The Bayesian Conspiracy

The Bayesian Conspiracy


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206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common
February 21, 2024

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

Bayes Blast 25 – Betting On Love
February 13, 2024

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 Wess twitter reply

Bayes Blast 24 – The Answerers
February 11, 2024

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

205.ai – The Snake Cult of Consciousness narration
February 07, 2024

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

205 – The Snake Cult of Consciousness
February 07, 2024

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 Cutl

204 – Simulacra Levels with Zvi (and more)
January 24, 2024

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 attemp

203 – The Self-Indulgent Episode
January 10, 2024

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 Yassines post Mono

202 – The Center for AI Policy talks government regulation
December 13, 2023

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 theyre working the government

Bayes Blast 23 – Less Fingers = Less Blasting?
December 01, 2023

Are there other ways to disincentivize attempted murder? Related Episodes: 196and198 and BB22

Bayes Blast 22 – The Penal System
November 30, 2023

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