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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 6: AI’s changing seasons
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 4: Babies vs Machines
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence
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Physics of Life, Ep 6: Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
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Physics of Life, Ep 5: How human history shapes scientific inquiry
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Physics of Life, Ep 4: The physics of collectives
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Physics of Life, Ep 3: Why is life so diverse?
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Physics of Life, Ep 2: How do we identify life?
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Physics of Life, Ep 1: What can physics tell us about ourselves?
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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology
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Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The...
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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of...
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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & Ja...
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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Sca...
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Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds
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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
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Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere
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Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE...
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John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness
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John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain
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David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
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Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society
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Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
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Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
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Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace
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Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
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Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
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Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
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Seth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & Governance
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Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (...
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Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prospe...
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David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE...
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C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
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Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
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The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith
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Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies
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Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
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Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2
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Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Par...
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Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West
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Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems
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Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
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Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation
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