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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68 – Can’t Give Up Freeman

Matt Freeman may be distant in body, but he is present in spirit
Moridinamael’s A Dialogue on Rationalist Activism
KatjaGrace’s Are ethical asymmetries from property rights?
Yudkowsky’s Transhumanism…

01:30:22 | Wed 26 Sep 2018

67 – Freestyle Community Talk with Matt Freeman

This episode has some audio quirks. We ended up having our recording software crash (but saved most of our audio) after about an hour and 15 minutes, so we have a tone shift at that point since we to…

01:36:47 | Wed 12 Sep 2018

The Sword of Good

A confluence of time-expensive events prevented us from recording an episode this week. However, since Shut Up And Do The Impossible: The Rational Fiction Online Anthology was just released, we’re po…

01:04:43 | Wed 29 Aug 2018

66 – Feedback & Productivity (pt1)

We finally get to some older listener feedback, then discuss productivity tools & systems. Also, Eneasz unveiled Shut Up And Do The Impossible: The Rational Fiction Online Anthology.
Lizard hatching;…

01:53:22 | Wed 15 Aug 2018

65 – Religion, and The Intelligent Social Web

Eneasz is still allergic to mysticism, but he really likes thinking of society as a super-being that guides humans and cares about their actions. Does this foresay doom for our host?
A correction: En…

01:34:11 | Wed 01 Aug 2018

64 – Magick with David Youssef

It’s only almost as crazy as it sounds.
A bunch of links to help you get started on Magick!
UltraCulture’s guide:
The Complete Psychonaut Field Manual: A Cartoon Guide to Chaos Magick
RUNE SOUP links…

01:34:06 | Wed 18 Jul 2018

63 – Rational Fiction

Alexander Wales and DayStar Eld join us to discuss Rational Fiction
Their Podcast – Rationally Writing
Alexander Wales’s page
DayStar Eld’s page
Eneasz’s Fiction
The Progenitor – Harry Potter and the…

01:19:23 | Wed 04 Jul 2018

62 – Stoic Chatter and RatChat!

This episode is a bit unusual in that our pre-recording mic check conversation sort of kept going into a conversation we felt was worth sharing. We redacted some of the personal identifiable info and…

01:43:15 | Wed 20 Jun 2018

61 – Biohacking 101

We speak with Serge Faguet about biohacking.
The lowest hanging fruit is, of course, sleep and exercise. Going beyond that, Serge mentioned:
23 And Me for DNA sequencing
Promethease for further DNA a…

01:48:08 | Wed 06 Jun 2018

60 – 98% Likelihood This Episode is about Metaculus

We speak with Anthony Aguirre of Metaculus.
Try out Metaculus, it’s neat and helps one train their calibration.
Future of Life Institute
Rat Chat: Maps vs Buttons; Nerds vs Normies
Big thanks to Davi…

02:00:10 | Wed 23 May 2018

59 – Gettin’ Schooled

We discuss schooling and education with Audrey.
Robin Hanson argues that schooling is to domesticate humans.
The Zvi is much more emotionally compelling in his Case Against Education and it’s follow-…

01:42:27 | Thu 10 May 2018

58 – Inside Trump Country with Joshua

This one got off to an odd start since we were on a time crunch and Joshua as delayed in arriving. As a result, this one is way more disorganized than usual. We hope it’s fun nonetheless.
Big thanks …

01:43:00 | Wed 25 Apr 2018

57 – Community Talk with Bayesed and Confused

Join Steven and David Youssef as they talk about the rationality community, how to win, and explore some possible reasons that Rationalists aren’t all total rock stars!
Links:
Tim Ferris’s The Four H…

01:48:38 | Wed 18 Apr 2018

56 – Adventures in Tough Subjects

This episode got off to an interesting start. We usually test the mics with small talk and whatnot, but wound up just getting into interesting things and never quite got around to breaking to do an i…

01:58:05 | Wed 28 Mar 2018

55 – Keeping up with the Rationalists

In this episode, we discuss 3 or 4 popular things currently (or recently) circulating Rationalist circles online.
Yudkowsky on no fire alarms for AI.
Zvi on the concept of Slack.
Ben Hoffman “Sabbath…

01:40:32 | Wed 14 Mar 2018

54 – Nothing Can Prepare You For Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson returns to talk about his new book: The Elephant In The Brain
Robin’s classic “X is not about Y” post. 2008! Man, time flies.
Eneasz mentioned The North Pond Hermit. Relevant quote: “Sol…

01:47:16 | Wed 28 Feb 2018

53 – Principles of Curiosity with Brian Dunning

Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast and Skeptoid Media Inc. returns to talk with us about his newest documentary, The Principles of Curiosity! (Website Link, Video Link)
It presents a general intro…

01:12:34 | Wed 14 Feb 2018

52 – Marriage is Obsolete Technology

A discussions as to whether marriage is outdated and net-harmful.
In large part based on Eneasz’s blog post.
Naveen recommends this discussion between 3Blue1Brown and Ben Eater on Net Neutrality
See …

02:06:34 | Wed 31 Jan 2018

51 – Robert McIntyre Returns

Robert McIntyre talks about the future of aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation
I’m sure you’re all stoked about the sound on this one. All we can say is that we took steps to correct it (like we all …

01:03:23 | Wed 17 Jan 2018

Holiday

Happy Holidays! Nothing this new this week, but here’s some Star Wars 🙂
The Methods of Rationality main page

00:29:01 | Wed 03 Jan 2018

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