The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Conspiracy is minus one Jace but plus one Justin (a defense lawyer) this episode! We discuss the legalities surrounding the convictions of Derek Chauvin – the cop who (literally and legally) murdered George Floyd.

If you’re interested in a historical play by play of Justin’s write ups throughout the  court precedings, check out his posts on r/TheMotte:

• Part one.
  
• Part two.
  
• Part three.
  
• Part four.
  
• Part five.
  
• Part, six (in two parts).

Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities

Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

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This is the recording of the live episode we held on 4/18/2021.

Things mentioned:

Amazing Man 2: Love Conquers All

BBC receives 109,741 complaints over Prince Philip coverage

“My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory

The Count Censored

The Venus Project

Uncultured Swine’s episode on The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men

The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence

Hold Off On Proposing Solutions

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The Live Episode will be in our Discord this Sunday (April 18th) at 12:00 Noon Mountain Time (which is UTC -6). Anyone can join the audio channel and listen along. Anyone who wants to chat with us or ask questions (which is the primary purpose of this episode) can be given Live Guest role to speak by pinging @Conspirator in this channel and asking for a voice.

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The gang discusses class in America, and Scott Alexander’s Modest Proposal to destroy American politics.

Source posts: Fussell On Class, and A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word “Class”

Also mentioned:
RattleFic Podcast
Our episode on Albion’s Seed

The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence

Hold Off On Proposing Solutions

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David is back for us to pester him with questions about Libertarianism, and he tries to turn us all into Anarchists!! (not really (but he wouldn’t mind))

SPOILER WARNING! This episode contains spoilers for Worm, and for Pulp Fiction.

The Mind Killer podcast

“The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang is available as part of the “Exhalation” anthology.

The Scout Mindset, by Julia Galef

SSC — Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories and Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

The reddit thread mentioned in episode

Not Everything is a Clue podcast

What Lies Dreaming is available as an audio book!

Pokemon Primeval Podcast

Original Seeing

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

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The trio unites with the Mind Killers to get mind killed on Libertarianism!

Not mentioned in the episode, but worth putting here – SSC’s Anti-Libertarian FAQ

Elinor Ostrom’s book –  Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

The Mind Killer podcast

Cached Thoughts

The “Outside the Box” Box