The Bayesian Conspiracy

106 – Talking to Strangers (with COVID-19)

We open up with some pre-episode chatter that I left in, then talk for a bit about Coronavirus before moving into the scheduled topic of Malcom Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers!

UPDATE: Given th…

02:21:26 | Wed 11 Mar 2020

105 – The Anthropic Principle is da bomb

What conclusions can you draw from the fact that you’re here?
The Anthropic Principle – 5 short examples
Anthropics and Biased Models – “we can’t use anthropic reasoning on a single side of a model”
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02:06:54 | Wed 26 Feb 2020

104 – Do You Want To Ask or Guess This Episode’s Topic?

In this episode we’re joined by Matt Freeman and Wes Fenza!
Matt from The Doofcast joins us. Their next big audio project is Kingslingers, but be sure to check out We’ve Got Ward and Doofcast too!
We…

01:52:46 | Wed 12 Feb 2020

103 – Radical Honesty

People you may or may not have met before discuss Radical Honesty. (One of those people also has their own podcast–however, it is Very Different From Ours….)
Stuff mentioned in the episode:
Friend of…

01:44:44 | Thu 30 Jan 2020

102 – Decade in Review

Everyone else is doing it, so why can’t we?
Matt from The Doofcast joins us. His next audio project is Kingslingers
You can still partake in the SSC survey! If you’re even a casual reader, Scott is i…

02:22:56 | Thu 16 Jan 2020

101 – The Live Episode (pt2)

This is a recording of the live stream. Due to technical incompetence on our side, we lost the original audio, but managed to recover the episode due to listener April’s diligence! Many thanks to Apr…

01:03:57 | Wed 01 Jan 2020

100 – The Live Episode (pt1)

This is a recording of the live stream. Due to technical incompetence on our side, we lost the original audio, but managed to recover the episode due to listener April’s diligence! Many thanks to Apr…

01:31:30 | Wed 18 Dec 2019

Live Episode on Sunday Dec 15, 1pm MT (GMT -6)

The Live Episode is Sunday Dec 15 at 1pm Mountain time. You can listen in on Discord following this link: https://discord.gg/zaAubxS
This post will update with a YouTube stream as well, once we have…

00:01:10 | Fri 13 Dec 2019

99 – Whiteshift

Eneasz shares his reading of Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann

News story about the CFAR barricading
Ted Cruz bad lip reading

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

Rationality: From…

02:23:50 | Wed 04 Dec 2019

98 – A GSV Very Different From Ours

We are joined by Discord user GSV to talk about Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
The Podcast Very Different From Ours is available at SoundCloud, as well as GooglePodcasts. iTunes link coming s…

02:13:40 | Wed 20 Nov 2019

97 – Oops, We Accidentally Over Two Hours of Feedback

We get to back-logged feedback.
We Want MoR is now live, back at the old home of the HP:MoR Podcast!
Ra, by Sam Hughes (also on Amazon)
Helpful links provided by commentor Lorien:
references on air …

02:27:31 | Wed 06 Nov 2019

96 – Do Words Mean Things, Also Sex Science!

The Conspirators sort of continue the conversation from our last episode, after meandering around about the meaning of words/their relevance to current usage. Eventually we’ll get to the LessWrong se…

01:38:45 | Wed 23 Oct 2019

95 – It’s Gender Time! Part 1

Trigger warnings: Gender! Culture Wars! Opinons! Facts? (Also, some amount of tension/discomfort in this episode. Be ye warned.)
Please contribute to this discussion!
Please keep it non-terrible.
Art…

02:22:41 | Thu 10 Oct 2019

94 – The Problem At Yale Isn’t Free Speech, It’s Lack of Batmans

Elite education institutions aren’t give us Bruce Waynes anymore, and this is a problem.
Our article: The Real Problem At Yale Is Not Free Speech
Also relevant: The Wayne Republican Tradition, and Ag…

01:26:37 | Wed 25 Sep 2019

93 – Conflict vs Mistake

In this episode, we try to explain the Slate Star Codex post, Conflict vs Mistake. We hope we didn’t make any major mistakes, and if we did, that it won’t cause any kind of conflict.
Links:
– SSC: Co…

01:51:39 | Wed 11 Sep 2019

92 – Replacing Guilt

Jess and Phoenix tell us about Replacing Guilt.
Favorites from the series: “Should” considered harmful and Confidence all the way up
Another recommended book is The Courage To Be Disliked
Also mentio…

01:54:19 | Wed 28 Aug 2019

91 – Are You Jesus or Hitler??

In this episode our hosts come together to try and figure out if it’s worth worrying about the possibility that we’re living in a simulation, with a fun twist. We also do plenty of listener feedback.
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02:01:28 | Wed 14 Aug 2019

90 – Secret to Our Success

We talk about Cultural Evolution, and why it is so terrible.
Links:
The Secret to Our Success:
SSC
The Book
Melting Asphalt on Prestige Versus Dominance
I, Pencil (About How No One Can Make a Pencil …

02:12:42 | Wed 31 Jul 2019

89 – Is Rationalism Being Co-opted by the Alt-Right?

We talk with David about his question on our subreddit. There’s a lot of other comments and thoughts about the subject at that thread, which you can read here.
Sorry about the lateness of this episod…

02:05:24 | Wed 24 Jul 2019

88 – UBI and Other Forms of (Evil?) Taxes

The Conspiracy sits down with David Spearman, a long time listener and commenter who told us why we were all wrong about UBI and we figured he should tell you too.
Here’s the homework problem David s…

02:04:51 | Wed 03 Jul 2019

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