The Bayesian Conspiracy

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We discuss Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” in the context of how to relate to LLMs.

“When you talk to ChatGPT, who or what are you talking to?”

LINKS
The Void
Audio reading of The Void, from AskWho
The referenced episode where the three of us spoke of Janus’s post “Simulators”
The Measure of a Man episode
Darmok episode
Kyle Fish on 80,000 Hours podcast
Contra Shrimp Welfare
UBI Doesn’t Work

00:00:05 – The Void
01:29:17 – Guild of the Rose
01:31:10 – Miscellanea
01:40:57 – Thank the Supporter!

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Audio reading of The Void, from AskWho

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Do we need to be concerned for the welfare of AIs today? What about the near future? Eleos AI Research is asking exactly that.

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Eleos AI Research
People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners
Bees Can’t Suffer?
Lena, by qntm
When AI Seems Conscious
Experience Machines, Rob’s substack
The War on General Computation
WaPo on Blake Lemoine
Discordianism
Twitter for: Eleos, Rob Long, Rosie Campbell

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00:00:05 – AI Welfare
01:22:33 – InkHaven
01:27:49 – Guild of the Rose
01:31:55 – Thank the Supporter!

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Andrew Willsen tells us how incorporating as a church allows you to navigate modernity, and gives us the basic steps to doing so.

LINKS
Andrew’s church substack – The Church of the Infinite Game
To incorporate in CA file ARTS-PB-501(c)(3)
CA Form FTB3500 booklet
IRS document 1828 (see also the summary)
Nonprofit Compliance Checklist
The Ethical Cult Checklist
AI Anxiety Dinners
Eneasz’s follow-up post to Monogamy Police

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Paid Bonus content for the week – Mononormativity follow-up (patreon, substack)

00:00:05 – Take Me To Church
01:09:35 – Guild of the Rose
01:11:19 – Feedback & Follow-up on Monogamy Police
01:21:28 – Thank the Supporter!

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Is a bee worth 1/7th of a human? Can a bee suffer at all? Nathan joins us to discuss what neural structures are needed for this question to make sense.

Map of all the fruitfly neurons

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Wes defends his post I Am Not the Monogamy Police, while Jennifer asserts it’s about more than monogamy.

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Wes’s post I Am Not the Monogamy Police
His blog, Living Within Reason
The original tweets – monogamy vs charity
Aella’s Chattel Childhood post
The Mind Killer
Our Groceries

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00:00:05 – The Monogamy Police
01:51:46 – Guild of the Rose

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