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Steven can’t read a calender, so accidentally scheduled this to release a day late.
In this episode, we talk with Andrés Gómez Emilsson from the Qualia Research Institute. Buckle up for some dialogue on the intersection between philosophy and science.
Steven was testing a new mic this episode, and thus sounds like he’s phoning it in from a submarine. Sorry for the trouble. He’ll keep searching for a better mic.
Here’s a fun presentation on QRI’s website that Andrés gave that covers some of the stuff we talked about in this episode.
Transcript of that dude taking on the math-illiterate execs at Verizon. Audio version.
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: I Don’t Know and A Fable of Science and Politics
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We kick off a couple things:
The Sequences Reading/Discussion, and
What Lies Dreaming
The OG Sequences in chronological order
we read: The Martial Art of Rationality ; Why Truth? And… ; …What’s a Bias Again?
For next time: The Proper Use of Humility ; The Modesty Argument
Collated & edited in: Rationality: AI to Zombies
also as a podcast, and a podcast
The Elephant in the Brain (and our podcast episode about it)
SSC on Predictive Processing and Perceptual Control
Ozy on Sokal Squared, the latest hoax/expose that is way over-hyped
Permanent Effects from LSD? Also, Scott Alexander mentions the existence of permanent hallucination effects
Eneasz’s serialized novel, What Lies Dreaming, is coming Nov 11th!
Petrov Day Art:
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An awesome anonymous listener made this and sent it in after the episode aired! Thanks, awesome mystery person!
Alas, we had some technical difficulties in this episode too and we lost some small chunks of audio. I cropped it as best I could, but there’s some little bits where you can tell the audio skips a bit.
Today’s main topic/recommended reading: Memetic Tribes and War Culture
Petrov Day (There’s an XKCD for everything!) and original LessWrong post and the botched celebration that ended in simulated nuclear annihilation
Wiki page on lean development in case anyone else gets off on efficiency
Sam Harris episode with Chistian (not Christopher) Picciolini, the reformed neo nazi
The Intellectual Dark Web, complete with aesthetically pleasing/cringeworthy pictures
The ‘This American Life’ episode with Laci Green
The Adversarial Collaboration outline post on Slate Star Codex
All of the original LessWrong articles, presented in the messy order that Bayes intended
If you want to read ahead for next week, check out The Martial Art of Rationality ,Why Truth? And……What’s a Bias Again?
Soma, a play through by Marshall Dyer
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Matt Freeman may be distant in body, but he is present in spirit
Moridinamael’s A Dialogue on Rationalist Activism
KatjaGrace’s Are ethical asymmetries from property rights?
Yudkowsky’s Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism
Very Bad Wizards ep 148 Am I Wrong?
Moridinamael’s Spamming Micro-Intentions to Generate Willpower
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky – actually from 1988!
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This episode has some audio quirks. We ended up having our recording software crash (but saved most of our audio) after about an hour and 15 minutes, so we have a tone shift at that point since we took a 20 minute break while we got our stuff back up and running.
A Dialogue on Rationalist Activism – A dialogue-form essay Matt wrote the day after we recorded this episode
Policy Debates Should Not Appear One Sided
Russia Rationalist Group Three Years Retrospective
The Fugitive Slave Clause (Steven brought this up and wanted to make sure the facts were easy to find)
Thomas’ Enchiridion Translation Kickstarter
Current Unsong Audiobook Project (hasn’t posted since March 2017 and is on chapter 12)
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We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!
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A confluence of time-expensive events prevented us from recording an episode this week. However, since Shut Up And Do The Impossible: The Rational Fiction Online Anthology was just released, we’re podcasting a story from that anthology instead. This audio was first released at The Methods of Rationality podcast.
Shut Up And Do The Impossible: The Rational Fiction Online Anthology
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