
Epistik
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Pause. Think aloud. Repeat.
Epistemology + Ethics = Epistik
Whoever questions you openly with genuine reason is loyal to you.
Thank you for listening!
Epistik
1y ago
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”?
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Epistik
1y ago
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 Admi ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
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 ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
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 ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
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?
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Epistik
1y ago
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 ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
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 ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
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 ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
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 ..read more
Epistik
1y ago
TIMESTAMPS
0:20 Are the laws of logic a priori or a posteriori?
7:55 Ideas in applied mathematics
27:50 Why did you choose to work with automated theorem proving?
43:50 An argument for theism and deism
1:06:44 Can automated theorem proving be applied in the field of philosophy?
1:24:10 Our emotional states, wellbeing, and rationality ..read more