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Bayes Blast 34 – Content Moderation is Infosec

Steven wanted to share an interesting idea from an article that draws a neat parallel between content moderation and information security.

The post discussed here is Como is Infosec.

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222 – Consciousness As Recursive Reflections with Daniel Böttger

We talk with Daniel about his ACX guest post that posits that thoughts are conscious, rather than brains.

LINKS
Consciousness As Recursive Reflections
Seven Secular Sermons
Seven Secular Sermons video on TwitterX
LightHaven’s Eternal September

0:00:05 – Recursive Reflections
01:29:30 – Personal News from Eneasz
01:31:04 – Guild of the Rose
01:32:15 – Feedback
01:36:39 – Less Wrong Posts
01:57:37 – Thank the Patron


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Belief in the Implied Invisible

Quantum Explanations

Next Sequence Posts:

Configurations and Amplitude

Joint Configurations

Distinct Configurations

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Bayes Blast 33 – Porn Sims

Can we achieve our true potential?

based on – Interview Day At Thiel Capital
also mentioned:
Meetups Everywhere 2024
Are You Jesus or Hitler

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221 – Why The Field? Why Zombies?? with Liam

Eneasz tries to understand why someone would posit a Chalmers Field, and brings up the horrifying implications.

LINKS
Zombies! Zombies?
2 Rash 2 Unadvised (the Terra Ignota analysis podcast)
The previous TBC episode, where we first discussed other aspects of this
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers

0:00:05 – Even More Zombies
01:59:12 – Feedback
02:02:03 – Guild of the Rose
02:03:43 – Less Wrong Posts


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle

GAZP vs. GLUT

Next Sequence Posts:

Belief in the Implied Invisible

Quantum Explanations

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Bayes Blast 32 – Canadian Health Care

A surprising update for two previously maple-pilled Yanks

 

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220 – Chalmer’s Zombies, with Liam

We dig into the classic LW post Zombies! Zombies? and talk a lot of philosophy with Liam from the 2 Rash 2 Unadvised podcast.

I (Steven) spent a bunch of time trying to export the conversation from Discord that Liam, Eneasz, and I had. I thought it provided a lot of awesome extra depth to the episode’s topic. Did you know that it’s basically impossible to export from Discord? I’d have edited it for brevity but just getting it at all took forever. Check it out here.

Also, our hero AskWho audio-ized it! You can listen to the exchange rather than read it here.

Stay tuned for next time as we talk about… A One Way Interaction With An Additional Fundamental Law of Reality?

LINKS
Zombies! Zombies?
2 Rash 2 Unadvised (the Terra Ignota analysis podcast)
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Consciousness As Recursive Reflections, a guest post by Daniel Bottger at ACD

 

0:00:05 – Zombies!
01:56:37 – Guild of the Rose
02:00:22 – Thank the Patron


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Zombies! Zombies?

Next Sequence Posts:

none

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