The Bayesian Conspiracy

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80,000 hours

Two articles from Tim Ferriss’s blog

Optimal Employment – LessWrong

Occam’s Razor

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The trio, like the rest of the country, has been under a bit of stress lately. We spend some time venting and talking about framing devices to cope with the state of the world, then move onto lighter random topics. 🙂

In The Time of Tachysensia – The article Jace brought up about distortions in one’s sense of time

The bads of ads (I love this title) – The other awesome article Jace brought to the conversation about the sneaky downsides of targeted ads

Details page on Eneasz’s offer to read Less Wrong posts

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

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Kahneman’s Planning Anecdote

Conjunction Fallacy

Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

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Burdensome Details

What is Evidence?

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The EARN IT Act was introduce in March, it’s a disgusting censorship policy, and no one is talking about it. But wait it gets worse, because the LAED Act came a few months later and is a direct attack on general purpose computing.

The EARN IT Act and why it’s Bad

The LAED Act is even worse

Cory Doctorow: The War on General Purpose Computing

The Digital Preper-Bunker version of smart phone

Friendship is Optimal audio version

Instruments of Destruction text, and audio

Monster Factory

40 Times Corgis Mixed With Other Breeds

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

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)

Why I’m Blooking

Planning Fallacy

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Kahneman’s Planning Anecdote

Conjunction Fallacy

Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

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The trio sits down to discuss Kevin Simler’s essay “Crony Beliefs“. It’s awesome and absolutely worth reading the whole thing.

Ignore all the stuff we said about climate change and the wildfires. The emailers we got were right. Listen to the end for the addendum.

Climate Change and Fires (link one and link two)

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

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Rationality and the English Language

Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)

Why I’m Blooking

Planning Fallacy

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We address frustration with how hard it is to wrangle these brains.

Wikipedia on Cognitive Distortions

Spamming Mirco Intentions

Richard Wiseman’s books 59 Seconds, and As If

Replacing Guilt

Animal Madness book

A free cbt workbook
We mention CBT a lot.

Internal family systems

The movie Velvet Buzzsaw

MAPS (psychedelic therapy)

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

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Radical Honesty
We Don’t Really Want Your Participation
Applause Lights

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Rationality and the English Language

Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!