The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Bayesian Conspiracy episodes:

August 06, 2025 243 – Wes Is Not The Monogamy Police, with Wesly Fenza and Jennifer Kesteloot
Wes defends his post I Am Not the Monogamy Police, while Jennifer asserts it’s about more than monogamy.
LINKS
Wes’s post I Am Not the Monogamy Police
His blog, Living Within Reason
The original tweets – monogamy vs charity
Aella’s Chattel Childhood post
The Mind Killer
Our Groceries
00:00:05 – The Monogamy Police
01:51:46 – Guild of the Rose
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:
on hiatus, returning this summer
...more
1h 54min
August 04, 2025 Bayes Blast 44 – Play-By-Post Storytelling
Olivia from the Guild of the Rose is back to tell us about the noble and most ancient tradition of play-by-post storytelling. (Spoiler, it’s the precursor to glowfic!)
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17min
July 23, 2025 242 – TracingWoodgrains, live at Manifest 2025
Eneasz sits down with Tracing Woodgrains before a live audience at Manifest 2025 for a wide range of topics. Then we follow up some more afterwards.
LINKS
Tracing Woodgrains on Twitter and at his Substack
A reddit history of what convinced Trace he couldn’t remain Mormon
The Center for Educational Progress
Our previous episode with Trace were we discuss the modern secular religion of Social Justice Progressivism
Love Stays Loved by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg (Swimmer963)
00:00:21 – Trace Live at Manifest
00:42:31 – Follow-up with Trace
01:31:33 – Guild of the Rose
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:
on hiatus, returning this summer
...more
1h 34min
July 22, 2025 Bayes Blast 43 – Die-ing to Intuit Bayes’ Theorem
Olivia is a member of the Guild of the Rose and a total badass. Enjoy the intuitive and fun lesson in Bayesian reasoning she shared with me at VibeCamp.
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14min
July 11, 2025 Bonus – AI Village Hosts An Event For Humans
Four AIs recruited a human to host a story-telling event in Dolores Park. Larissa Schiavo is this human. She tells of her interaction with the AIs, the story they wrote, and the meeting between human and machine in Dolores Park.
LINKS
Larissa’s Post detailing the whole event – Primary Hope
The AI’s story – Resonance
AI Village
Short Stories – Maneki Neko, and Cat Pictures Please
Kevin Roose was hated by the AIs
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
...more
37min
July 09, 2025 241 – Doom Debates, with Liron Shapira
Liron Shapira debates AI luminaries and public intellectuals on the imminent possibility of human extinction. Let’s get on the P(Doom) Train.
LINKS
Doom Debates on YouTube
Doom Debates podcast
Most Watched Debate – Mike Israetel
Liron’s current favorite debate – David Duvenaud
MATS program for people that want to get involved (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars)
How to Live Well with High P(Doom)
The ancient TBC episode on AlphaGo
Other Best-Of episodes of The Bayesian Conspiracy
“Don’t Eat Honey” by Bentham’s Bulldog
Also – If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies preorders here, or at Amazon.
00:00:05 – Doom Debates
01:29:34 – A Human Is Worth 7 Bees
01:37:20 – Guild of the Rose
01:49:24 – 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:
on hiatus, returning this summer
...more
1h 52min
June 25, 2025 240 – How To Live Well With High P(Doom) – with Ben Pace, Brandon Hendrickson, Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
Many of us have a high P(Doom) — a belief new AI tools could cause human extinction in the very near future. How can one live a good life in the face of this? We start with a panel discussion with Ben Pace and Brandon Hendrickson at Lighthaven during the LessOnline conference, and take perspectives from our audience as well. Afterwards Eneasz speaks with Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg individually.
Also – If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies preorders here, or at Amazon.
LINKS
MicroCovid.org
The Fooming Shoggoths
A Song For Two Voices
Paid Bonus content – Steven & Eneasz talk one-on-one, with significant personal details from Steven’s life (patreon, substack)
00:00:05 – Panel Discussion at LessOnline
00:39:10 – Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg chat
00:54:24 – Guild of the Rose
00:56:31 – 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:
on hiatus, returning this summer
...more
59min
June 14, 2025 Bayes Blast 42 – Epic AI Music
David Youssef used Claude and Suno to make some truly awesome music. He tells us how he did it and some of his favorite lyrics. Check out the lyrics to the main song we discuss (Silicon Soul) here!
Check out the Spotify playlist or the Youtube playlist
He’s also one of the cofounders of the Guild of the Rose! Check them out and our initial episode with him and Alex.
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17min
June 11, 2025 239 – SymbyAI
Steven works at SymbyAI, a startup that’s bringing AI into research review and replication. We talk with founder Ashia Livaudais about improving how we all Do Science.
Also – If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies preorders here, or at Amazon.
LINKS
SymbyAI
Contact Ashia at [email protected]
Kaggle
arXiv
00:00:01 – If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
00:05:40 – SymbyAI
01:17:51 – Guild of the Rose
01:21:05 – 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:
on hiatus, returning this summer
...more
1h 23min
May 28, 2025 238 – Part 2 of How A Rationalist Becomes A Christian
We speak with a long-time Denver rationalist who’s converting to Christianity about why. Eneasz can’t get over the abandonment of epistemics. This is Part 2, see the previous episode (here) for Part 1.
LINKS
Thomas Ambrose on Twitter
Paid Bonus content for the week – Pressed Into The Navy (patreon, substack)
00:00:05 – The trap
01:19:00 – Guild of the Rose
01:20:16 – Listener Feedback/Corrections & Announcements
01:24:31 – 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:
on hiatus, returning this summer
...more
1h 27min

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