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Increments

Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani

95 episodes

2 weeks ago

Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

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Philosophy

Society & Culture,

Science

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#86 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 2)

Increments

1 hour 20 minutes 7 seconds

5 months ago

#86 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 2)

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Episode Blurb

Back with part two of our reaction to What's the most rational way to know?, a discussion between Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian on the relationship between confidence and evidence. Listen to part 1 first, availble here: https://www.incrementspodcast.com/85

It seems weird to try to be funny in this blurb, given the introduction, so going to keep the description lean. Back with our usual lighthearted nonsense next episode!

Check out more from Brett Hall here and Peter Boghossian here.

We discuss

A falliblist's view of confidence
Confidence as a form of implicit knowledge
Problems with attempting to define "knowledge"
Can we "derive" moral facts?
Being triggered by the word 'derive'

References

Paper discussing how it took the wider scientific community over 40 years (after Eddington's experiment!) to become convinced in the truth of general relativity: The 1919 measurement of the deflection of light
Eddington's original paper:
Vaden and Brett's blog exchange

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