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15 – Animals

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKatrina referenced the book “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?” Wiki page about the author. See also, wikipedia on animal cognition. About the crow facial recognition and warning study. Prairie dog language study. The thought experiment of Torture vs Dust Specks. The Machiavellian Intelligence […]

14 – Street Epistemology

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSteve (@youngidealist on twitter) talks to us about Street Epistemology The Street Epistemology website, which has been significantly updated and expanded since we recorded this episode. Looking nice! The Street Epistemology book – A Manual For Creating Atheists Short text interview with Peter Boghossian by Sam Harris Practice and/or […]

13 – Game Theory

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_013.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s about modeling agents making decisions, not game design. 🙂 – EB …but you can also apply game theory to game design. – KS Yvain’s sequence of posts introducing Game Theory Defecting is MADE OF FIRE Wikipedia on Dr. Axelrod’s Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma tournament Over the years the Less […]

12 – Listener Feedback

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_012.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe covered ten episodes of feedback in one hour (and a half)! After this, we’ll reply to comments regularly at the end of episodes. Comment either at the website (www.thebayesianconspiracy.com) or at the subreddit (www.reddit.com/r/thebayesianconspiracy/). Or email us – bayesianconspiracypodcast at gmail. TONS of links this episode, because we […]

11 – Voting

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_011.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIs it rational to vote? We realize the audio quality when we have live guests is terrible, we’re working to fix that now, hopefully things will start sounding better very soon. Thanks for bearing with us! Eneasz wants to say that his understanding of Timeless Decision Theory is […]

10 – Polyamory (part 2)

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe second half of our conversation on polyamory, because we talked and talked and the episode went long. As with Part 1, positions of other parties, including current and former partners, are very likely misrepresented in this episode. Links: More Than Two – An excellent online resource to […]