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Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani

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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Episodes (104)

May 29th #103 - AI, Evolution, and The God Test (w/ Robert Wright)
May 12th #102 - Criticizing Crit-rats (w/ Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen)
Apr 19th #101 (C&R Chap 10, Part IV) - Was Popper Wrong about Verisimilitude?

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May 29, 2026
2½ hours
98 MB

Did you ever see the video of two regular people trying to fight Eddie Hall, the strongest man on earth? Ben and Vaden bring that same energy to this conversation, where they gang up on Robert Wright on the subject of his forthcoming book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning. Bob is a sport about it (well, there was no choice really: we have an advanced copy of his book that we're holding hostage) and there are only one or two black eyes by the end. Subscribe to Robert Wright's podcasting empire NonZero...

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#103 - AI, Evolution, and The God Test (w/ Robert Wright)

Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani

00:00 -01:47:27