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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!

“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 repenting for new atheism

Eliezer on Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

TBC episode 7(!) with a negative utilitarian (Kill All Humans)

Yassine’s thread on religious tolerance of wokism

Robin Williams escaped Lewy Body Dementia

Richard Dawkins’s The Greatest Show On Earth

Scott Alexander’s Fascination Lottery

Worth The Candle by Alexander Wales

Eneasz on The Peace of Westphalia and the War on Christmas

0:00:17 – The New Vital Religion

1:22:31 – Guild of the Rose Update

1:23:42 – Less Wrong Posts

1:43:36 – Thank the Patron



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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast



LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Savanna Poets

Joy in the Merely Real

Next Sequence Posts:

Joy in Discovery

Bind Yourself to Reality

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 Crafting Religion

TBC – You Are In Newcomb’s IQ Shredder

TBC – CyberChristianity

Scott Alexander – The Toxoplasma Of Rage

Unweaving The Rainbow

Bonus Chat with Aella at Patreon, and at SubStack

0:00:17 – Simone & Malcolm

1:18:54 – Guild of the Rose Update

1:20:17 – Less Wrong Posts

1:40:10 – Thank the Patron



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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast



LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Fake Reductionism

Next Sequence Posts:

Savanna Poets

Joy in the Merely Real

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 it over. Check out a sample of his skills here. This is the opposite of dance hell. 😉

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 craft

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’s Twitter thread

Julia Galef’s video that summarizes what it was like going form T/F beliefs to %probability beliefs

HPMOR

0:00:17 – The G******g

1:12:24 – Guild of the Rose Update

1:14:47 – Less Wrong Posts

1:30:25 – Thank the Patron



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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast



LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Qualitatively Confused

Reductionism

Next Sequence Posts:

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Fake Reductionism