Bayes Blast 3 – Dynamics Can Arise If You Nudge

Duncan Sabien on dynamics [can] arise if you have people nudging in that direction

(also thanks to Liam from 2 Rash 2 Unadvised podcast for intro)

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Bayes Blast 2 – Logan’s Model of EA Burnout

My Model Of EA Burnout

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182 – The Birth and Death of Sydney (Bing AI)

We discuss Microsoft’s new Bing search chatbot – Sydney. It received a wave of media coverage due to erratic behavior, before being neutered by Microsoft. A dive into its behavior, human responses, and implications.

Links

The Birth and Death of Sydney
“Sydney Is Now Immortal”
Zvi’s Round-up
Gwern’s comment on Bing/Sydney
Astral Codex Ten post on Janus Simulators
Bankless crypto podcast – We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eneasz’s Change.org Petition
Sydney-based erotica

Other Links
The Parable of the Dagger and The Parable of the Dagger. One of these is Eneasz, the other one is a voice-matching AI.
The Uncanny Vulva
Follow Moridinamael on Twitter

email the show: bayesianconspiracypodcast@gmail.com

Which AI do you prefer:

or

(Spoiler: they’re the same picture)

0:00:53 – Steven’s Media Corner
0:01:48 – Chat with Eneasz IRL
0:02:31 – Sydney/Bing AI
01:31:09 – Guild of the Rose Update
01:33:58 – Thank the Patron


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

still not

Next Sequence Posts:

The Allais Paradox

Zut Allais!

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181 – How To Read The News With Bounded Distrust, with Wesley Fenza

We discuss Zvi’s How to Bounded Distrust with Wesley Fenza.

Wes is from The Mind Killer!

Other links:
Bounded Distrust
On Bounded Distrust
The Media Very Rarely Lies + followup + 2nd followup
People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You
Matt Yglesia on Why You Can’t Trust The Media
Discovery in lawsuit case shows FOX News hosts didn’t believe their own narrative
NYT leadership decided tech will be covered negatively
Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust
Eneasz did the dumb homework:
MIT article on how the vaccine was delayed by a week to just after the election
Nate Silver said it deserves looking into
Zvi says of Topol “there was the time he was instrumental in sabotaging approval of the Covid vaccines so that it would happen after the November election.

00:01 – How To Bounded Distrust
01:10:51 – Guild of the Rose Update
01:12:31 – Thank the Patron


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

nope

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

The Allais Paradox

Zut Allais!

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Bayes Blast 1 – In Defense of Chatbot Romance

In Defense of Chatbot Romance

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Bonus preview – YIMBY follow-ups and Vulgar EA

We have some follow-up questions to Brian, including how to weigh utils, how moral claims to an area can be adjudicated, crime, use of home ownership as an investment as government policy, eviction law, and more!

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