“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...

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...

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 G******g. Guys, this is the most wholesome and fantastic thing we’ve ever heard, for real. LINKS Aella’s post on her birthday g******g, 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...

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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.

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...

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.

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 Ride the Subway Alone” Her website, FreeRangeKids.com Milo’s games portfolio site – Milo.Games Our old episode about Rational Fiction Eneasz’s posts agreeing with not lying to kids, and that patronage is really appreciated Join the first Guild of the...

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 PTSD ACX review of Crazy Like Us Our Episode about Crazy Like Us Eneasz’s post about Trauma Junkies 80,000 Hours episode about Evolutionary Psychiatry Yudkowsky tweet on trauma 0:01:22 – Mind-Body Vicious Cycle of Chronic...

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

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

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 AskWho for creating this and giving permission to share here in full, and to Andrew Cutler for writing it and giving permission to share as well. Y’all are great!  

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 Cutler or listen to the original post in audio, thanks to AskWho for providing! OTHER LINKS Review of Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Scott Alexander Eve Theory of Consciousness (v2) also by Andrew Cutler The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pronouns by Andrew Cutler Erowid Psychedelics FAQ,...

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 attempting to do when they say words to other people. OTHER LINKS Zvi’s Simulacra Levels Summary Less Wrong Simulacra Page Zvi on the Clearer Thinking podcast re Simulacra Zvi on OpenAI’s Battle of the Board On Bounded Distrust Zvi’s Substack Zvi’s Twitter You Get About Five Words More...

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 MonoPoly Restricted Trust TBC 14 – Street Epistemology There Are 4 Lights 0:00:23 – Relentless Self-Indulgence 2:03:38 – Less Wrong Posts 2:34:47 – Guild of the Rose Update 2:35:45 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord!...

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 side of the problem. The Center for AI Policy Careers at CAIP Donate OTHER LINKS –The Less Wrong Community Census/Survey–! CAIP Policy Proposals Humans Need Not Apply 0:00:23 – Discussion with CAIP 1:30:11 – Less Wrong Posts 1:51:19 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:53:16 – Thank the...

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

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

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 review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify)) Brandon’s substack – The Lost Tools of Learning Science Is Weird – a sprawling online science course that helps kids fall in love with the world OTHER LINKS Lost Tools – Your Solar System Is Wrong Evil: Inside Human Violence and...

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 review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify)) Brandon’s substack – The Lost Tools of Learning Science Is Weird – a sprawling online science course that helps kids fall in love with the world OTHER LINKS Kurzgesagt – YouTube channel teaching science for humans The SciFi...

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 with Aella Contra Aella on Polyamoric Lexicality by Yassine Cuckoldry as Status Jockeying by Yassine Yassine – XTwitter, SubStack, Podcast Aella – XTwitter, SubStack, KnowingLess 0:00:23 – Polyamory 1:15:48 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:17:35 – Less Wrong Posts 1:30:21 – Thank the...