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Teenager asks smart people dumb questions. Formerly titled Elite Ball Knowledge Philosophy (EBKP).
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Will AI Make Everything Pointless? (w/ John Baez)
828 views May 31, 2026 InterviewsMathematical physicist John Baez (This Week's Finds, the n-Category Café) on whether human thought still means anythingOne of the most wide-ranging conversations…
Can we cure aging (w/ Aubrey de Gray)
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Is Suffering Actually Bad? (w/ Richard Chappell)
In this conversation, I talk with philosopher Richard Chappell about moral realism, suffering, moral responsibility, effective altruism, AI consciousness, digital sentience, and why our intuitions…
Why Our Civilization Will Collapse Within Decades (w/ Robin Hanson)
Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University, the inventor of prediction markets, and the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain. In this conversation he argues that our…
Does Fine-Tuning Prove God? (w/ Bentham's Bulldog)
I sat down with Matthew Adelstein (Bentham's Bulldog) to debate one of the most popular arguments for God's existence: the fine-tuning argument.🔗 Bentham's Bulldog: https://benthams.substack.com 🔗 My…
She Paints Brain Cells Without Realizing (w/ Haleh Fotowat)
Haleh Fotowat is a senior scientist at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, where she leads neuroscience work on a DARPA-funded program developing novel anesthetics. She trained as an electrical…
Arguing With a Logician About Reality (w/ Graham Priest)
Graham Priest
Why Gen Z Can’t Connect (w/ Max Lippmann)
00:00 Intro + phone ban and distraction02:30 Why Gen Z feels lonely06:15 Emotional intelligence and gender09:58 Micro-communities and loss of shared culture12:19 Third spaces disappearing15:58…
Is Culture Fake? (w/ Todd McGowan)
Recommended watch - https://youtu.be/K1kxCBvExsU?si=nQbYKDq1n0X_-mDf Todd McGowan returns to the podcast for a conversation about Lacan, language, desire, culture, AI, and the mental health crisis.…
Can Science Explain Consciousness (w/ Grace Lindsay)
Could a computer simulation be conscious? I sat down with Grace Lindsay, professor of psychology and data science at NYU and computational neuroscientist, to talk about modeling the brain, free will,…
Is Looksmaxing Rational? (w/ Dan Demetriou)
My Substack: https://substack.com/@micahzarin Dan's website: https://www.dandemetriou.com/ Dan's paper "Virgin vs. Chad: On Enforced Monogamy as a Solution to the Incel Problem":…
Can You Choose Your Beliefs? (w/ Mike Titelbaum)
Mike Titelbaum is a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work focuses on epistemology, especially Bayesian epistemology, probability, and how we form rational beliefs…
Should a Vampire Starve to Death? (w/ Spencer Case)
Spencer Case is a philosopher specializing in moral realism, ethics, and political philosophy. He’s the author of Why It’s OK to Be Patriotic and has published extensively on the relationship between…
Neurodiversity, Abstraction, and Predictive Minds | Anders Sandberg Conversation
Why do some people think so differently from everyone else? In this conversation, I talk with Anders Sandberg about how the brain learns to see, why abstraction comes more naturally to some people…
Delete Suffering From Human DNA | David Pearce
LINKS https://x.com/@micahzarin https://substack.com/@micahzarin 0:00 – Suffering 18:15 – Psychedelics 27:49 – Immortality and Eugenics 32:06 – Animals 42:40 – AI, QM, and The Brain
What Makes an Experience Yours? | Michael Huemer
Michael Huemer is a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, author of The Problem of Political Authority and Skepticism and the Veil of Perception.We talk about phenomenal…
What is mathematics, really? | Paolo Aluffi
Paolo Aluffi, author of Algebra: Chapter 0 and professor at Florida State University, sits down to talk about what it actually means to do mathematics, and why most people have never seen the real…
Is the Brain a Computer? | Scott Aaronson Interview
In Episode 8 of EBKP I’m joined by theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson to explore one of the deepest questions at the intersection of philosophy, physics, and computation. We discuss…
Why Scrolling Feels So Good (w/ Todd McGowan) | Ep. 7 | Elite Ball Knowledge Philosophy
Why does scrolling feel better than reading, thinking, or even resting? Why is scrolling addictive? If you’ve ever thought “I’m cooked” but couldn’t stop scrolling, this is why. Guest: Todd McGowan…
Middle Ground With a Conservativve (w/ Brandon Illizarov) | Ep. 6 | Elite Ball Knowledge Philosophy
Can Objective Truth Survive 2025? A leftist (Micah) and a conservative (Brandon Ilizarov) go head-to-head on faith, Gaza, capitalism, diets, college admissions, “cancel culture,” and whether logic…
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