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SciPhi-Adjacent Podcast Collection

A curated collection of podcasts that sometimes venture into science or philosophy, among many other topics. Also see the Science Podcast Collection and the Philosophy Podcast Collection.

Updated: 2026-Aug-01 18:39 UTC. Podcasts listed: 38. Ordered by date of most recent episode (newest to oldest). AI-generated content is based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions.

Collection summary covering past 30 days of combined episodes (AI-generated):

These podcasts span long-form conversations and lectures that connect big questions in science, philosophy, and public life. A major thread is foundational physics: careful explanations of quantum mechanics from first principles, debates over how to interpret the wave function and probability, and disputes about what counts as evidence for competing pictures of reality. Related episodes move into gravity and cosmology, including alternative theories of gravity, attempts to connect gravity with information or entropy, and the implications for dark matter, dark energy, black holes, and singularities. Alongside the technical material runs a more explicitly philosophical inquiry into what it means to talk about “reality,” laws of nature, reductionism, and the limits of scientific explanation.

Artificial intelligence is another dominant theme, treated both as a technical-social transition and as a governance problem. Discussions explore public backlash, the ideology and incentives inside AI labs, calls to slow development, and the geopolitical risks of an arms race. Several episodes focus on AI ethics more broadly: misinformation, children’s online safety, AI companions and “artificial intimacy,” and whether advanced systems could be conscious or morally considerable.

Current affairs and political thought are covered through analyses of war and power politics (especially involving Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, and broader US influence), as well as institutional critiques and “bad ideas” in democracy, leadership myths, and policy failure. Other episodes examine how knowledge is produced and distorted—through echo chambers, social networks, media incentives, and contested authorities.

The feed also includes humanities and social science topics such as the history of trade and empire, narratives and historical memory, art criticism and aesthetics, loneliness and intimacy, and religion and skepticism. Complementing these are science-and-society explorations in medicine, linguistics, conservation, and human performance.

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