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 have anything you want to add to our discussions. Chat with us and a ton of awesome people on our Discord server, comment on the episode here, email us at [email protected], or use our now-mostly-inactive subreddit!

LINKS
Claude 3
Tumblr post from one participant of Aella’s birthday party
Twitter thread from the badass virgin attendee we mentioned

0:00:17 – Feedback
0:56:24 – Guild of the Rose Update
0:58:42 – Less Wrong Posts
1:39:29 – Thank the Patron

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Joy in Discovery

Bind Yourself to Reality

Next Sequence Posts:

If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help

The Beauty of Settled Science

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 at Less.Online!

“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.

LINKS
The Twitter Essay we’re discussing
Tracing Woodgrains on Twitter
Tracing Woodgrains’s SubStack
Trace’s piece on the FAA scandal/conspiracy
Eneasz’s post on repenting for new atheism
Eliezer on Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
TBC episode 7(!) with a negative utilitarian (Kill All Humans)
Yassine’s thread on religious tolerance of wokism
Robin Williams escaped Lewy Body Dementia
Richard Dawkins’s The Greatest Show On Earth
Scott Alexander’s Fascination Lottery
Worth The Candle by Alexander Wales
Eneasz on The Peace of Westphalia and the War on Christmas

0:00:17 – The New Vital Religion
1:22:31 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:23:42 – Less Wrong Posts
1:43:36 – Thank the Patron

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Savanna Poets

Joy in the Merely Real

Next Sequence Posts:

Joy in Discovery

Bind Yourself to Reality

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 live document
Project Eureka (the Collins’s town to move to project)
The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion
TBC – You Are In Newcomb’s IQ Shredder
TBC – CyberChristianity
Scott Alexander – The Toxoplasma Of Rage
Unweaving The Rainbow
Bonus Chat with Aella at Patreon, and at SubStack

0:00:17 – Simone & Malcolm
1:18:54 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:20:17 – Less Wrong Posts
1:40:10 – Thank the Patron

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Fake Reductionism

Next Sequence Posts:

Savanna Poets

Joy in the Merely Real

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 blast, Yassine is a baller DJ. Steven’s wife enjoyed one of his songs enough to ask him about so he could send it over. Check out a sample of his skills here. This is the opposite of dance hell.

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

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.

LINKS
Aella’s post on her birthday gangbang, with many charts and graphs
LucyBelmont.com
Also Lucy on TwitterX, or contact directly via [email protected]
An attendee’s recollections
The Virgin’s Twitter thread
Julia Galef’s video that summarizes what it was like going form T/F beliefs to %probability beliefs
HPMOR

0:00:17 – The Gangbang
1:12:24 – Guild of the Rose Update
1:14:47 – Less Wrong Posts
1:30:25 – Thank the Patron

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Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Qualitatively Confused

Reductionism

Next Sequence Posts:

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Fake Reductionism

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You can hear the Rational!Animorphs fanfic (and Luminosity) at AskWho’s channel

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?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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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 Consciousness v3.0: How humans evolved a soul
Full audio of Eve Theory v3, courtesy of AskWho
Herakles, Adam, and Krishna were initiated in the snake cult at Göbekli Tepe
The Seeds of Science
TBC ep 200 The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson
TBC ep 206 on Chronic Pain
TBC ep 54 with Robin Hanson on The Elephant In The Brain
Neon Genesis Evangelion
What Lies Dreaming by Eneasz Brodski
Roon on Twitter

0:00:23 – Eve & Snake Cults
2:09:01 – Guild of the Rose Update
2:11:59 – Less Wrong Posts
2:25:19 – Thank the Patron

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast

LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

Mind Projection Fallacy

The Quotation is not the Referent

Next Sequence Posts:

Qualitatively Confused

Reductionism