The Bayesian Conspiracy

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Jay talks with us about finding Alpha – returns above the base rate – in every day life (and what this means).

LINKS
Optimize Everything, Jay’s substack
Jay on Twitter
Arbor Trading Bootcamp
Kelsey’s argument that We Need To Be Able To Sue AI Companies

00:00:05 – Alpha with Jay
01:28:53 – Guild of the Rose
01:31:00 – Miscellanea
01:40:58 – Thank the Supporter!

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We continue discussing Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” in the context of how to relate to LLMs. If God imagines Claude hard enough, does Claude become real?

LINKS
The Void
Audio reading of The Void, from AskWho
The referenced episode where the three of us spoke of Janus’s post “Simulators”
Claude-Clark post – Simulacra Welfare: Meet Clark, by Grace Kind
Golden Gate Claude
Vox on Shrimp Welfare
Kelsey Piper on UBI not helping Americans
Eneasz story collection “Dear Grom” and his novel “What Lies Dreaming”

Paid Bonus content for the week – The lads get sniped by DoofMovies.com (patreon, substack)

00:00:05 – The Void
01:32:08 – Guild of the Rose
01:35:41 – Miscellanea
01:41:45 – Thank the Supporter!

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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.

LINKS
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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