The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Bayesian Conspiracy episodes:

July 13, 2022 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
0:00:36 Feedback
0:26:30 Main Topic – Outliers and Luck
1:36:39 LW posts
1:49:52 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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
...more
1h 52min
June 29, 2022 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
0:00:34 Feedback
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
1:30:04 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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
...more
1h 33min
June 15, 2022 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
1:51:00 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
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
...more
1h 53min
June 01, 2022 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
1:36:37 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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
...more
1h 39min
May 18, 2022 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
1:08:13 LW posts
1:15:40 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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
...more
1h 17min
May 04, 2022 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
1:17:57 LW posts
1:25:44 Thank the Patron
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
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
...more
1h 28min
April 20, 2022 160 – GAI is Imminent
Four Major AI Advancements In One Week!
New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – essentially everyone has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute
Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals
DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand
Socratic Modeling system
1:39:51 LW posts
Also mentioned:
Overcoming Bias: AI Language Progress
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
Github Copilot
Anthropic AI
The Mind Killer
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Argument Screens Off Authority
Hug the Query
(edit: misspellings is how we prove we aren’t AIs :P)
...more
2h 8min
April 06, 2022 159 – Cryonics Concerns, and Theses On Sleep
We address theoretical cryonics concerns, and discuss Guzey’s Theses On Sleep
3:15 Cryonics Concerns
49:21 Theses On Sleep
1:23:01 LW posts
1:50:16 Thank the Patron
Also mentioned:
LW Cryonics Probability Estimates guide
Our episode with Rudy Hoffman
Lifespan podcast
Limitless w Chris Hemsworth
Counter-theses on Sleep
Scott Alexander’s Sleep Is The Mate Of Death
Cryonics Insitute FAQ and info re transportation services
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
When None Dare Urge Restraint
The Robbers Cave Experiment
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
...more
1h 52min
March 27, 2022 Monarchy Reactions – post Episode 158 discussion (Teaser)
The Conspirators regroup to discuss if/how their views on monarchy have changed.
The full episode is available for our Patrons
Mentioned:
List of Current States With Monarchs
CGP Gray’s Rules for Rulers (Keys of Power)
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World (warning – crappy 80s song)
...more
16min
March 23, 2022 158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fascism?
We speak with Cornelius about this idea that Monachy is good because it can save us from populist fascism.
1:44:50 LW posts
2:14:45 Thank the Patron
Cornelius blogs at EsotericMusings.substack.com
Also mentioned:
Gray Mirror Substack
Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Jace’s counterargument is basically a link to Scott Alexander’s Anti-Reactionary FAQ
We did a “Reactions to this episode” mini-episode the following week
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast
LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Fake Fake Utility Functions
Fake Utility Functions
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
When None Dare Urge Restraint
The Robbers Cave Experiment
...more
2h 17min

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How many episodes does The Bayesian Conspiracy have?

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