181 – How To Read The News With Bounded Distrust, with Wesley Fenza

We discuss Zvi’s How to Bounded Distrust with Wesley Fenza. Wes is from The Mind Killer! Other links: Bounded Distrust On Bounded Distrust The Media Very Rarely Lies + followup + 2nd followup People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You Matt Yglesia on Why You Can’t Trust The Media Discovery in lawsuit case shows FOX News hosts didn’t believe their own narrative NYT leadership decided tech will be covered negatively Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust Eneasz did the dumb homework: MIT article on how the vaccine was delayed by a week to just after the election Nate Silver said it deserves looking into Zvi says of Topol “there was the time he was instrumental in sabotaging approval of the Covid vaccines so that it would happen after the November election.” 00:01 – How To Bounded Distrust 01:10:51 – Guild of the Rose Update 01:12:31 – Thank the Patron We now partner with The Guild of the Rose, check them out. Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Our Patreon page–your support is most rational, and totally effective. (also merch) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode: nope Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: The Allais Paradox Zut Allais!