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Join us as we sit down with Alexander Whales (returning from Episode 63 about rational fiction and writes rational short stories, like the very popular Metropolitan Man) who is on to guide our discussion of GPT2, a new neural net language model/text analyzer/…author?
Discussed in this Episode:
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
Can AI Change Your Mind (AI debate)
Alexander is currently writing Worth the Candle!
The book Eneasz mentioned, The Monster Baru Cormorant
Be sure to check out Eneasz’s book, What Lies Dreaming and Vote for What Lies Dreaming at Top Web Fiction!
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
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What the heck is CyberChristianity, and can it unite Christianity and Rationalism?
Links to things talked about in today’s episode:
Our previous AlphaGo episodes – 1 & 2 (poor audio, sadly)
AI must decide: Juggalo, or Clown?
We previously spoke more in-depth on paperclip maximizes and other aspects of the rise of our coming AI overlords in Who’s Afraid of AI?
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Fantasia in full
The Japanese game show requiring a man to win write-in sweepstakes wasn’t quite as felonious as Eneasz had remembered… he did agree to the initial challenge.
Chaing’s Hell is the Absence of God (pdf)
The original posts & podcasts on Rationality & Mormonism. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Hanson’s book The Elephant In The Brain
Scott Alexander on Growth Mindset
Humans are Awesome, Humans Being Bros
LW posts:
Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia?
Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
LW posts for next time:
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
“Statistical Bias”
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Eneasz, Jess, and Steven take an hour or so to talk about the New Atheism movement that occurred in the mid 2000’s. We experienced a bit of audio loss in the second half of the episode, so the conversation occasionally jumps around a bit, especially around an hour and 20 minutes in for about 5 minutes… Sorry about that. We’re buying an SSD to hopefully prevent any lossy recording in the future.
Links to things talked about in today’s episode:
Gwern’s (a popular contributor to LessWrong) personal website
Guided Path Decision Advisor that Jess mentioned (other tools here)
The first part of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheists group conversation
The Amazing IQ Squared debate with Hitch and Fry
Jai’s Blog post “Foes Without Faces” that Eneasz brought up
On Immunity, the book Jess mentioned
Be sure to check out Eneasz’s book, What Lies Dreaming
Vote for What Lies Dreaming at Top Web Fiction!
Sequence Posts for next time:
Self Deception: Hypocrisy of Akrasia?
Tsuyoku Naritai (I Want to Become Stronger!)
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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This episode is a continuation of episode 75 – Culture Roots of American. Eneasz and Steven are alone in the recording studio, which means we have no one to keep us in check as we finish out discussion of Albion’s Seed and fall down plenty of rabbit holes.
The Cracked.com After Hours ninja turtles/everything is one of four things video
Sequence Posts for next time:
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David and Jess sit down with Eneasz and Steven to discuss the controversy of Patreon banning contributors from its platform.
David mentioned the connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s many, many accusations of raping young girls and soliciting the opportunity for others to do so. In Trump’s words: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Pheidi’s link to a video on our AMA thread that sparked our conversation.
We’re now unapologetic shills for Tide.
An article talking about the recent poor-taste joke made by Louis CK.
Sequence Posts for next time:
Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization
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We discuss these two SSC posts:
BOOK REVIEW: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
also mentioned:
ALBION’S SEED, GENOTYPED, and the Dark Matter Conservative Universe is mentioned in I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
Sequence Posts for next time:
The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
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