[The Chapman Series, Pt.6] Hot Tub Time Machine

About this episode

In this episode, Christofer and his guests explore meta-rationality and various philosophical concepts related to truth, evolution, and artificial intelligence.

This is part 6 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com). In the sixth episode Lulie Tanett joins the conversation again to dive deeper into meta-rationality. They talk about truth and correspondence, evolution, brains in vats, abstract propositions fairy land, the frame problem in AI, what ...

People in this episode

Host: Christofer Lövgren

Guests: Jake Orthwein, Lulie Tanett

Topics covered

• meta-rationality
• truth and correspondence
• evolution
• AI
• abstract propositions

Keywords

• meta-rationality
• truth
• evolution
• AI
• David Chapman

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Meaningness, In the Cells of the Eggplant

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