Science: Physics

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Top episodes in Science: Physics

Brian Keating & Steven Pinker 24 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Cancel Culture, Common Knowledge & AI

Get 3 months off the annual plan and start learning faster at shortform.com/impossible In this episode, Steven Pinker unpacks how common knowledge shapes everything from why rational people can’t agree to disagree to why markets boom and bust. We explore the risks of falsifying expert claims, the power of social norms,

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Sean Carroll & Steven Pinker 22 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it's not enough that we all know what the rules are, but also that everyone else knows the rules, and that they know that we know the rules, and so on. Philosophers and game theorists refer to this as common knowledge.

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Brian Keating & Avi Loeb + Michael Shermer 09 Sep 2025 • EN

Is 3I/ATLAS Alien Technolgy? Avi Loeb & MIchael Shermer DEBATE

Get my My new book, Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner -- https://a.co/d/hi50U9U It's just 99¢ on Kindle for launch week ONLY. It’s the perfect companion to this conversation—lessons in thinking clearly, staying curious, and pushing past conventional wisdom from my conversations with 22 Nobel Prize winners! Brian Keating

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Brian Keating & David Deutsch 11 Sep 2025 • EN

David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI

Get My New Book, Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, for Only $ 0.99! This week only: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U David Deutsch offers his insights into the physics that will impact our future, challenging our new technologies, such as AGI and the development of synthetic humans, as depicted in movies. Join us for this fascina

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Lawrence Krauss & Gad Saad 07 Sep 2025 • EN

Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews

As The War on Science continues to circulate and reach readers around the world, I had the privilege of closing our Origins mini series, The War on Science Interviews, with my colleague and book contributor Gad Saad. It felt fitting to end the series with a candid and provocative conversation that reflects the spirit o

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Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥 We talk with Ben Shapiro about his new book “Lions and Scavengers” and how we each have a lion and a scavenger inside of us. Today’s society is shaped by lions who build great things, while the scavengers try to tear them down. ------

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