The Bayesian Conspiracy

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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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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

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Rikard joins us to speak about the benefits of consensual violence

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

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Brandon comes back to explain how wind works. Steven and Brandon are not the two you want if you want to quickly get to the point so this went on for a good while. It’s an awesome conversation and Patrons and Substack supporters will have access to the whole thing.

https://earth.nullschool.net/

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Brandon Hendrickson takes over the podcast! He interrogates Eneasz about his past, and this crazy rationalist religion idea, and introduces a vast knowledge base of secular religion development.

LINKS
Brandon’s substack, The Lost Tools of Learning
Simple square visualization to understand Bayes Theorem
SA – Yes We Have Noticed The Skulls
That’s Modalism, Patrick!
Bentham’s Bulldog substack
The Peace of Westphalia and the War on Christmas
SA – A Theory of Religion
Brandon’s googledoc with the outline of how to follow-up Christianity
Bart Campolo’s website/podcast
The Rise of Christianity (Amazon)
The Rise of Mormonism (Amazon)
Building the Benedict Option (Amazon)
SA – The Lottery of Fascinations
AskWho Casts AI
Prev Episodes with Brandon, on his ACX-Winning Book Review of The Educated Mind – 200 & 201

0:04:05 – Can Rationlists Be Theists?
0:16:13 – Eneasz’s Mysterious Jehovah’s Witness Past
0:49:48 – Why Does Eneasz Want A Rationalist Religion?
1:12:02 – The Rise of Christianity
1:36:21 – VibeCamp Debrief
1:41:57 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:43:41 – Listener Feedback
1:50:52 – Less Wrong Posts
2:17:13 – Thank the Patron

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