Episodes
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16. Meditations on Moloch
Read the original essay here. Do note that I read an older version. The author made many changes since its publication that I consider dishonest and cowardly. To read along with my narration, go here. Download the mp3 here. If you liked the piece, you might find yourself thinking about it in the...
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15. Biases against Overcoming Bias
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. Point your podcatcher here to subscribe.
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Episode 14: What You Can't Say
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. Point your podcatcher here to subscribe.
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Episode 13: The Nothingness of Personality
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. Point your podcatcher here to subscribe. For more Borges audio, try his lectures. These are in his own voice, and some are even in English!
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Episode 12: Why Speculate?
Read the original essay here (PDF) or here. Download the mp3 here. Point your podcatcher here to subscribe. If you want to use the clip of my reading of the now-famous Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect for your own podcast or whatever, you can download it here. Further reading: Generalized Mount...
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Episode 11: Cargo Cult Science
Read the original talk here. Download the mp3 here. Point your podcatcher here to subscribe.
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Episode 10: Crony Beliefs
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here.
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Episode 9: A Positive Account of Property Rights
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here.
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Episode 8: The Will to Believe
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. Part of this lecture serves as a partial response to The Ethics of Belief, the reading-fodder for the previous episode. James identifies some important psychological realities and subtle distinctions that Clifford glosses over. If you ask me to...
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Episode 7: The Ethics of Belief
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. I reckon William Kingdon Clifford would have been a much more eminent philosopher had he not died at 33.
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Episode 6: The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses
It is expensive to keep track of multiple partially overlapping partially contradictory models. You must do it anyway. — Will Newsome (@willnewsome) August 5, 2012 Hypotheses shouldn't be pet causes. — Will Newsome (@willnewsome) January 12, 2013 yeah, the rationalist community was way better…
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Bonus Episode: You're Probably Wondering Why I Called You Here Today
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. Since most of you are from Slate Star Codex now, I thought I'd release something I made a long time ago. I had the idea to turn SSC into a podcast, but in making the attempt, realize that was far, far too daunting an undertaking. Thus this…
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Episode 5: The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics
Read the original essay here (PDF warning). Download the mp3 here. Not the best choice of essays to read, owing to the abominably boring, repetitive, academic (but I repeat myself) writing style. Still a useful thing to have in your cognitive arsenal, a fairly powerful debiasing technique as well...
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Episode 4: In Praise of Passivity
Download the mp3 here. Read the original essay here (PDF warning) or here. This essay is incredibly important. If I could suggest one short thing for everyone in the world to read, it might be this. I'm not proud of the job I did reading it. Boring and listless and full of minor mistakes....
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Episode 2: The Use of Knowledge In Society
Read the original essay here. Download the mp3 here. If, like me, you found the essay incomprehensible during your first few attempts at it, here are some other essays which may shed some light: I, Pencil In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
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Episode 1: Keep Your Identity Small
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