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| 223 – Going Back to the Classics | 14 Oct 2024 | 02:06:50 | |
Classic, season one adventure this week! Eneasz and Steven have a loosely structured conversation about the sequences’ value, the virtue of silence, scissor statements, and the value of philosophy. LINKS 00:00:05 – Pre-pre show Discussion Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Sequence Posts: | |||
| Bonus – Discord Culture (preview) | 14 Oct 2024 | 00:16:43 | |
Eneasz chats with TBC Discord member Delta about the cultivation of small online cultures. Get the full episode via our Patreon or our SubStack!
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| 218 – Bentham’s Bulldog and the Best Argument for God | 07 Aug 2024 | 02:14:29 | |
Spurred by comments from a couple of episodes ago, we wanted to make sure we didn’t misrepresent Matthew’s position and he agreed to come lay it out for us on the show. Check out the links below to dive in deeper. LINKS Eneasz’s longer post following up on this conversation 0:00:04 – Intro and The Best Argument For God Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Zombies! Zombies? (sort of) Next Sequence Posts: (TBD while we decide when we’re doing the Zombies episode) | |||
| 162 – Roe No Mo’ | 18 May 2022 | 01:16:58 | |
Roe v Wade is going away. This sucks, but it’s not the end of the world. Polls show most Americans support allowing abortion in the first weeks, banning it in the last trimester. In state’s where it’s legal, one can have a self-managed abortion. Eneasz is unhappy with Kamala Harris 1:08:13 LW posts Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 161 – Restoring the Kingdom of Hawai’i | 04 May 2022 | 01:27:01 | |
Not long ago, Hawai’i was a constitutional monarchy. A lot of Hawaiian residents want that restored. Travis Don Kailikea Paradea takes us through what happened, and what’s going down now. Recommended by Travis: The Legends and Myths of Hawaii The Rise and Fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom: A Pictorial History Weblog of the acting government of the Hawaiian Kingdom 1:17:57 LW posts Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Argument Screens Off Authority Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 160 – GAI is Imminent | 20 Apr 2022 | 02:07:04 | |
Four Major AI Advancements In One Week! New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand 1:39:51 LW posts Also mentioned: Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Argument Screens Off Authority (edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P) | |||
| 159 – Cryonics Concerns, and Theses On Sleep | 06 Apr 2022 | 01:51:20 | |
We address theoretical cryonics concerns, and discuss Guzey’s Theses On Sleep 3:15 Cryonics Concerns Also mentioned: LW Cryonics Probability Estimates guide Our episode with Rudy Hoffman Scott Alexander’s Sleep Is The Mate Of Death Cryonics Insitute FAQ and info re transportation services Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| Monarchy Reactions – post Episode 158 discussion (Teaser) | 27 Mar 2022 | 00:15:42 | |
The Conspirators regroup to discuss if/how their views on monarchy have changed. The full episode is available for our Patrons Mentioned: List of Current States With Monarchs CGP Gray’s Rules for Rulers (Keys of Power) Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World (warning – crappy 80s song) | |||
| 158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fascism? | 23 Mar 2022 | 02:16:06 | |
We speak with Cornelius about this idea that Monachy is good because it can save us from populist fascism. 1:44:50 LW posts Cornelius blogs at EsotericMusings.substack.com Also mentioned: Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Jace’s counterargument is basically a link to Scott Alexander’s Anti-Reactionary FAQ We did a “Reactions to this episode” mini-episode the following week Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 157 – A Fistful of Topics | 09 Mar 2022 | 01:22:51 | |
We catch up on stuff and hit a few wandering targets. 0:01 Jace on Lithium Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates The Mind Killer – Vladimir Putin’s Small Dick Energy Razom Ukraine delivers medical supplies Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 156 – A Chemical Hunger | 23 Feb 2022 | 01:51:21 | |
We discuss A Chemical Hunger – the paper presenting the hypothesis that the modern obesity epidemic is due to enviromental contamination causing widespread lithium poisoning. EDIT – MAJOR UPDATE – It’s probably not lithium! Links to become a patron of this group, or contact them Less Wrong Posts – 5:53 [PART I – MYSTERIES] Eneasz’s tldr notes Extracting lithium from seawater Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| Trailer For Bonus Aella | 14 Feb 2022 | 00:03:21 | |
This is a trailer for a bonus Patrons-only episode. It’s 45 minutes chatting with Aella about various things that struck Eneasz’s interest. Aella’s twitter is Aella_Girl. Homepage at Knowingless, also has a substack. | |||
| 155 – Normal Predictions, and Change is Bad | 09 Feb 2022 | 01:40:12 | |
The Conspiracy comes out strongly in favor of switching to Normal Predictions, which is safe and easy when you use the Jan Christian Refsgaard method! Also, we agree with Zvi that Change is Bad. (Though note that changing to Normal Predictions has so many positives that it outweighs the Bad of Change, so don’t let that dissuade you in this instance.) Things of interest: Scott Alexander’s predictions 2022 Timing: Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping) Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 217 – Consensual Violence with Rikard | 24 Jul 2024 | 01:50:09 | |
Rikard joins us to speak about the benefits of consensual violence LINKS 0:00:17 – Consensual Violence Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons! Next Sequence Posts: | |||
| Trailer For Wirehead Extras | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:06:08 | |
A few days ago I asked Wes a couple follow-up questions on wireheading, and later chatted with Emilio from the Discord on-record. I thought it wouldn’t be too long, but it turned out to go about as long as a full episode. So now there’s a bonus episode available for Patrons (and Discord members) on Wireheading. Here’s a trailer, to entice you into getting the full thing. To subscribe to us on Patreon — our Patreon page To join the Discord — our discord | |||
| 154 – Two General Thinkers Discuss General Thinking | 26 Jan 2022 | 02:10:28 | |
Jace and Steven cover this one since Eneasz is busy drinking cocktails out of a coconut in a beach in Hawaii. Robin Hanson (probably correctly) thinks the world is going to shit (paraphrasing). He thinks that a robust check on the escalating madness out there could be a community of intellectual generalists. Is he right? Are his categories sensible? Find out as we meander through this post! 4:24 – LW Posts Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 153 – Values and Wireheading with Wes Fenza | 12 Jan 2022 | 02:06:08 | |
We beef with Wes over how important values may or may not be, and why Wireheading is awesome and/or evil. Wes is the head of The Mind Killer podcast! 7:23 – LW Posts discussion begins We also discuss Not Everthing Is a Clue and Aladdin Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: The Hidden Complexity of Wishes (audio version here, courtesy of ywecur!) Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 152 – Frame Control with Aella | 15 Dec 2021 | 02:05:26 | |
We speak to Aella about her post on Frame Control National Domestic Violence Hotline The Categories Were Made For Man not visa versa SSC post Shut Down The Narcissist video Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 151 – Don’t Make This Your Everything | 01 Dec 2021 | 02:16:10 | |
We discuss Sasha Chapin’s “Your Intelligent, Conscientious In-group Has Bad Social Norms Too” Main Topic begins at 45:46 Other items mentioned: The Simple Truth – Eliezer’s short story about The Sheep Counter Keep Your Identity Small – by Paul Graham, not Hanson! Otters vs Possums – by Aella Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 150 – The Procrastination Equation | 17 Nov 2021 | 02:05:17 | |
We discuss the book The Procrastination Equation as summarized by Luke in How to Beat Procrastination The audio is rough at first, we fixed it after 8 minutes. Other items discussed include: Whether the King’s English was good enough for Jesus? Hugh Jackman for Men vs Hugh Jackman for Women Eneasz’s next story is coming out in March Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 149 – The Roots of Progress, with Jason Crawford | 03 Nov 2021 | 01:56:57 | |
We speak with Jason Crawford (twitter), from The Roots of Progress. Interview begins at 44:25. Posts discussed include: Iron: From mythical to mundane The various Why Did It Take So Long For (X), and specifically Cotton Gin, Bicycle, and Threshing Machine Does invention come from deprivation or plenty? Progress studies as a moral imperative and a civic duty Support Roots of Progress here Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Terminal Values and Instrumental Values Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 148 – Decisions, Decisions | 20 Oct 2021 | 02:03:32 | |
Matt Freeman returns to talk about Decision Theory, and the discusion ranges far afield. Matt is from The Guild of the Rose, which we had a recent episode about. You can see his Decision Theory Course videos here. Scott Alexander on All Debates Are Bravery Debates Our previous Newcomb episode Our previous Torture vs Dust Specks episode The Kindness to Kin story
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism Thou Art Godshatter (in Audio as well) Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Terminal Values and Instrumental Values Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment | Ed | |||
| 147 – Newcomblike Problems Are The Norm | 06 Oct 2021 | 01:29:17 | |
How Newcomb’s problem applies to real-life. We discuss Newcomblike problems are the norm (LW crosspost). Also mentioned: Our episode on Replacing Guilt Our episode on Talking To Strangers part 1, and part 2 Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 146 – What Is A Rationalist? | 22 Sep 2021 | 02:19:56 | |
We settle the ultimate question once and for all. also discussed: Julia Galef’s quick video on Bayesian Thinking Bulletproofing deters warlords Steven’s friend’s GoFundMe Our first and second and third episodes on cryonics. The interview with Rudi Hoffman is the third one, and he can help get you signed up at rudihoffman.com. Also the Cryonics Institute FAQ Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 216 – On Dying (And Cryonics) | 10 Jul 2024 | 02:28:27 | |
Rachel Zuber joins us to talk about hospice work, dying in America, and why she’s less optimistic about cryonics now. LINKS 0:00:17 – Dying and Cryonics Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Sequence Posts: | |||
| 145 – You Are In Newcomb’s IQ Shredder | 08 Sep 2021 | 02:13:41 | |
We discuss You Are In Newcomb’s Box and The IQ Shredder also touched on – Why Does Singapore Have Such A Low Birthrate? Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: The Tragedy of Group Selectionism Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 144 – The Guild Of The Rose (beta) | 25 Aug 2021 | 01:51:03 | |
We discuss The Guild of the Rose with Matt Freeman. This is somewhat of a follow-up, we first did a show about them when they were called The Guild of Servants. Join their beta! Things we mention: Of course The Guild of the Rose, and their Patreon Matt’s 2018 appearance on our show – Freestyle Community Talk with Matt Freeman CFAR (Center For Applied Rationality) The Selfish Gene by Dawkins The Post-Mortem/Retrospective post of the Guild of Servants Alpha The Procrastination Equation review, and Book Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Natural Selection’s Speed Limit and Complexity Bound Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 143 – Crazy Like Us | 11 Aug 2021 | 02:36:05 | |
We discuss the review of the book Crazy Like Us Also the highlights from the comments of the review Quick single-line spoiler for ep 3 of Loki occurs at 41:52 and lasts for ~20 seconds. Discussed in the show: Old Suicide Squad Editting Fail Making Sense ep 180 – Sex and Power Very Bad Wizards ep 198 – Is Mental Illness a Myth? Wan Hu, 6th Century Rocket Chair legend Elizabeth Loftus – Lost in a Mall Experiment video & Wiki Our Cultural Evolution episode George Carlin on Euphamisms & PTSD Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 142 – Do This | 28 Jul 2021 | 02:32:30 | |
We discuss Dan Sivers Do This Directives Mentioned: The Scout Mindset book Jace’s Funny Dance video Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 141 – Raising Younglings | 14 Jul 2021 | 02:06:48 | |
Velcro from the subreddit and discord joins us to offer a much-valued parent’s perspective on child rearing from the perspective of someone who’s actually reared children. Jace was out looking at tiny houses (it’s a thing, they’re adorable/awesome and you should google it) and was unable to make it for this episode. We’ve talked about kid/young adult things for like 2 months now. We’ll find something very different for a change of pace next episode. The subreddit can be found here Velcro mentioned that cool talk. It was great and you can check it out here: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation A Case Study of Motivated Continuation Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 140 – Trigger Warning: Old Men Yelling at Clouds | 30 Jun 2021 | 02:07:44 | |
There’s too many clouds, and they’re ruining stuff that’s good! Mentioned in this episode: A very early episode of ours about Feelings Top ACLU lawyer comes out as pro-book-burning Discusses the overview of the Dean of Claremont McKenna Shares the exact wording of the email discussed above Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! Double Illusion of Transparency No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? | |||
| 139 – Kids These Days | 16 Jun 2021 | 02:57:39 | |
Running with the theme of childhood/adolescent responsibility, we start off with a brief live-feedback section from esteemed guest Charlie and then move on to discuss Johnathan Haidt and Greg Lukianov’s 2015 Atlantic essay (mostly informed by Haidt’s subsequent podcast appearances) The Coddling of the American Mind, which was turned into a book 3 years later. We didn’t quite hit all the beats we wanted to, but we still had fun and hope you do too. Mentioned in this episode: Jonathan Haidt discussing this on Sam Harris’s podcast Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! | |||
| 138 – Are Teens People? | 02 Jun 2021 | 03:09:02 | |
We discuss Robert Epstein’s “Teens 2.0” as he makes the Case Against Adolescence. Eneasz’s Highlights from Teens 2.o See also Youthfacts.org National Youth Rights Association Nurses on Young People, as seen on Facebook Paid Bonus content – preshow chat on Tesla buttons, Denver Comedy Venues, and Attempted Segues Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here | |||
| 137 – Can You Consent to Listening to this Episode? | 19 May 2021 | 02:24:31 | |
Who can be allowed to choose their sex partners? 0:00 – 37:00 — Less Wrong Posts Discussion Mentioned in this show: Worth The Candle & Not Everything Is A Clue Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here | |||
| 136 – Obviously (and Legally) Murder | 05 May 2021 | 02:44:24 | |
The Conspiracy is minus one Jace but plus one Justin (a defense lawyer) this episode! We discuss the legalities surrounding the convictions of Derek Chauvin – the cop who (literally and legally) murdered George Floyd. If you’re interested in a historical play by play of Justin’s write ups throughout the court precedings, check out his posts on r/TheMotte:
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence Hold Off On Proposing Solutions Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| Bayes Blast 31 – Blowing Hot Air (Free Version) | 08 Jul 2024 | 00:18:33 | |
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.
https://earth.nullschool.net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss | |||
| 135 – Live Episode #2 | 21 Apr 2021 | 02:36:45 | |
This is the recording of the live episode we held on 4/18/2021. Things mentioned: Amazing Man 2: Love Conquers All BBC receives 109,741 complaints over Prince Philip coverage “My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory Uncultured Swine’s episode on The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: none, preempted by live chatting Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence | |||
| Live Episode Announcement | 15 Apr 2021 | 00:00:36 | |
The Live Episode will be in our Discord this Sunday (April 18th) at 12:00 Noon Mountain Time (which is UTC -6). Anyone can join the audio channel and listen along. Anyone who wants to chat with us or ask questions (which is the primary purpose of this episode) can be given Live Guest role to speak by pinging @Conspirator in this channel and asking for a voice. Join the discord! | |||
| 134 – We’ve Got Class | 07 Apr 2021 | 02:10:04 | |
The gang discusses class in America, and Scott Alexander’s Modest Proposal to destroy American politics. Source posts: Fussell On Class, and A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word “Class” Also mentioned: Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence | |||
| 133 – Is Libertarianism a Gateway Drug to Anarcho-Capitalism? | 24 Mar 2021 | 02:20:23 | |
David is back for us to pester him with questions about Libertarianism, and he tries to turn us all into Anarchists!! (not really (but he wouldn’t mind)) SPOILER WARNING! This episode contains spoilers for Worm, and for Pulp Fiction. “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang is available as part of the “Exhalation” anthology. The Scout Mindset, by Julia Galef SSC — Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories and Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism The reddit thread mentioned in episode Not Everything is a Clue podcast What Lies Dreaming is available as an audio book! Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 132 – Mind Killed by Libertarianism | 10 Mar 2021 | 02:38:25 | |
The trio unites with the Mind Killers to get mind killed on Libertarianism! Not mentioned in the episode, but worth putting here – SSC’s Anti-Libertarian FAQ Elinor Ostrom’s book – Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Do We Believe Everything We’re Told? Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 131 – Feedback Grab Bag | 24 Feb 2021 | 02:09:18 | |
We catch up on some feedback and address a handful of items that have been banging around. “We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think” How to eat nature balls (The Universal Edibility Test) Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: No One Can Exempt You From Rationality’s Laws Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 130 – The Cause of the Hate Revolution (or: Hate is the New Sex) | 10 Feb 2021 | 02:15:14 | |
2/3rds of the Conspiracy discusses “Hate is the New Sex” What You Can’t Say, by Paul Graham – audio at Second Ennumerations Scissor’s Statements coined at SSC post “Sort By Controvertial” The Metropolitan Man (and We Want MoR Superman analysis podcast) Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 129 – Sympathy For The Devil | 27 Jan 2021 | 02:21:45 | |
We talk with Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple. We discuss seperation of church & state, abortion rights, and the value of federal religious recognition. That old article about how chickens are mostly walking meat-factories has been found! Take it with the understanding that this is probably highly motivated thinking. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: | |||
| 128 – The Q-Coup | 12 Jan 2021 | 01:59:40 | |
We had a topic for this week, but it was prempted by the spectacle of a headlong collision between a delusional mob and harsh reality. Footage from inside the mob as it storms the capital building The Hodge Twin’s video expressing disbelief that anyone could believe the election was fair 538 on police favoring right-wing protests Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: What Evidence Filtered Evidence? Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points Details page on Eneasz’s offer to read Less Wrong posts Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here! | |||
| 127 – All About Aging with Richard Acton | 30 Dec 2020 | 01:55:22 | |
Richard Acton answered our plea for an expert in the field of aging science! He’s Post-doctoral researcher and bioinformatician at CECAD, A Cluster of Excellence Aging research institute at the University of Cologne. His PhD work focused on the Epigenetics of aging Including ‘aging clocks’ which permit you to estimate the ‘biological age’ or time to death of an organism. Some links from Richard: In the spirit of We’ve Got Worm/We Want MoR, he started his own podcast with his friend Micheal in the role of Scott/Brian as he reads a sci-fi book “Dawn” by Octavia Butler which deals with biology in a more interesting way than many other books in the genre He read Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence whilst at the Effective Altruism global summit Oxford which featured a CFAR workshop, which he ripped off/remixed and taught at a couple of Humanist Groups He has one blog post on LessWrong about inferential distances He made a deck of cards for all the cognitive biases that people can buy! Other links: Here’s the link to the cheaper version of the “how old are your cells” thing Every Life Is On Fire by Jeremy England And a link to the short story Eneasz mentioned, The Secret Number Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: What Evidence Filtered Evidence? Details page on Eneasz’s offer to read Less Wrong posts Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here! Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment | Edit | |||
| 215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson | 26 Jun 2024 | 02:18:59 | |
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 0:04:05 – Can Rationlists Be Theists? Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: To Spread Science, Keep It Secret Next Sequence Posts: | |||
| 126 – LessWrong 2.0 and Books | 16 Dec 2020 | 02:21:22 | |
The conspirators are joined by Ben and Oliver from the LessWrong team. In addition to standing up a new and improved platform for LessWrong and revitalizing the community, they’ve compiled about 40 posts from 2018 and put them in physical books that you can buy (for basically the cost of production) at lesswrong.com! Some of our guest’s favorite posts: Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 (Petrov Day) Details page on Eneasz’s offer to read Less Wrong posts Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here! Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment | Edit | |||
| 125 – Hacking Away at Careers | 02 Dec 2020 | 02:14:34 | |
The conspirators share potential weaknesses in the career-distribution system that too many people don’t exploit. With the usual amount of meandering along the way. Two articles from Tim Ferriss’s blog Optimal Employment – LessWrong Here’s an older episode of ours on Biohacking Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: How Much Evidence Does It Take? Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Details page on Eneasz’s offer to read Less Wrong posts Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here! Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment | Edit | |||
| 124 – Longevity | 18 Nov 2020 | 02:08:31 | |
A listener wants to know if we can reach life extension escape velocity. LessWrong open thread on “true” life expectancy, and post on Three Open Problems in Aging Elysium announces their NMN trial, and the ClinicalTrials.gov link David Sinclair’s post about NMN vs NR Nootropic’s Depot, where you can buy NMN Here’s an older episode of ours on Biohacking Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: How Much Evidence Does It Take? Details page on Eneasz’s offer to read Less Wrong posts Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here! Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment | Edit | |||