ArchiveThe Bayes Blast Archive can be found here. Bonus (paid) episodes are here. Previous Episodes, in reverse order 269 – The Power of Specificity in Argument extra – Vishal: Short form video is kinda Satanic 268 – The Other Sexual Orientation & Disappearing the Kinky extra – Milo on PlzDontKillUs, short form video, and rationality extra – Jessiah on HPMOR, video essays, and fiction 267 – HuggingFace Hack & Effective Altruism Funding Flood 266 – AI2040 Plan A Rundown 265 – VibeCamp 5 with Wes, Gina, and Mary 264 – Becoming a Romantic with Damon and Ivy 263 – Human Values Were Forged in Malthusian Competition 262 – EA Veganism Revisited 261 – The Button That Almost Nuked Glosso Got Eneasz Instead 260 – The Right to be Wrong About Doom 259 – Chill Out on AI in 2028? 258 – How Effective Altruism Has Evolved 257 – Pentagon Comes For Claude 256 – Writing for LLMs 255 – Eneasz goes to CFAR, and Epistemically Honest Reassurance 254 – The True Theme and Meaning of HPMOR 253 – The Seven Vicious Vices of Rationalists 252 – The 12 Virtues of Rationality, with Alex and David 251 – Matt Freeman on What Makes a Good Story 250 – Making the Good Life with Matt Freeman 249 – Red Heart and IABIED with Max Harms 248 – Seeking Alpha, with Jay 247 – The Void, with Matt Freeman, part 2 246 – The Void, with Matt Freeman, part 1 245 – AI Welfare, with Rob Long and Rosie Campbell of Eleos 244 – How and Why to Form a Church, with Andrew Willsen 243 – Wes Is Not The Monogamy Police, with Wesly Fenza and Jennifer Kesteloot 242 – TracingWoodgrains, live at Manifest 2025 Bonus – AI Village Hosts An Event For Humans 241 – Doom Debates, with Liron Shapira 240 – How To Live Well With High P(Doom) – with Ben Pace, Brandon Hendrickson, Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg 239 – SymbyAI 238 – Part 2 of How A Rationalist Becomes A Christian 237 – How A Rationalist Becomes A Christian (pt 1) 236 – Twilight of the Edgelords with Liam Nolan 235 – Gender Differences, with Wes and Jen 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?