193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout

We speak with Yassine Meskhout of The Bailey about… a whole bunch of things actually. LINKS Yassine’s Substack The Motte The Bailey podcast Yassine’s I Am Here Because Of Blind Dumb Luck Check Here For Racial Oppression – history of the US Federal racial categories SSC post popularizing & explaining the Motte And Bailey Doctrine Alex Jones as Epic Poetry Yassine’s posts on Paul Ehrlich’s Gymnastics and Meghan Murphy’s Speedrun Guide to Logical Fallacies There Are No Amendments in Islam Eleven Magic Words Morality is Accidental & Self-Congratulatory Consider The Hand Axe Slavery in Video Games The post about that video game with slavery 0:00:23 – Hard open 0:01:05 – Yassine is (officially) white 0:19:48 – Official open + The Bailey podcast 0:26:36 – MCU-level mental gymnastics 0:55:55 – Yassine on Eleven Magic Words and being a Public Defender 1:20:41 – There Are No Amendments in Islam 1:37:48 – Any anti-tech movement is necessarily a pro-slavery movement 1:51:50 – Guild of the Rose Update 1:53:10 – Feedback 1:56:42 – Less Wrong Posts 2:17:58 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: Disguised Queries Neural Categories Next Sequence Posts: How An Algorithm Feels From Inside Disputing Definitions