Fallible Animals Episode 11: A Life Worth Creating with Carlos De la Guardia

Fallible Animals Episode 11: A Life Worth Creating with Carlos De la Guardia

Author: Logan Chipkin December 9, 2019 Duration: 56:34

I speak with Carlos De la Guardia, an amateur AGI researcher and musician  with a longtime interest in Popper and Deutsch. We discuss how one can apply the philosophy of critical rationalism, and some of David Deutsch’s ideas, to 'real life'. How should one act, given that problems are inevitable, and life is literally unpredictable? We also discuss how critical rationalism may help us to have more productive disagreements, effective altruism, and the universal constructor.


Carlos' Twitter - https://twitter.com/dela3499


Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan

Website - www.loganchipkin.com

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals


Some books mentioned: 

Zero to One, by Peter Thiel - https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296

The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper - https://www.amazon.com/Logic-Scientific-Discovery-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415278449

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, by Jenny Uglow - https://www.amazon.com/Lunar-Men-Friends-Curiosity-Changed/dp/0374528888


Hosted by Logan Chipkin, Fallible Animals is a podcast built on the premise that our best ideas are always provisional, open to revision and improvement. Each episode is a deep, meandering conversation that connects dots across disciplines, from the foundational questions in physics and philosophy to the practical frameworks of economics and ethical reasoning. The discussions are less about delivering definitive answers and more about tracing the evolution of thought, examining how concepts have shifted over time and why that matters for understanding our world today. You’ll hear explorations of complex theories broken down with patience, focusing on the arguments themselves and the human tendency to get things wrong-and then, hopefully, less wrong. It’s an educational series that treats learning as an active, never-finished process. The aim is to create a space for thoughtful inquiry, where listening feels like participating in a sustained, collaborative investigation rather than passively receiving information. For those who find value in these long-form explorations, supporting the ongoing work through Chipkin’s Patreon page helps ensure the podcast and related writing projects continue.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 23

Fallible Animals
Podcast Episodes
Fallible Animals Episode 2: Intro to Critical Rationalism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:35
We begin our discussion of the philosophy of knowledge called Critical Rationalism. We briefly review the intellectual climate in which it was created, and we discuss some of the core concepts, such as the conjectural na…
Fallible Animals Episode 1: Introduction [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:31
Introduction episode to the Fallible Animals podcast. I very briefly describe the philosophy of critical rationalism, and I hint at the worldview that will be the foundation of the show. More on both in future episodes,…