Epistik

TIMESTAMPS:

• 6:15 Is the reduction of uncertainty in the Free Energy Principle more compareable with Occam’s razor or simple deterministic laws?
• 18:03 Tautologies and compression of information.
• 30:00 Free will
• 37:48 Where does the first prior probability distribution come from? Do you believe in revelation?
• 49:20 How can we describe parameters of epistemic foraging in terms of the Free Energy Principle and Philosophy?
• 1:04:15 Practical applications of Friston’s work in relation to policy-making in the corporate world and the public sector.
• 1:16:10 Should people aspiring to work in Public Admin study maths?

Links to Prof. Friston’s previous pertinent appearances:

• TOE Podcast: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA (good for getting an elementary understanding of the Free Energy Principle and it's applications)
• Lex Fridman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzuibY5kUs&t=688s (a fun conversation)
• Dartmouth's CCN Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1hEc6vay_k (good for stats-people)
• ML Streettalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR24ieh5Ow (good for ML-people)
• Serious Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0JnjgCO3o&t=520s (about a slightly separate area: Embodied Cognition)

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TIMESTAMPS:

• 23:39 Subagents in our heads.
• 35:00 What can we learn from how we perceive people we encounter on the street?
• 42:26 The Game of Life in relation to RL and MDPs.
• 58:35 Summarizing question

• 4:26 What did you learn from Prof. Collin Camerer
• 10:10 Neuroeconomics vs Metabolomics
• 14:07 Defining wellbeing
• 15:30 A proxy for wellbeing
• 20:00 The theory of reflexivity and the delta between money and value
• 25:33 Hedonic recalibration/calibration
• 28:08 Can our projection of wellbeing be 100% epistemically correct?
• 31:35 Is computational power or lack of information the primarily limiting factor in deriving a path to wellbeing?
• 46:15 Do we have a tendency to turn infinite games into finite games?
• 57:50 Simple stats vs sophisticated maths
• 1:17:20 Can one force oneself to like any smell?
• 1:19:25 “When we have to cooperate but don’t have the same purpose of goals, we make transactions.”

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TIMESTAMPS

• 20:25 Comp. Neuroscience & Public Policy
• 31:50 Comparing brains with computers.
• 38:00 When should we note something down?
• 52:40 Does logic have to be mathematical?
• 1:02:10 Why is it so important for us that some other consciousness has registered our acts/experience?

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TIMESTAMPS

• 27:20 Could you explain your research project at the Stockholm School of Economics?
• 32:50 The balance between using computers and brains
• 40:00 Could we have a subconscious hard limiter that prevents us from having it ”too good”?
• 43:00 Do you think that doctors have a place in management consulting?
• 57:29 How vulnerable is Swedens healthcare?

TIMESTAMPTS:

• 3:56 What insights from your research has surprised you the most?
• 8:35 Advice to researchers when it comes to international collaboration?
• 17:45 Data linking 
• 21:35 Finding the balance between finding new ideas and focusing on ongoing projects.

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TIMESTAMPS

• 0:20 Are the laws of logic a priori or a posteriori?
• 7:55 Ideas in applied mathematics
• 27:50 Why did you choose to work with automated theorem proving?
• 43:50 An argument for theism and deism
• 1:06:44 Can automated theorem proving be applied in the field of philosophy?
• 1:24:10 Our emotional states, wellbeing, and rationality

TIMESTAMPS

• 7:40 Normative ethics and public policy
• 14:40 The definition of wellbeing.
• 24:07 Social Anthropologists vs Comp. Social Scientists in Public Policy
• 39:30 Hedonic wellbeing vs eudaimonic wellbeing.
• 51:25 How can engineers get into policy?

TIMESTAMPS

3:00 The definition of health

22:30 Qualitative analysis in Psychoneuroimmunology

33:45 Alternative medicine.

39:20 What are your views on the explanatory gap?

53:30 Are the faith problems that western health workers experience in the third world due to problems in allopathic medicine?

Website: Epistik.wordpress.com

TIMESTAMPS:

• 0:27 Insights from working with Donald Ingber.
• 6:00 What motivates researchers?
• 19:00 Regulations in research
• 33:12 Measuring success in the public sector.
• 36:15 Researchers and collaboration with the wider society.
• 42:55 How do you define learning something new?

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:10 Why did you study medicine?
• 3:43 How suitable does the medical program make you for research?
• 13:12 How has the student experience changed since you studied in med school?
• 21:35 Multidisciplinary vs. focused education.
• 27:53 Materialsim vs. Idealism in regards to the peace in Sweden.
• 31:37 For how long will the world be able to sustain its standard of living?
• 37:25 Should business grads make all the money from the work of researchers?
• 40:11 Philosophical incentives in research.
• 47:00 What are the biggest obstacles for researchers?
• 52:32 How should researchers collaborate with the public sector, e.g. the EU?
• 56:34 Limiting effects of computing power.
• 58:25 Where do you draw the line between when quantitative and qualitative analysis is more efficient?
• 1:00:00 What questions can simulations answer?
• 1:04:35 Potential of open access data analysis.
• 1:08:24 Can we unbelief something?
• 1:09:45 Is there some common denominator in what we are striving for?
• 1:14:21 What is your objective in life?

TIMESTAMPS

• 6:12 Kantian ethics
• 20:38 Communication
• 33:10 Is it important for society to learn history as a school subject?
• 44:30 The negative form of the ”Golden rule”
• 1:33:00 Why do people want to have children?
• 1:53:15 Would you go on a vacation If you would know that you would forget about it after getting back?
• 2:00:00 Goal in life

Pre Scriptum: Audio quality improves after around 10 mins.

TIMESTAMPS:

• 0:17 How are philosophy and psychology interlinked?
• 4:00 Why is it so hard for researches to resist the ”Philosopause”?
• 14:50 Is it more important for a model to be closer to the truth as opposed to effective?
• 19:50 Can we simulate how we would behave in different circumstances?
• 35:20 Can the feeling of making the ”right” decision correlate with any bioinformatics data?
• 53:40 What does it mean to learn something new?
• 1:00:00 Why are so many undergrads nihilists or absurdists?
• 1:02:15 Philosophical values across cultures.

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TIMESTAMPS:

• 00:13 The we-feeling in Sweden
• 9:15 Is the role of the law to deter or cure?
• 10:35 Is it impossible to avoid contradictions in law?
• 16:35 What is the role of the government?
• 23:40 What would you do in an enclosed field?
• 37:30 Idealism in law school.
• 1:22:00 Is law logical?
• 1:35:00 Nuclear war & WW3
• 2:08:04 Objective in life