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Highly recommended for physics fans who want more technical discussion than usual physics podcasts; includes a long Wolfram episode.
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
with Stephen Wolfram
Podcast
Mindscape
Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you've come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.
63 Hacker News mentions · 31 episodes
Episodes recommended on Hacker News
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Listed as a favorite 2023 episode: "Solo: The Crisis in Physics" on Sean Carroll's Mindscape.
@freetonik +3 more
245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics
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Highly recommends listening to the Mindscape episode with Nita Farahany, or reading the full transcript.
@consumer451 +2 more
229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
with Nita Farahany
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He was just on Sean Carroll's podcast Mindscape, good listen.
@aesch +2 more
198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
with Nick Lane
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Great discussions on gravitational waves, time travel, and Interstellar; very informative and entertaining, I recommend it.
@pavanred +2 more
24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
with Kip Thorne
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Highest recommendation. Covers CFT-ADST correspondence and holographic theory in a reasonably understandable way for a general audience.
@v77 +1 more
218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
with Raphael Bousso
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Sean Carroll and David Wallace doing a deep dive on entropy and how it relates to time and the past hypothesis.
@drcode +1 more
158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time
with David Wallace
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Sean Carroll did an amazing podcast episode on the mechanics of time travel in a scientifically accurate way.
@mr_mitm +1 more
124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work
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They cover in-depth why we are so confident that dark matter is a thing that exists.
@dwaltrip +1 more
96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is
with Lina Necib
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Sean Carroll covers science funding concerns like yours in an impressively apolitical way; highly recommended to listen or read.
@consumer451
Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
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Leslie Valiant was on Sean Carroll's podcast to talk about the same topic.
@canjobear
272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
with Leslie Valiant
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If you want more, here is Matt Strassler on Mindscape, on relativity, fields, and the language of reality.
@jahnu
268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
with Matt Strassler
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Tim Maudlin's recent Mindscape interview on renewed interest in pilot wave theory is a good interview.
@wwarner
241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
with Tim Maudlin
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Sean Carroll recently did a podcast with Amy Finkelstein on insurance markets. I think you'd find it interesting.
@russdill
232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
with Amy Finkelstein
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Recommends the latest Mindscape episode as a deep dive into the questions raised about how AI works.
@jahnu
230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
with Raphael Milliere
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A good episode of Mindscape with the authors of Curious Minds, going into depth on the busybody, dancer and hunter concepts.
@jinnko
219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
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Really cool episode on Mindscape with Arik Kershenbaum on why certain traits, like wings and symmetry, make sense and why alien life would look similar.
@mr_mitm
188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
with Arik Kershenbaum
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Sean Carroll's podcast with Gary Marcus is worth listening to on this subject.
@slowmovintarget
184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
with Gary Marcus
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Excellent discussion between the author and Sean Carroll on the subject.
@russdill
169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
with C. Thi Nguyen
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If you have an hour to spare and are interested in what quantum computers might be good for in the long run, I recommend this interview.
@superjan
153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For
with John Preskill
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Sean Carroll recently interviewed Loeb; listening to it gives a very different picture of who Loeb is and what he is saying.
@criddell
131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
with Avi Loeb
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Halfway through the latest Mindscape episode, which covers this topic very approachably.
@jcims
117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
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Sean Carroll has a great podcast episode discussing the results with Netta Engelhardt, one of the co-authors of a paper discussed in this article.
@tanvach
115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity
with Netta Engelhardt
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Sean Carroll and Nick Bostrom discuss Anthropic arguments on Mindscape, with Bostrom bringing a very technical background.
@maroonblazer
111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation
with Nick Bostrom
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Sean Carroll interviewed Stuart Bartlett for his Mindscape podcast, linked as episode 106 on what life means.
@mihaitodor
106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means
with Stuart Bartlett
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A great episode of Mindscape where Max Tegmark takes the question of whether math is real and runs with it.
@eprparadox
75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse
with Max Tegmark
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Sean Carroll plays a very good devil's advocate, a nice friendly critic of panpsychism; highly recommended.
@xtacy
71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere
with Philip Goff
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Sean Carroll's solo episode on deriving quantum gravity from quantum mechanics, not by quantizing relativity. Blew the commenter's mind several times over.
@misterman0
63 | Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics
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Great mindscape podcast about how the magical thinking developed
@nmlnn
36 | David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds
with David Albert
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The Mindscape podcast touches on a lot of these issues, and more recently had David Chalmers, who was quoted in the OP.
@mathattack
25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation
with David Chalmers
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Commenter listened to the Mike Brown episode on the Planet Nine search and found the explanation of how hard it is to search the sky useful.
@snissn
11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9
with Mike Brown
Why Hacker News recommends it
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Mindscape by Sean Carroll has risen to the very top of the commenter's current favourites.
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Listen to this episode where Sean Carroll talks about superposition of larger objects.
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In the same vein as those: Conversations with Tyler and Sean Carroll's Mindscape.
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I recommend Mindscape by Sean Carroll.
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape is the top choice; Lawrence Krauss's Origins is a similar physicist-hosted podcast.
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Mindscape podcast (Sean Carroll) is really good.
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If you liked this article, you will probably also enjoy "Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time" by Sean Carroll.
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Perhaps a third of episodes cover research physics, including serious wormhole discussions with world-class researchers.
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Sean Carroll's "Biggest Ideas in the Universe" series is really great, and his podcast Mindscape is worth a listen.
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Mindscape with Sean Carroll has some really great episodes; skim descriptions and try the ones that sound interesting.
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Technical and mathematical enough to avoid metaphors that don't hold up, yet enjoyable after work.
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Recommends Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast, where he discusses quantum worlds and a range of science and philosophy topics.
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A regular listener says they got a key phrase from Mindscape and highly recommend the podcast.
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Love the Mindscape podcast. It taught me everything I know about quantum physics.
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