Bayes Blast 16 – Holding PRNS (Present Rate, No Singularity)

How to talk about the future

From On “Present Rate No Singularity” at Thing of Things

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Bayes Blast 15 – Technological Overemployment

Mo’ productivity, mo’ money, at last
Zvi’s The Overemployed Via ChatGPT

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190 – How to be Human Together, at VibeCamp, with GPTBrooke

We talk with Brooke, creator and driving force behind VibeCamp. We talk about VibeCamp 2, being human, and the post/rats corner of twitter.


LINKS
Brooke on Twitter
Brooke’s most-moved-by-this Tweet, the Lemur Who Vibed
Eneasz’s retrospective post on VibeCamp
What are vibes? Meme to Vibe: A Philosophical Report by Peter Limberg
The Neighborhood SF project
Rational Magic, an article about postrationalists by The New Atlantis
DashCon


0:00:01 – VibeCamp!!
1:00:51 – Listener Feedback
1:05:51 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:06:51 – Less Wrong Posts
1:30:03 – Thank the Patron


We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Words as Hidden Inferences

Extensions and Intensions

Next Sequence Posts:

Buy Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace

Similarity Clusters

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Bayes Blast 14 – Reddit Sucks

Steven blasts Eneasz with the latest news about how Reddit is doing it’s best to ruin everyone’s good time.

Reddit post from Apollo’s developer on the subject

Followup post for some debunking and elaboration

Links to everything Steven mentioned in the blast are in those two links.

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189 – AI Bloomer David Youssef

Actual photo of David’s Baklava

David Youssef from The Guild of the Rose has great ways to integrate ChatGPT into your work, and also thinks AIs will keep humans around.

Links:
ChatGPT leaking Samsung chip secrets is iceberg’s tip
Training an LLMs model Achieving 99.3% of ChatGPT’s Performance
GPT 4 is Smarter than You Think: Introducing SmartGPT


0:00:23 – Part One: Maximizing ChatGPT(4) usefulness
0:36:15 – Part Two: No Really, We Might Live!
1:14:04 – Thank the Patron
1:15:24 – Less Wrong Posts


We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality

The Parable of the Dagger

The Parable of Hemlock

Next Sequence Posts:

Words as Hidden Inferences

Extensions and Intensions

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188 – Living in the Early Singularity, with Matt Freeman

Matt Freeman joins us to discuss life in changing times. Major take away for Eneasz: Be the kind of person your post-singularity descendants will be proud to say “I descended from that man/woman”

Links:
Put stuff in orbit on a budget
Three Worlds Collide
Singularity Song, by The Lisps

0:05:37 –  Guild of the Rose Update
0:09:03 – Part One: OMG Guys This Stuff is Awesome!!
0:53:07 – Part Two: Eneasz’s Sexy French Depression


We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch)


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

none

Next Sequence Posts:

Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality

The Parable of the Dagger

The Parable of Hemlock

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