Epistik Epistik

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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”?
1:28:22 The nature of learning
1:31:30 Memory
1:36:50 A subagent in our embodied cognition that is ”higher” than us?
1:49:11 What advice do you have for younger students?



Intrested in CS? Award-winning intro to Complexity Science by Alex: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/

Mentioned resources:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions (Note from Alex: It seems less original now than at the time it was written)
The Master and His Emmissary by Iain McGilchrist
Another book recommended by Alex: I and Thou by Martin Buber (he recommends the translation by Smith)
The review article in Nature Physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11489

Regarding proxies to internal goals, I’d recommend the following Medium article: https://adamahm.medium.com/data-linkage-visualization-for-assisting-policy-makers-d4ba40715693x

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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 Admin study maths?

Links to Prof. Friston’s previous pertinent appearances:


TOE Podcast: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA (good for getting an elementary understanding of the Free Energy Principle and it's applications)
Lex Fridman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzuibY5kUs&t=688s (a fun conversation)
Dartmouth's CCN Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1hEc6vay_k (good for stats-people)
ML Streettalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR24ieh5Ow (good for ML-people)
Serious Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0JnjgCO3o&t=520s (about a slightly separate area: Embodied Cognition)

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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

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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.

TIMESTAMPS


2:00 How do you choose which books to read?
4:00 Random decision-making
8:00 The potential of a emotion transfer device
18:30 The leap of faith
25:27 Who are the genuine atheists?
28:00 Links between dualism vs non-dualism and idealism vs materialism
35:58 Infinite vs finite games in the evolution of religions
39:50 Objectivity in contrast to the personification of God
43:00 Virtue ethics and tautologies
46:10 Turning infinite into finite games – from the micro-level to the macro-level
49:21 What percentage of the world population do you think that people would accept and abide by a coherent and somewhat fair axiomatic system?
50:43 Is there any variable that you can pinpoint and say that you want to maximize or minimize in life?
1:00:55 When do you think that Hegelian dialectical logic is better than using statistical inference in psychology?
1:05:57 The impact of instantaneous emotions
1:10:00 ”Chicken and egg”-problems, tautologies, and circular systems
1:14:40 What social science subject would you recommend for engineers or scientists?



Professor Gozli’s…

YT-channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XWPTuBcXjkPoeP_MGCjug

Website: dgozli.com

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dgozli

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?
1:19:25 “When we have to cooperate but don’t have the same purpose of goals, we make transactions.”



Dr. Bose's website: https://sites.google.com/view/devdeeptabose