Doyge Convincing You That Paper Philosophy Is More Deep Than You Had Thought?

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Dwarkesh patel, tyler said a while back that one goal of his podcast was to teach people to ask better questions. Do you think he solved the problem of induction, for example? No, doych convinced me there's often a lot of hot air behind paper. He didn't argue very well on paper's behalf,. But i thought it the philosophical level, his defenses were weak. I don't know why you would think a philosophy that emphasizes fallibility and refutation wouldn't do that but it does.

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On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes talk about the past year on the show, including one episode’s appearance on Ancient Aliens, Tyler’s picks for most underrated guests, how his 2021 predictions fared from last year’s retrospective, further reflections on the most downloaded—and most polarizing—episode of the year, how David Deutsch influenced Tyler’s opinions of Karl Popper, why he thinks his interviews with women tend to be better, and more. They also evaluate Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2011, play “Name that Production Function,” and answer listener questions from Twitter.

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