# Dan Robinson

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3 David Hume on Causation - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the third in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. Causality arises from a habit of the mind formed by repeated experiences. “There is nothing in any objects to persuade us, that they are either always remote or always contigu…

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

AI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone's promising things will remain the same we at The Register's Kettle desk aren't so sure the status quo is going to stay the status quo at the AI industry's leading open model host.  Joining host Brandon Vigliarolo this …

SS12 // RALLY CLUB

SS12 of Rally Club is packed full of stories, from rising star Luke Constantine to three-time BTRDA Gold Star Champion Elliott Payne. Group A guru Carl Tuer joins us to talk about Formula 2 Astras, Dave Mathewson and Malton Motor Club Chairman Dan Robinson celebrate a successful launch for Mathews…

4 Reid on Causation and Active Powers - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the fourth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “It is evident that a power is a quality, and therefore can’t exist without a subject to which it belongs…This (Humean) suggestion— There exists some power that cannot be att…

American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient

Just when you thought concerns over datacenter power generation in the US couldn't get any worse, the Trump administration goes ahead and gets rid of emissions restrictions on power plants.  If that wasn't bad enough, the EPA is also considering getting rid of reporting requirements on small-scale…

6 Reid on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the sixth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. In the third of his Essays on The Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of 'identity', and the sixth chapter to Locke's theory of 'persona…

1 The "Representational" Theory of Knowledge - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the first in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. Hume defends the thesis according to which “ALL THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE HUMAN MIND RESOLVE THEMSELVES INTO…IMPRESSIONS AND IDEAS”. Accordingly, “We may prosecute this enquiry t…

8 Reid on the Principle of Morals - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the final lecture in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “Like all other sciences, morals must have first principles, and all moral reasoning is based on them... In all rational belief, the thing believed is either a first p…

Why AI Competition Forces Labs to Race | Dan Robinson

Paradigm Head of Research Dan Robinson joins to demo Pace, a game modeling the game theory, prisoner's dilemmas, and equilibrium dynamics between competing AI labs pacing the frontier. He breaks down why fog of war drives acceleration, how recursive self-improvement hits real-world bottlenecks, and…

So You Think That There is a Mind-Independent Physical Reality...

A short but rather amusing clip of Dan Robinson discussing Berkeley's subjective idealism in a lecture on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Refutation of Idealism. This is a re-upload from the former channel. Full Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2_1zXTR-gUploaded 13-07-21#Philosophy…