Episode Appearances
Hidden Brain · May 25, 2026
The Past is Never Dead
“Guest expert discussing how historical and cultural factors shape modern human psychology and behavior”
Mechanical clocks and time discipline in medieval EuropeCatholic Church marriage reforms and family structure transformationNuclear family as historical invention vs. extended kinship systems
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Savage Lovecast · Feb 5, 2026
Sex & Politics #42
“Harvard anthropology chair whose book 'The Weirdest People in the World' argues Catholic Church monogamy prohibition created modern Western liberalism”
Same-sex marriage philosophical frameworks and argumentsMonogamy as cultural norm versus individual choicePolygyny in historical and anthropological context
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Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 26, 2025
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
“Psychologist and anthropologist studying cultural evolution; discussed imitation learning in human skill acquisition”
Reinforcement Learning FundamentalsLarge Language Models vs. Experience-Based LearningWorld Models and Transition Models
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