Discussions often happen at the Bayesian Conspiracy subreddit
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A quick primer, and what do they have to do with EA?
Bitcoin mining takes off in Venezuela due to hyperinflation of the local currency and nearly-free electricity.
China is starting to shut down legal BitCoin use.
What makes Ethereum special?
Ethereum already using as much electricity as a small country.
Rhys Lindmark on Twitter and Patreon
Harry Potter – is it super pro-capitalist/consumerist?
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Eneasz talks about his first Burning Man experience
Sorry this is late. Please accept a 167 minute episode as apology?
And 9/26 is Petrov Day!
The 10 Principles of Burning Man, at the official Burning Man Organization site
Eneasz’s series of posts on Burning Man – (0) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (some repetition from what’s in the podcast)
There’s a couple minutes of extra talk about the Burning Man Suicide that is available on Patreon. It’s free for anyone who wants to hear it, but we didn’t include it in the main episode, and don’t have it available on our main RSS feed, so that no one accidentally listens to it.
Does criticizing rationalists make you rationalist-adjacent? Ozy and the SSC subreddit gesture in the direction of “yeah, pretty much”. 🙂
We couldn’t contact Thomas in time to get his source, and will update this once we can, but it’s possible he was referring to the CDC’s fact sheet stating “CDC projects that approximately one in six MSM overall are at risk of being diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime if current diagnoses rates persist”
Thomas’s game design company – Sixpence Games
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We speak with aspiring rationalists with children.
Our previous episode pondering children – Kids, These Days
Louis C.K. has a bunch of stuff on parenting
I Wonder by Annaka Harris, a book on emotional intelligence for children
Article on treating kids like people
The Rider and the Elephant (and the Path!)
Republican Baby vs Christian Baby
Bryan Caplan argues that kids basically turn out how their genes direct, and parenting has little influence, so don’t sweat it too much (as long as you aren’t neglectful/abusive). Short Post and (comparatively) Long Book.
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Julia Galef’s ‘Update Project‘. Check out some of the other links on her website too.
Steven: “There’s a ton of content and techniques in this area that I wanted to cover and didn’t get a chance to. I’m including a couple of further reading suggestions below.”
Brienne Yudkowsky’s blog “Agenty Duck” is the best source of introspective techniques and considerations on this and related topics. I suggest starting with this post.
I’m also a huge fan of the Double Crux Game, which I’ve never had a chance to play formally. Basically you and a willing participant with whom you disagree on something figure out what the root cause of your disagreement is (almost never the apparent disagreement) and analyze the crux of your disagreement. At the end, you shouldn’t disagree anymore (like good Bayesians!) Check out links about this here and here.
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More ritual than spirituality, honestly. We were aiming for both, but caught up in ritual. Perhaps we’ll revisit the spirituality aspect in a future episode!
Melting Asphalt on Religion, Politics, and Self-Suppression
Welcome to Night Vale, and my All Hail summary
The type of poetry Eneasz likes is called “villanelles.” Here are four great examples.
From Less Wrong: An Alien God, and Thou Art Godshatter.
From SSC: Meditations on Moloch
From Jai: 500 Million, But Not a Single One More
Norman Borlaug & Dunbar’s Number again
Sam Harris’s book on spirituality, Waking Up
Sam Harris on Islam and the Misuses of Ecstasy
GadBeebe on Scotland’s laws on consent and autonomy, specifically the Adults with Incapacity Act
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You can’t control (well) what you can’t count
Samzdat’s posts that served as the basis of much of this episode:
Man as a Rationalist Animal, and
The Meridian of Her Greatness.
Also: The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life (not Witchdoctors Without Borders, as Eneasz misremembered)
Matt Freeman’s podcast – We’ve Got Worm
Also from Matt – The Daly Planet
Scott Alexander’s review of “Seeing Like A State”
And the original source material, for the purists. 🙂
Norman Borlaug’s dwarf wheat saved 1 billion people
GreenPeace blocks golden rice for no good reason
ChemTrails Turned My Frogs Gay
Our Robin Hanson interview on Age of Em
Kim Jong Il made a quilt of sparrow’s neck feathers
A photon teleported from Earth to Space – or was it?
Friendship is Optimal & Caelum Est Conterrens (different authors)
