriter Club Podcast, one of the things we were adamant about was that we would interview copywriters at all levels of experience and at all the various stages of their business journey. So we’ve spoken with copywriters who are just getting started along with those with years of experience. We’ve interviewed copywriters who call themselves content writers, strategists, consultants and various other titles. We’ve heard from marketers and authors and experts in all kinds of fields. In fact we used to start the podcast with the promise that you would listen and walk away with plenty of ideas you could “steal” for your own business. With that background, it’s always a thrill to get the opportunity to interview an expert copywriter who has earned his place on the A-List. One of the go-to copywriters when it comes to being coached by one of the very best in the direct response world. Hi, I’m Rob Marsh, and on today’s episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast, I’m speaking with A-list copywriter David Deutsch. David has generated more than a billion dollars in sales over the course of his career. Not bad. And probably someone we can learn from. You’ll hear this in the interview, but one of the things David likes to talk about is the difference between writing and persuasion and copywriting. The two ought to be the same, but often they’re not. I know I say this every episode, but I think you’re going to like this interview. So stick around. Before we jump in with David… It’s October. Which means the year is 3/4 done… we’ve all got one more quarter to reach the goals we set for our businesses at the beginning of the year. So let me ask you, how is it going? Are you ahead or behind your goals? What can you accomplish in the next 12 weeks that will move your business forward and set you up for a successful 2025… hard to believe the decade is half over… any way in my opinion the best place for copywriters to stretch and reach their goals is The Copywriter Underground, the paid membership with more than 100 hours of training, including an entire course on selling, a mini-course on proposals, more than 27 different templates, including a legal agreement, and so many other resources designed to help you grow. And each month, we invite a different guest expert to teach a new skill… this month’s members-only persentation is by Email Marketing Hero Kennedy on creating lead magnets that attract buyers, not freebie seekers to your list. It’s the kind of skill that will help you build your own list and make you so much more valuable to your clients. It’s happening next week in The Copywriter Underground which you can join at thecopywriterclub.com/tcu. And now, let's go to our interview with David… David, welcome to The Copywriter Club Podcast. I would love to start with your story. How did you become a direct response copywriter, a copy coach, and I think what some people would even say, you know, original member of the A-list of copywriters that are out there? Tell us how you got there. David Deutsch: Oh, well, thanks. It's great to be here, first of all. And, you know, I started on I don't know how far back to go, but I started my advertising career at Ogilvy and Mather in New York, which was David Ogilvy's agency back when he still occ...The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kira Hug and Rob Marsh, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Does God Want You to Listen to This Conversation?
Feb 22, 202501:31:10Tap to summarizePodcast: The Hanania Show (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Does God Want You to Listen to This Conversation?Pub date: 2025-02-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationI am honored to have New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on the podcast to talk about his new book Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious. I’ve always seen atheism as my first intellectual position. Upon learning that many Christian doctrines declare that non-believers go to hell and are tortured for all eternity, I decided I needed to look into whether their claims were true and came to the conclusion that they most certainly weren’t. Yet I don’t completely dismiss the idea that something beyond the natural world might be out there. Bentham’s Bulldog writes pieces on theism and makes arguments that I’m unsure how to think about but don’t strike me as obvious nonsense. A 2020 survey showed that 19% of philosophers leaned towards theism, so it’s not like the position is akin to anti-vaxx or young earth creationism, where none of the trained experts take the claims involved seriously. The fact that people just as smart as me have thought longer and harder about the subject and arrived at the position that God exists is enough to give me perhaps a bit of doubt about my atheism. Debates around theism strike me as similar to those about AI doom. I can develop strong opinions on topics when there is empirical data we can bring to a question. So I have confident views on the best economic system, the role of heredity in determining cognitive and personality outcomes, what causes some voters to support Donald Trump, and whether humans have seen a major increase in living standards over the course of history. When it comes to speculation, trying to follow chains of reasoning, and arguments derived from analogies and thought experiments – which I think is most of what we have in debates over theism and AI doom – I don’t trust myself or other people to be able to do any of this well. Douthat is someone whose political and cultural writings I’ve always found interesting, so I decided to give his new book a try. Believe focuses mostly on attempting to convince the reader that there is something out there beyond material reality, with only the last chapter making the case for Christianity. I found myself dividing the arguments into a few baskets. The best arguments for theism I think rest on fine-tuning and the mystery of consciousness. I found the supposed evidence for the existence of the supernatural – miracles, demons, the power of prayer, near-death experiences, etc. – less compelling. This was much of the focus of his conversation with Tyler, who also sounded very skeptical. I ask Ross to assign probabilities on the supernatural being real, Christianity being true, and Catholicism being true. I then explain my main moral problem with traditional Christian dogma, which is that some portion of humanity will be sentenced to everlasting torture. We tend to think that any punishment should fit the crime one is guilty of. Few would say that an individual who has committed a dastardly act should be held down and tortured for decades, which leads to the question of why an all-knowing, all-loving God would do something similar on a much longer timescale. We talk a good bit about the role of providence in human affairs, which I found quite fun. The conversation swerves into how Ross thinks about someone like Trump playing a preordained role in history. On the surface, this might seem like a somewhat silly part of our discussion, but it actually raises intriguing questions regarding how the mechanics of God intervening in human affairs would actually work.Near the end, we get to the part of Ross’s book I’m most skeptical of, which is the alleged evidence for supernatural experience. If prayer is real, why not conduct a double-blind randomized study? I also bring up the Randi Prize challenge, which offered $1 million to anyone who could demonstrate supernatural abilities but never had to pay out. I have to confess however that I do find the story told by professional skeptic Michael Shermer about how his wife’s old radio started working on their wedding day to be very weird. I do sort of love the idea that God is like a writer for a prestige TV drama, and history has all these A and B list characters that He shuffles around in order to move the plot along. The Roman Empire is maybe its own season. World War II was the finale of the one that began as the Industrial Revolution was taking off. Now we’re in the middle of Season 8, and AI, which started out as a minor character in the background, is about to become the main protagonist. The series finale is of course Judgment Day. People like Trump and Putin are the main characters, the Starks and the Lannisters, while we lesser mortals are akin to the slaughtered hordes left on the numerous battlefields of the War of the Five Kings. The Hanania subplot is a pretty cool one. Five years ago I was nobody, now I at least have a (very bad) Wikipedia page, and can reach hundreds of thousands or millions of people on a daily basis, leading my fans closer to God or everlasting damnation. I start out as a rightoid, move towards rightist-tinged rationalism, become an influential figure among Elite Human Capital as I disparage the existence of the supernatural. Razib uses the tools of modern science to show I am related to Jesus and his neighbors in ancient Palestine, as the Lord starts speaking to me about how God is actually real, hoping to use (knowing he will use?) my biography and background to bring others into His flock. Ross Douthat convinces me to believe in God, I return to the faith of my ancestors, actually my childhood, and they run a big feature in the New York Times about what happened. All thinking people read it and become convinced God is real, helping us shake free of our cultural decadence and existential anxiety as humanity moves towards a new Golden Age. All thanks to me and this podcast. Oh and you get to live in a state of bliss for all eternity. Very seductive! I can see the appeal of this. But as I tell Ross, short of the Lord or one of his angels appearing directly next to me, I have no way of understanding how one would distinguish Him sending me a sign from my own wishful thinking and intoxication with a very cool narrative that gives me an important role to play in a great cosmic story.I did not become a Christian while talking to Ross, but I enjoyed his book, and perhaps some other souls will be saved among the listeners of this conversation. I think I will take him up on his suggestion to read They Flew and hope to also look into the question of the historical Jesus before long. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.richardhanania.com/subscribeThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richard Hanania, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Academia's Darkest Secret: The Graduate Student Crisis... | Tyler Cowen
Feb 22, 202501:34:57Tap to summarizePodcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Academia's Darkest Secret: The Graduate Student Crisis... | Tyler CowenPub date: 2025-02-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn today's episode of Theories of Everything, Tyler Cowen proposes that tariffs erode economic efficiency, ultimately passing much of the burden onto smaller countries such as Canada. Moreover, he suggests that the rise of AI and evolving institutional structures demand both intellectual humility and stronger mentorship for a more resilient academic landscape.As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toeJoin My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.comListen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOEBecome a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos):https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinLinks Mentioned:- Tyler’s website: https://tylercowen.com/- Tyler’s blog: https://marginalrevolution.com/- Tyler’s podcast: https://conversationswithtyler.com/- Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (book): https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Identify-Energizers-Creatives-Winners/dp/1250275814----------------------Timestamps:00:00 - Tariffs and Trade Policies01:21 Economic Consequences of Tariffs03:07 Canada as a 51st State?04:00 Canada's Defense Spending Debate05:41 Positive Aspects of Hostility06:35 Transitioning to Theoretical Economics08:07 The Role of Tenure11:43 The Academy's Strengths13:04 Problems in Academia14:08 Understanding the Grant System15:10 The Need for Grants16:33 Is the Academic System Broken?17:18 Improving the Academic System17:47 The Role of AI in Academia22:39 Exploring Deep Research29:32 Writing as Thinking31:53 Truth in Worldviews33:22 Patchwork Theory of Reality34:11 Economics and Theories of Everything35:07 Disagreements Among Intelligent People37:48 The Concept of Metarationality45:10 Cultivating Metarationality46:55 Distinction Between Stamina and Grit49:03 Risk-Taking in Academia51:28 Interviewing Style56:28 The Value of Preparation1:13:33 Critiquing Nassim Taleb1:18:23 Public Debates vs. Private Discussions1:20:46 Focus on Money1:22:45 Healthy vs. Unhealthy Ambition1:23:49 Complexity in Theories of Everything1:24:39 The Importance of Mentoring1:26:08 Current Projects and Interests1:31:15 Advice for Students1:32:39 The Future of Networking1:32:53 Closing Thoughts and Reflections--------------------Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurtDiscord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs#economy #science #technology #news #tariffs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Theories of Everything, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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How to Prepare for the AI Age: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen
Feb 18, 202501:05:26Tap to summarizePodcast: Johnathan BiEpisode: How to Prepare for the AI Age: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler CowenPub date: 2025-02-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationI made this video as a fellow of the Cosmos Institute, a 501c3 academy for philosopher-builders.* Read the Cosmos Institute Substack ► https://bit.ly/3XK5T7k* Subscribe to the Cosmos Institute on YouTube ► @cosmosinstituteaixhf* Follow Cosmos’ founder and my friend Brendan McCord on X ► https://bit.ly/3Y9pFLbYou can read the full transcript here: https://www.johnathanbi.com/p/transcript-for-interview-with-tyler-cowen-on-ai Get full access to Johnathan Bi at www.johnathanbi.com/subscribeThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Insights from the Great Books, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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