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The conspirators go more in-depth on how little we know about the people we don’t know (Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers), plus more COVID19 chattering.
Apologies for the audio quality–now that everybody’s working from home and practicing safe social distancing… well, it’s Skype o’clock.
Content warning: this episode contains some discussion of sexual assault, as it relates to the book. Non-graphic.
Show links:
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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:
Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
Expecting Short Inferential Distances
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We open up with some pre-episode chatter that I left in, then talk for a bit about Coronavirus before moving into the scheduled topic of Malcom Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers!
UPDATE: Given the situation in Italy, we’re upping our concern. Please increase the emotional volume of the Coronavirus section by about 1.5 levels.
Last Week Tonight on Coronavirus
SMBC Steven mentioned in the pre-episode stuff
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What conclusions can you draw from the fact that you’re here?
The Anthropic Principle – 5 short examples
Anthropics and Biased Models – “we can’t use anthropic reasoning on a single side of a model”
An Anthropic Principle Fairy Tale
Hanson’s “Great Filter” and does the Anthropic Principle affect it?
Max Tegmark’s mathematical universe levels
New Death Note one-shot chapter
Key & Peele get tone confused over texts
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
We didn’t get around to discussing any LessWrong posts in this episode. Whoops!
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In this episode we’re joined by Matt Freeman and Wes Fenza!
Matt from The Doofcast joins us. Their next big audio project is Kingslingers, but be sure to check out We’ve Got Ward and Doofcast too!
Wes writes at livingwithinreason.com and practice divorce and family law in South Jersey.
As always, there’s a relevant XKCD. Is Monroe’s Law a thing yet?
Also check out Matt’s quick write up he did during the Discord conversation that prompted this episode. It’s an unfinished/unedited short essay, and his thoughts have updated since he wrote this.
And I found that Matt Braunger comedy bit about failing at both Ask and Guess Culture (and basic picking up signals)
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
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People you may or may not have met before discuss Radical Honesty. (One of those people also has their own podcast–however, it is Very Different From Ours….)
Stuff mentioned in the episode:
Friend of the podcast Within Reason’s take (recommended read): Not-So-Radical Honesty
The official (?) Radical Honesty site: Old and New
Admonymous: Anonymous Admonition and Admiration
Pact! Magic users cannot tell lies…
Webcomic (recommended by Drake): Subnormality (Tells the Truth)
Multiamory Podcast: lots of good tools for all kinds of relationships here
Reciprocity.io: you check boxes, they check boxes…
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
Conservation of Expected Evidence
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Everyone else is doing it, so why can’t we?
Matt from The Doofcast joins us. His next audio project is Kingslingers
You can still partake in the SSC survey! If you’re even a casual reader, Scott is interested in your data. He will only mine it for Good. 🙂
Remember THUNK? They’re a cool youtube channel!
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Your Strength as a Rationalist
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
Conservation of Expected Evidence
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We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!
