{"id":11135,"date":"2013-04-28T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11135"},"modified":"2013-04-28T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T18:28:29","slug":"closer-to-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/closer-to-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Closer to Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/time-is-out-of-joint\/\">Setting Time Aright<\/a> conference, I sat down for an interview with Robert Kuhn, who has a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertotruth.com\/\">Closer to Truth<\/a>. Time passed, as it will, and I never knew what happened to the interview. But apparently it&#8217;s up on the web now, freely available to anyone wishing to click (although apparently not embeddable).<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertotruth.com\/participant\/Sean-Carroll\/133\">go here<\/a> if you want to see some short clips of me sitting in a dark, atmospheric setting, declaiming earnestly about various profound topics, from atheism to infinity.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I suppose it&#8217;s possible you might want to hear other people as well. They&#8217;re all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertotruth.com\/participants\">here<\/a> &#8212; there are some great people, from Nima Arkani-Hamed to Marvin Minsky. (More than a few clunkers, as well, but you get what you pay for.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago at the Setting Time Aright conference, I sat down for an interview with Robert Kuhn, who has a program called Closer to Truth. Time passed, as it will, and I never knew what happened to the interview. But apparently it&#8217;s up on the web now, freely available to anyone wishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-philosophy","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11139,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions\/11139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}