Archive

Previous Episodes, in reverse order

234 – GiveDirectly, with Nick Allardice

233 – AI Policy in D.C., with Dave Kasten

232 – The Milton Friedman Theory of Change, with John Bennett

231 – SuperBabies, with Gene Smith

230 – Making Dating Not Suck with Jacob Falkovich

229 – Integrating Emotions

228 – The Deep Lore of LightHaven, with Oliver Habryka

227 – Longevity, Aimed Communities, Network States, with Zoe Isabel Senon

226 – The Illusion of Moral Decline

225 – Live at Lighthaven!

Bonus? The 10-Finger Demon

224 – Cringe Gates and Cultural Drift

223 – Going Back to the Classics

222 – Consciousness As Recursive Reflections with Daniel Böttger

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

220 – Chalmer’s Zombies, with Liam

219 – On Excellence, with Tracing Woodgrains

218 – Bentham’s Bulldog and the Best Argument for God

217 – Consensual Violence with Rikard

216 – On Dying (And Cryonics)

215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson

214 – Is Death Good? Simone and Malcolm Collins return!

213 – Are Transformer Models Aligned By Default?

212 – Feedback Extravaganza

211 – The Social Justice Religion with Tracing Woodgrains

210 – Demographic Collapse & Religion with Simone & Malcolm Collins

209 – The World’s Most Wholesome Gangbang, with Lucy Belmont (Fluffer B)

208 – Snakes On A Brain: Eve Theory of Consciousness v3 with Andrew Cutler

207 – Raising Free Range Kids via Camp Dorkaround

206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common

205 – The Snake Cult of Consciousness

204 – Simulacra Levels with Zvi (and more)

203 – The Self-Indulgent Episode

202 – The Center for AI Policy talks government regulation

201 – The Educated Mind + More with Brandon Hendrickson (part 2)

200 – The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson

199 – Polyamory with Aella and Yassine

198 – Tuskegee & Age/Race Bias?

197 – What To Expect When You’re Expecting To Go To Burning Man

196 – Steven Goes To Court

195 – KataGo vs AlphaGo: Fight!

194 – Kinky Data Science with Aella

193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout

192 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life, with Alex

191 – What is Post-Rationalism, with Arielle

190 – How to be Human Together, at VibeCamp, with GPTBrooke

189 – AI Bloomer David Youssef

188 – Living in the Early Singularity, with Matt Freeman

187 – GitLab & Review Bounties to Save Science, with Richard Acton

186 – Why We Aren’t Technically EAs But Totally Would Be, Unlike This Guy

185 – The Rise and Fall of Peer Review, with Adam Mastroianni

184 – The Cultic Milieu

183 – Let’s Think About Slowing Down AI

182 – The Birth and Death of Sydney (Bing AI)

181 – How To Read The News With Bounded Distrust with Wesley Fenza

180 – YIMBY in CA with Brian Hanlon

179 – The Plan (to align AI), with John Wentworth

178 – Out To Get You

177 – Decision Trees and Butlerian Jihads with Matt Freeman

176 – Circling with Aella

175 – FTX + EA, and Personal Finance

174 – Jon Stewart, The Consensus Emancipator

173 – Oh Lawd, Strong AI is Comin’

172 – Virtue Ethics

171 – All About AGP

170 – By George, The Rent Is Too Damn High!

169 – S&E BS re AGI

168 – Unions Are Governments

167 – Jugaad Ethics

166 – Getting Lucky

165 – DREAM: Dunbar Rules Everything Around Me

164 – Pregnancy is Body Horror

163 – Effective Aesthetics

162 – Roe No Mo’

161 – Restoring the Kingdom of Hawai’i

160 – GAI is Imminent

159 – Cryonics Concerns, and Theses On Sleep

158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fascism?

157 – A Fistful of Topics

156 – A Chemical Hunger

155 – Normal Predictions, and Change is Bad

154 – Two General Thinkers Discuss General Thinking

153 – Values and Wireheading with Wes Fenza

152 – Frame Control with Aella

151 – Don’t Make This Your Everything

150 – The Procrastination Equation

149 – The Roots of Progress, with Jason Crawford

148 – Decisions, Decisions

147 – Newcomblike Problems Are The Norm

146 – What Is A Rationalist?

145 – You Are In Newcomb’s IQ Shredder

144 – The Guild Of The Rose (beta)

143 – Crazy Like Us

142 – Do This

141 – Raising Younglings

140 – Trigger Warning: Old Men Yelling at Clouds

139 – Kids These Days

138 – Are Teens People?

137 – Can You Consent to Listening to this Episode?

136 – Obviously (and Legally) Murder

135 – Live Episode #2

134 – We’ve Got Class

133 – Is Libertarianism a Gateway Drug to Anarcho-Capitalism?

132 – Mind Killed by Libertarianism

131 – Feedback Grab Bag

130 – The Cause of the Hate Revolution (or: Hate is the New Sex)

129 – Sympathy For The Devil

128 – The Q-Coup

127 – All About Aging with Richard Acton

126 – LessWrong 2.0 and Books

125 – Hacking Away at Careers

124 – Longevity

123 – Stuff Has Been Weird Lately

122 – EARN IT vs America

121 – Crony Beliefs

120 – Why Can’t We Brain Good?

Episode 119 – If You’re A Human, You’re Already Losing To GPT-3

118 – Guns, Germs, and Guns (except the Germs are actually More Guns)

117 – The Guild of Servants

116 – Truth, Falsity, and Censorship

115 – Does Rationality Actually Do Anything?

114 – Epistemic Rigor and BLM

113 – Refining Niceness with Wes Fenza

112 – Nice Places Are Nice

111 – Rational Practices in Everyday Living

110 – Socratic Grilling

109 – What Have We Been Consuming?

108 – Rudi Hoffman on How to Beat Death and Taxes

107 – Talking to Even More Strangers

106 – Talking to Strangers (with COVID-19)

105 – The Anthropic Principle is da bomb

104 – Do You Want To Ask or Guess This Episode’s Topic?

103 – Radical Honesty

102 – Decade in Review

101 – The Live Episode (pt2)

100 – The Live Episode (pt1)

99 – Whiteshift

98 – A GSV Very Different From Ours

97 – Oops, We Accidentally Over Two Hours of Feedback

96 – Do Words Mean Things, Also Sex Science!

95 – It’s Gender Time! Part 1

94 – The Problem At Yale Isn’t Free Speech, It’s Lack of Batmans

93 – Conflict vs Mistake

92 – Replacing Guilt

91 – Are You Jesus or Hitler??

90 – Secret to Our Success

89 – Is Rationalism Being Co-opted by the Alt-Right?

88 – UBI and Other Forms of (Evil?) Taxes

87 – Degrees of Freedom

  Bonus Abortion non-episode

86 – Quick Shout Out to the Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread

85 – Stuff is Weird, Yo

84 – Yang-arang!

83 – REACH

82 – Revenge of the Feedback!

81 – That’s Too Much Feedback, Man

80 – The Reward and Peril of GPT2

79 – CyberChristianity

78 – Seriously, an Atheism Episode?

77 – Meandering Around Albion’s Seed

76 – Patreon and Censorship

75 – Culture Roots of America

74 – Adventures in Feedback!

73 – Truth and Winning

72 – Productivity Tools, Part 2

71 – Researching Qualia with Andrés Gómez Emilsson

70 – Kick-offs

69 – Culture War 2.0

68 – Can’t Give Up Freeman

67 – Freestyle Community Talk with Matt Freeman

The Sword of Good

66 – Feedback & Productivity (pt1)

65 – Religion, and The Intelligent Social Web

64 – Magick with David Youssef

63 – Rational Fiction

62 – Stoic Chatter and RatChat!

61 – Biohacking 101

60 – 98% Likelihood This Episode is about Metaculus

59 – Gettin’ Schooled

58 – Inside Trump Country with Joshua

57 – Community Talk with Bayesed and Confused

56 – Adventures in Tough Subjects

55 – Keeping up with the Rationalists

54 – Nothing Can Prepare You For Robin Hanson

53 – Principles of Curiosity with Brian Dunning

52 – Marriage is Obsolete Technology

51 – Robert McIntyre Returns

50 – Approaching Rationality with Kyle Moore

49 – Spirituality via Drugs

48 – Cryonics 2 – Lacuna Matata (with Robert McIntyre)

47 – Post Scarcity

46 – Social Media and Outrage Culture

45 – Cryptocurrencies

44 – Burning Man

43 – Parenting as a Rationalist

42 – Emotionally Charged Discussion

41 – Ritual and Spirituality

40 – Making Humans Legible

39 – Transhumanism (pt 2)

38 – Transhumanism (pt 1)

37 – AlphaGo Returns

36 – The Other Kind of Drugs

35 – Your Brain on Nootropics

34 – Lies, All Lies!

33 – MIRI, and EA meta-discussion

32 – Who’s Afraid of AI?

31 – Digital Rights and Privacy

30 – Of Specks and Omlettes

29 – Fiction and Fun with Max Harms

Bonus Mini-Episode: I Did Nazi That Coming

28 – Effective Altruism

27 – On Punching Nazis

26 – Concept Networks and Hanging Nodes

25 – Tinder, Actually

24 – Signaling

23 – Desirism with Alonzo Fyfe

22 – Moral Philosophy

Bonus mini-episode: Trump-Reacting

21 – Kids, These Days

20 – What’s important?

19 – Political Pitfalls

18 – Robin Hanson Interview

17 – The Feels

16 – Animals Again

15 – Animals

14 – Street Epistemology

13 – Game Theory

12 – Listener Feedback

11 – Voting

10 – Polyamory (part 2)

9 – Polyamory (part 1)

8 – Interview with Brian Dunning

7 – Kill All Humans?

6 – Cryonics

5 – When Grandmas ask “What is Rationality?”

4 – AlphaGo, with Patrick Chapin

3 – Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky

2 – What is this “Sanity Waterline” you speak of?

1 – What Use is Rationality?