PPP

A podcast about AI

Philosophy, Programs, and Prompts

AI without the agenda.

Real technologists who actually build things and actually read philosophy talk about AI without trying to sell you anything.

The PPP mark: a phi symbol for philosophy beside a terminal prompt for code.

Philosophy meets code.

Casey Hart

The philosopher

An analytic philosopher with ten years of ontology development.

caseyhart.com

Carl Brown

The engineer

A veteran software engineer who has spent decades actually building systems.

internetofbugs.com

Episodes

Newest first. Each episode page has the chapters and every source we cite — 104 so far.

  1. 15

    Is Claude Conscious or just a Tool?

    New · 1h 19m · 18 sources

  2. 14

    Alignment Problem Part 2 - Taking it Seriously

    · 1h 18m · 2 sources

  3. 13

    Pause AI? Should we? If so, how do we make it matter?

    · 1h 40m · 14 sources

  4. 12
  5. 11

    Doom Debate Prep

    · 1h 56m · 5 sources

  6. 10

    The Problem With The Alignment Problem

    · 1h 30m · 9 sources

  7. 9

    Chinese Room | Does AI Understand? Do LLMs?

    · 1h 33m · 4 sources

  8. 8

    Coders Quitting AI? AI Slop PhDs?

    · 1h 19m · 5 sources

  9. 7

    Computer Minds, Mike Levin & Panpsychism

    · 1h 43m · 5 sources

  10. 6.2

    Hank Green and His AI Thing | Two AI Scandals

    · 1h 11m · 14 sources

  11. 6.1
  12. 5

    Did Richard Dawkins confuse Sycophancy for Sentience?

    · 1h 5m · 8 sources

  13. 4
  14. 3.5
  15. 3
  16. 2
  17. 1

    Artificial General Intelligence? Wanna Bet?

    · 49m · 1 source

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