Bayes Blast 19 – Musicgen and Audiogen

Musicgen lets anyone make a quick music snippet and Audiogen is surprisingly good at generating non-confusing sounds! These tools are currently free and will no doubt be mind blowing in just a few months when better, paid versions come out.

Musicgen

Audiogen

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193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout

We speak with Yassine Meskhout of The Bailey about… a whole bunch of things actually.

LINKS

Yassine’s Substack
The Motte
The Bailey podcast
Yassine’s I Am Here Because Of Blind Dumb Luck
Check Here For Racial Oppression – history of the US Federal racial categories
SSC post popularizing & explaining the Motte And Bailey Doctrine
Alex Jones as Epic Poetry
Yassine’s posts on Paul Ehrlich’s Gymnastics and Meghan Murphy’s Speedrun Guide to Logical Fallacies
There Are No Amendments in Islam
Eleven Magic Words
Morality is Accidental & Self-Congratulatory
Consider The Hand Axe
Slavery in Video Games
The post about that video game with slavery


0:00:23 – Hard open
0:01:05 – Yassine is (officially) white
0:19:48 – Official open + The Bailey podcast
0:26:36 – MCU-level mental gymnastics
0:55:55 – Yassine on Eleven Magic Words and being a Public Defender
1:20:41 – There Are No Amendments in Islam
1:37:48 – Any anti-tech movement is necessarily a pro-slavery movement
1:51:50 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:53:10 – Feedback
1:56:42 – Less Wrong Posts
2:17:58 – Thank the Patron


We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Disguised Queries

Neural Categories

Next Sequence Posts:

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

Disputing Definitions

 

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192 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life, with Alex

Alex joins us to smile as we push some boulders up some hills.

LINKS

Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Guild of the Rose


0:01:31 – Post-Rat Feedback
0:21:16 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life
1:21:25 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:28:32 – Thank the Patron
1:33:57 – Less Wrong Posts


We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Next Sequence Posts:

Disguised Queries

Neural Categories

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Bayes Blast 17 – Gay Pride is White Liberal Pride

Me and Wes exchange hot takes. Mine is stolen shamelessly from Based Camp, go listen to the original source material there, it’s good!

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191 – What is Post-Rationalism, with Arielle

Seriously though, what’s going on here? Arielle dives in with us.

LINKS
Arielle’s substack – Analog Futures
Bayesian Conspiracy episode #5(!) on What is Rationalism?
The Mind Killer live episode recorded at VibeCamp
Eneasz’s novel – What Lies Dreaming


0:00:27 – What is a Post-Rat?
1:03:13 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:05:01 – Less Wrong Posts
1:16:33 – Thank the Patron


We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Buy Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace

Similarity Clusters

Next Sequence Posts:

Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

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Bayes Blast 16 – Holding PRNS (Present Rate, No Singularity)

How to talk about the future

From On “Present Rate No Singularity” at Thing of Things

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