# Harry Frankfurt

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Navigating The Drift: Humanity's Agency In The Age Of Agentic AI

We stand at a critical threshold in human-machine interaction—the shift from chatbots that answer questions to agents that act autonomously in our names while we sleep. This episode examines the profound implications of agentic AI, moving beyond the hype to explore what happens when software gai ...

261: Metrics of Success

David & Mike discuss Goodhart's Law, why effort matters more than outcomes, and how to maintain a healthy relationship with the numbers you use to keep score. Links and Show Notes: Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content. Video for this episode Mike's Amplify Coh ...

Focused 261: Metrics of Success

David & Mike discuss Goodhart's Law, why effort matters more than outcomes, and how to maintain a healthy relationship with the numbers you use to keep score. Links and Show Notes: Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content. Video for this episode Mike's Amplify Coh ...

HBM - Logical Fallacies and Writing Technique

Today we take our first look at the study of nonsense with a discussion of logical fallacies - some familiar and well-worn, and some that I dare to invent and name like I'm a real bigshot scholar. We'll also talk about my expectations for good writing - which makes sense in a class about writing ...

Trumpism is Fracturing (with Sam Harris)

Neuroscientist, philosopher, and Making Sense podcast host Sam Harris joins Preet Bharara to examine why good-faith debate has become so difficult—and what that breakdown has done to American politics. They discuss social media’s fragmentation of the information landscape and declining trust in ...

How We Lie to Ourselves (And Why It Works)

In this episode of Thinking Well & Why podcast, Mario, Lee and Creek examine motivated reasoning — the tendency to argue toward what we already believe rather than toward truth – by examining Robert Trivers' evolutionary biology of self-deception, Harry Frankfurt's “On Bullshit,” and why tribal ...

#85 Punk, Tech & Care: B. Scot Rousse on Being Human in the AI Age

B. Scot Rousse (“B”)'s substack, "Without Why," focuses on what it means to be alive in an age of intelligent machines. He is philosopher in residence at Topos Institute and visiting scholar in Philosophy at Berkeley. He also drums in 3 punk bands. Andrea Hiott has a conversation with philosophe ...

Why MAGA Stupidity is Dangerous

In April of 1945, a German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp. He was 39 years old. The camp was liberated days later. Bonhoeffer had been arrested in 1943 for his involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While he waited in his cell for ...

E23 How LLMs Tick

Ryan and Luca pull back the curtain on large language models, explaining what's really happening when you chat with an AI. They break down tokenization, context windows, and the stateless nature of LLMs—revealing why these tools aren't actually thinking or remembering, just generating the most l ...

MAGA Thinks The Performance of Being Smart Is Actually Being Smart

You’ve seen it happen in real time. A Trump supporter walks into a debate, a comment section, a family conversation, or a live stream with total confidence. They say something that sounds like a position. It has the shape of an argument. It has the rhythm of someone who knows what they’re talkin ...