{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3dd76634-7b1c-45c2-a9cf-2f6f96d4e0b4/67e2f521ff10fa253ffccdc5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Cult of Rationalism in Silicon Valley","description":"<p>A lot of the people designing America’s technology and close to the center of American power believe some deeply weird shit. We already talked to journalist <a href=\"https://angryplanetpod.com/p/welcome-to-the-nerd-reich\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Duran about the Nerd Reich</a>, the rise of the destructive anti-democratic ideology. In this episode, we dive into another weird section of Silicon Valley: the cult of Rationalism.</p><p><br></p><p>Max Read, the journalist behind the Read Max Substack, is here to help us through it. Rationalism is responsible for a lot more than you might think and Read lays out how it’s influenced the world we live in today and how it created the environment for a cult that’s got a body count.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Defining rationalism: “Something between a movement, a community, and a self-help program.”</li><li>Eliezer Yudkowsky and the dangers of AI</li><li>What the hell is AGI?</li><li>The Singleton Guide to Global Governance</li><li>The danger of thought experiments</li><li>As always, follow the money</li><li>Vulgar bayesianism</li><li>What’s a Zizian?</li><li>Sith Vegans</li><li><a href=\"https://iep.utm.edu/anselm-ontological-argument/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Anselm: Ontological Argument for God’s Existence</a></li><li>SBF and Effective Altruism</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://maxread.substack.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">READ MAX!</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationalist-death\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Zizians and the Rationalist death cults</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down - Eliezer Yudkowsky’s TIME Magazine piece</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-is-rokos-basilisk-elon-musk-grimes/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Explaining Roko’s Basilisk, the Thought Experiment That Brought Elon Musk and Grimes Together</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/delirious-violent-impossible-true-story-zizians/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btos-LEYQ30&amp;t=285s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Government Knows AGI is Coming | The Ezra Klein Show</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://archive.fo/BHd1p\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The archived ‘Is Trump Racist’ rational post</a></p>","author_name":"Matthew Gault and Jason Fields"}