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A surprising update for two previously maple-pilled Yanks

 

We dig into the classic LW post Zombies! Zombies? and talk a lot of philosophy with Liam from the 2 Rash 2 Unadvised podcast.

I (Steven) spent a bunch of time trying to export the conversation from Discord that Liam, Eneasz, and I had. I thought it provided a lot of awesome extra depth to the episode’s topic. Did you know that it’s basically impossible to export from Discord? I’d have edited it for brevity but just getting it at all took forever. Check it out here.

Also, our hero AskWho audio-ized it! You can listen to the exchange rather than read it here.

Stay tuned for next time as we talk about… A One Way Interaction With An Additional Fundamental Law of Reality?

LINKS
Zombies! Zombies?
2 Rash 2 Unadvised (the Terra Ignota analysis podcast)
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Consciousness As Recursive Reflections, a guest post by Daniel Bottger at ACD

 

0:00:05 – Zombies!
01:56:37 – Guild of the Rose
02:00:22 – Thank the Patron


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Zombies! Zombies?

Next Sequence Posts:

none

Inspired by Trace’s speech about excellence at VibeCamp 3, Eneasz and Steven speak to Tracing Woodgrains about Excellence and its various aspects

LINKS
Trace’s SubStack
Trace’s Twitter
Wes on TracingWoodgrains as the Nietzschean Superman
Gymnastics Then vs Now video
Evolution of Gymnastics video

0:00:05 – Excellence
01:17:24 – Guild of the Rose
01:20:21 – Thank the Patron


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Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

none

Next Sequence Posts:

Zombies! Zombies?

Spurred by comments from a couple of episodes ago, we wanted to make sure we didn’t misrepresent Matthew’s position and he agreed to come lay it out for us on the show. Check out the links below to dive in deeper.

LINKS
Bentham’s Newsletter
Bentham’s Bulldog on the Best Argument for God and also Miracles
Skeptoid #247 on The “Miracle” of Calanda and the Followup Episode
From Matthew’s Substack:
On Consciousness
On Eliezer Yudkowsky Being Wrong
On His Moral Non-Naturalism
On Beliefs Depending on Intuition

Eneasz’s longer post following up on this conversation

0:00:04 – Intro and The Best Argument For God
01:41:55 – Updates and Feedback
01:48:45 – Guild of the Rose
01:50:51 – Less Wrong Posts
02:13:04 – Thank the Patron


Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Reductive Reference

Zombies! Zombies? (sort of)

Next Sequence Posts:

(TBD while we decide when we’re doing the Zombies episode)

Rikard joins us to speak about the benefits of consensual violence

LINKS
Rikard’s Substack – Drunken Masterpieces
Rikard is @rikardhjort Twitter
Defense Against the Dark Arts is just the Dark Arts
The Ultimate Self-Defense Championship
Armchair Violence
The poem Rikard recited

0:00:17 – Consensual Violence
1:24:05 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:25:37 – Less Wrong Posts
1:49:15 – Thank the Patron


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Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Heat vs. Motion

Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons!

Next Sequence Posts:

Reductive Reference

Zombies! Zombies?

Rachel Zuber joins us to talk about hospice work, dying in America, and why she’s less optimistic about cryonics now.

LINKS
All the Living and the Dead
Caitlin Doughty on YouTube
CI cryonics case reports
Places of Death in the US
Prev Episodes – Cryonics pt 1 and pt 2 w Robert McIntyre, and Cryo with Rudi Hoffman
Bentham’s Bulldog on the Best Argument and also Miracles??
Skeptoid #247 on The “Miracle” of Calanda

0:00:17 – Dying and Cryonics
1:40:33 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:44:19 – Bentham’s Bulldog’s Terrible Best Argument For God
2:03:45 – Listener Feedback
2:08:25 – Less Wrong Posts
2:26:43 – Thank the Patron


Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Hand vs. Fingers

Angry Atoms

Next Sequence Posts:

Heat vs. Motion

Brain Breakthrough! It’s Made of Neurons!