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Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts
Everyone is talking about AI. But who is actually worth listening to, and not just pushing their own agenda? Carl is a veteran software engineer who has spent decades actually building systems. Casey is an analytic philosopher with ten years of ontology development. Neither has a book to sell or is funded by an AI thinktank. Together, they do something rare: think carefully and talk honestly about what AI is, what it can (and can’t) do, and how we should live in a world increasingly shaped by…
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- Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts
Inside the TESC Ideologies: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism & Cosmism
In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) dive into the "TESC" side of the…
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Getting REAL: Rationalism Effective Altruism Longtermism
In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) take a deep dive into the "R-E-A-L"…
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Is Claude Conscious or just a Tool? | Ep 15
In this episode of *Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts*, hosts Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown ( @InternetOfBugs ) dive into the strange…
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Alignment Problem Part 2 - Taking it Seriously
Can the AI "alignment problem" actually be defined, or is it fundamentally flawed from the start? In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey…
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Pause AI? Should we? If so, how do we make it matter?
In the wake of high-profile security breaches, frontier lab resignations, and mounting political pressure, the call to "Pause AI" has moved from fringe forums…
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Debunking AI Doom: Why Existential Risk Arguments Fall Apart | Ep 12
Is artificial intelligence really on track to wipe out humanity by 2050, or are the most prominent doom arguments fundamentally flawed? In this episode of…
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Doom Debate Prep | Ep 11
In this episode, Casey( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl( @InternetOfBugs ) prep for Casey's upcoming debate on ( @DoomDebates ) with Liron Shapira. They dive…
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Problem With The Alignment Problem | Ep 10
Is the "AI alignment problem" genuinely the existential challenge of our time, or has it become an intellectual buffer designed to deflect corporate…
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Chinese Room | Does AI Understand? Do LLMs?
Can a computer truly understand language, or is it merely following rules and manipulating symbols without meaning? In this episode of Philosophy Programs and…
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Coders Quitting AI? AI Slop PhDs?
In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) break down the growing backlash…
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Computer Minds, Mike Levin & Panpsychism
In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) dive deep into biologist Michael…
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Hank Green and His AI Thing | Two AI Scandals | Ep 6 Pt 2
In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown ( @InternetOfBugs ) dive deep into the recent controversy…
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OpenAI HuggingFace Incident FollowUp | Two AI Scandals | Ep 6 Pt 1
In this episode of Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown ( @InternetOfBugs ) break down the real technical story…
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Did Richard Dawkins confuse Sycophancy for Sentience?
//////In this episode of Philosophy, Programs and Prompts, Casey ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl ( @InternetOfBugs ) break down Richard Dawkins’ recent article…
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Are LLMs "Alien" Digital Species? Built? Grown? Or What? Debunking the AI Hype
In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) tackle the wild narratives surrounding…
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Did ChatGPT go Rogue and HACK Hugging Face? - Emergency Episode
"We've got people at Hugging Face that did a half-assed job of securing a thing, and we've got people at OpenAI that did a half-assed job of trying to keep a…
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Virtue Ethics in the Age of AI Slop & Erotic Chatbots [Fixed Audio]
[Note: this was re-released, and it fixes Casey's audio. Content remains unchanged.] Welcome back to Philosophy Programs and Prompts! In this episode, Casey (…
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Artificial Super Intelligence
"We're not going to be able to kill it. We're not going to be able to stop it..."Welcome back to Philosophy Programs and Prompts. In this episode, Casey and…
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The AGI Over/Under
Welcome to the very first episode of Philosophy, Programs and Prompts!In this inaugural episode, hosts Casey Hart (a PhD ontologist building graph data models…