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215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson
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Brandon Hendrickson takes over the podcast! He interrogates Eneasz about his past, and this crazy rationalist religion idea, and introduces a vast knowledge base of secular religion development. LINKS Brandon’s substack, The Lost Tools of Learning Simple square visualization to understand Bayes Theorem SA – Yes We Have Noticed The Skulls That’s Mod…
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The Collinses are back to address follow-up questions, like why is death good? Does population density reduce fertility? Is demographic collapse still a problem? Are child support laws bad? A great discussion is had by all. LINKS Based Camp Three World’s Collide, novella by Eliezer Yudkowsky YIMBYism in California is doing very well! AskWho Casts A…
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Our species has begun to scrute the inscrutable shoggoth! With Matt Freeman LINKS Anthropic’s latest AI Safety research paper, on interpretability Anthropic is hiring Episode 93 of The Mind Killer Talkin’ Fallout VibeCamp 0:00:17 – A Layman’s AI Refresher 0:21:06 – Aligned By Default 0:50:56 – Highlights from Anthropic’s Latest Interpretability Pap…
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212 – Feedback Extravaganza
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A bit of a change of pace this episode. Eneasz and Steven catch up on some feedback we’ve had piling up for the last several weeks. Always feel free to call us out on any bullshit we say or if you have anything you want to add to our discussions. Chat with us and a ton of awesome people on our Discord server, comment on the episode here, email us a…
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Bayes Blast 30 – Less.Online
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Less.Online gathers rationalist writers (and readers) for a major event in Berkeley May 31 – June 2nd. Eneasz will be there! Ben Pace and Raymond Arnold tell us all about it. Get all the details you could want plus tickets at Less.Online!Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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211 – The Social Justice Religion with Tracing Woodgrains
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“Social justice progressivism (SJP) is the first time most people—including most Christians—have encountered a truly vital religion,” argues Tracing Woodgrains. We dive into this. LINKS The Twitter Essay we’re discussing Tracing Woodgrains on Twitter Tracing Woodgrains’s SubStack Trace’s piece on the FAA scandal/conspiracy Eneasz’s post on repentin…
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210 – Demographic Collapse & Religion with Simone & Malcolm Collins
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We speak with Simone and Malcolm from Based Camp and Pronatalist.org. World population is a few decades from collapse if trends continue. Is this bad, and what can be done? LINKS Based Camp YouTube and Podcast Pronatalist.org The mentioned where to live document Project Eureka (the Collins’s town to move to project) The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafti…
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Bayes Blast 29 – VibeClipse
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Steven and Eneasz regale each other and you with our stories, experiences, and takeaways from VibeClipse. The video Eneasz mentioned with him and especially Jen reacting to totality. Also, as hinted in this blast and discussed in the last blast, Yassine is a baller DJ. Steven’s wife enjoyed one of his songs enough to ask him about so he could send …
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Bayes Blast 28 – Bass Blast
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Yassine tells us what’s wrong with DJs and reveals their ancient mystical secrets. His post, DJ At Law Watch DJ-crush Tinzo spinning her craftVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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209 – The World’s Most Wholesome Gangbang, with Lucy Belmont (Fluffer B)
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We speak to Lucy Belmont, Fluffer B from Aella’s Birthday Gangbang. Guys, this is the most wholesome and fantastic thing we’ve ever heard, for real. LINKS Aella’s post on her birthday gangbang, with many charts and graphs LucyBelmont.com Also Lucy on TwitterX, or contact directly via meetlucybelmont@proton.me An attendee’s recollections The Virgin’…
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You can now subscribe to us on SubStack. You can hear the Rational!Animorphs fanfic (and Luminosity) at AskWho’s channelVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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208.ai – Eve Theory of Consciousness v3.0 – By Andrew Cutler
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The full audio of the article we discuss. Many thanks to AskWho for creating it! It can also be found at https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/eve-theory-of-consciousness-v30-by AskWho can be supported at https://www.patreon.com/AskwhoCastsAI and many many more essays and stories are available there.Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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208 – Snakes On A Brain: Eve Theory of Consciousness v3 with Andrew Cutler
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We talk with Andrew Cutler about how pre-modern women spread consciousness through our species via a snake cult. This is a follow up to episode 205, which you should listen to first if you haven’t yet. LINKS Eve Theory of … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 26 – AskWho On The Future of Narration
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The future is now and it’s getting closer by the minute. Everyone check out AskWho’s Patreon and donate if you’re able to. 11Labs is the main tool AskWho uses. We mentioned OpenAI’s Sora. Check out this video.Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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To raise successful adults, children must experience the ability to act in the real world. Jennifer gives practical advice on how to do exactly that in an entirely sane way. LINKS Lenore Skenazy’s original post “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common
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Steven explains the Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of chronic pain to Eneasz, and Eneasz opines on feedback cycles in psychological trauma. Main: The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain OTHER LINKS Play Tetris after traumatic events to prevent … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 25 – Betting On Love
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Where we marvel at the unparalleled game of our man Phil. Watch Bet On Love, starts at 17 minutes. Dating show portion starts at 24 minutes. The Death Bed Song Wes’s twitter replyVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 24 – The Answerers
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Lets teach our gods ancient Sumerian only The case for training frontier AIs on Sumerian-only corpus Our previous Snake Cult of Consciousness episode LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block ExpansionVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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205.ai – The Snake Cult of Consciousness narration
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AskWho from the TBC Discord kindly provided full audio narration of Andrew Cutler’s original post! This is taken directly from AskWho’s substack. You can help him out at his Patreon. Many thanks to AskWho for creating this and giving permission … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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205 – The Snake Cult of Consciousness
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We discuss the idea that human consciousness may have literally been kick-started by a ritual developed by a snake cult, which is surprisingly plausible. The Snake Cult of Consciousness by Andrew Cutler or listen to the original post in audio, … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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204 – Simulacra Levels with Zvi (and more)
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We speak with Zvi Mowshowitz about his work and recent history, what happened at OpenAI, and then really dig into Simulacra Levels – a way to categorize the different types of things people are attempting to do when they say … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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203 – The Self-Indulgent Episode
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Steven and Eneasz just chat a whole lot about random things, and take some listener mail. Topics include: Rationality Quotes, Polyamory, Bostrom, Justice, and Vengeance OTHER LINKS Yassine’s post MonoPoly Restricted Trust TBC 14 – Street Epistemology There Are 4 … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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202 – The Center for AI Policy talks government regulation
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Can we do anything to approach the creation of an artificial super intelligence more cautiously and methodically? Jason Green-Lowe and Jakub Kraus of CAIP think so, and they’re working the government side of the problem. The Center for AI Policy … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 23 – Less Fingers = Less Blasting?
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Are there other ways to disincentivize attempted murder? Related Episodes: 196 and 198 and BB22Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 22 – The Penal System
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You thought the title was a penis joke? For shame. Steven updates Eneasz on the outcome of the trial he served jury duty on in August. Related Episodes: 196 and 198Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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201 – The Educated Mind + More with Brandon Hendrickson (part 2)
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We talk more with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. Also discussions of rationality, post-rationalism, and more. The winning book review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify)) Brandon’s substack – The Lost Tools … Continue reading →…
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200 – The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson
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We talk with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. “A novel theory about why schools, as they are now, don’t work.” The winning book review in its original text (also in audio … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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199 – Polyamory with Aella and Yassine
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We are talking poly again, with Aella and Yassine. NOTE – LINKS Why Your Polyamorous Friend’s Relationship Sucks by Aella The Amory Spectrum by Aella Yassine’s The Bailey podcast episode on polyamory with Aella Contra Aella on Polyamoric Lexicality by … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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198 – Tuskegee & Age/Race Bias?
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Two smaller episodes dropped as one – The History of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Reflections on Steven’s Jury Experience LINKS We Tuskegeed My Dad Unraveling the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis SNL skit Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Enhancement Drug … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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197 – What To Expect When You’re Expecting To Go To Burning Man
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We talk with Charlie and Alex about going to Burning Man to help prep Steven to maybe go next year LINKS You Will Be Miserable, And It Will Set You Free – Eneasz’s post on Burning Man Burning Man Survival … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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How non-expert dudes caught bad dudes.Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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196 – Steven Goes To Court
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Steven achieved his dream of serving on a jury. Our local lawyer Justin returns to score him on rational jurying. 0:00:23 – All Rise 1:51:30 – Less Wrong Posts 2:06:55 – Guild of the Rose Update 2:09:28 – Thank the Patron … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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195 – KataGo vs AlphaGo: Fight!
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Matt’s back which means we have some more AI stuff to talk about! KataGo was built as an adversary to AlphaGo and can beat it 94% of the time using a mere 8% of the computational power! The trick to … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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194 – Kinky Data Science with Aella
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We talk with Aella about some of the results of her absolutely massive sex & kink survey LINKS Aella’s Substack Aella’s Twitter You don’t need a perfectly random sample for useful data, jfc Women Prefer More Violent Porn Monogamous men … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 20 – Blue Pill/Red Pill in Roko’s Blender
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Kill yourself for no reason, or save others? Lisatomic’s Poll Roko’s Poll Eneasz’s annoyance Scissor’s Statements originVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Musicgen lets anyone make a quick music snippet and Audiogen is surprisingly good at generating non-confusing sounds! These tools are currently free and will no doubt be mind blowing in just a few months when better, paid versions come out. … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout
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We speak with Yassine Meskhout of The Bailey about… a whole bunch of things actually. LINKS Yassine’s Substack The Motte The Bailey podcast Yassine’s I Am Here Because Of Blind Dumb Luck Check Here For Racial Oppression – history of … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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192 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life, with Alex
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Alex joins us to smile as we push some boulders up some hills. LINKS Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus The Guild of the Rose 0:01:31 – Post-Rat Feedback 0:21:16 – Absurdism … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 17 – Gay Pride is White Liberal Pride
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Me and Wes exchange hot takes. Mine is stolen shamelessly from Based Camp, go listen to the original source material there, it’s good!Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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191 – What is Post-Rationalism, with Arielle
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Seriously though, what’s going on here? Arielle dives in with us. LINKS Arielle’s substack – Analog Futures Bayesian Conspiracy episode #5(!) on What is Rationalism? The Mind Killer live episode recorded at VibeCamp Eneasz’s novel – What Lies Dreaming 0:00:27 … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Mo’ productivity, mo’ money, at last Zvi’s The Overemployed Via ChatGPTVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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190 – How to be Human Together, at VibeCamp, with GPTBrooke
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We talk with Brooke, creator and driving force behind VibeCamp. We talk about VibeCamp 2, being human, and the post/rats corner of twitter. LINKS Brooke on Twitter Brooke’s most-moved-by-this Tweet, the Lemur Who Vibed Eneasz’s retrospective post on VibeCamp What … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 14 – Reddit Sucks
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Steven blasts Eneasz with the latest news about how Reddit is doing it’s best to ruin everyone’s good time. Reddit post from Apollo’s developer on the subject Followup post for some debunking and elaboration Links to everything Steven mentioned in … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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189 – AI Bloomer David Youssef
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David Youssef from The Guild of the Rose has great ways to integrate ChatGPT into your work, and also thinks AIs will keep humans around. Links: ChatGPT leaking Samsung chip secrets is iceberg’s tip Training an LLMs model Achieving 99.3% … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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188 – Living in the Early Singularity, with Matt Freeman
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Matt Freeman joins us to discuss life in changing times. Major take away for Eneasz: Be the kind of person your post-singularity descendants will be proud to say “I descended from that man/woman” Links: Put stuff in orbit on a … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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187 – GitLab & Review Bounties to Save Science, with Richard Acton
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Richard Acton returns to denounce pre-publication peer review, and propose a replacement building off the open source software ethos, and review bounties Richard’s extensive notes for this episode, which include a ton of great links at the bottom Contact him … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Bayes Blast 13 – GPT-4 maps every neuron in GPT-2
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Blast with Matt re OpenAI using GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in GPT-2, and what this means for Doom (spoiler: it’s good!) OpenAI’s explanation Thread – less than 1% of neuron’s explained with good confidenceVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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186 – Why We Aren’t Technically EAs But Totally Would Be, Unlike This Guy
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We discuss Eric Hoel’s Why I Am Not An Effective Altruist Other Links: EA Forum – Comments on Hoel’s Essay EA Forum – What actually is the argument for effective altruism? SSC – Arguments From My Opponent Believes Something Ken … Continue reading →Von The Bayesian Conspiracy
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One of these white pills is more realistic than the other. Which one is which is left as an exercise to the listener. 😉 Roko’s White Pill AXRP reform AI Alignment with Scott AaronsonVon The Bayesian Conspiracy
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