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Discussions often happen at the Bayesian Conspiracy subreddit
We now have a Patreon page!
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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Eneasz shares his reading of Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann
News story about the CFAR barricading
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
none, we ran out of time, doh!
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Your Strength as a Rationalist
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We are joined by Discord user GSV to talk about Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
The Podcast Very Different From Ours is available at SoundCloud, as well as GooglePodcasts. iTunes link coming soon.
Scott Alexander’s fiction discussed: Samsara, The Study of Anglophysics (audio), Unsong (audio)
Helpful links provided by commentor Lorien:
references on air pollution (quick and dirty search):
https://www.calhealthreport.org/2018/01/31/teen-exposure-air-pollution-reduce-iq-levels-long-term/
https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementia-risk/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/climate/air-pollution-deaths.html
Wrt. medical staff being fine with long hours:
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20180508/doctors-suicide-rate-highest-of-any-profession#1
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Your Strength as a Rationalist
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!
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We get to back-logged feedback.
We Want MoR is now live, back at the old home of the HP:MoR Podcast!
Ra, by Sam Hughes (also on Amazon)
Helpful links provided by commentor Lorien:
references on air pollution (quick and dirty search):
https://www.calhealthreport.org/2018/01/31/teen-exposure-air-pollution-reduce-iq-levels-long-term/
https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementia-risk/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/climate/air-pollution-deaths.html
Wrt. medical staff being fine with long hours:
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20180508/doctors-suicide-rate-highest-of-any-profession#1
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:
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The Conspirators sort of continue the conversation from our last episode, after meandering around about the meaning of words/their relevance to current usage. Eventually we’ll get to the LessWrong sequence on the Human Use of Words and this confusion will hopefully dissolve.
Comic Relief: Omeleto video featuring Nick offerman
Patreon supporter Welf wrote a blog post that they shared with us and we touched on in this discussion. It’s really good if this topic interests you.
Ryan Gosling Avatar Papyrus freak out on SNL
Jess’s favorite dinosaur
What if we had only the bones of modern animals and drew them like we draw dinosaurs? (link with whale, link to book)
Wikipedia and other links from Jess
Alicorn transgender story? From Jess
Skeptoid episode Transgender: Fact or Fiction
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
None! Postponed till next time 🙁
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: (Are still…)
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!
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Trigger warnings: Gender! Culture Wars! Opinons! Facts? (Also, some amount of tension/discomfort in this episode. Be ye warned.)
Please contribute to this discussion!
Please keep it non-terrible.
Articles that sparked the discussion: The Disappearing Thems, Versus Them, Reducing the Spectrum to a Binary
Also relevant: Hofstadter Person Purity essay, and Cis by Default
Other links of note…
Recommendations!
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
None! Postponed till next time 🙁
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: (Are still…)
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Elite education institutions aren’t give us Bruce Waynes anymore, and this is a problem.
Our article: The Real Problem At Yale Is Not Free Speech
Also relevant: The Wayne Republican Tradition, and Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable
The Importance of Saying “Oops”
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: