We got to see each other for the first time in months, AND Jace wasn’t there to keep us on track, so this went long. Whoops!

Pitch Meeting

The Virtue of Silence

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?

Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Science as Attire

Fake Causality

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Semantic Stopsigns

Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

The Futility of Emergence

Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!

Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra

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News discussed:

Justin Amash is running for President

The Transhumanist Party

Power Problems’ discussion of the USS Roosevelt 

The Supreme Court is taking another look at abortion rights

Kevin Drum: We Are About to Commit Collective Suicide?

John Cochrane: Dumb Reopening Might Work

Marginal Revolution: Did We Lock Down Some Parts of the Country Too Early?

Maryland Governor Worried That the Federal Government Will Seize Their Supplies

Short Circuit podcast on qualified immunity

Happy News!

The Supreme Court may be reevaluating qualified immunity

Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say

Test introduced to market with 99% accuracy

The HU – Shoog Shoog

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Sorry for the delay on this one. We had some technical difficulties. Episodes will resume on their normal schedule, don’t worry.

This episode we discuss the SSC post Socratic Grilling!

We also talk about sea lioning

We mentioned the other SSC post Black People Are Less Likely

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Fake Explanations

Guessing the Teacher’s Password

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Science as Attire

Fake Causality

Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!

New intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra

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The Bayesian Conspiracy Reddit, featuring Sonarman720’s feedback from last episode

News discussed:

The Navy is now recommending that Capt. Crozier be reinstated

Georgia is opening up some businesses

Florida beaches are limiting the hours they are open

State are forming regional coalitions to coordinate reopening

The FDA is no longer arbitrarily blocking non-cotton swabs being used in coronavirus testing

World Food Program warns of worldwide food shortages

Trump wants to cure Coronavirus by injecting bleach into people

The cholera riots

Michigan (not Wisconsin!) seems to have some arbitrary social distancing rules

Robert Graboyes #PostCOVID twitter thread

Happy news!

Listen to Planet Money!

Las Vegas has a drive in strip club

Emergent Ventures: supporting entrepreneurs with ideas for meaningfully improving society

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What’s been getting the Conspirators through this lockdown?

Steven:

Eneasz:

Jace:

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

Is Molecular Nanotechnology “Scientific”?

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Fake Explanations

Guessing the Teacher’s Password

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WHO is reporting statistics from Taiwan together with China’s stats

WHO originally repeated China’s claim that COVID wasn’t human-transmissible.

Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund Refused to Support #MeToo Sex Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden

Reason article on the allegations against Joe Biden

Slatestarcodex: Against Overgendering Harrassment

The Bayesian Conspiracy – David on a Negative Income Tax

Coronavirus testing – not enough false positives 

Everyone is on lockdown except for the South 

Spain to try out UBI?

US Government to Pay Pastor Salaries

Amazon Warehouse worker/protester fired 

Captain of Aircraft Carrier dismissed for requesting crew protection

Happy News!

80,000 Hours: Good News About Covid-19

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

And for next time::

Robert Graboyes #PostCovid predictions

Long time listeners will have heard Steven plug his name several times, but now we’ve got the man himself! Futurist, Cryonicist, and life insurance guru Rudi Hoffman is here to give the best sales pitch for signing up for Cryonics that I (Steven, and I suspect all of the hosts) have heard.

I promise we’ll work out the audio issues by the next episode.

You guys are gonna love the first half. The second half had this awesome audio hiccup so it sounds like we’re recording into those cups with strings attached to them. Apologies for the audio quality–now that everybody’s working from home and practicing safe social distancing… well, it’s Skype o’clock. Due to the time constraint I (Steven, blame me) decided to just air the poor audio version. Tell me how much you hate it in the discord, but only after you listen to the first half.

Show links:

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Expecting Short Inferential Distances

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

Is Molecular Nanotechnology “Scientific”?

Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!

Politics is the mind killer, so come get mind-killed! Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David Spearman discuss the week’s news.

There’s a new podcast in town, and we’re giving it a kick-start.

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Links:

The conspirators go more in-depth on how little we know about the people we don’t know (Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers), plus more COVID19 chattering.

Apologies for the audio quality–now that everybody’s working from home and practicing safe social distancing… well, it’s Skype o’clock.

Content warning: this episode contains some discussion of sexual assault, as it relates to the book. Non-graphic.

Show links:

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?

Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Hindsight Bias

Hindsight Devalues Science

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Expecting Short Inferential Distances

Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!

We open up with some pre-episode chatter that I left in, then talk for a bit about Coronavirus before moving into the scheduled topic of Malcom Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers!

UPDATE: Given the situation in Italy, we’re upping our concern. Please increase the emotional volume of the Coronavirus section by about 1.5 levels.

SSC Coronavirus

Seeing The Smoke

Last Week Tonight on Coronavirus

SMBC Steven mentioned in the pre-episode stuff

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Update Yourself Incrementally

One Argument Against An Army

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Hindsight Bias

Hindsight Devalues Science

Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!