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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Bayes Blast 27 – SubStack Launch and Animorphs Launch

You can now subscribe to us on SubStack.
You can hear the Rational!Animorphs fanfic (and Luminosity) at AskWho’s channel

00:04:39 | Mon 01 Apr 2024

208.ai – Eve Theory of Consciousness v3.0 – By Andrew Cutler

The full audio of the article we discuss. Many thanks to AskWho for creating it! It can also be found at https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/eve-theory-of-consciousness-v30-by
AskWho can be supporte…

03:03:40 | Wed 20 Mar 2024

208 – Snakes On A Brain: Eve Theory of Consciousness v3 with Andrew Cutler

We talk with Andrew Cutler about how pre-modern women spread consciousness through our species via a snake cult. This is a follow up to episode 205, which you should listen to first if you haven’t ye…

02:27:30 | Wed 20 Mar 2024

Bayes Blast 26 – AskWho On The Future of Narration

The future is now and it’s getting closer by the minute.
Everyone check out AskWho’s Patreon and donate if you’re able to.
11Labs is the main tool AskWho uses.
We mentioned OpenAI’s Sora. Check out t…

00:18:56 | Mon 11 Mar 2024

207 – Raising Free Range Kids via Camp Dorkaround

To raise successful adults, children must experience the ability to act in the real world. Jennifer gives practical advice on how to do exactly that in an entirely sane way.

LINKS
Lenore Skenazy’s o…

Wed 06 Mar 2024

206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common

Steven explains the Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of chronic pain to Eneasz, and Eneasz opines on feedback cycles in psychological trauma.
Main: The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain
OTHER…

01:52:14 | Wed 21 Feb 2024

Bayes Blast 25 – Betting On Love

Where we marvel at the unparalleled game of our man Phil.
Watch Bet On Love, starts at 17 minutes. Dating show portion starts at 24 minutes.
The Death Bed Song
Wes’s twitter reply

00:22:50 | Tue 13 Feb 2024

Bayes Blast 24 – The Answerers

Lets teach our gods ancient Sumerian only
The case for training frontier AIs on Sumerian-only corpus
Our previous Snake Cult of Consciousness episode
LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion

00:13:25 | Mon 12 Feb 2024

205.ai – The Snake Cult of Consciousness narration

AskWho from the TBC Discord kindly provided full audio narration of Andrew Cutler’s original post!
This is taken directly from AskWho’s substack. You can help him out at his Patreon.
Many thanks to A…

00:41:25 | Wed 07 Feb 2024

205 – The Snake Cult of Consciousness

We discuss the idea that human consciousness may have literally been kick-started by a ritual developed by a snake cult, which is surprisingly plausible.
The Snake Cult of Consciousness by Andrew Cut…

01:57:11 | Wed 07 Feb 2024

204 – Simulacra Levels with Zvi (and more)

We speak with Zvi Mowshowitz about his work and recent history, what happened at OpenAI, and then really dig into Simulacra Levels – a way to categorize the different types of things people are attem…

02:02:29 | Wed 24 Jan 2024

203 – The Self-Indulgent Episode

Steven and Eneasz just chat a whole lot about random things, and take some listener mail. Topics include: Rationality Quotes, Polyamory, Bostrom, Justice, and Vengeance
OTHER LINKS
Yassine’s post Mon…

02:38:21 | Wed 10 Jan 2024

202 – The Center for AI Policy talks government regulation

Can we do anything to approach the creation of an artificial super intelligence more cautiously and methodically? Jason Green-Lowe and Jakub Kraus of CAIP think so, and they’re working the government…

01:55:17 | Wed 13 Dec 2023

Bayes Blast 23 – Less Fingers = Less Blasting?

Are there other ways to disincentivize attempted murder?
Related Episodes:
196 and 198 and BB22

00:14:51 | Fri 01 Dec 2023

Bayes Blast 22 – The Penal System

You thought the title was a penis joke? For shame.
Steven updates Eneasz on the outcome of the trial he served jury duty on in August.
Related Episodes:
196 and 198

00:14:52 | Thu 30 Nov 2023

201 – The Educated Mind + More with Brandon Hendrickson (part 2)

We talk more with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. Also discussions of rationality, post-rationalism, and more.
The winning book revi…

02:37:06 | Wed 29 Nov 2023

200 – The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson

We talk with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. “A novel theory about why schools, as they are now, don’t work.”
The winning book revie…

02:23:32 | Wed 15 Nov 2023

199 – Polyamory with Aella and Yassine

We are talking poly again, with Aella and Yassine.
NOTE –
LINKS
Why Your Polyamorous Friend’s Relationship Sucks by Aella
The Amory Spectrum by Aella
Yassine’s The Bailey podcast episode on polyamory…

01:31:27 | Wed 01 Nov 2023

198 – Tuskegee & Age/Race Bias?

Two smaller episodes dropped as one – The History of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Reflections on Steven’s Jury Experience
LINKS
We Tuskegeed My Dad
Unraveling the Tuskegee Study of Untreated…

01:47:11 | Thu 19 Oct 2023

197 – What To Expect When You’re Expecting To Go To Burning Man

We talk with Charlie and Alex about going to Burning Man to help prep Steven to maybe go next year
LINKS
You Will Be Miserable, And It Will Set You Free – Eneasz’s post on Burning Man
Burning Man Sur…

01:52:00 | Wed 04 Oct 2023

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