The Bayesian Conspiracy
A conversational podcast for aspiring rationalists.
Latest episodes
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 →
May 31, 2023 • 1h 52min
188 – Living in the Early Singularity, with Matt Freeman
Matt Freeman joins us to discuss life in changing times. Major take away for Eneasz: Be the kind of person your post-singularity descendants will be proud to say “I descended from that man/woman” Links: Put stuff in orbit on a … Continue reading →
May 17, 2023 • 1h 48min
187 – GitLab & Review Bounties to Save Science, with Richard Acton
Richard Acton returns to denounce pre-publication peer review, and propose a replacement building off the open source software ethos, and review bounties Richard’s extensive notes for this episode, which include a ton of great links at the bottom Contact him … Continue reading →
May 16, 2023 • 11min
Bayes Blast 13 – GPT-4 maps every neuron in GPT-2
Blast with Matt re OpenAI using GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in GPT-2, and what this means for Doom (spoiler: it’s good!) OpenAI’s explanation Thread – less than 1% of neuron’s explained with good confidence
