The Bayesian Conspiracy

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Eneasz shares his reading of Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann

News story about the CFAR barricading

Ted Cruz bad lip reading

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, we ran out of time, doh!

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Your Strength as a Rationalist

I Defy the Data!

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 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)

This Waifu Does Not Exist

Brad Pitt in Snatch

Pro Se Folk Devil

John Oliver on SLAPPs

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:

The Virtue of Narrowness

You Can Face Reality

The Apocalypse Bet

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Your Strength as a Rationalist

I Defy the Data!

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:

Focus Your Uncertainty

The Proper Use of Doubt

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: 

The Virtue of Narrowness

You Can Face Reality

The Apocalypse Bet

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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

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! Postponed till next time 🙁

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: (Are still…)

Focus Your Uncertainty

The Proper Use of Doubt

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…

• One of the articles referenced in the initial Discord discussion
• What’s double cruxing?
• Wikipedia’s 3rd Gender Page (it’s got all the genders!)

Recommendations!

• Brightburn
• The Boys
• Chronicle
• Magnus Archives

Hey look, we have a discord!

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…)

Focus Your Uncertainty

The Proper Use of Doubt

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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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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

The Importance of Saying “Oops”

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Focus Your Uncertainty

The Proper Use of Doubt