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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222 – Consciousness As Recursive Reflections with Daniel Böttger

We talk with Daniel about his ACX guest post that posits that thoughts are conscious, rather than brains.
LINKS
Consciousness As Recursive Reflections
Seven Secular Sermons
Seven Secular Sermons vide…

01:59:09 | Wed 02 Oct 2024

Bayes Blast 33 – Porn Sims

Can we achieve our true potential?
based on – Interview Day At Thiel Capital
also mentioned:
Meetups Everywhere 2024
Are You Jesus or Hitler

00:07:48 | Fri 27 Sep 2024

221 – Why The Field? Why Zombies?? with Liam

Eneasz tries to understand why someone would posit a Chalmers Field, and brings up the horrifying implications.
LINKS
Zombies! Zombies?
2 Rash 2 Unadvised (the Terra Ignota analysis podcast)
The prev…

02:28:02 | Wed 18 Sep 2024

Bayes Blast 32 – Canadian Health Care

A surprising update for two previously maple-pilled Yanks

00:05:23 | Mon 16 Sep 2024

220 – Chalmer’s Zombies, with Liam

We dig into the classic LW post Zombies! Zombies? and talk a lot of philosophy with Liam from the 2 Rash 2 Unadvised podcast.
I (Steven) spent a bunch of time trying to export the conversation from D…

02:03:06 | Wed 04 Sep 2024

219 – On Excellence, with Tracing Woodgrains

Inspired by Trace’s speech about excellence at VibeCamp 3, Eneasz and Steven speak to Tracing Woodgrains about Excellence and its various aspects
LINKS
Trace’s SubStack
Trace’s Twitter
Wes on Tracing…

01:22:26 | Wed 21 Aug 2024

218 – Bentham’s Bulldog and the Best Argument for God

Spurred by comments from a couple of episodes ago, we wanted to make sure we didn’t misrepresent Matthew’s position and he agreed to come lay it out for us on the show. Check out the links below to d…

02:14:29 | Wed 07 Aug 2024

217 – Consensual Violence with Rikard

Rikard joins us to speak about the benefits of consensual violence

LINKS
Rikard’s Substack – Drunken Masterpieces
Rikard is @rikardhjort Twitter
Defense Against the Dark Arts is just the Dark Arts
T…

01:50:09 | Wed 24 Jul 2024

216 – On Dying (And Cryonics)

Rachel Zuber joins us to talk about hospice work, dying in America, and why she’s less optimistic about cryonics now.

LINKS
All the Living and the Dead
Caitlin Doughty on YouTube
CI cryonics case re…

02:28:27 | Wed 10 Jul 2024

Bayes Blast 31 – Blowing Hot Air (Free Version)

Brandon comes back to explain how wind works. Steven and Brandon are not the two you want if you want to quickly get to the point so this went on for a good while. It’s an awesome conversation and Pa…

00:18:33 | Mon 08 Jul 2024

215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson

Brandon Hendrickson takes over the podcast! He interrogates Eneasz about his past, and this crazy rationalist religion idea, and introduces a vast knowledge base of secular religion development.
LINK…

02:18:59 | Wed 26 Jun 2024

214 – Is Death Good? Simone and Malcolm Collins return!

The Collinses are back to address follow-up questions, like why is death good? Does population density reduce fertility? Is demographic collapse still a problem? Are child support laws bad? A great d…

01:44:17 | Wed 12 Jun 2024

213 – Are Transformer Models Aligned By Default?

Our species has begun to scrute the inscrutable shoggoth! With Matt Freeman 🙂
LINKS
Anthropic’s latest AI Safety research paper, on interpretability
Anthropic is hiring
Episode 93 of The Mind Killer
…

Wed 29 May 2024

212 – Feedback Extravaganza

A bit of a change of pace this episode. Eneasz and Steven catch up on some feedback we’ve had piling up for the last several weeks. Always feel free to call us out on any bullshit we say or if you ha…

01:40:29 | Wed 15 May 2024

Bayes Blast 30 – Less.Online

Less.Online gathers rationalist writers (and readers) for a major event in Berkeley May 31 – June 2nd. Eneasz will be there! Ben Pace and Raymond Arnold tell us all about it.
Get all the details you …

00:23:04 | Sat 04 May 2024

211 – The Social Justice Religion with Tracing Woodgrains

“Social justice progressivism (SJP) is the first time most people—including most Christians—have encountered a truly vital religion,” argues Tracing Woodgrains. We dive into this.
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01:44:38 | Wed 01 May 2024

210 – Demographic Collapse & Religion with Simone & Malcolm Collins

We speak with Simone and Malcolm from Based Camp and Pronatalist.org. World population is a few decades from collapse if trends continue. Is this bad, and what can be done?
LINKS
Based Camp YouTube …

01:42:14 | Wed 17 Apr 2024

Bayes Blast 29 – VibeClipse

Steven and Eneasz regale each other and you with our stories, experiences, and takeaways from VibeClipse.
The video Eneasz mentioned with him and especially Jen reacting to totality. 🙂
Also, as hinte…

00:31:07 | Mon 15 Apr 2024

Bayes Blast 28 – Bass Blast

Yassine tells us what’s wrong with DJs and reveals their ancient mystical secrets.
His post, DJ At Law
Watch DJ-crush Tinzo spinning her craft

00:17:31 | Mon 08 Apr 2024

209 – The World’s Most Wholesome Gangbang, with Lucy Belmont (Fluffer B)

We speak to Lucy Belmont, Fluffer B from Aella’s Birthday Gangbang. Guys, this is the most wholesome and fantastic thing we’ve ever heard, for real.
Paid Bonus content – Preshow Chatter and Did Lucy …

01:31:55 | Wed 03 Apr 2024

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