265 episodes
The Bayesian Conspiracy The Bayesian Conspiracy
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4.7 • 43 Ratings
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A conversational podcast for the less hardcore rationalist, who wants to level-up their rational skills while having fun.
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217 – Consensual Violence with Rikard
Rikard joins us to speak about the benefits of consensual violence
LINKS
Rikard’s Substack – Drunken Masterpieces
Rikard is @rikardhjort Twitter
Defense Against the Dark Arts is just the Dark Arts
The Ultimate Self-Defense Championship
Armchair Violence
The poem Rikard recited
0:00:17 – Consensual Violence
1:24:05 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:25:37 – Less Wrong Posts
1:49:15 – Thank the Patron
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
Heat vs. Motion
Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons!
Next Sequence Posts:
Reductive Reference
Zombies! Zombies? -
216 – On Dying (And Cryonics)
Rachel Zuber joins us to talk about hospice work, dying in America, and why she’s less optimistic about cryonics now.
LINKS
All the Living and the Dead
Caitlin Doughty on YouTube
CI cryonics case reports
Places of Death in the US
Prev Episodes – Cryonics pt 1 and pt 2 w Robert McIntyre, and Cryo with Rudi Hoffman
Bentham’s Bulldog on the Best Argument and also Miracles??
Skeptoid #247 on The “Miracle” of Calanda
0:00:17 – Dying and Cryonics
1:40:33 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:44:19 – Bentham’s Bulldog’s Terrible Best Argument For God
2:03:45 – Listener Feedback
2:08:25 – Less Wrong Posts
2:26:43 – Thank the Patron
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
Hand vs. Fingers
Angry Atoms
Next Sequence Posts:
Heat vs. Motion
Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons! -
Bayes Blast 31 – Blowing Hot Air (Free Version)
Brandon comes back to explain how wind works. Steven and Brandon are not the two you want if you want to quickly get to the point so this went on for a good while. It’s an awesome conversation and Patrons and Substack supporters will have access to the whole thing.
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215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson
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 Modalism, Patrick!
Bentham’s Bulldog substack
The Peace of Westphalia and the War on Christmas
SA – A Theory of Religion
Brandon’s googledoc with the outline of how to follow-up Christianity
Bart Campolo’s website/podcast
The Rise of Christianity (Amazon)
The Rise of Mormonism (Amazon)
Building the Benedict Option (Amazon)
SA – The Lottery of Fascinations
AskWho Casts AI
Prev Episodes with Brandon, on his ACX-Winning Book Review of The Educated Mind – 200 & 201
0:04:05 – Can Rationlists Be Theists?
0:16:13 – Eneasz’s Mysterious Jehovah’s Witness Past
0:49:48 – Why Does Eneasz Want A Rationalist Religion?
1:12:02 – The Rise of Christianity
1:36:21 – VibeCamp Debrief
1:41:57 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:43:41 – Listener Feedback
1:50:52 – Less Wrong Posts
2:17:13 – Thank the Patron
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
To Spread Science, Keep It Secret
Initiation Ceremony
Next Sequence Posts:
Hand vs. Fingers
Angry Atoms -
214 – Is Death Good? Simone and Malcolm Collins return!
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 AI audio of the reddit post re an accidental student protest
Luck Is Other People’s Work by Eneasz
0:00:17 – Malcolm & Simone on Death + More
1:01:03 – Feedback
1:06:20 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:07:44 – Less Wrong Posts
1:42:12 – Thank the Patron
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute?
Scarcity
Next Sequence Posts:
To Spread Science, Keep It Secret
Initiation Ceremony -
213 – Are Transformer Models Aligned By Default?
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 Paper
1:26:47 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:29:40 – Going to VibeCamp
1:37:05 – Feedback
1:43:58 – Less Wrong Posts
1:57:30 – Thank the Patron
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help
The Beauty of Settled Science
Next Sequence Posts:
Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute?
Scarcity
Customer Reviews
Good podcast
I greatly enjoy this podcast. I liken it to being invited to listen in on a conversation between friends concerning the application of rational thinking to a variety of interesting topics. It can meander at times, but so do conversations. BTW, welcome to the podcast Jess. I appreciate your contributions.
Unadulterated ingroup fun
If, like jagskajouska and myself, you live in the middle of nowhere but need rationalist discourse in your life, this podcast will create utility for you. Eneasz and Steven and their guests are also upbeat and interesting and generally fun to listen to as they ease you into topics you’d heard about but were too afraid to go digging around in. Also may introduce you to slatestarcodex and giving what we can and make you a generally better person. (these are all things that happened to me, at least)
Interesting and fun to listen to!
Just found this podcast a few weeks ago and I really like the various topics they touch on. I would like to consider myself a rationalist, but far from expert, and enjoy listening to their ideas and opinions! Their conversations are funny and approachable and I appreciate the links and info they provide on their website and subreddit.
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