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Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"

Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"

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Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"

FromRationally Speaking Podcast

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jun 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Julia chats with the authors of Algorithms to Live By, about how to apply key algorithms from computer science to our real life problems. For example, deciding which apartment to rent, planning your career, and prioritizing your projects.

In the process, they discuss the assumptions that underlie those algorithms (and what to do about the fact that those assumptions are inevitably violated by the messy real world), and why procrastination might actually be the right algorithm for the wrong problem.
Released:
Jun 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.