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Matt Freeman has been cohosting several media analysis podcasts for over a decade. He and his cohost Scott have been doing weekly episodes of the Doofcast every Friday and they cover movies, books, and TV shows. Matt and Scott’s analysis podcasts have made me love stories even more and have equipped me with tools to enhance my ability to think more deeply about the stories I consume and enjoy them even more.
My hope is that this meta-conversation will encourage anyone who hasn’t listened to the Doofcast or anything else Doof! Media has put out to give it a shot and see what you’ve been missing out on. Unfortunately, we were unable to coordinate a time for Matt’s cohost Scott to join us so hopefully I did an ok job making this entertaining and fun with only one expert guest.
Shoutout to Skyler Crossman, the Less Wrong community organizer extraordinaire!
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00:00:05 – Diving into stories
01:47:42 – Interlude with Eneasz about the East Coast Mega Meetup!
01:52:31 – Guild of the Rose
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Booker is a long-time attendee and one of the coordinators of the Denver area Less Wrong community. Community engagement isn’t just a background task for him – he’s taken real steps to get involved with and improve his community and you can too! He’s here to tell us about the things he’s done and give some guidance on how you all can get involved and help make your community more like the place you’d want to live.
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While Eneasz is busy at InkHaven, Steven sits down with Matt Freeman to talk about not-AI stuff! We had (in my opinion) a great conversation about stoic philosophy, the traps of getting too entrenched in any philosophical framework, and some of the ingredients of a happy life.
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00:00:05 – Matt Freeman
01:55:23 – Guild of the Rose
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We talk with Max Harms on the air for the first time since 2017! He’s got a new book coming out (pre-order your copy here or at Amazon) and we spend about the first half talking about If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
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00:00:05 – Max Harms
01:28:53 – Guild of the Rose
01:31:00 – Miscellanea
01:40:58 – Thank the Supporter!
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Jay talks with us about finding Alpha – returns above the base rate – in every day life (and what this means).
LINKS
Optimize Everything, Jay’s substack
Jay on Twitter
Arbor Trading Bootcamp
Kelsey’s argument that We Need To Be Able To Sue AI Companies
00:00:05 – Alpha with Jay
01:28:53 – Guild of the Rose
01:31:00 – Miscellanea
01:40:58 – Thank the Supporter!
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We continue discussing Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” in the context of how to relate to LLMs. If God imagines Claude hard enough, does Claude become real?
LINKS
The Void
Audio reading of The Void, from AskWho
The referenced episode where the three of us spoke of Janus’s post “Simulators”
Claude-Clark post – Simulacra Welfare: Meet Clark, by Grace Kind
Golden Gate Claude
Vox on Shrimp Welfare
Kelsey Piper on UBI not helping Americans
Eneasz story collection “Dear Grom” and his novel “What Lies Dreaming”
Paid Bonus content for the week – The lads get sniped by DoofMovies.com (patreon, substack)
00:00:05 – The Void
01:32:08 – Guild of the Rose
01:35:41 – Miscellanea
01:41:45 – Thank the Supporter!
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
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