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Increments

Increments

De: Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani
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Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.© 2026 Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani Ciencia Ciencias Sociales Filosofía
Episodios
  • #0 - Introduction
    May 19 2020

    Ben and Vaden attempt to justify why the world needs another podcast, and fail.

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    8 m
  • #100 - Celebrating the Centennial
    Mar 26 2026

    100 episodes! To celebrate, Vaden tries to get personal with Ben, while Ben dodges his questions and wants to know how Vaden feels about incest. All in all, a pretty typical episode.

    The questions

    From Vaden to Ben:

    1. How is your side hustle going?
    2. Who are some of your major influences outside of Popper?
    3. How has the Popperian worldview influenced your day-to-day?
    4. What is the life of a nomadic academic like?
    5. What would you say to people who are considering mathematics as a career?
    6. Which charities do you recommend?

    From Ben to Vaden:

    1. How do you feel about looksmaxxing?
    2. Thoughts on medical assistance in dying?
    3. Ethics of Alex Honnold free soloing Taipei 101?
    4. Thoughts on Nation-Buiding?
    5. Incest - into it?
    Episode References
    • #22 - Thinking Through Thought Experiments
    • #66 - Sex Research, Addiction, and Financial Domination (w/ Aella)
    • #58 - Ask Us Anything V: How to Read and What to Read
    • #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows)
    • #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)
    References
    • Angus Deaton debates Abhijit Banerjee: https://nyudri.wordpress.com/initiatives/deaton-v-banerjee/
    • Christopher Hitchens and Robert Wright
    • Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov
    • Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
    • The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind
    Socials
    • Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
    • Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
    • Become a patreon subscriber here. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations here.
    • Click dem like buttons on youtube

    What is your favorite form of ince... actually nevermind, too much. Just email us at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

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    1 h y 21 m
  • #99 - Debating Trump in Good Faith (w/ Don Robinson)
    Mar 6 2026

    Ben is hesitant to talk too much about politics on the podcast. So, naturally, we're having a political debate. We have on a pseudonymous guest to talk Trump, MAGA, and what's wrong with the left and the right.

    We discuss
    • Trump's politics as trial and error
    • The dynamics of MAGA
    • ICE activity in Minnesota
    • Illegal immigration
    • Would Popper have supported Trump?
    • What does "incrementalism" mean in politics?
    Socials
    • Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
    • Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
    • Become a patreon subscriber here. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations here.
    • Click dem like buttons on youtube

    Cross the border into the increments discord and hit us up at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

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    2 h y 10 m
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