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Concepts and topics from the lectures, with links to the moment each is discussed.

lacunic number
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 39:45 transcript ↗︎
Ladner's theorem
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 4:51 transcript ↗︎
lambda calculus (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 54:14 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 27:19 transcript ↗︎
large cardinals
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 28:58 transcript ↗︎
large language models (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 11:56 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 36:18 transcript ↗︎
largest tweetable number
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Law Number One (von Neumann) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 11:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 5:57 transcript ↗︎
Law Number Two (von Neumann)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 12:01 transcript ↗︎
law of identity
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 34:39 transcript ↗︎
law of non-contradiction
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 34:39 transcript ↗︎
laws of logic (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 6:05 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 24:32 transcript ↗︎
laws of nature (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 0:31 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 16:45 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 23:12 transcript ↗︎
least number principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 35:05 transcript ↗︎
Lebesgue measure
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 29:59 transcript ↗︎
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
▶︎ 3:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 18:08 transcript ↗︎
levels of infinity
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 36:50 transcript ↗︎
Levin, Leonid (complexity theorist) (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 18:44 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 14:21 transcript ↗︎
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 55:31 transcript ↗︎
Lévy-Collot theorem
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 37:32 transcript ↗︎
LIGO Nobel Prize
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 57:50 transcript ↗︎
Lilliputians
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎
limit model
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 53:38 transcript ↗︎
limitations
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 11:18 transcript ↗︎
limitations of computation (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 4:19 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
linear programming
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 50:13 transcript ↗︎
linear programming duality
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 55:02 transcript ↗︎
linear time algorithm (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 20:29 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 1:05 transcript ↗︎
linearly finite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 10:05 transcript ↗︎
linearly ordered (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 32:48 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 36:14 transcript ↗︎
Liouville constant
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 39:14 transcript ↗︎
Liouville, Joseph
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 38:54 transcript ↗︎
listing the elements (Theaetetus)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 15:41 transcript ↗︎
LLMs
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 6:06 transcript ↗︎
local
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 44:43 transcript ↗︎
locality
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 11:14 transcript ↗︎
localize
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 17:07 transcript ↗︎
Locke, John
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 17:59 transcript ↗︎
logarithmic spiral
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 38:42 transcript ↗︎
logical empiricists
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 21:16 transcript ↗︎
logical fallacy (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 21:07 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:27:40 transcript ↗︎
logical independence
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 45:55 transcript ↗︎
logically coherent (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 3:06 transcript ↗︎
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 20:54 transcript ↗︎
logicism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:24:39 transcript ↗︎
logicist program
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 18:02 transcript ↗︎
logos (4)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 25:33 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 26:47 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 44:02 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 10:41 transcript ↗︎
love thy neighbor as thyself
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 37:26 transcript ↗︎
Löwenheim-Skolem theorem
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 52:56 transcript ↗︎
lower bounds
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 7:44 transcript ↗︎
lowest terms
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 31:33 transcript ↗︎
Lucas-Penrose interpretation
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 9:26 transcript ↗︎