The Bayesian Conspiracy

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

Society & Culture Ai Philosophy

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

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12 – Listener Feedback

We covered ten episodes of feedback in one hour (and a half)! After this, we’ll reply to comments regularly at the end of episodes. Comment either at the website (www.thebayesianconspiracy.com) or at…

01:28:23 | Wed 06 Jul 2016

11 – Voting

Is it rational to vote?
We realize the audio quality when we have live guests is terrible, we’re working to fix that now, hopefully things will start sounding better very soon. Thanks for bearing wit…

01:12:51 | Wed 22 Jun 2016

10 – Polyamory (part 2)

The second half of our conversation on polyamory, because we talked and talked and the episode went long. As with Part 1, positions of other parties, including current and former partners, are very l…

01:19:19 | Wed 08 Jun 2016

9 – Polyamory (part 1)

What’s Polyamory got to do with Rationalism anyway?
Be Advised:
1.) This episode contains curse words.
2.) Always, but especially when talking about sensitive, nuanced issues like human relationships…

01:20:40 | Wed 01 Jun 2016

8 – Interview with Brian Dunning

We speak with Brian Dunning, best known as the host/creator of the Skeptoid podcast. He has also created Here Be Dragons, a 40-minute introduction to critical thinking.
Mentioned in this episode:
The…

01:02:48 | Wed 18 May 2016

7 – Kill All Humans?

[content warning: suicide, human extinction. Might be a bad idea to listen to if you suffer suicidal tendencies.]
We speak to Jason, who would take extreme measures to end all suffering. However, la…

01:19:32 | Wed 04 May 2016

6 – Cryonics

The Conspirators talk cryonics. Spoiler alert, they are signed up (and signing up soon) for the big freeze. Katrina is a cryocrastinator.
The in-depth cryonics article that sparked this conversation,…

01:06:11 | Wed 20 Apr 2016

5 – When Grandmas ask “What is Rationality?”

An ELI5 (Explain Like I’m 5) episode. Our answers when someone asks “What is Rationality anyway?” and they have a bit of time.
(If they don’t have time, Eneasz’s Elevator Pitch is “Rationality is a s…

01:03:24 | Wed 06 Apr 2016

4 – AlphaGo, with Patrick Chapin

Patrick Chapin (of Top Level Podcast) joins us as a guest-host to talk about AlphaGo’s recent victory over Go master Lee Sedol. We get a primer on how AlphaGo works, a recap of all five games in the …

01:12:37 | Wed 23 Mar 2016

3 – Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky

We welcomed the one, the only, Eliezer Yudkowsky to the Bayesian Conspiracy for a quick chat.
His latest project is Arbital, an ambitious effort to solve online discussion. It is focusing on solving …

00:57:02 | Wed 16 Mar 2016

2 – What is this “Sanity Waterline” you speak of?

Can the Sanity Waterline be raised? Should it be? And just what does that mean anyway? Based on the post “Raising The Sanity Waterline”
Also relevant to today’s discussion: Joy In The Merely Real, Ch…

01:03:27 | Wed 02 Mar 2016

1 – What Use is Rationality?

We spent the hour trying to answer a question posed to Eneasz regarding his work with the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast. Here is the query (with pleasantries removed):
Is there …

01:08:32 | Thu 18 Feb 2016

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