Philosophy RSS
Tim Urban AI Girlfriends, Wokeness and Humans Living to 150 Years Old
Tim Urban is the Author of the blog "Wait But Why" and has one of the most listened-to Ted talks of all time. His work covers a broad range of topics from why we procrastinate, to how much time we have left with our parents, to breaking down the US involvement in the Iraq war. In this episode, Logan and Tim dive into some of the ideas that Tim has written about, as well as newer topics like the role AI will play in social relationships and how genetic engineering could impact the human lifespan. (0:00) Intro (1:23) Welcome Tim...
The Cow in the Field
One of the major thought experiments in epistemology (the field of philosophy that deals with knowledge) is what is known as “The Cow in the Field.” The Cow in the Field was first used by Edmund Gettier as a criticism of the popular definition of knowledge as “justified true belief”—that is, that something becomes knowledge when a person believes it; it is factually true; and they have a verifiable justification for their belief. In the experiment, the farmer’s belief that the cow was there was justified by the testimony of the milkman and his own verification of a black and...
Tags
- All
- AI
- Artificial Cognition
- Ascholes
- Autism Spectrum
- Brad Stulberg
- Christianity
- Christopher Hitchens
- Daniel Dennett
- Dark Psychology
- Immanuel Kant
- Intelligence
- Jay Shetty
- Jordan B Peterson
- Libra
- Multiculturalism
- Personal Development
- Personality
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Religion
- Richard Dawkins
- Ryan Holiday
- Sam Harris
- Singularity Ready
- Solipsism
- Stephen Hicks
- Stoicism
- tags
- Thomas Sowell
- Thought
- Thought Experiments