Mutual Understanding
by Ben & Divia
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Kave is a Billy Evans Wi-Fi Truther
Kave is a Billy Evans Wi-Fi Truther
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A podcast where we seek to understand our mutual's worldviews
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- Kave is a Billy Evans Wi-Fi Truther · 1 h 56 minDivia entertains my You Can See Everything conspiracy theories (spoilers). Then we prep for the Great Hackening and reminisce about last weekend’s The Sanity & Survival Summit…
- Shea and I talk concepts and AI consciousness · 1 h 37 minSome links: * The Cluster Structure of Thingspace * A Human’s Guide’s to Words * Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology 00:00 Exploring Concepts and Definitions 04:31…
- Kave and I play Panther’s Trespass · 3 h 2 minI think I said I’d link the music I made for this, but I’ve now figured out that linking the midi files directly won’t necessarily sound right (they’re rendered in a specific way…
- Shea and I talk AI discourse · 2 h 25 min00:00 The Rise of AI Discourse 02:38 Legislative Responses to AI Risks 05:10 The Balance of Innovation and Regulation 07:45 Discourse Dynamics in AI Safety 10:13 State Capacity…
- Kave and I talk about our “heresies” · 1 h 2 min* Kave’s 4 heresies * The Ease Disease * interest rates are endogenous * me tweeting about Zizek * me on boundaries 00:00 Introduction to the Conversation 01:01 Exploring…
- Kave and I play The Drifter · 58 minWe waited until we got to a nontrivial puzzle, but ultimately I think mostly failed at doing much thinking in realtime in the video, because after that it was otherwise easy. I…
- Tsvi and I talk “slop”, “the ease disease”, and desire paths · 1 h 6 min* original twitter thread * The Ease Disease * Worse is Better 00:00 — Slop, Cheapness, and the Ease Disease05:23 — What Exactly Is the “Ease Disease”?12:02 — AI, Writing, and…
- Shea and I catch up on discourse · 1 h 27 min00:02 Introduction and Context 00:27 The Arday Controversy 04:08 The Impact of Academia’s Response 12:14 Postpartum Mental Health and Societal Reactions 14:19 The State of…
- Kave and I play the beginning of The Mermaid Mask · 55 minI came into this expecting we could work through some puzzles together, but the beginning had a lot of content and I think one very easy puzzle? But we recorded it, so here it is…
- Shea and I talk about many of our usual topics · 1 h 41 minI briefly reviewed the Meta glasses (tldr; I think they aren’t there yet), we talked about the nature of certainty, how ethics isn’t a truce, more than usual about geometric…
- Kave and I play Murder at the Birch Tree Theater · 1 h 30 minThis is my first time uploading video to Substack, so I hope it works! Nonstandard episode format where Kave and I play Murder at the Birch Tree Theater together. I cross posted…
- Shea listening to me being more deranged than usual · 2 h 11 minWe catch up on the discourse as usual, and then Shea helps me conceptualize some of my rants. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers…
- AI consciousness and materialism etc part 2 (better audio) · 15 minWe recorded this ages ago, and I’m just now getting around to posting it, sorry! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access…
- (bad audio) AI consciousness and materialism etc with Shea part 1 · 1 h 57 minWe recorded this ages ago, and I’m just now getting around to posting it, sorry! And sorry about the audio. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with…
- Shea and I talk about how money works · 1 h 25 minFor some reason, Riverside didn’t generate chapter topics for me this time, so they aren’t here, sorry! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other…
- Shea and I talk Rawl, desert/luck, and hantavirus · 1 h 50 min00:00 Introduction to the Discussion 03:38 Wealth, Luck, and Property Rights 04:53 Self-Esteem and Cultural Identity 06:17 Cultural Degradation and Ethno-Nationalism 09:27 Owing…
- Shreeda interviews me about parenting · 1 h 30 minI think we got somewhere more by the end, so if you listen to part of it, I recommend starting near the end! You can find Shreeda here. 00:00 Introduction to Intentional…
- Ethics isn't a truce, with me and Shea · 2 h 39 minSome things I said I’d link: * Shea and Emmett talk red pill blue pill * Shea and me talking about metaphysics of value Some timestamps: 00:00 Revisiting the Red Pill Blue Pill…
- Shea and I talk some behaviorism and more parenting · 2 h 12 minI hope to get back into recording more regularly soon, but no promises. Life has been pretty busy for me lately. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with…
- Very Outdated Iran takes, and some other stuff · 1 h 1 minApologies for taking forever to edit this podcast we recorded or Feb 7. We talked about the Iran situation some which was all before the US attacked, but there was some other…
