The Bayesian Conspiracy
A conversational podcast for aspiring rationalists.
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Aug 10, 2023 • 9min
Bayes Blast 19 – Musicgen and Audiogen
Musicgen lets anyone make a quick music snippet and Audiogen is surprisingly good at generating non-confusing sounds! These tools are currently free and will no doubt be mind blowing in just a few months when better, paid versions come out. … Continue reading →
Aug 9, 2023 • 2h 18min
193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout
We speak with Yassine Meskhout of The Bailey about… a whole bunch of things actually. LINKS Yassine’s Substack The Motte The Bailey podcast Yassine’s I Am Here Because Of Blind Dumb Luck Check Here For Racial Oppression – history of … Continue reading →
Jul 26, 2023 • 1h 54min
192 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life, with Alex
Alex joins us to smile as we push some boulders up some hills. LINKS Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus The Guild of the Rose 0:01:31 – Post-Rat Feedback 0:21:16 – Absurdism … Continue reading →
Jul 14, 2023 • 14min
Bayes Blast 17 – Gay Pride is White Liberal Pride
Me and Wes exchange hot takes. Mine is stolen shamelessly from Based Camp, go listen to the original source material there, it’s good!
Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 18min
191 – What is Post-Rationalism, with Arielle
Seriously though, what’s going on here? Arielle dives in with us. LINKS Arielle’s substack – Analog Futures Bayesian Conspiracy episode #5(!) on What is Rationalism? The Mind Killer live episode recorded at VibeCamp Eneasz’s novel – What Lies Dreaming 0:00:27 … Continue reading →
Jul 3, 2023 • 7min
Bayes Blast 16 – Holding PRNS (Present Rate, No Singularity)
How to talk about the future From On “Present Rate No Singularity” at Thing of Things
Jun 30, 2023 • 9min
Bayes Blast 15 – Technological Overemployment
Mo’ productivity, mo’ money, at last Zvi’s The Overemployed Via ChatGPT
Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 31min
190 – How to be Human Together, at VibeCamp, with GPTBrooke
We talk with Brooke, creator and driving force behind VibeCamp. We talk about VibeCamp 2, being human, and the post/rats corner of twitter. LINKS Brooke on Twitter Brooke’s most-moved-by-this Tweet, the Lemur Who Vibed Eneasz’s retrospective post on VibeCamp What … Continue reading →
Jun 27, 2023 • 10min
Bayes Blast 14 – Reddit Sucks
Steven blasts Eneasz with the latest news about how Reddit is doing it’s best to ruin everyone’s good time. Reddit post from Apollo’s developer on the subject Followup post for some debunking and elaboration Links to everything Steven mentioned in … Continue reading →
Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 42min
189 – AI Bloomer David Youssef
David Youssef from The Guild of the Rose has great ways to integrate ChatGPT into your work, and also thinks AIs will keep humans around. Links: ChatGPT leaking Samsung chip secrets is iceberg’s tip Training an LLMs model Achieving 99.3% … Continue reading →
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