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Back to Search[Classic] The Lottery of Fascinations
Episode 391
I.
Suppose I were to come out tomorrow as gay.
I have amazing and wonderful friends, and I certainly wouldn’t expect them to hate me forever or tell …
5 years, 10 months ago
[Meetup Audio] Diana Fleischman: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Behaviorism
Episode 390
Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Behaviorism
Summary - All of us want to change other people's behavior to align more closely with our goals. …
5 years, 10 months ago
[Classic] Freedom On The Centralized Web
Episode 389
I.
A lot of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists envision a future of small corporate states competing for migrants and capital by trying to have the…
5 years, 11 months ago
[Classic] Against Interminable Arguments
Episode 388
[Epistemic status: something I’ve been thinking about recently. There’s a lot of complication around these issues and this is more to start a discuss…
5 years, 11 months ago
[Meetup Audio] Connor Leahy on GPT-3 as AI Fire Alarm
Episode 387
Connor Leahy discusses the idea of an 'AGI Fire Alarm' and argues GPT-3 might be the last such warning we'll receive before it's too late to act.
5 years, 11 months ago
[Classic] Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?
Episode 386
Suppose a lot of that stuff about bravery debates is right.
That lots of the advice people give is useful for some people, but that the opposite advi…
5 years, 11 months ago
Update On My Situation
Episode 385
It’s been two and a half months since I deleted the blog, so I owe all of you an update on recent events.
I haven’t heard anything from the New York …
5 years, 11 months ago
[Classic] SSC Gives A Graduation Speech
Episode 328
Trigger warning: deliberately provoking horror about graduates’ real-world post-college prospects.
Epistemic status: intended as persuasive speech,…
5 years, 11 months ago
[Classic] Yes, We Have Noticed The Skulls
Episode 327
[Related: Tyler Cowen on rationalists, Noah Smith on rationalists, Will Wilkinson on rationalists, etc]
If I were an actor in an improv show, and my …
5 years, 11 months ago
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog
Episode 326
So, I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here’s my explanation.
Last week I talked to a New York Times technology reporter who was planning to write a …
6 years, 2 months ago