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223 – Going Back to the Classics

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Classic, season one adventure this week! Eneasz and Steven have a loosely structured conversation about the sequences’ value, the virtue of silence, scissor statements, and the value of philosophy.

LINKS
Cryonics is Free!
Dan Dennett – Where Am I?
The Virtue of Silence
Scissors Statements

00:00:05 – Pre-pre show Discussion
01:41:43 – Guild of the Rose
01:44:48 – Less Wrong Posts
02:05:57 – Thank the Supporter!

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Configurations and Amplitude

Joint Configurations

Distinct Configurations

Next Sequence Posts:

Where Philosophy Meets Science

Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?

Bonus – Discord Culture (preview)

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Eneasz chats with TBC Discord member Delta about the cultivation of small online cultures. Get the full episode via our Patreon or our SubStack!

Bayes Blast 35 – Disproving The Blindsight Thesis

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GPT-o1 demonstrates the Blindsight thesis is likely wrong.

Peter Watts on Blindsight
Andrew Cutler on origins of consciousness part 1 and part 2
Thou Art Godshatter

Bayes Blast 34 – Content Moderation is Infosec

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Steven wanted to share an interesting idea from an article that draws a neat parallel between content moderation and information security.

The post discussed here is Como is Infosec.

222 – Consciousness As Recursive Reflections with Daniel Böttger

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We talk with Daniel about his ACX guest post that posits that thoughts are conscious, rather than brains.

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Consciousness As Recursive Reflections
Seven Secular Sermons
Seven Secular Sermons video on TwitterX
LightHaven’s Eternal September

0:00:05 – Recursive Reflections
01:29:30 – Personal News from Eneasz
01:31:04 – Guild of the Rose
01:32:15 – Feedback
01:36:39 – Less Wrong Posts
01:57:37 – Thank the Patron

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Belief in the Implied Invisible

Quantum Explanations

Next Sequence Posts:

Configurations and Amplitude

Joint Configurations

Distinct Configurations