Bayes Blast 35 – Disproving The Blindsight Thesis
GPT-o1 demonstrates the Blindsight thesis is likely wrong. Peter Watts on Blindsight Andrew Cutler on origins of consciousness part 1 and part 2 Thou Art Godshatter
Oct 13, 2024•9 min
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Bayes Blast 34 – Content Moderation is Infosec
Steven wanted to share an interesting idea from an article that draws a neat parallel between content moderation and information security. The post discussed here is Como is Infosec.
Oct 06, 2024•15 min
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 video on TwitterX LightHaven’s Eternal September 0:00:05 – Recursive Reflections 01:29:30 … Continue reading →
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 59 min
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
Sep 27, 2024•8 min
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 previous TBC episode, where we first discussed other aspects of this … Continue reading →
Sep 18, 2024•2 hr 28 min
Bayes Blast 32 – Canadian Health Care
A surprising update for two previously maple-pilled Yanks
Sep 16, 2024•5 min
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 Discord that Liam, … Continue reading →
Sep 04, 2024•2 hr 3 min
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 TracingWoodgrains as the Nietzschean Superman Gymnastics Then vs Now video Evolution … Continue reading →
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 22 min
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 dive in … Continue reading →
Aug 07, 2024•2 hr 14 min
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 The Ultimate Self-Defense Championship Armchair Violence The poem Rikard … Continue reading →
Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 50 min
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 reports Places of Death in the … Continue reading →
Jul 10, 2024•2 hr 28 min
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 Patrons … Continue reading →
Jul 08, 2024•19 min
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. LINKS Brandon’s substack, The Lost Tools of Learning Simple square visualization to … Continue reading →
Jun 26, 2024•2 hr 19 min
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 discussion is had by all. Paid Bonus content – … Continue reading →
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 44 min
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 Talkin’ Fallout VibeCamp 0:00:17 – A Layman’s AI Refresher … Continue reading →
May 29, 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 … Continue reading →
May 15, 2024•1 hr 40 min
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 could want plus tickets … Continue reading →
May 04, 2024•23 min
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. Paid Bonus content – How do furries fit into Social Justice Progressivism? LINKS The Twitter Essay … Continue reading →
May 01, 2024•1 hr 45 min
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 and Podcast Pronatalist.org The mentioned where to … Continue reading →
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 42 min
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 hinted in this blast and discussed in the last … Continue reading →
Apr 15, 2024•31 min
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
Apr 08, 2024•18 min
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 Cum? LINKS Aella’s post on her … Continue reading →
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 32 min
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
Apr 01, 2024•5 min
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 supported at https://www.patreon.com/AskwhoCastsAI and many many more essays and stories are available there.
Mar 20, 2024•3 hr 4 min
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 yet. LINKS Eve Theory of … Continue reading →
Mar 20, 2024•2 hr 28 min
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 this video.
Mar 11, 2024•19 min
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 original post “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old … Continue reading →
Mar 06, 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 LINKS Play Tetris after traumatic events to prevent … Continue reading →
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 52 min
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
Feb 13, 2024•23 min
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
Feb 12, 2024•13 min
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