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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.

LINKS
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

Bayes Blast 33 – Porn Sims

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Can we achieve our true potential?

based on – Interview Day At Thiel Capital
also mentioned:
Meetups Everywhere 2024
Are You Jesus or Hitler

221 – Why The Field? Why Zombies?? with Liam

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Eneasz tries to understand why someone would posit a Chalmers Field, and brings up the horrifying implications.

LINKS
Zombies! Zombies?
2 Rash 2 Unadvised (the Terra Ignota analysis podcast)
The previous TBC episode, where we first discussed other aspects of this
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers

0:00:05 – Even More Zombies
01:59:12 – Feedback
02:02:03 – Guild of the Rose
02:03:43 – Less Wrong Posts

Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.

Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle

GAZP vs. GLUT

Next Sequence Posts:

Belief in the Implied Invisible

Quantum Explanations