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42 – Emotionally Charged Discussion

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/s/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_042.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJulia Galef’s ‘Update Project‘. Check out some of the other links on her website too. Steven: “There’s a ton of content and techniques in this area that I wanted to cover and didn’t get a chance to. I’m including a couple of further reading suggestions below.” Brienne Yudkowsky’s […]

41 – Ritual and Spirituality

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/s/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_041.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMore ritual than spirituality, honestly. We were aiming for both, but caught up in ritual. Perhaps we’ll revisit the spirituality aspect in a future episode! Melting Asphalt on Religion, Politics, and Self-Suppression Welcome to Night Vale, and my All Hail summary The type of poetry Eneasz likes is […]

40 – Making Humans Legible

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/s/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_040.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYou can’t control (well) what you can’t count Samzdat’s posts that served as the basis of much of this episode: Man as a Rationalist Animal, and The Meridian of Her Greatness. Also: The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life (not Witchdoctors Without Borders, as Eneasz misremembered) Matt […]

39 – Transhumanism (pt 2)

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/s/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_039.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSUnder the Aegis of Transhuman Spiderman + Other Considerations (and Listener Feedback Catch-up) Fiction The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, by Roger Williams The Golden Age, by John C Wright Utopia, LOL?, by Jamie Wahls (+audio version) Red Legacy and Other Stories, by Eneasz Brodski Non-Fiction Making Beliefs Pay […]

38 – Transhumanism (pt 1)

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_038.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSGoing beyond our meat-suits Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism text. Also available in audio here, starting at 6:52 Eneasz with PZ Meyers, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and David Brin: The Immortality Debate The Fun Theory Sequence (also – here’s a quick summary, but the summaries really never do the sequences full justice) Chinese scientists […]

37 – AlphaGo Returns

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_037.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAlphaGo is back. Patrick talks about its latest accomplishments, its future, and other topics in game advances. Our first AlphaGo episode (a very early one, sorry about the audio quality) News of the most recent AlphaGo adventures Steph Curry’s training is on a new level Eneasz’s favorite type […]