In January 2022, Founders Fund hosted Hereticon, a conference for thoughtcrime. The event was kept private to facilitate a spirit of openness. But now, in collaboration with , a selection of speaker interviews. Thread⚡️
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Tim Urban: brain-computer interfaces and the artificial amplification of human intelligence
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Aella: how to pay for sex work (and why it's healthier than porn)
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Brit Benjamin: artificial wombs and the case for natalism
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Russ George: ocean seeding, and reversing global warming by terraforming planet earth
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Celine Halioua: the aging process is both drugable and fixable — the goal is immortality
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Diana Fleischman: you're probably a eugenicist
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Josiah Zayner: biohacking and the homemade Covid vaccine
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Geoffrey Miller: trad — the "family values" guide to polyamory
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John Valentino: a scientist's journey into the physical effects of consciousness
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Patri Friedman: DIY government, and “micro-countries” are the future
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“If you believe in progress, and a progressive world, if you want things to become better, you have to defend the ability — not just the right — of people to express dissent”
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This was my least favorite talk. It was mathematically illiterate and lacking in any understanding of the design of experiments. Surrounded by brilliant folks in data science and engineering, I don’t think a single one of them thought this talk was anything other than ridiculous.
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It would have been improved by avoiding evidence entirely. A talk of all ESP anecdotes would have at least avoided laying bare the lazy thinking involved.
The arguments were slightly less wrong than “I flipped a coin 100 times and got 55 heads, what gives?” But only slightly.
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