Podcast appearances and mentions of conor barnes

Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/yncw2T77OAcMatt, Bella, and Huon sit down with Conor Barnes to discuss unlikely journeys, EA criticism, discipline, timeless decision theory, and how to do the most good with a degree in classics. Check out:Conor's 100 Tips for a Better Life: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7hFeMWC6Y5eaSixbD/100-tips-for-a-better-lifeConor's writing: https://parhelia.conorbarnes.com/Zvi on timeless decision theory: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/scwoBEju75C45W5n3/how-i-lost-100-pounds-using-tdt

Jim talks with Jonathan Rowson of Perspectiva about a new social practice they're creating, the antidebate. They discuss the nature of debate, the spectacle of endemic polarization, why debate may be irredeemable, multiple ways of knowing, the Oxford Union debates, the debate apocalypse of 2020, the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate, the elitist aspect of debates, longtermism, the dialectic fallacy, presencing confusion, anti-debate as a practice, developing the form & facilitation skills, anti-debate trials to date, the current state of the art, setting a positive tone, choosing the question, the question bomb process, tableauing, why answering the question isn't necessary, swarming, epistemic seduction, drawing on Quaker Speaking, recruiting the enigmatics, prefiguring the culture you want to live in, scalability, disaffection with the ambient internet, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS Currents 041: Jonathan Rowson on Our Metacrisis Pickle JRS EP127 - Jonathan Rowson on The Moves That Matter JRS Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama JRS EP154 - Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things JRS EP155 - Iain McGilchrist Part 2: The Matter With Things "What Our Politics Needs Now: Anti-Debates," with Peter Limberg & Conor Barnes "The Anti-Debate: Experiments in the Art of Sensemaking for a World Gone Slightly Mad" - a film by Katie Teague "Is War Natural? (and other questions)" - YouTube Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and director of the research institute Perspectiva based in London. He is also the former director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts and is a chess grandmaster and three-time British Chess Champion. His books include The Seven Deadly Chess Sins, Chess for Zebras, Spiritualize: Cultivating Spiritual Sensibility to Address 21st Century Challenges, and, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An Analysis of Engineering Jobs on the 80,000 Hours Job Board, published by Jessica Wen on February 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. 0 Summary Cross-posted from the High Impact Engineers blog. The Google Doc version of the report can be found here. The Google Sheets of the data is here. This report analyses the (physical) engineering jobs posted on the 80,000 Hours job board from October 2022 to February 2024. We find that: The rate of new jobs added to the 80,000 Hours job board remains consistent throughout this period. The rate of new engineering jobs added to the 80,000 Hours job board more than doubled in July 2023 and has remained at this higher level since then. Half of the engineering jobs advertised on the 80,000 Hours job board are in biosecurity. For the engineering jobs on the 80,000 Hours job board, mechanical engineering skills are the most in-demand, followed by bioengineering. Almost half of the engineering jobs are US-based, and nearly a third are UK-based. The rest are mainly in Europe or Australia, with a handful based in India and other non-Western countries. 1 Introduction 1.1 Context Before October 2022, the "Engineering" job tag on the 80,000 Hours job board included both software and "physical"[1] engineering. We spoke with 80,000 Hours to separate software and "physical" engineering into two different tags, which they implemented in October 2022. This has been a huge help for the High Impact Engineers community. At that time, I set up email notifications to receive alerts when new jobs were posted to the 80,000 Hours job board using the "Engineering" job tag.[2] Speaking with other career coaches and community builders, there is a consensus that there is a general lack of information on the landscape of "EA jobs". Out of curiosity, I put this analysis of engineering jobs on the 80k job board together in ~8 hours. I expect 80k is probably in a better position to run these kinds of evaluations of the landscape of impactful jobs, but I thought that it would be helpful and of interest to the High Impact Engineers community and potentially the wider EA community to see these statistics. I focus only on jobs tagged "engineering" on the 80k job board, but I expect similar analyses could be made with other tags. After putting this report together, I shared it with Conor Barnes from 80,000 Hours to review. All the notes from 80k are from his feedback, which is greatly appreciated! 1.2 Some Caveats Since I received these notifications via email over the past 15 months, most of the jobs from the notifications are no longer open. This means that the "Type of engineering" and the "Country" data are the most likely to be inaccurate without access to the original job description. I have made my best guess to fill in this data according to the job titles, trying to find similar open roles at the companies, and doing general research on the organisations' websites. I have tried not to delete these email notifications, but I may have deleted some. As a result, this data set may be incomplete. However, I don't think this detracts too much from many of the conclusions that can be drawn from this set of data. Finally, here are some caveats on my views on the 80k job board. I'm sure they would agree with me that their job board is not the definitive list of impactful jobs, or even the definitive list of EA jobs (whatever that means!). They do a great job at keeping on top of opportunities within and outside of the EA ecosystem, but it's important to keep in mind that there are lots of other impactful jobs that 80k might miss, or they might have a different model of impact than you do[3]. As a result, I hope that readers will understand that this is not a reflection of the jobs that "EA" deems to be "valuable"[4], but more an attempt to understand the oppo...

On this episode: a listener noticed that her six-year-old isn't sharing well when his friends come over. He even told one friend to leave mid playdate. They're wondering how to help her kid be a better host and, if things become overwhelming, take some time for himself instead of getting upset.  Recommendations:  Jamilah recommends eating duck.  Zak recommends tossing out the tools you don't reach for, inspired by Conor Barnes' 100 Tips For A Better Life.  Elizabeth recommends Group Buy Ins. The one she uses is called Storms In The Sky.  Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today's show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie and Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode: a listener noticed that her six-year-old isn't sharing well when his friends come over. He even told one friend to leave mid playdate. They're wondering how to help her kid be a better host and, if things become overwhelming, take some time for himself instead of getting upset.  Recommendations:  Jamilah recommends eating duck.  Zak recommends tossing out the tools you don't reach for, inspired by Conor Barnes' 100 Tips For A Better Life.  Elizabeth recommends Group Buy Ins. The one she uses is called Storms In The Sky.  Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today's show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie and Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Philanthropy to the Right of Boom [Founders Pledge], published by christian.r on February 14, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Background and Acknowledgements: This write-up represents part of an ongoing Founders Pledge research project to understand the landscape of nuclear risk and philanthropic support of nuclear risk reduction measures. It is in some respects a work in progress and can be viewed as a Google Document here and on Founders Pledge's website here. With thanks to James Acton, Conor Barnes, Tom Barnes, Patty-Jane Geller, Matthew Gentzel, Matt Lerner, Jeffrey Lewis, Ankit Panda, Andrew Reddie, and Carl Robichaud for reviewing this document and for their thoughtful comments and suggestions. “The Nuclear Equivalent of Mosquito Nets” In philanthropy, the term “impact multipliers” refers to features of the world that make one funding opportunity relatively more effective than another. Stacking these multipliers makes effectiveness a “conjunction of multipliers;” understanding this conjunction can in turn help guide philanthropists seeking to maximize impact under high uncertainty. Not all impact multipliers are created equal, however. To systematically engage in effective giving, philanthropists must understand the largest impact multipliers — “critical multipliers” — those features that most dramatically cleave more effective interventions from less effective interventions. In global health and development, for example, one critical multiplier is simply to focus on the world's poorest people. Because of large inequalities in wealth and the decreasing marginal utility of money, helping people living in extreme poverty rather than people in the Global North is a critical multiplier that winnows the field of possible interventions more than many other possible multipliers. Additional considerations — the prevalence of mosquito-borne illnesses, the low cost and scalability of bednet distribution, and more — ultimately point philanthropists in global health and development to one of the most effective interventions to reduce suffering in the near term: funding the distribution of insecticide-treated bednets. This write-up represents an attempt to identify a defensible critical multiplier in nuclear philanthropy, and potentially to move one step closer to finding “the nuclear equivalent of mosquito nets.” Impact Multipliers in Nuclear Philanthropy There are many potential impact multipliers in nuclear philanthropy. For example, focusing on states with large nuclear arsenals may be more impactful than focusing on nuclear terrorism. Nuclear terrorism would be horrific and a single attack in a city (e.g. with a dirty bomb) could kill thousands of people, injure many more, and cause long-lasting damage to the physical and mental health of millions. All-out nuclear war between the United States and Russia, however, would be many times worse. Hundreds of millions of people would likely die from the direct effects of a war. If we believe nuclear winter modeling, moreover, there may be many more deaths from climate effects and famine. In the worst case, civilization could collapse. Simplifying these effects, suppose for the sake of argument that a nuclear terrorist attack could kill 100,000 people, and an all-out nuclear war could kill 1 billion people. All else equal, in this scenario it would be 10,000 times more effective to focus on preventing all-out war than it is to focus on nuclear terrorism. Generalizing this pattern, philanthropists ought to prioritize the largest nuclear wars (again, all else equal) when thinking about additional resources at the margin. This can be operationalized with real numbers — nuclear arsenal size, military spending, and other measures can serve as proxy variables for the severity of nuclear war, yielding rough multipliers. This w...

Conor Barnes write the blog, ideopunk. Check out his expansive list of 100 tips for a better life. --- Emphasizing Your Quirks with Conor Barnes --- Give Zak your advice @ 844-935-BEST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Barnes write the blog, ideopunk. Check out his expansive list of 100 tips for a better life. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BEST TRANSCRIPT: ZAK: This week on the show, I'm sharing relationship advice. And today, I've got something for you to think about next time you're on a date and really, next time you're getting to know anyone new. ZAK: My guest is Conor Barnes and his advice is inspired by a book called Models by Mark Manson. Here's how Conor articulates a piece of Manson's dating advice. CONOR: When dating, de-emphasizing your quirks will lead to 90% of people thinking you're kind of alright. Emphasizing your quirks will lead to 10% of people thinking you're fascinating and fun. Those are the people interested in dating you. Aim for them. Often when people date, I think they're kind of, how to say it, they're not playing to win, they're playing not to lose. So, their goal is to be kind of acceptable to all the people they're seeing on dates, in hopes, like, that they won't ruin it. They're like, G-d, if only this person will accept me. I have to hide the parts of myself that don't quite fit or are edgy or are risky. And, Mark Manson argues and I would argue cause it just made so much sense to me is that, that's actually a terrible strategy. The goal in dating isn't to find somebody who finds you acceptable. The goal is to find somebody who's really exciting about you and somebody that you're really excited about. Like, you don't want to be with somebody who thinks, oh, they're alright. You want to be with somebody who's like, whoa, this person is weird like me or weird in a way I've never encountered before. I keep thinking about them. ZAK: Yeah. CONOR: Yeah. I think that's really crucial but the issue is that it's scary to do that. ZAK: What's your area of weirdness? Cause I could tell you mine. CONOR: Oh, please. If you go first, I might be able to think of one. ZAK: I sometimes fear that I'm bringing up pooping or farting too soon in a relationship. CONOR: Right, right! Yeah, that's a perfect example. Yeah, that would turn off a good chunk of people. But if you find the right person with it, you're set. ZAK: That's right! CONOR: What comes to mind right now is an instance where I didn't shy away from it and it led to the date not working out. I was on this date with somebody who, we found each other online and we both were really into music. That was great. We'll go on a date and talk about music. And that particular month, I was in a huge metal phase and the woman asked me, what are you listening to right now. I said, right now I'm really stoked about Pig Destroyer. ZAK: Is that a band? CONOR: Yeah, they're a grind-core band. And I was like, check out this album and this song. The album has this grotesque cover art and the lyrics are just brutal and to me I think it's really well done. But, I realized, wait, this was a risky thing to do on the first date. And then I never heard from her again. And at first I was like, aw shoot, I shouldn't have brought that up. And then right after, I thought, no, if she was into metal too or thought that it was neat, that could have been great. ZAK: Conor's advice on dating is 1 of 100 tips for a better life he recently shared on his blog, ideopunk.

This film is part of Rebel Wisdom's ongoing Sensemaking Series.   Part 1, What the F*ck is Going On? is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   Rebel Wisdom published the first documentary on Jordan Peterson in January 2018. Just days later he shot to fame on a viral interview on Channel 4 News, where Rebel Wisdom's founder David Fuller worked for a decade.   This sparked a new film, 'Glitch in the Matrix, Jordan Peterson, the Mainstream Media and the Intellectual Dark Web' that has been viewed over five million times.   In this talk from the end of 2019, David Fuller explains the origin story, and what happened next as he continued to follow the trail of the Intellectual Dark Web.   Links: Glitch in the Matrix I: https://youtu.be/trhTbEs2GGE   Glitch in the Matrix II: https://youtu.be/TKeMIWVOnbo   Jay Shapiro on Rebel Wisdom: https://youtu.be/MX_vzjEl02o   Timbah on Toast, Dave Rubin's Battle of Ideas: https://youtu.be/u3TPxQao3m0 (Pt 1), https://youtu.be/a3h9YyzqBxs (Pt 2), https://youtu.be/N2LOvoDCPS8 (Pt 3)   Cathy Young's Quillette piece on the IDW and tribalism: https://quillette.com/2019/05/24/how-...   Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes' Medium piece on memetic tribes: https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/m...    

Conor Barnes, Ph.D. student in the School of Natural Resources and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, talks about early state statutes for managing eastern redcedar and how future laws could address the current plight of eastern redcedar encroachment.

Talking Wyndham Talking Wyndham is your weekly insight into the people who make the City of Wyndham surprising, fascinating, vibrant and interesting. Talking Wyndham is an initiative of the Committee for Wyndham, presented by Kevin Hillier In this edition, we speak with Westbourne Grammar School year 12 students Gabi Moraes & Conor Barnes, on  life during the COVID-19 crisis -- Producer - Steve Visscher Howdy Partners Media - 2020

Greg Ellis reads Sad Radicals, Conor Barnes's essay about how the pathologies that characterised his small anarchist sect have gone mainstream.

Greg Ellis reads Sad Radicals, Conor Barnes's essay about how the pathologies that characterised his small anarchist sect have gone mainstream.

This week, my guest is Peter Limberg. I found Peter on Twitter. Turns out, Twitter is actually a rose garden if you know where to look.Peter (and co-author Conor Barnes) published a piece on Medium last September called “The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0.” They do an excellent job placing us in this moment of history- where the “Left/Right” binary is far too simplistic in understanding the competing cultural forces at play.Conor and Peter help distill the reality maps for these different tribes as they would articulate them. This feels like a giant accomplishment in the task of making sense of our current moment. Or at least helps us proceed with a little more empathy?We talk about the OG Culture War, how it ended, the nature of memetic tribes, and how to approach the daunting task of sitting with Uncertainty. Cheers!If you enjoy this podcast, there are a number of ways to support:-Like, share, and leave a review! This is a great way to win favor with the Algorithm. -Subscribe to my newsletter! You will be kept up-to-date on new episodes and other new developments as ZION 2.0 expands.-Consider donating to my Patreon!Show Notes:Follow Peter and Conor on Twitter - (@peterlimberg) (@Ideopunk)Read “The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0”Check out the Toronto Meetup and podcast : Intellectual Explorer’s Club

Jared Janes and Jason Snyder talk with Conor Barnes about memetic tribes, his disillusioning experience as a radical anarchist and with 'woke' politics, the potential danger of fascism 2.0, and new models of governance. In this Episode of Both/And The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 The Grey Pill Conor's Quillette article: Sad Radicals Three Languages of Politics Pinker's Optimism Ontario's UBI Test Seasteading Institute Localism The Task Facing Masculinity Conor's Instagram Support Both/And by becoming a patron &/or subscribing & reviewing us on iTunes  

Jared Janes and Jason Snyder talk with Peter Limberg about what led him to be an intellectual explorer. Then they cover how Peter and Conor Barnes came up with the idea of the Memetic Mediator and what ideas and practices they will likely need. In this Episode of Both/And The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 Intellectual Explorers Club Podcast: Jason Snyder - Rise of the Memetic Mediators Intellectual Explorers Club Stoic Club Jared's other Podcast, Impactful Wicked Problems Noosphere Intellectual Explorers Club Podcast: A Prophecy of the Emergent Religion of Narcissism Kenneth Folk Tweet Integral Philosophy Jason's tweet on general advice with or without caveats. Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea Spiral Dynamics Ken Wilber Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War Making Sense with Sam Harris: #145 — The Information War Why Your Board Needs A Chief Philosophy Officer Mike Redmer & Nathan Snyder Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World Support Both/And by becoming a patron &/or subscribing & reviewing us on iTunes   Jared Janes participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, a small percentage of its price is sent to us.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: From episode #6 and on, the podcast will be under the name of Necessary Bullshit Podcast.In this bonus episode Josh and Ian discuss the article in Quillette titled 'Sad Radicals' by Conor Barnes. They also address their breakdown of thoughts connecting to death, suffering, optimism and more.Follow them on Twitter at:Josh @theonlyoneblogIan @modernovermanand the podcast @NecessaryBSPodWebsite: https://www.necessarybspodcast.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/necessarybspodLinks:Sad Radicals@IdiopunkSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/necessarybspod)

Peter explores with writer Conor Barnes on their white paper Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0. Full paper: https://medium.com/intellectual-explorers-club/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb List of Memetic Tribes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/11Ov1Y1xM-LCeYSSBYZ7yPXJah2ldgFX4oIlDtdd7-Qw/edit