The Bayesian Conspiracy

We talk with Andrew Cutler about how pre-modern women spread consciousness through our species via a snake cult. This is a follow up to episode 205, which you should listen to first if you haven’t yet. LINKS Eve Theory of Consciousness v3.0: How humans evolved a soul Full audio of Eve Theory v3, courtesy of AskWho Herakles, Adam, and Krishna were initiated in the snake cult at Göbekli Tepe The Seeds of Science TBC ep 200 The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson TBC ep 206 on Chronic Pain TBC ep 54 with Robin Hanson on The Elephant In The Brain Neon Genesis Evangelion What Lies Dreaming by Eneasz Brodski Roon on Twitter 0:00:23 – Eve & Snake Cults 2:09:01 – Guild of the Rose Update 2:11:59 – Less Wrong Posts 2:25:19 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Mind Projection Fallacy The Quotation is not the Referent Next Sequence Posts: Qualitatively Confused Reductionism

The future is now and it’s getting closer by the minute. Everyone check out AskWho’s Patreon and donate if you’re able to. 11Labs is the main tool AskWho uses. We mentioned OpenAI’s Sora. Check out this video.

To raise successful adults, children must experience the ability to act in the real world. Jennifer gives practical advice on how to do exactly that in an entirely sane way. LINKS Lenore Skenazy’s original post “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone” Her website, FreeRangeKids.com Milo’s games portfolio site – Milo.Games Our old episode about Rational Fiction Eneasz’s posts agreeing with not lying to kids, and that patronage is really appreciated Join the first Guild of the Rose IRL Course if you’re in Denver, here 0:04:58 – Camp Dorkaround 1:02:14 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:04:47 – Less Wrong Posts 1:18:59 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Wrong Questions Righting a Wrong Question Next Sequence Posts: Mind Projection Fallacy The Quotation is not the Referent

Steven explains the Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of chronic pain to Eneasz, and Eneasz opines on feedback cycles in psychological trauma. Main: The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain OTHER LINKS Play Tetris after traumatic events to prevent PTSD ACX review of Crazy Like Us Our Episode about Crazy Like Us Eneasz’s post about Trauma Junkies 80,000 Hours episode about Evolutionary Psychiatry Yudkowsky tweet on trauma 0:01:22 – Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of Chronic Pain 0:33:23 – The Social-Psychological Vicious Cycle of Trauma 1:15:50 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:17:41 – Less Wrong Posts 1:49:35 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong Dissolving the Question Next Sequence Posts: Wrong Questions Righting a Wrong Question

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 to share as well. Y’all are great!  

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 Scott Alexander Eve Theory of Consciousness (v2) also by Andrew Cutler The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pronouns by Andrew Cutler Erowid Psychedelics FAQ, read before tripping! Sam Harris’s Episode 346 – The Best Kept Secret In History? We found the account of young hunter-gatherer boys living in a flow state, here Our analysis of The Truman Show as a retelling of the Genesis Fall From Grace myth Our aborted attempt at an analysiscast of Planecrash When Steven mentions Marcus speaking to his son Quintus he is reference Eneasz’s historic fantasy novel What Lies Dreaming 0:02:19 – Feedback 0:13:06 – Snake Cults! 1:36:51 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:39:01 – Less Wrong Posts 1:55:15 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles Variable Question Fallacies Next Sequence Posts: 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong Dissolving the Question

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 Rose Update 2:35:45 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition Perpetual Motion Beliefs Next Sequence Posts: Searching for Bayes-Structure Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes