Ep 184: ToKCast Digest - An Overview of Optimism
Everything that we’ve covered on ToKCast so far for those in a hurry or those wanting a refresher. It’s the synecdoche episode. 183 episodes down and David Deutsch has spoken with Naval Ravikant and T...
29 Mar 20231h 21min
Ep 183: St George in retirement syndrome on St Patrick’s day.
What is "St George in retirement" syndrome? This and much more in another random livestream about all sorts.
21 Mar 20231h 1min
Ep 182: Livestream Science News and AMA
Thursday 16 March 2023 Livestream - Patreon and Twitter Questions and Science News Articles discussed: JWST news: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-star-soon-go-supernova-photos Volcano...
17 Mar 20231h 2min
Ep 181: The Big Bang Livestream ToKCast
Reading a short chapter from "What's Eating the Universe?" by Paul Davies titled "The Big Bang" - and adding some exposition and commentary. Also: AMA as time permits. As always I do not monetise anyt...
16 Mar 20231h 17min
Ep 180: Livestream: ”The Open Hand of Reason”
Defending reason and rationality via a discussion of material at https://www.ecosophia.net/blogs-and-essays/the-well-of-galabes/the-clenched-fist-of-reason/ after a question from a listener.
15 Mar 20232h 9min
Ep 179: Livestream March 14, 2023
I did a livestream on Youtube and this is the audio taken from that. Questions were taken from Twitter and Youtube. The first 20 mins or so of this episode is a response to a question about Sam Harris...
13 Mar 20231h 34min
Ep 178: Its, Bits, Qubits *Part 2*
This is the second part of a two part series. Here we focus exclusively upon "It from Qubit" (2002) by David Deutsch as found here: https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-co... I read and comment upon the...
10 Mar 202350min
Ep 177: Its, Bits, Qubits. Part 1
This is the first in a two part series unpacking, breaking down, reading, reflecting and commenting upon David Deutsch’s paper “It from Qubit” available here: https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-conten...
9 Mar 20231h 4min
