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3 – Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_003.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe welcomed the one, the only, Eliezer Yudkowsky to the Bayesian Conspiracy for a quick chat. His latest project is Arbital, an ambitious effort to solve online discussion. It is focusing on solving online explanation. They want to do for difficult explanations – and someday, complicated arguments in general – what Wikipedia […]

2 – What is this “Sanity Waterline” you speak of?

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/p/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_002.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCan the Sanity Waterline be raised? Should it be? And just what does that mean anyway? Based on the post “Raising The Sanity Waterline” Also relevant to today’s discussion: Joy In The Merely Real, Christian Bale Did Nothing Wrong, and You Kant Dismiss Universalizability (particularly section III) Link to the […]

1 – What Use is Rationality?

https://media.blubrry.com/thebayesianconspiracy/www.thebayesianconspiracy.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/Bayesian_Conspiracy_001.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe spent the hour trying to answer a question posed to Eneasz regarding his work with the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast. Here is the query (with pleasantries removed): Is there evidence that a rational approach to decision making, either on the personal or institutional […]

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