All Episodes
The Bayesian Conspiracy — 331 episodes
259 – Chill Out on AI in 2028?
258 – How Effective Altruism Has Evolved
257 – Pentagon Comes For Claude
256 – Writing for LLMs
255 – Eneasz goes to CFAR, and Epistemically Honest Reassurance
254 – The True Theme and Meaning of HPMOR
253 – The Seven Vicious Vices of Rationalists
A Harried Meeting (audio)
House elves are crystalized cosmic power
Christmas 2025: Couple of Quick Shoutouts
252 – The 12 Virtues of Rationality, with Alex and David
251 – Matt Freeman on What Makes a Good Story
Bayes Blast 46 – Get Involved in Local Politics with Booker Lightman
250 – Making the Good Life with Matt Freeman
249 – Red Heart and IABIED with Max Harms
248 – Seeking Alpha, with Jay
247 – The Void, with Matt Freeman, part 2
246 – The Void, with Matt Freeman, part 1
pre246 note
245 – AI Welfare, with Rob Long and Rosie Campbell of Eleos
244 – How and Why to Form a Church, with Andrew Willsen
Bayes Blast 45 – Bees Blast
243 – Wes Is Not The Monogamy Police, with Wesly Fenza and Jennifer Kesteloot
Bayes Blast 44 – Play-By-Post Storytelling
242 – TracingWoodgrains, live at Manifest 2025
Bayes Blast 43 – Die-ing to Intuit Bayes’ Theorem
Bonus – AI Village Hosts An Event For Humans
241 – Doom Debates, with Liron Shapira
240 – How To Live Well With High P(Doom) – with Ben Pace, Brandon Hendrickson, Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
Bayes Blast 42 – Epic AI Music
239 – SymbyAI
238 – Part 2 of How A Rationalist Becomes A Christian
237 – How A Rationalist Becomes A Christian
236 – Twilight of the Edgelords with Liam Nolan
235 – Gender Differences, with Wes and Jen
234 – GiveDirectly, with Nick Allardice
233 – AI Policy in D.C., with Dave Kasten
Bayes Blast 41 – AI Action Plan
232 – The Milton Friedman Theory of Change, with John Bennett
Bayes Blast 40 – HPMOR 10 Year Anniversary Parties
231 – SuperBabies, with Gene Smith
Bayes Blast 39 – Ladylike for Autistics
230 – Making Dating Not Suck with Jacob Falkovich
Bayes Blast 38 – Shitcoins
Bayes Blast 37 – Kill Your Friend’s Cat
229 – Integrating Emotions
LW Census 2024
228 – The Deep Lore of LightHaven, with Oliver Habryka
227 – Longevity, Aimed Communities, Network States, with Zoe Isabel Senon
226 – The Illusion of Moral Decline
225 – Live at Lighthaven!
Bonus? The 10-Finger Demon
Live Show At Lighthaven
224 – Cringe Gates and Cultural Drift
Bayes Blast 36 – AI Grifters in Birmingham
223 – Going Back to the Classics
Bonus – Discord Culture (preview)
Bayes Blast 35 – Disproving The Blindsight Thesis
Bayes Blast 34 – Content Moderation is Infosec
222 – Consciousness As Recursive Reflections with Daniel Böttger
Bayes Blast 33 – Porn Sims
221 – Why The Field? Why Zombies?? with Liam
Bayes Blast 32 – Canadian Health Care
220 – Chalmer’s Zombies, with Liam
219 – On Excellence, with Tracing Woodgrains
218 – Bentham’s Bulldog and the Best Argument for God
217 – Consensual Violence with Rikard
216 – On Dying (And Cryonics)
Bayes Blast 31 – Blowing Hot Air (Free Version)
215 – Rationalism and Religion, with Brandon Hendrickson
214 – Is Death Good? Simone and Malcolm Collins return!
213 – Are Transformer Models Aligned By Default?
212 – Feedback Extravaganza
Bayes Blast 30 – Less.Online
211 – The Social Justice Religion with Tracing Woodgrains
210 – Demographic Collapse & Religion with Simone & Malcolm Collins
Bayes Blast 29 – VibeClipse
Bayes Blast 28 – Bass Blast
209 – The World’s Most Wholesome Gangbang, with Lucy Belmont (Fluffer B)
Bayes Blast 27 – SubStack Launch and Animorphs Launch
208.ai – Eve Theory of Consciousness v3.0 – By Andrew Cutler
208 – Snakes On A Brain: Eve Theory of Consciousness v3 with Andrew Cutler
Bayes Blast 26 – AskWho On The Future of Narration
207 – Raising Free Range Kids via Camp Dorkaround
206 – What Chronic Pain and Trauma Junkies Have In Common
Bayes Blast 25 – Betting On Love
Bayes Blast 24 – The Answerers
205.ai – The Snake Cult of Consciousness narration
205 – The Snake Cult of Consciousness
204 – Simulacra Levels with Zvi (and more)
203 – The Self-Indulgent Episode
202 – The Center for AI Policy talks government regulation
Bayes Blast 23 – Less Fingers = Less Blasting?
Bayes Blast 22 – The Penal System
201 – The Educated Mind + More with Brandon Hendrickson (part 2)
200 – The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson
199 – Polyamory with Aella and Yassine
198 – Tuskegee & Age/Race Bias?
197 – What To Expect When You’re Expecting To Go To Burning Man
Bayes Blast 21 – Dudes Catching Son of Sam and Dread Pirate Roberts
196 – Steven Goes To Court
195 – KataGo vs AlphaGo: Fight!
194 – Kinky Data Science with Aella
Bayes Blast 20 – Blue Pill/Red Pill in Roko’s Blender
Bayes Blast 19 – Musicgen and Audiogen
193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout
192 – Absurdism and the Meaning of Life, with Alex
Bayes Blast 17 – Gay Pride is White Liberal Pride
191 – What is Post-Rationalism, with Arielle
Bayes Blast 16 – Holding PRNS (Present Rate, No Singularity)
Bayes Blast 15 – Technological Overemployment
190 – How to be Human Together, at VibeCamp, with GPTBrooke
Bayes Blast 14 – Reddit Sucks
189 – AI Bloomer David Youssef
188 – Living in the Early Singularity, with Matt Freeman
187 – GitLab & Review Bounties to Save Science, with Richard Acton
Bayes Blast 13 – GPT-4 maps every neuron in GPT-2
186 – Why We Aren’t Technically EAs But Totally Would Be, Unlike This Guy
Bayes Blast 12 – AI White Pills
185 – The Rise and Fall of Peer Review, with Adam Mastroianni
Bayes Blast 11 – Exposure to Lizardman Is Lethal
Bayes Blast 10 – Shoggoth Tongues
Bayes Blast 9 – The salt in pasta water fallacy
184 – The Cultic Milieu
Bayes Blast 8 – An AI risk argument that resonates with NYTimes readers
Bayes Blast 7 – Chatbot convinces Belgian to commit suicide
Bayes Blast 6 – The Parable of the King and the Random Process
183 – Let’s Think About Slowing Down AI
Bayes Blast 5 – Importance Hacking
Bayes Blast 4 – The Waluigi Effect
Bayes Blast 3 – Dynamics Can Arise If You Nudge
Bayes Blast 2 – Logan’s Model of EA Burnout
182 – The Birth and Death of Sydney (Bing AI)
181 – How To Read The News With Bounded Distrust, with Wesley Fenza
Bayes Blast 1 – In Defense of Chatbot Romance
Bonus preview – YIMBY follow-ups and Vulgar EA
180 – YIMBY in CA with Brian Hanlon
179 – The Plan (to align AI), with John Wentworth
178 – Out To Get You
177 – Decision Trees and Butlerian Jihads with Matt Freeman
176 – Circling with Aella
175 – FTX + EA, and Personal Finance
BREAKING – FTX collapse & EA shockwaves
174 – Jon Stewart, The Consensus Emancipator
173 – Oh Lawd, Strong AI is Comin’
172 – Virtue Ethics
171 – All About AGP
170 – By George, The Rent Is Too Damn High!
169 – S&E BS re AGI
168 – Unions Are Governments
167 – Jugaad Ethics
166 – Getting Lucky
165 – DREAM: Dunbar Rules Everything Around Me
164 – Pregnancy is Body Horror
163 – Effective Aesthetics
162 – Roe No Mo’
161 – Restoring the Kingdom of Hawai’i
160 – GAI is Imminent
159 – Cryonics Concerns, and Theses On Sleep
Monarchy Reactions – post Episode 158 discussion (Teaser)
158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fascism?
157 – A Fistful of Topics
156 – A Chemical Hunger
Trailer For Bonus Aella
155 – Normal Predictions, and Change is Bad
Trailer For Wirehead Extras
154 – Two General Thinkers Discuss General Thinking
153 – Values and Wireheading with Wes Fenza
152 – Frame Control with Aella
151 – Don’t Make This Your Everything
150 – The Procrastination Equation
149 – The Roots of Progress, with Jason Crawford
148 – Decisions, Decisions
147 – Newcomblike Problems Are The Norm
146 – What Is A Rationalist?
145 – You Are In Newcomb’s IQ Shredder
144 – The Guild Of The Rose (beta)
143 – Crazy Like Us
142 – Do This
141 – Raising Younglings
140 – Trigger Warning: Old Men Yelling at Clouds
139 – Kids These Days
138 – Are Teens People?
137 – Can You Consent to Listening to this Episode?
136 – Obviously (and Legally) Murder
135 – Live Episode #2
Live Episode Announcement
134 – We’ve Got Class
133 – Is Libertarianism a Gateway Drug to Anarcho-Capitalism?
132 – Mind Killed by Libertarianism
131 – Feedback Grab Bag
130 – The Cause of the Hate Revolution (or: Hate is the New Sex)
129 – Sympathy For The Devil
128 – The Q-Coup
127 – All About Aging with Richard Acton
126 – LessWrong 2.0 and Books
125 – Hacking Away at Careers
124 – Longevity
123 – Stuff Has Been Weird Lately
122 – EARN IT vs America
121 – Crony Beliefs
120 – Why Can’t We Brain Good?
Episode 119 – If You’re A Human, You’re Already Losing To GPT-3
118 – Guns, Germs, and Guns (except the Germs are actually More Guns)
117 – The Guild of Servants
116 – Truth, Falsity, and Censorship
115 – Does Rationality Actually Do Anything?
114 – Epistemic Rigor and BLM
113 – Refining Niceness with Wes Fenza
112 – Nice Places Are Nice
111 – Rational Practices in Everyday Living
The Mind Killer Episode 4 – Are We Committing Collective Suicide?
110 – Socratic Grilling
The Mind Killer Episode 3 – Opening Up
109 – What Have We Been Consuming?
The Mind Killer Episode 2
108 – Rudi Hoffman on How to Beat Death and Taxes
The Mind Killer 001 – The Hammer and The Dance
107 – Talking to Even More Strangers
106 – Talking to Strangers (with COVID-19)
105 – The Anthropic Principle is da bomb
104 – Do You Want To Ask or Guess This Episode’s Topic?
103 – Radical Honesty
102 – Decade in Review
101 – The Live Episode (pt2)
100 – The Live Episode (pt1)
Live Episode on Sunday Dec 15, 1pm MT (GMT -6)
99 – Whiteshift
98 – A GSV Very Different From Ours
97 – Oops, We Accidentally Over Two Hours of Feedback
96 – Do Words Mean Things, Also Sex Science!
95 – It’s Gender Time! Part 1
94 – The Problem At Yale Isn’t Free Speech, It’s Lack of Batmans
93 – Conflict vs Mistake
92 – Replacing Guilt
91 – Are You Jesus or Hitler??
90 – Secret to Our Success
89 – Is Rationalism Being Co-opted by the Alt-Right?
88 – UBI and Other Forms of (Evil?) Taxes
87 – Degrees of Freedom
Bonus Abortion non-episode
86 – Quick Shout Out to the Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread
85 – Stuff is Weird, Yo
84 – Yang-arang!
83 – REACH
82 – Revenge of the Feedback!
81 – That’s Too Much Feedback, Man
80 – The Reward and Peril of GPT2
79 – CyberChristianity
78 – Seriously, an Atheism Episode?
77 – Meandering Around Albion’s Seed
76 – Patreon and Censorship
75 – Culture Roots of America
74 – Adventures in Feedback!
73 – Truth and Winning
72 – Productivity Tools, Part 2
71 – Researching Qualia with Andrés Gómez Emilsson
70 – Kick-offs
69 – Culture War 2.0
68 – Can’t Give Up Freeman
67 – Freestyle Community Talk with Matt Freeman
The Sword of Good
66 – Feedback & Productivity (pt1)
65 – Religion, and The Intelligent Social Web
64 – Magick with David Youssef
63 – Rational Fiction
62 – Stoic Chatter and RatChat!
61 – Biohacking 101
60 – 98% Likelihood This Episode is about Metaculus
59 – Gettin’ Schooled
58 – Inside Trump Country with Joshua
57 – Community Talk with Bayesed and Confused
56 – Adventures in Tough Subjects
55 – Keeping up with the Rationalists
54 – Nothing Can Prepare You For Robin Hanson
53 – Principles of Curiosity with Brian Dunning
52 – Marriage is Obsolete Technology
51 – Robert McIntyre Returns
Holiday
50 – Approaching Rationality with Kyle Moore
49 – Spirituality via Drugs
48 – Cryonics 2 – Lacuna Matata (with Robert McIntyre)
47 – Post Scarcity
46 – Social Media and Outrage Culture
45 – Cryptocurrencies
44 – Burning Man
43 – Parenting as a Rationalist
42 – Emotionally Charged Discussion
41 – Ritual and Spirituality
40 – Making Humans Legible
39 – Transhumanism (pt 2)
38 – Transhumanism (pt 1)
37 – AlphaGo Returns
36 – The Other Kind of Drugs
35 – Your Brain on Nootropics
34 – Lies, All Lies!
33 – MIRI, and EA meta-discussion
32 – Who’s Afraid of AI?
31 – Digital Rights and Privacy
30 – Of Specks and Omlettes
29 – Fiction and Fun with Max Harms
Bonus Mini-Episode: I Did Nazi That Coming
28 – Effective Altruism
27 – On Punching Nazis
26 – Concept Networks and Hanging Nodes
25 – Tinder, Actually
24 – Signaling
23 – Desirism with Alonzo Fyfe
22 – Moral Philosophy
Bonus mini-episode: Trump-Reacting
21 – Kids, These Days
20 – What’s important?
19 – Political Pitfalls
18 – Robin Hanson Interview
17 – The Feels
16 – Animals Again
15 – Animals
14 – Street Epistemology
13 – Game Theory
12 – Listener Feedback
11 – Voting
10 – Polyamory (part 2)
9 – Polyamory (part 1)
8 – Interview with Brian Dunning
7 – Kill All Humans?
6 – Cryonics
5 – When Grandmas ask “What is Rationality?”
4 – AlphaGo, with Patrick Chapin
3 – Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 – What is this “Sanity Waterline” you speak of?
1 – What Use is Rationality?