166 – Getting Lucky

Luck is the most power force in the universe, and leaving power untapped is not very rational.

Searching for Outliers

How to Get Lucky

Also mentioned:

Feedback – It’s Probably Not Lithium
The audio version of It’s Probably Not Lithium from the LessWrong Curated Podcast
The entirety of the LessWrong Curated Podcast

Friendship is Optimal

Things you’re allowed to do

Micro-Marriages

Bad At Marketing? Eneasz’s novel What Lies Dreaming,
and Substack DeathIsBad

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0:26:30 Main Topic – Outliers and Luck
1:36:39 LW posts
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy

Asch’s Conformity Experiment

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

On Expressing Your Concerns

Lonely Dissent

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165 – DREAM: Dunbar Rules Everything Around Me

Dunbar’s Number is both the cause of and downfall of Human Civilization

Low-Status degrades your health

Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything

Mentioned in the follow-ups section:

Lithium suspect?

AIs threaten proof-of-work

The Mind Killer podcast

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0:11:58 Main Topic pt1 Status in Dunbar Spheres
0:46:37 Main Topic pt2 The Dawn of Everything
1:15:08 LW posts
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Effortless Technique

Zen and the Art of Rationality

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy

Asch’s Conformity Experiment

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164 – Pregnancy is Body Horror

Katrina is back!! We talk about how pregnancy isn’t super easy, and is borderline body horror.

War In The Womb

Expecting Better book

Pregnant Women Are Smug

Racial Differences in Maternal Mortality

How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and PubMed version

Clown Registry

Still A Good Mom

1:32:08 LW posts
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Two Cult Koans

False Laughter

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Effortless Technique

Zen and the Art of Rationality

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163 – Effective Aesthetics

Étienne Fortier-Dubois argues that Effective Altruism has an Aesthetics problem

But first! Some extended listener feedback

Nuclear War is A-OK if you’re Russian State TV

Three Bodies At Mitani

A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows

00:42  Abortion Clarification & Jace’s Addition
14:15  Best Purchase Ever
27:24  Main Topic: Effective Altruism’s Neglect of Aesthetics
1:19:09  LW posts
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Guardians of Ayn Rand

The Litany Against Gurus

Politics and Awful Art

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Two Cult Koans

False Laughter

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162 – Roe No Mo’

Roe v Wade is going away. This sucks, but it’s not the end of the world.

Polls show most Americans support allowing abortion in the first weeks, banning it in the last trimester.

In state’s where it’s legal, one can have a self-managed abortion.
AidAccess is available to help. Services like ipostal1 will forward mail from other states.
Misoprostol is relatively easy to acquire from veterinary sources.

Eneasz is unhappy with Kamala Harris

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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Guardians of the Truth

Guardians of the Gene Pool

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Guardians of Ayn Rand

The Litany Against Gurus

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161 – Restoring the Kingdom of Hawai’i

Not long ago, Hawai’i was a constitutional monarchy. A lot of Hawaiian residents want that restored. Travis Don Kailikea Paradea takes us through what happened, and what’s going down now.

Recommended by Travis:

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

The Rise and Fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom: A Pictorial History

Unfamiliar Fishes

Weblog of the acting government of the Hawaiian Kingdom

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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Argument Screens Off Authority

Hug the Query

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Guardians of the Truth

Guardians of the Gene Pool

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