121 – Crony Beliefs

The trio sits down to discuss Kevin Simler’s essay “Crony Beliefs“. It’s awesome and absolutely worth reading the whole thing.

Ignore all the stuff we said about climate change and the wildfires. The emailers we got were right. Listen to the end for the addendum.

Climate Change and Fires (link one and link two)



Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?



Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Rationality and the English Language

Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)

Why I’m Blooking

Planning Fallacy



Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here!

We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!