Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts
by Casey Hart, Carl Brown
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The Epistemology of Sci-Fi: Why Tech Founders Build From Fiction
The Epistemology of Sci-Fi: Why Tech Founders Build From Fiction
About this podcast
Everyone is talking about AI. But who is actually worth listening to, and not just pushing their own agenda? Carl is a veteran software engineer who has spent decades actually building systems. Casey is an analytic philosopher with ten years of ontology development. Neither has a book to sell or is funded by an AI thinktank. Together, they do something rare: think carefully and talk honestly about what AI is, what it can (and can’t) do, and how we should live in a world increasingly shaped by AI.
Episodes
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- The Epistemology of Sci-Fi: Why Tech Founders Build From Fiction · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 19When Casey reaches for Immanuel Kant to understand ethics, Carl reaches for Isaac Asimov to understand the future of artificial intelligence. In this episode of Philosophy…
- Did Data Centers Spark the Blue Wave in US Midterms? · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 18In this post-election breakdown of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) examine the midterm "blue wave" through a…
- Inside the TESC Ideologies: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism & Cosmism · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 17In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) dive into the "TESC" side of the TESCREAL…
- Getting REAL: Rationalism Effective Altruism Longtermism · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 16In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) take a deep dive into the "R-E-A-L" half of the TESCREAL…
- Is Claude Conscious or just a Tool? | Ep 15 · 1 h 18 min · Season 1 Episode 15In this episode of *Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts*, hosts Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown ( @InternetOfBugs ) dive into the strange intersection of theology…
- Alignment Problem Part 2 - Taking it Seriously · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 14Can the AI "alignment problem" actually be defined, or is it fundamentally flawed from the start? In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart(…
- Pause AI? Should we? If so, how do we make it matter? · 1 h 40 min · Season 1 Episode 13In the wake of high-profile security breaches, frontier lab resignations, and mounting political pressure, the call to "Pause AI" has moved from fringe forums to Capitol Hill…
- Debunking AI Doom: Why Existential Risk Arguments Fall Apart | Ep 12 · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 12Is artificial intelligence really on track to wipe out humanity by 2050, or are the most prominent doom arguments fundamentally flawed? In this episode of Philosophy Programs and…
- Doom Debate Prep | Ep 11 · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this episode, Casey( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl( @InternetOfBugs ) prep for Casey's upcoming debate on ( @DoomDebates ) with Liron Shapira. They dive into what "P-Doom"…
- Problem With The Alignment Problem | Ep 10 · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 10Is the "AI alignment problem" genuinely the existential challenge of our time, or has it become an intellectual buffer designed to deflect corporate responsibility? In this…
- Chinese Room | Does AI Understand? Do LLMs? · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 9Can a computer truly understand language, or is it merely following rules and manipulating symbols without meaning? In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey…
- Coders Quitting AI? AI Slop PhDs? · 1 h 18 min · Season 1 Episode 8In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) break down the growing backlash against AI in software…
- Computer Minds, Mike Levin & Panpsychism · 1 h 43 min · Season 1 Episode 7In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) dive deep into biologist Michael Levin’s provocative…
- Hank Green and His AI Thing | Two AI Scandals | Ep 6 Pt 2 · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 7In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown ( @InternetOfBugs ) dive deep into the recent controversy surrounding Hank…
- OpenAI HuggingFace Incident FollowUp | Two AI Scandals | Ep 6 Pt 1 · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 6In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown ( @InternetOfBugs ) break down the real technical story behind OpenAI's…
- Did Richard Dawkins confuse Sycophancy for Sentience? · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 5//////In this episode of Philosophy, Programs and Prompts, Casey ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl ( @InternetOfBugs ) break down Richard Dawkins’ recent article detailing his…
- Are LLMs "Alien" Digital Species? Built? Grown? Or What? Debunking the AI Hype · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) tackle the wild narratives surrounding artificial…
- Did ChatGPT go Rogue and HACK Hugging Face? - Emergency Episode · 56 min"We've got people at Hugging Face that did a half-assed job of securing a thing, and we've got people at OpenAI that did a half-assed job of trying to keep a thing from being…
- Virtue Ethics in the Age of AI Slop & Erotic Chatbots [Fixed Audio] · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 3[Note: this was re-released, and it fixes Casey's audio. Content remains unchanged.] Welcome back to Philosophy Programs and Prompts! In this episode, Casey ( @OntologyExplained…
- Artificial Super Intelligence · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 2"We're not going to be able to kill it. We're not going to be able to stop it..."Welcome back to Philosophy Programs and Prompts. In this episode, Casey and Carl take a hard…
