87 – Degrees of Freedom

We discuss Sarah Constantin’s recent post Degrees of Freedom, addressing where optimization and free-will conflict. Mentioned in this episode: The parable of The Whispering Earring The Transporter Argument Our episode about Desirism with Alonzo Fyfe Eneasz’s Classic WoW guild – The Tail End (US – Alliance – PvE, eventually raiding Sun/Mon 9-12EST) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast   LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Universal Fire   — Also, you can hear Eneasz’s reading of the full post here Universal Law Think Like Reality Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Beware the Unsurprised The Third Alternative Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism 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!