We’re making a list and pledging it twice, gonna find out who’s stingy and nice. This Christmas, Matt and Chana are feeling the cringe as they reflect on their turpitude of failing to get on board with the thing everyone they respect has done. We hope Bentham’s Bulldog can whip us into shape before Santa leaves coal in our too-wealthy stockings.
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If you’re feeling so inspired, take the GWWC pledge! https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge
TWITTER POLL on which of Chana’s incredibly obscure video games you know: https://x.com/Mjreard/status/2004092617165070833
As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
Matt ponders his upcoming unemployment (circa September), lack of a system 1, and EA Holy Book concept, for which we bring in the best possible guest to discuss. Unfortunately, Taylor Swift ended up hijacking the conversation.
LINKS
On Caring: https://mindingourway.com/on-caring/
Unsong: https://unsongbook.com/
As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
Chana vexes about whether her newfound twitter hate is her fault which unfolds into a discussion of internet main characters and how shamelessness and forecasting are connected. Also, stick around until the end for the BEST JOKE YOU HAVE EVER HEARD
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Vpredator1000 (black or asian guy): https://x.com/VLONEPREDATOR
SBF tucker interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1CR2dyfo8
Nathan’s twitter: https://x.com/NathanpmYoung
Nathan's Substack: https://nathanpmyoung.substack.com/
As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
Matt asks for book recommendations and we end up restructuring the modern workplace, figuring out how money works, and asking whether the rationalists are happy.P.S. Chana has probably found an assistant, but I think she wants more nowLINKSPacific (book): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25816988-pacificUnreasonable Hospitality: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60018618-unreasonable-hospitality?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12Aspiration (Agnes Callard): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37702276-aspiration?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_11As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
In the first episode we actually *recorded* with a girl, Chana’s boss comes on to defy gender stereotypes by focusing on topics like fashion, dating, weddings, crying, but also moths!
As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
LINKS
r/weddingattireapproval: https://www.reddit.com/r/Weddingattireapproval/
Reciprocity pro link: https://buck-reciprocity.herokuapp.com/
Matt’s blog about hemming and hawing about the EA label: https://frommatter.substack.com/p/ea-adjacency-as-ftx-trauma
Killing the moths: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ax5PwjqtrunQJgjsA/killing-the-moths
Killing the ants: https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/02/07/killing-the-ants
We don’t trade with ants: https://worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com/p/we-dont-trade-with-ants
We resume our popular AI in Context video review series by talking about AIC’s second video on the MechaHitler débâcle. Matt actually thought it was good! It made an argument! But we do need to sort out our relationship to the AI omnicause and figure out what the channel is for. All before we go to the Ren Faire.
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AI in Context MechaHitler Video: https://youtu.be/r_9wkavYt4Y?si=VHjo8zFfouwPDrHS
We Don't Even Have to Try short: https://youtube.com/shorts/Om8KXQt6mDo?si=em3aGLayB08bQdzj
Scott Dwarkesh clip (in the middle of this long, worth-listening to interview): https://youtu.be/htOvH12T7mU?si=Lb8Mw2ovnuWFX_WB
Scott list of things he could worry about: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone
As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
Matt worries he’s disqualified for being insufficiently util-simped and being too preoccupied with the ideas themselves. Julia comes on and tells cute but harrowing tales of her bright children learning about the world. Everyone tried to avoid osteoporosis.
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Julia’s excellent (and excellently named) blog: https://juliawise.net/
I regret that I could not find Chana’s LessWrong Declaration of Independence
As always, you can email in questions and comments at mattandchana@gmail.com
Chana discovers anti-elitism is a current theme in US politics in this already extremely dated episode from our brief foray into conflict with Iran, a conflict which, like all others so far, we can now put in the win column of Peter Wildeford’s forecasting record. Oh, and the fire alarm goes off. As always, you can email us with questions and comments at: mattandchana@gmail.com
Matt is sad and grasping at topics and thereby inevitably gets squeezed out of the conversation when two teachers come on to do what they do best: gripe about teaching... and parents and protests and workouts and forecasting. Alex's Reflection on his joke paper going viral: https://lawsen.substack.com/p/when-yo...You can email us with questions and comments at: mattandchana@gmail.com
Chana triumphs at work with the release of her AI 2027 video, but even after two million views and 85,000 subscribers, she still has to win over her biggest critic. But to get there, she’ll have to understand what the hell he’s saying first.
Watch 80k’s AI 2027 video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVDDfAkRgc
Read Matt’s lamentations here: https://frommatter.substack.com/p/sadly-80k
Are do gooders getting corrupted by prestige, or just nerdsniped? We explore that question, and, with no hint of irony, what would make good merch for the podcast.Plus! we finally have an email where you can write in with questions: mattandchana@gmail.com Daniel's podcast here: https://axrp.net/Daniel other podcast here: https://thefilancabinet.com/Daniel on Twitter: https://x.com/freed_dfilan
Matt can't resist talking politics and religion, but everything gets better when we pivot to Disney movies (which are allegedly based on books) featuring the great Conor Barnes of 80k Job Board fame!Conor's writing: https://parhelia.conorbarnes.com/ The Daily Show on Shrimp Welfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbIKtGMoaA
Wherein we pontificate on deadlines, Kanye, market economics, and other jiggery-popery!Phil's fateful EA forum post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cf8Dth9vpxX9ptgma/against-much-financial-risk-tolerance
Chana wasn't sure there'd be a guest three days after we decided (read: she agreed) to do this show, but there was!
...And she showed up late anyway, so much discussion of punctuality ensued. We also cover veganism, AI, and not alcohol.
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ChatGPT on the lives of factory farmed pigs
All found on Andy's great blog, The Weird Turn Pro – renaming in progress, but doubtful