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  • This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency

    This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency
    2024/06/02

    This episode discusses the work of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel, drawing parallels between the Halting Problem and the Incompleteness Theorems. We also review a fun book of puzzles!
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    36 分
  • This Episode’s Title Has Thirty Eight Letters

    This Episode’s Title Has Thirty Eight Letters
    2024/01/29

    In this episode we discuss the metaness of maps, and Schelling Points.
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    31 分
  • This Episode Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Creation

    This Episode Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Creation
    2023/05/22

    In this episode we discuss Von Neumann probes, and also review Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge..." as well as “We Are Legion (We Are Bob)” by Dennis E. Taylor.
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    33 分
  • This Episode Is Coming From Inside Your Headphones

    This Episode Is Coming From Inside Your Headphones
    2023/03/13

    In this episode we will discuss JOOTsing - Jumping Out Of The System, in the context of software systems and security exploits.
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    39 分
  • The Following Episode Is False

    The Following Episode Is False
    2023/01/03

    This episode discusses metaness and Strange Loops in real life. We also review the 1985 novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan.
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    33 分
  • This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon

    This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon
    2022/12/05

    In this episode we will discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and Fixed-Point proofs.
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    37 分
  • This Episode’s Transcript is a 89742 Byte PDF Document

    This Episode’s Transcript is a 89742 Byte PDF Document
    2022/11/13

    In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.
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    35 分
  • This Episode is 2580 Seconds Long

    This Episode is 2580 Seconds Long
    2022/10/30

    In this episode we will discuss quines - computer programs that can reproduce their own code. We will also talk about Exhalation - a sci-fi short story by Ted Chiang.
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    43 分