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We now have a Patreon page!
And a Merch store?? Can this timeline get any better?
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? There’s also a subreddit.
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Dunbar’s Number is both the cause of and downfall of Human Civilization
Low-Status degrades your health
Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything
Mentioned in the follow-ups section:
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0:11:58 Main Topic pt1 Status in Dunbar Spheres
0:46:37 Main Topic pt2 The Dawn of Everything
1:15:08 LW posts
1:30:04 Thank the Patron
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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Zen and the Art of Rationality
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Katrina is back!! We talk about how pregnancy isn’t super easy, and is borderline body horror.
Racial Differences in Maternal Mortality
How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and PubMed version
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois argues that Effective Altruism has an Aesthetics problem
But first! Some extended listener feedback
Nuclear War is A-OK if you’re Russian State TV
A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
00:42 Abortion Clarification & Jace’s Addition
14:15 Best Purchase Ever
27:24 Main Topic: Effective Altruism’s Neglect of Aesthetics
1:19:09 LW posts
1:36:37 Thank the Patron
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Roe v Wade is going away. This sucks, but it’s not the end of the world.
Polls show most Americans support allowing abortion in the first weeks, banning it in the last trimester.
In state’s where it’s legal, one can have a self-managed abortion.
AidAccess is available to help. Services like ipostal1 will forward mail from other states.
Misoprostol is relatively easy to acquire from veterinary sources.
Eneasz is unhappy with Kamala Harris
1:08:13 LW posts
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Not long ago, Hawai’i was a constitutional monarchy. A lot of Hawaiian residents want that restored. Travis Don Kailikea Paradea takes us through what happened, and what’s going down now.
Recommended by Travis:
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
The Rise and Fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom: A Pictorial History
Weblog of the acting government of the Hawaiian Kingdom
1:17:57 LW posts
1:25:44 Thank the Patron
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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Argument Screens Off Authority
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Four Major AI Advancements In One Week!
New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute
Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals
DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand
1:39:51 LW posts
Also mentioned:
Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
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Argument Screens Off Authority
(edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P)