91 – Are You Jesus or Hitler??

In this episode our hosts come together to try and figure out if it’s worth worrying about the possibility that we’re living in a simulation, with a fun twist. We also do plenty of listener feedback. Steven mentioned Eneasz’s book. When I googled the short story Eneasz talked about “Steve Fever” (which was written by Greg Egan), the fifth result was a link to Eneasz’s blog post about the story, which contains a link to the story in it. Jess mentioned a story called “Stupid Perfect World” which you can get on Amazon for only 3 bucks! A link to the Slate Star Codex post: Burdens Steven mentioned the Primitive Technologies channel on Youtube Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? Two More Things to Unlearn from School Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) Belief in Belief Bayesian Judo Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!