S6E11 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists

Cult or Just Weird

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This podcast is Bayesd.

Chris & Kayla update all of their priors about LessWrong and decide if it's a cult, or just weird.

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*Search Categories*

Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture

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*Topic Spoiler*

LessWrong

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*Further Reading*

https://www.lesswrong.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LessWrong/

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong

The Sequences

just some Harry Potter fanfic

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DyG8tzmj3NnGRE8Gt/explaining-the-rationalist-movement-to-the-uninitiated

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LgavAYtzFQZKg95WC/extreme-rationality-it-s-not-that-great (the community is remarkably self-aware)

Yudkowsky on cults!

Yudkowsky on cults again!

the podcast eats its tail (CoJW's previous LessWrong episode)

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060440

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/19cmro3/should_i_read_lesswrong_wiki_or_not/

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/2ddfs6/comment/cjp22pf/

Slate Star Codex (LessWrong2.0)

somethingawful has a bitch-thread about LessWrong

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ (LessWrong hater's group)

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bayesian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Decision_Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_paradox

Time platforms Yudkowsky's doomerism

Receipts for how bad Yudkowsky's predictions have been

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