114 – Epistemic Rigor and BLM

Do BLM protests give people a correct impression of the fundamental problem with the police, and is that important as long as shit gets fixed? All sorts of disagreement today. Campaign Zero’s list of reforms. This is not actually a BLM list, as we had originally thought. The official BLM site has no policy demands or requests aside from “#Defund the Police” which is vauge to say the least. Movement For Black Lives isn’t BLM either. They have a bit of a manifesto calling to End The War on Black People. Yudkowsky’s Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement has more to recommend it than anything BLM is putting forth at the time of this posting, which is surprising. Simpson’s Paradox wiki, and tailored for police stats NPYD Stop & Frisk Data Dave Chappelle’s 8:46 Sam Harris’s podcast episode, which sparked this discussion in our Discord A Soho Forum Debate on the same matter You Have About Five Words Slate Star Codex is gone SlateStarScratchpad 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: Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark Say Not “Complexity” Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: My Wild and Reckless Youth Failing to Learn from History Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!