Live Show At Lighthaven

If you’re near Berkeley on 11/13/24 at 4pm, come see us! Address and info at this link. We’ll take a few questions from email at bayesianconspiracypodcast@gmail.com please let us know if you’re a supporter so we can give extra thanks if so. 🙂

 

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224 – Cringe Gates and Cultural Drift

We discuss Eneasz’s Shrimp Welfare Watches The EA Gates, briefly touch on Hanson’s Cultural Drift, and tackle a lot of follow-ups and feedback.

LINKS
Shrimp Welfare Watches The EA Gates
(also at TwitterX)
Cultural Drift
Significant Digits is here! From AskWho
Eneasz has a boomer crisis about his AI clone
Deep Utopia review
Utopia, LOL? (Jamie Wahl’s story) (with audio!)
The Rationalist Canon – Pope v Calif

00:00:05 – Strange phone call from Lighthaven?
00:01:28 – Feedback & Announcements
00:34:14 – The Cringe Gate
01:15:56 – Guild of the Rose
01:17:20 – Less Wrong Posts
01:40:20 – Thank the Supporter!


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Where Philosophy Meets Science

Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?

Next Sequence Posts:

Classical Configuration Spaces

The Quantum Arena

Feynman Paths

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Bayes Blast 36 – AI Grifters in Birmingham

AskWho just attended a “lecture” by AI Grifter Tania Duarte

Slide
The “TESCREAL” Bungle  by Ozy Brennan
AskWho Casts AI podcast

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223 – Going Back to the Classics

Classic, season one adventure this week! Eneasz and Steven have a loosely structured conversation about the sequences’ value, the virtue of silence, scissor statements, and the value of philosophy.

LINKS
Cryonics is Free!
Dan Dennett – Where Am I?
The Virtue of Silence
Scissors Statements

00:00:05 – Pre-pre show Discussion
01:41:43 – Guild of the Rose
01:44:48 – Less Wrong Posts
02:05:57 – Thank the Supporter!


Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out.


Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Configurations and Amplitude

Joint Configurations

Distinct Configurations

Next Sequence Posts:

Where Philosophy Meets Science

Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?

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Bonus – Discord Culture (preview)

Eneasz chats with TBC Discord member Delta about the cultivation of small online cultures. Get the full episode via our Patreon or our SubStack!

 

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Bayes Blast 35 – Disproving The Blindsight Thesis

GPT-o1 demonstrates the Blindsight thesis is likely wrong.

Peter Watts on Blindsight
Andrew Cutler on origins of consciousness part 1 and part 2
Thou Art Godshatter

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