Crit-rat Vaden Masrani of the Increments podcast joins us to talk about the difference between Critical Rationalism and Bayesian Rationalism. We get kinda side-tracked, Eneasz isn’t happy about it.
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Vaden’s Podcast: Increments
Eneasz’s post about this episode
Winter 2027 AFFINE Alignment Seminar
Takeoff Conference
GPU World Short Story Contest
Economies of Force — Seth Dickinson’s short story
TBC 267 – Our HuggingFace Hack Episode
Adam Majmudar on the Interpretability Breakthrough
The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Scott Alexander’s Open Letter to Steven Pinker on AI
Dillon Plunkett on the AI Pain Axis
TBC 245 – Our AI Welfare Episode with Rob Long and Rosie Campbell
TBC 218 – Our Bentham’s Bulldog Episode
Vaden on Learning Bayesian Statistics #160: Bayesian Statistics vs Epistemology
The Precipice by Toby Ord
Beautiful Probability — Eliezer Yudkowsky
When (Not) To Use Probabilities — Eliezer Yudkowsky
No One Can Exempt You From Rationality’s Laws — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil
A Case Against Strong Longtermism — Vaden Masrani
The Case for Strong Longtermism — Greaves and MacAskill (September 2019 Draft)
Pascal’s Mugging
00:00:01 – Intro & Feedback
00:20:02 – Vadan on Critical Rationalism
01:54:55 – Follow-up
01:58:51 – Thank a Supporter
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