142 – Do This

We discuss Dan Sivers Do This Directives

Mentioned:

Dan’s interviews

The Scout Mindset book

Jace’s Funny Dance video

An Alien God audio


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Fake Justification

An Alien God

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

The Wonder of Evolution

Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)

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141 – Raising Younglings

Velcro from the subreddit and discord joins us to offer a much-valued parent’s perspective on child rearing from the perspective of someone who’s actually reared children. Jace was out looking at tiny houses (it’s a thing, they’re adorable/awesome and you should google it) and was unable to make it for this episode.

We’ve talked about kid/young adult things for like 2 months now. We’ll find something very different for a change of pace next episode. 🙂

The subreddit can be found here

Velcro mentioned that cool talk. It was great and you can check it out here: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK?

Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation

A Case Study of Motivated Continuation

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Fake Justification

An Alien God

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140 – Trigger Warning: Old Men Yelling at Clouds

There’s too many clouds, and they’re ruining stuff that’s good!

Mentioned in this episode:

Do This. Directives.

A very early episode of ours about Feelings

Top ACLU lawyer comes out as pro-book-burning

Replatforming?

Discusses the overview of the Dean of Claremont McKenna

Shares the exact wording of the email discussed above


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Double Illusion of Transparency

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK?

Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation

A Case Study of Motivated Continuation

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139 – Kids These Days

Running with the theme of childhood/adolescent responsibility, we start off with a brief live-feedback section from esteemed guest Charlie and then move on to discuss Johnathan Haidt and Greg Lukianov’s 2015 Atlantic essay (mostly informed by Haidt’s subsequent podcast appearances) The Coddling of the American Mind, which was turned into a book 3 years later. We didn’t quite hit all the beats we wanted to, but we still had fun and hope you do too. 

Mentioned in this episode:

The Elephant in the Brain

Jonathan Haidt discussing this on Sam Harris’s podcast


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Self-Anchoring

Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Double Illusion of Transparency

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

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138 – Are Teens People?

We discuss Robert Epstein’s “Teens 2.0” as he makes the Case Against Adolescence.

Eneasz’s Highlights from Teens 2.o

The Banned Goods Store

How Adult Are You? test

See also Youthfacts.org

National Youth Rights Association

Nurses on Young People, as seen on Facebook


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Self-Anchoring

Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here

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137 – Can You Consent to Listening to this Episode?

Who can be allowed to choose their sex partners?

0:00 – 37:00 — Less Wrong Posts Discussion
37:03 – end — Main Subject Discussion

Mentioned in this show:

Worth The Candle & Not Everything Is A Clue


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities

Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Self-Anchoring

Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here

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