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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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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
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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)
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We address theoretical cryonics concerns, and discuss Guzey’s Theses On Sleep
3:15 Cryonics Concerns
49:21 Theses On Sleep
1:23:01 LW posts
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Also mentioned:
LW Cryonics Probability Estimates guide
Our episode with Rudy Hoffman
Scott Alexander’s Sleep Is The Mate Of Death
Cryonics Insitute FAQ and info re transportation services
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
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The Conspirators regroup to discuss if/how their views on monarchy have changed.
The full episode is available for our Patrons
Mentioned:
List of Current States With Monarchs
CGP Gray’s Rules for Rulers (Keys of Power)
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World (warning – crappy 80s song)
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We speak with Cornelius about this idea that Monachy is good because it can save us from populist fascism.
1:44:50 LW posts
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Cornelius blogs at EsotericMusings.substack.com
Also mentioned:
Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Jace’s counterargument is basically a link to Scott Alexander’s Anti-Reactionary FAQ
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