The Bayesian Conspiracy

A conversational podcast for the less hardcore rationalist, who wants to level-up their rational skills while having fun.

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Update frequency: every 8 days
Average duration: 90 minutes
Episodes: 312
Years Active: 2016 - 2025

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87 – Degrees of Freedom

We discuss Sarah Constantin’s recent post Degrees of Freedom, addressing where optimization and free-will conflict.
Mentioned in this episode:
The parable of The Whispering Earring
The Transporter Ar…

01:45:41 | Wed 19 Jun 2019

Bonus Abortion non-episode

This is not an episode of The Bayesian Conspiracy. It’s just some additional feedback and informal thoughts on abortion, particularly in the USA. If this is not a topic of interest to you, please mov…

01:31:54 | Wed 12 Jun 2019

86 – Quick Shout Out to the Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread

We dive into the Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread in a lot more detail than originally planned. We seem to get a bit off track.
Stuff that came up this episode:
Read Eneasz’s novel, What Lies D…

01:25:29 | Wed 05 Jun 2019

85 – Stuff is Weird, Yo

This episode Jess, Eneasz, and Steven sit down to discuss… well, you tell us. We’re kind of all over the map here because things have, in the majority, been weird for us lately. We cover some random …

01:36:07 | Wed 22 May 2019

84 – Yang-arang!

Eneasz has a thing for Andrew Yang
He’s ex-goth
Yang interview on Freakonomics
Quick summary of Fosta/Sesta
Archer’s dead hookers
Where does Denver’s Pot Money go?
Hear Steven discuss Endgame on The …

01:35:06 | Wed 08 May 2019

83 – REACH

Jess is back from their pilgrimage to Rationalist Mecca and Eneasz is dying to know all about it, while Steven tries his best to understand why anyone would want to live there.

Brian Caplan on Collu…

01:58:21 | Wed 24 Apr 2019

82 – Revenge of the Feedback!

Jess is on a trip, so Eneasz and Steven do some more digging into our mailbag (last episode on feedback for now, we promise!). Stick around after the outro music starts because we keep going for anot…

02:15:52 | Wed 10 Apr 2019

81 – That’s Too Much Feedback, Man

We dive into the neglected mailbag
Steven referenced this SSC post on the Intellectual Dark Web (see also this prior post)
It’s been revealed that James Gunn is back!
Johnny Depp is an abuse survivor
…

01:56:52 | Wed 27 Mar 2019

80 – The Reward and Peril of GPT2

Join us as we sit down with Alexander Wales (returning from Episode 63 about rational fiction and writes rational short stories, like the very popular Metropolitan Man) who is on to guide our discuss…

02:12:08 | Wed 13 Mar 2019

79 – CyberChristianity

What the heck is CyberChristianity, and can it unite Christianity and Rationalism?
Links to things talked about in today’s episode:
Our previous AlphaGo episodes – 1 & 2 (poor audio, sadly)
AI must d…

01:40:32 | Wed 27 Feb 2019

78 – Seriously, an Atheism Episode?

Eneasz, Jess, and Steven take an hour or so to talk about the New Atheism movement that occurred in the mid 2000’s. We experienced a bit of audio loss in the second half of the episode, so the conver…

02:00:46 | Wed 13 Feb 2019

77 – Meandering Around Albion’s Seed

This episode is a continuation of episode 75 – Culture Roots of American. Eneasz and Steven are alone in the recording studio, which means we have no one to keep us in check as we finish out discussi…

02:05:51 | Wed 30 Jan 2019

76 – Patreon and Censorship

David and Jess sit down with Eneasz and Steven to discuss the controversy of Patreon banning contributors from its platform.
David mentioned the connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’…

01:50:11 | Wed 16 Jan 2019

75 – Culture Roots of America

We discuss these two SSC posts:
BOOK REVIEW: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
BOOK REVIEW: ALBION’S SEED
also mentioned:
ALBION’S SEED, GENOTYPED, and the Dark Matter Conservative Universe is mentioned i…

01:42:41 | Wed 02 Jan 2019

74 – Adventures in Feedback!

Eneasz, Jess, and Steven go down rabbit hole after rabbit hole while attempting to address some of our feedback backlog. Enjoy!
Rationality from AI to Zombies: The Simple Truth (Audio Version)
Stan L…

01:56:39 | Wed 19 Dec 2018

73 – Truth and Winning

The conspiracy worries about our post-truth government and looks at the question of why Rationalists aren’t at the top of everything they do.

Articles/things discussed in this episode
Link with ana…

01:42:16 | Wed 05 Dec 2018

72 – Productivity Tools, Part 2

Jess returns to finish up the Productivity Tools dicussion.
The Waking Up #MeToo episode
The Very Bad Wizards episode with moral dilemmas porn-ified
The Planet Money Halloween episode
Death Note fan-…

01:54:20 | Wed 21 Nov 2018

71 – Researching Qualia with Andrés Gómez Emilsson

Steven can’t read a calender, so accidentally scheduled this to release a day late.
In this episode, we talk with Andrés Gómez Emilsson from the Qualia Research Institute. Buckle up for some dialogue…

01:45:56 | Thu 08 Nov 2018

70 – Kick-offs

We kick off a couple things:
The Sequences Reading/Discussion, and
What Lies Dreaming
The OG Sequences in chronological order
we read: The Martial Art of Rationality ; Why Truth? And… ; …What’s a Bia…

02:05:19 | Wed 24 Oct 2018

69 – Culture War 2.0

Alas, we had some technical difficulties in this episode too and we lost some small chunks of audio. I cropped it as best I could, but there’s some little bits where you can tell the audio skips a bi…

02:04:18 | Wed 10 Oct 2018

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