The Bayesian Conspiracy
The Bayesian Conspiracy
A conversational podcast for aspiring rationalists.
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Apr 20, 2016 • 1h 6min
6 – Cryonics
The Conspirators talk cryonics. Spoiler alert, they are signed up (and signing up soon) for the big freeze. Katrina is a cryocrastinator. The in-depth cryonics article that sparked this conversation, “Why Cryonics Makes Sense” by Tim : Wait But Why Essay Steven mentioned the agent he went through: Rudi Hoffman’s Website The two major US companies: Cryonics Institute […]
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Apr 6, 2016 • 1h 3min
5 – When Grandmas ask “What is Rationality?”
An ELI5 (Explain Like I’m 5) episode. Our answers when someone asks “What is Rationality anyway?” and they have a bit of time. (If they don’t have time, Eneasz’s Elevator Pitch is “Rationality is a systematized method of making your beliefs more closely match reality”) Eliezer’s Sequences of Blog Posts on Rationality In ebook form – […]
Mar 23, 2016 • 1h 13min
4 – AlphaGo, with Patrick Chapin
Patrick Chapin (of Top Level Podcast) joins us as a guest-host to talk about AlphaGo’s recent victory over Go master Lee Sedol. We get a primer on how AlphaGo works, a recap of all five games in the match, and thoughts on what this means. (The airing of this episode was pushed up, so we […]
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Mar 16, 2016 • 57min
3 – Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky
We welcomed the one, the only, Eliezer Yudkowsky to the Bayesian Conspiracy for a quick chat. His latest project is Arbital, an ambitious effort to solve online discussion. It is focusing on solving online explanation. They want to do for difficult explanations – and someday, complicated arguments in general – what Wikipedia did for centralizing humanity’s recounting of agreed-on […]
Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 3min
2 – What is this “Sanity Waterline” you speak of?
Can the Sanity Waterline be raised? Should it be? And just what does that mean anyway? Based on the post “Raising The Sanity Waterline” Also relevant to today’s discussion: Joy In The Merely Real, Christian Bale Did Nothing Wrong, and You Kant Dismiss Universalizability (particularly section III) Link to the TAM discussion panel.
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Feb 18, 2016 • 1h 9min
1 – What Use is Rationality?
We spent the hour trying to answer a question posed to Eneasz regarding his work with the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast. Here is the query (with pleasantries removed): Is there evidence that a rational approach to decision making, either on the personal or institutional level, will be more likely to achieve […]
