A conversational podcast for aspiring rationalists.
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This is an alternate universe story, where Petunia married a scientist. Harry enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit.
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Rav Yehoshua Liff grew up in Baltimore in the environment of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, where his father was a Rebbe. Living in Eretz Yisroel Rabbi Liff has been a Mechanech to many Talmidim for close to four decades as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Yaakov, and presently as the Nasi of Yeshiva Ateres Yaakov in Ramat Beit Shemesh. His book about his personal stories with many Gedolim including Rav Moshe Feinstien, Rav Shach, Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz, and more, was published by Artscroll titled “At His ...
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Guarding our eyes is the key to bringing Kedusha into our lives. Chizuk and practical help to overcome our most difficult Nisayon.
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AI safety, philosophy and other things.
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All rights belong to J.K Rowling. This is a fan fiction (HPMOR) written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I am Jack Voraces, a professional audiobook narrator: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Jack+Voraces I do not intend to make any money from this podcast. It is a free audiobook for anyone to listen to and it is my hope that it will eventually evolve into a dream I have had for a while. The 500 hour audiobook. I would like to create an audiobook that is 500 hours long, totally free and av ...
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Podcast of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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On this podcast we will be discussing all the foundational elements of Judaism and life. We will talk about how to define God, what is the purpose of the world, who gets to decide what is good and what is bad, the five categories of relationships and many more topics covering the basics of Judaism. With in-depth but easy-to-listen-to explanations this will add meaning and vitality to every moment of your day. Join us every Thursday on the journey of building strong Jewish foundations. Listen ...
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Join Steven and Brian as we dive into the world of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality! Steven will play the role of the tour guide while doing his best to not spoil any of the surprises and Brian will play the seasoned adventurer who is new to this particular work.
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.
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Ubik 04: Perception Kaleidoscope Dimension
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Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode, things are getting super weird. Are they dead? Is everyone dead? Come back next week for chapters 11, 12, and 13! Note: I’m giving myself a pass for being less coherent than usual. I didn’t check until after recording…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Ki Savo - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundat…
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221 – Why The Field? Why Zombies?? with Liam
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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 The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers 0:00:05 – Even More Zombies 01:59:12 – Feedback 0…
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A surprising update for two previously maple-pilled YanksBy The Bayesian Conspiracy
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Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode, the crew gets to the moon and shit goes sideways right away. Come back next week for chapters 8, 9, and 10!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitze - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFound…
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Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode we assemble the crew with chapters 3, 4, and 5. Next week we’ll see what this rag-tag group of meta humans gets up to in chapters 6 and 7!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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#13 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander debate the Very Repugnant Conclusion
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In this episode, Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander are back to battle it out for the philosophy crown, while I (attempt to) moderate. They discuss the Very Repugnant Conclusion, which, in the words of Claude, "posits that a world with a vast population living lives barely worth living could be considered ethically inferior to a world with an even lar…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Shoftim - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundat…
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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, Eneasz, and I had. I thought it provided a lot of awesome extra depth to the episode’s topic. Did you know that it’s basically imposs…
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Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! We started off light with just the first couple of chapters to get our sea legs. Next week we’re reading chapters 3, 4 and 5.By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Re'eh - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundatio…
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Welcome the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick. This is an introduction where Brian explains a bit about who PDK was and gets up prepped to start our first of three of his books. We’re starting with Ubik, chapters 1 and 2 next week! (We change the name next episode as the one we went for with t…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Ekev - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundation…
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#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting
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Deger Turan is the CEO of forecasting platform Metaculus and president of the AI Objectives Institute. In this episode, we discuss how forecasting can be used to help humanity coordinate around reducing existential risks, Deger's advice for aspiring forecasters, the future of using AI for forecasting and more! Enter Metaculus's Q3 AI Forecasting Be…
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219 – On Excellence, with Tracing Woodgrains
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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 of Gymnastics video 0:00:05 – Excellence 01:17:24 – Guild of the Rose 01:…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Vaeschanan - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoun…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Dvarim - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundati…
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218 – Bentham’s Bulldog and the Best Argument for God
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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 deeper. LINKS Bentham’s Newsletter Bentham’s Bulldog on the Best Argument for God and also Miracles Skeptoid #247 on The “Miracle” of Calanda an…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Matos-Masei - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFou…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Pinchas - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundat…
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217 – Consensual Violence with Rikard
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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 recited 0:00:17 – Consensual Violence 1:24:05 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:25:37…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Balak - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundatio…
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Fallout 09 – Uranium Fever Aftermath
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Buckle up as Eneasz and Steven discuss some of the feedback about this short series and then have an untamed discussion about how capitalism/capitalists are portrayed in popular culture full of all kinds of digressions and random thoughts. We hope you enjoy it! :)By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundati…
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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 US Prev Episodes – Cryonics pt 1 and pt 2 w Robert McIntyre, and Cryo with Rudi Hoffman Bentham’s Bulldog on the Best Argum…
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Bayes Blast 31 – Blowing Hot Air (Free Version)
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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 and Substack supporters will have access to the whole thing. https://earth.nullschool.net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Korach - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundati…
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Steven and Eneasz wrap up their discussion on the Fallout TV show and plan out future content.By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Shlach - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundati…
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215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson
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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 understand Bayes Theorem SA – Yes We Have Noticed The Skulls That’s Mod…
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Villager Voices: Voice Actor Plays Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq2PktkOVbs All rights belong to J.K Rowling. This is a Harry Potter fan fiction written by Alexander Davies and is a sequel to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I am Jack Voraces, a professional audiobook narrator: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator…
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Enjoy the 7th episode of Uranium Fever! Everyone’s always trying to get some head. In this case it’s more literal.By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Naso - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundation…
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#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk
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Katja Grace is the co-founder of AI Impacts, a non-profit focused on answering key questions about the future trajectory of AI development, which is best known for conducting the world's largest survey of machine learning researchers. We talked about the most interesting results from the survey, Katja's views on whether we should slow down AI progr…
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Villager Voices: Voice Actor Plays Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq2PktkOVbs All rights belong to J.K Rowling. This is a Harry Potter fan fiction written by Alexander Davies and is a sequel to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I am Jack Voraces, a professional audiobook narrator: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Naso - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundation…
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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. LINKS Based Camp Three World’s Collide, novella by Eliezer Yudkowsky YIMBYism in California is doing very well! AskWho Casts A…
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A Gutten Erev Shavuos - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +…
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Villager Voices: Voice Actor Plays Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq2PktkOVbs All rights belong to J.K Rowling. This is a Harry Potter fan fiction written by Alexander Davies and is a sequel to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I am Jack Voraces, a professional audiobook narrator: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator…
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Our heroes get trapped by evil mutants! Plus we get some ghoulishly awesome flashbacks from before the end of the world. Don’t forget to check out AskWho’s awesome Substack. Eneasz recommended this reading of a book review of the Old Testament and it’s awesome.By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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#10 Nathan Labenz on the current AI state-of-the-art, the Red Team in Public project, reasons for hope on AI x-risk & more
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Nathan Labenz is the founder of AI content-generation platform Waymark and host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, who now works full-time on tracking and analysing developments in AI. We chatted about where we currently stand with state-of-art AI capabilities, whether we should be advocating for a pause on scaling frontier models, Nathan's Red T…
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel If you would li…
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Eneasz and Steven chat about the fifth episode of the Fallout tv show. Remember when we thought we’d keep these around 15 minutes each? Ha!By The Methods of Rationality Podcast
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A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Bechukosai - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel If you would …
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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 →By The Bayesian Conspiracy
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