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Podcast: The Bayesian Conspiracy
Episode:

96 – Do Words Mean Things, Also Sex Science!
Category: Education
Duration: 01:38:45
Publish Date: 2019-10-23 03:03:00
Description:

The Conspirators sort of continue the conversation from our last episode, after meandering around about the meaning of words/their relevance to current usage. Eventually we’ll get to the LessWrong sequence on the Human Use of Words and this confusion will hopefully dissolve.

 

Comic Relief: Omeleto video featuring Nick offerman

Patreon supporter Welf wrote a blog post that they shared with us and we touched on in this discussion. It’s really good if this topic interests you.

Ryan Gosling Avatar Papyrus freak out on SNL

Jess’s favorite dinosaur

What if we had only the bones of modern animals and drew them like we draw dinosaurs? (link with whale, link to book)

Wikipedia and other links from Jess

Alicorn transgender story? From Jess

Skeptoid episode Transgender: Fact or Fiction

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:

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