The Bayesian Conspiracy

Where we marvel at the unparalleled game of our man Phil. Watch Bet On Love, starts at 17 minutes. Dating show portion starts at 24 minutes. The Death Bed Song Wes’s twitter reply

Lets teach our gods ancient Sumerian only The case for training frontier AIs on Sumerian-only corpus Our previous Snake Cult of Consciousness episode LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion

AskWho from the TBC Discord kindly provided full audio narration of Andrew Cutler’s original post! This is taken directly from AskWho’s substack. You can help him out at his Patreon. Many thanks to AskWho for creating this and giving permission to share here in full, and to Andrew Cutler for writing it and giving permission […]

We discuss the idea that human consciousness may have literally been kick-started by a ritual developed by a snake cult, which is surprisingly plausible. The Snake Cult of Consciousness by Andrew Cutler or listen to the original post in audio, thanks to AskWho for providing! OTHER LINKS Review of Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by […]

Zvi Mowshowitz, expert on Simulacra Levels and recent history of OpenAI, discusses his work, what happened at OpenAI, and delves into Simulacra Levels - a way to categorize different types of communication. They explore the dangers of higher Simulacra Levels and the importance of conveying information honestly. They also discuss enforcing idealistic principles, expressing individual opinions, and understanding truth levels. The conversation touches on addressing negative situations, Newt Gingrich's support for space exploration, and the origins of 'more DACA'.

Steven and Eneasz just chat a whole lot about random things, and take some listener mail. Topics include: Rationality Quotes, Polyamory, Bostrom, Justice, and Vengeance OTHER LINKS Yassine’s post MonoPoly Restricted Trust TBC 14 – Street Epistemology There Are 4 Lights 0:00:23 – Relentless Self-Indulgence 2:03:38 – Less Wrong Posts 2:34:47 – Guild of the […]

Can we do anything to approach the creation of an artificial super intelligence more cautiously and methodically? Jason Green-Lowe and Jakub Kraus of CAIP think so, and they’re working the government side of the problem. The Center for AI Policy Careers at CAIP Donate OTHER LINKS –The Less Wrong Community Census/Survey–! CAIP Policy Proposals Humans […]

Are there other ways to disincentivize attempted murder? Related Episodes: 196 and 198 and BB22

You thought the title was a penis joke? For shame. Steven updates Eneasz on the outcome of the trial he served jury duty on in August. Related Episodes: 196 and 198

We talk more with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. Also discussions of rationality, post-rationalism, and more. The winning book review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify)) Brandon’s substack – The Lost Tools of Learning Science Is Weird – a sprawling online science course that helps kids fall in […]