About this podcast
After the collapse of the 20th-century systematic mode of social organization, how can we move from our internet-enabled atomized mode, toward a fluid mode? We take problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turn them into practical problems, which are more tractable.
"Meaningness" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/an-appetizer-purpose
"Meaningness And Time" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/meaningness-and-time-how-meaning-fell-apart
'In The Cells Of The Eggplant" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/intro-to-metarationality
You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks
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This is a nonfiction audiobook narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, David Chapman. Full text at: https://meaningness.com
Please email me at [email protected].
Episodes
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- A Better Future, Without Backprop · 5 min · Season 3 Episode 148This concludes "Gradient Dissent", the companion document to "Better Without AI". Thank you so much for listening! You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by…
- Better Text Generation With Science And Engineering · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 147Current text generators, such as ChatGPT, are highly unreliable, difficult to use effectively, unable to do many things we might want them to, and extremely expensive to develop…
- Classifying Images: Massive Parallelism And Surface Features · 15 min · Season 3 Episode 146Analysis of image classifiers demonstrates that it is possible to understand backprop networks at the task-relevant run-time algorithmic level. In these systems, at least…
- Do AI As Engineering Instead · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 145Current AI practice is not engineering, even when it aims for practical applications, because it is not based on scientific understanding. Enforcing engineering norms on the…
- Do AI As Science Instead · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 144Few AI experiments constitute meaningful tests of hypotheses. As a branch of machine learning research, AI science has concentrated on black box investigation of training time…
- Do AI As Science And Engineering Instead · 12 min · Season 3 Episode 143Do AI As Science And Engineering Instead - We've seen that current AI practice leads to technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and…
- Backpropaganda: Anti-Rational Neuro-Mythology · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 142Current AI results from experimental variation of mechanisms, unguided by theoretical principles. That has produced systems that can do amazing things. On the other hand, they…
- Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful, Part 2 · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 141The conclusion of this chapter. So-called "neural networks" are extremely expensive, poorly understood, unfixably unreliable, deceptive, data hungry, and inherently limited in…
- Gradient Dissent- Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful, Part 1 · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 140This begins "Gradient Dissent", the companion material to "Better Without AI". The neural network and GPT technologies that power current artificial intelligence are…
- Futurism, Politics, and Responsibility · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 139The five short chapters in this episode are the conclusion of the main body of Better Without AI. Next, we'll begin the book's appendix, Gradient Dissent. Cozy Futurism - If we…
- A Future We Would Like · 13 min · Season 3 Episode 144A Future We Would Like - The most important questions are not about technology but about us. What sorts of future would we like? What role could AI play in getting us there, and…
- Scientific Progress Without AI · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 143Stop obstructing scientific progress! We already know how to dramatically accelerate science: by getting out of the way. https://betterwithout.ai/stop-obstructing-science How…
- Limits To Experimental Induction · 12 min · Season 3 Episode 142Progress requires experimentation. Suggested ways AI could speed progress by automating experiments appear mistaken. https://betterwithout.ai/limits-to-induction You can…
- Bonus Episode 8: Going Down On The Phenomenon · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 141Forgive the sound quality on this episode; I recorded it live in front of an audience on a platform floating in a lake during the 2024 solar eclipse. This is a standalone essay…
- The Role Of Intelligence In Science · 15 min · Season 3 Episode 140What Is The Role Of Intelligence In Science? Actually, what are "science" and "intelligence"? Precise, explicit definitions aren't necessary, but discussions of Transformative AI…
- Radical Progress Without Scary AI · 15 min · Season 3 Episode 139Radical Progress Without Scary AI: Technological progress, in medicine for example, provides an altruistic motivation for developing more powerful AIs. I suggest that AI may be…
- AI Is Net Harmful, and, A Negative Public Image For AI · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 138Recognize that AI is probably net harmful: Actually-existing and near-future AIs are net harmful—never mind their longer-term risks. We should shut them down, not pussyfoot…
- Spurn Artificial Ideology · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 137"Apocalypse now" identified the corrosive influence of new viral ideologies, created unintentionally by recommender systems, as a major AI risk. These may cause social collapse…
- Fight DOOM AI with SCIENCE! and ENGINEERING!! · 12 min · Season 3 Episode 136Current AI practices produce technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering…
- Mistrust Machine Learning · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 135The technologies underlying current AI systems are inherently, unfixably unreliable. They should be deprecated, avoided, regulated, and replaced…
