
Ep 216: Astrobiology and Cancer
Part 2 in a series about the work of researcher Charley Lineweaver. In this episode, a targeted focus on the one thing we did not discuss out of all of Charley's scientific interests in my interview w...
13 Sep 20241h 24min

Ep 215: Charley Lineweaver
A conversation with physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, polyglot and polymath - Charley Lineweaver. 00:00 - My introduction 08:57 - Charley’s fascinating early years 12:14 - From an English/Histo...
9 Sep 20241h 19min

Ep 214: Resources, Wealth, Technology, Error Correction and Knowledge Creation
The title is long enough so you look for more here? ;) This one is largely, in truth about energy and what it can do for us. Across the almost 90 minutes I cover how the concepts in the title logicall...
24 Jul 20241h 26min

Ep 213: ToKCast in Auckland - live
This is a recording (with a brief introduction first) of a keynote address I gave to open the 2024 "Naturalistic Decision Making Association" conference. People from business, government and academia ...
11 Jul 20241h 8min

Ep 212: Livestream 3, June 28 2024
More questions, more lengthy and more verbose than ever. Enjoy, or drift of to sleep with me ;)
28 Jun 20242h 24min

Ep 211: Livestream 2, June 26 2024
Fear not! ToKCast is not becoming a pure Q&A "show". This is literally a kind of "break" for me that I find easy and I note the listeners find fun. Today's a little shorter and - here's some of the to...
27 Jun 20241h 17min

Ep 210: Livestream - Question, Answer and repeat for 2+ hours
I put out a call on Twitter/@X for questions and got a deluge. Between those and more from YouTube itself - this is the result ranging over predicting the future, through to theories of learning, AGI ...
25 Jun 20242h 15min

Ep 209: Rational Decision Making
Riffing on Karl Popper and David Deutsch (especially). A broad overview, covering lots of the basics of "social" or "rational" choice theory, Bayesianism (again!), misconceptions, good ideas and bad. ...
17 Jun 20241h 3min



















