The Bayesian Conspiracy

Velcro from the subreddit and discord joins us to offer a much-valued parent’s perspective on child rearing from the perspective of someone who’s actually reared children. Jace was out looking at tiny houses (it’s a thing, they’re adorable/awesome and you should google it) and was unable to make it for this episode. We’ve talked about kid/young adult things for like 2 months now. We’ll find something very different for a change of pace next episode. The subreddit can be found here Velcro mentioned that cool talk. It was great and you can check it out here: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture 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: Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation A Case Study of Motivated Continuation Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Fake Justification An Alien God

There’s too many clouds, and they’re ruining stuff that’s good! Mentioned in this episode: Do This. Directives. A very early episode of ours about Feelings Top ACLU lawyer comes out as pro-book-burning Replatforming? Discusses the overview of the Dean of Claremont McKenna Shares the exact wording of the email discussed above 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: Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! Double Illusion of Transparency No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation A Case Study of Motivated Continuation

Running with the theme of childhood/adolescent responsibility, we start off with a brief live-feedback section from esteemed guest Charlie and then move on to discuss Johnathan Haidt and Greg Lukianov’s 2015 Atlantic essay (mostly informed by Haidt’s subsequent podcast appearances) The Coddling of the American Mind, which was turned into a book 3 years later. We didn’t quite hit all the beats we wanted to, but we still had fun and hope you do too.  Mentioned in this episode: The Elephant in the Brain Jonathan Haidt discussing this on Sam Harris’s podcast 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: Self-Anchoring Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! Double Illusion of Transparency No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

We discuss Robert Epstein’s “Teens 2.0” as he makes the Case Against Adolescence. Eneasz’s Highlights from Teens 2.o The Banned Goods Store How Adult Are You? test See also Youthfacts.org National Youth Rights Association Nurses on Young People, as seen on Facebook Paid Bonus content – preshow chat on Tesla buttons, Denver Comedy Venues, and Attempted Segues Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Also merch! Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Self-Anchoring Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here

Who can be allowed to choose their sex partners? 0:00 – 37:00 — Less Wrong Posts Discussion 37:03 – end — Main Subject Discussion Mentioned in this show: Worth The Candle & Not Everything Is A Clue 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: Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Self-Anchoring Expecting Short Inferential Distances — hear audio version of it here

The Conspiracy is minus one Jace but plus one Justin (a defense lawyer) this episode! We discuss the legalities surrounding the convictions of Derek Chauvin – the cop who (literally and legally) murdered George Floyd. If you’re interested in a historical play by play of Justin’s write ups throughout the  court precedings, check out his posts on r/TheMotte: Part one. Part two. Part three. Part four. Part five. Part, six (in two parts). 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 Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence Hold Off On Proposing Solutions Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

This is the recording of the live episode we held on 4/18/2021. Things mentioned: Amazing Man 2: Love Conquers All BBC receives 109,741 complaints over Prince Philip coverage “My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory The Count Censored The Venus Project Uncultured Swine’s episode on The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men 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: none, preempted by live chatting Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence Hold Off On Proposing Solutions

The Live Episode will be in our Discord this Sunday (April 18th) at 12:00 Noon Mountain Time (which is UTC -6). Anyone can join the audio channel and listen along. Anyone who wants to chat with us or ask questions (which is the primary purpose of this episode) can be given Live Guest role to speak by pinging @Conspirator in this channel and asking for a voice. Join the discord!

The gang discusses class in America, and Scott Alexander’s Modest Proposal to destroy American politics. Source posts: Fussell On Class, and A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word “Class” Also mentioned: RattleFic Podcast Our episode on Albion’s Seed 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: Original Seeing How to Seem (and Be) Deep Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence Hold Off On Proposing Solutions

David is back for us to pester him with questions about Libertarianism, and he tries to turn us all into Anarchists!! (not really (but he wouldn’t mind)) SPOILER WARNING! This episode contains spoilers for Worm, and for Pulp Fiction. The Mind Killer podcast “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang is available as part of the “Exhalation” anthology. The Scout Mindset, by Julia Galef SSC — Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories and Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism The reddit thread mentioned in episode Not Everything is a Clue podcast What Lies Dreaming is available as an audio book! Pokemon Primeval Podcast 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: Cached Thoughts The “Outside the Box” Box Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Original Seeing How to Seem (and Be) Deep