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Welcome to the Sensitivity Doctors Podcast. Here we explore everything from overcoming anxiety to living in a world not always designed for our sensitive wiring. Whether its navigating business, parenthood, overcoming trauma, or getting what you want out of your relationships - we invite you to this empowering journey of self-empowerment and growth. Hosted by fellow highly sensitive persons Drs. Amelia Kelley & Jeanne Retief. Dr. Amelia Kelly is a trauma-informed therapist, author, podcaster ...
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Two old c*nts in a resonant sonic space. Dagmar Figgis and Cornelius Kruup are probably the oddest thing you will ever experience with your ears. Once stars of the now-defunked Comedy 365 podcast, Figgis and Kruup have returned. They're an acquired taste. Go ahead and acquire them.
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Getting Figgy is a conversation between friends about all the stuff you (probably) weren't taught at school. We discuss relationships, sex, and mental health. There's no picture perfect "living our best lives" here, just real talk about trying to survive and thrive. So if you want to maybe learn something new, or just get reassurance that it's not just you, stick around and tune in to a few episodes.
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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.
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A PODCAST WITH A PURPOSE Featuring People Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Those That Can Inspire and Motivate, Those That Can Educate Us On An Assortment Of Topics https://itsawrapwithrap.com FB its a wrap with rap
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Discover classical music loved by celebrated guests from all walks of life. To hear the music in full go to BBC Playlister.
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Defined by your career? Ready to try a new hobby or job? Looking to be inspired? This weekly podcast shares stories of people who have found work-life balance and self-worth beyond just their job title. Rabiah Coon, a marketing manager, standup comic, writer and non-profit volunteer talks with guests about the pursuit of passions and hobbies, or work that reflects our values. Through guest's stories, listeners are reminded that life is more than work.
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My name is to Liz-ard and this pod cast is just a bunch of rambling podcast talking about geeky nerd stuff or whatever I feel like talking. Mostly this will be opinionated. If I offend anyone just let me know an I'll apologize. This podcast is PG-13.
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The Str8OutDaDen Podcast provides guidance to independent artists on their journey of surviving the indie circuit through cool conversations with industry professionals. You know the drill...sit back...Relax and Listen! New episodes of The Str8OutDaDen Podcast drops every Thursday.
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The official podcast from the fiascoskateboarding.com blog by Max Palmer. Originally used to promote up and coming skateboarders from the south of England such as Adam Keys, Joe Paget, Jak Tonge & Joe Smither via my own videos, the fiascoskateboarding.com podcast has evolved into a daily source of banging skate video parts bearing the official stamp of approval carefully given out by by Portsmouth's biggest YouTube lurkers Casey "Baby with a Beard" Brown & Lloyd 'Dobbo' Davies. Word. Disclai ...
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IX Productions Co-Founder Patrick Poe sits down with guests in the interview style podcast "Indies on Indie", in which he talks with independent artists about their successes and failures and what you can learn from them. Follow IX Film Productions for podcast updates, stand up comedy, original webseries and comedy feature films: Facebook: www.facebook.com/ixfilmproductions Twitter: www.twitter.com/ixproductions Instagram: IXFilmProductions YouTube: www.youtube.com/ixfp And support us and t ...
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“Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.” by rossry
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This is a link post.Editor's note: Somewhat after I posted this on my own blog, Max Chiswick cornered me at LessOnline / Manifest and gave me a whole new perspective on this topic. I now believe that there is a way to use poker to sharpen epistemics that works dramatically better than anything I had been considering. I hope to write it up—together …
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Ron talks with Dan MacQueen who at age 28 was leading an active, healthy lifestyle. In 2014 life threw him a curve ball. He started getting terrible headaches and blinding vision which led to two emergency brain surgeries. What he found along the way will surprise you. He tells us about his recovery and what he did to return to normal and achieve a…
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“Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and ‘Cope’” by Raemon
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Eliezer Yudkowsky periodically complains about people coming up with questionable plans with questionable assumptions to deal with AI, and then either: Saying "well, if this assumption doesn't hold, we're doomed, so we might as well assume it's true." Worse: coming up with cope-y reasons to assume that the assumption isn't even questionable at all.…
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Dr. Theresa DeLorenzo on Digestive Health during Menopause
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Dr. Theresa DeLorenzo discusses the impact of menopause on the gut and the importance of diet during this phase. Drs. Jeanne & Kelley cover topics such as protein metabolism, the role of micronutrients, the benefits of soy and cruciferous vegetables, and the impact of diet on bone health with their guest. Key Takeaways Setting the Foundation: What …
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“Superbabies: Putting The Pieces Together” by sarahconstantin
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This post was inspired by some talks at the recent LessOnline conference including one by LessWrong user “Gene Smith”. Let's say you want to have a “designer baby”. Genetically extraordinary in some way — super athletic, super beautiful, whatever. 6’5”, blue eyes, with a trust fund. Ethics aside[1], what would be necessary to actually do this? Fund…
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Jamie Copeland on Parenting an ADHD Child
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Jamie Copeland shares her journey of parenting a child with ADHD and offers strategies for parents. Key Takeaways Jamie's Journey of Parenting a Child with ADHD. Strategies for Parents of Children with ADHD. Supporting Children's Big Emotions. Alternative Approaches to Discipline. Reframing ADHD. Neurodivergence and ADHD. Medication and Managing Sy…
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“Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard” by TracingWoodgrains
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This is a linkpost for https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin, posted in full here given its relevance to this community. Gerard has been one of the longest-standing malicious critics of the rationalist and EA communities and has done remarkable amounts of work to shape their public images behind the scenes. Note: …
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xlr8harder writes: In general I don’t think an uploaded mind is you, but rather a copy. But one thought experiment makes me question this. A Ship of Theseus concept where individual neurons are replaced one at a time with a nanotechnological functional equivalent. Are you still you? Presumably the question xlr8harder cares about here isn't semantic…
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Zach Beach On Self Love for Highly Sensitive Men
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Zach Beach, MA, is committed to building a world based on unconditional love and connection. He does that as an relationship coach, yoga and meditation teacher, poet writer, podcast host, and as the founder of The Heart Center love school. Key Takeaways How to cultivate Love and Joy. The Qualities of Highly Sensitive People. Navigating Societal Pre…
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“80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar orgs should do similarly)” by Raemon
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I haven't shared this post with other relevant parties – my experience has been that private discussion of this sort of thing is more paralyzing than helpful. I might change my mind in the resulting discussion, but, I prefer that discussion to be public. I think 80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from its job board, and similar EA job placement serv…
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[Linkpost] “introduction to cancer vaccines” by bhauth
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This is a linkpost for https://www.bhauth.com/blog/biology/cancer%20vaccines.html cancer neoantigens For cells to become cancerous, they must have mutations that cause uncontrolled replication and mutations that prevent that uncontrolled replication from causing apoptosis. Because cancer requires several mutations, it often begins with damage to mu…
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I Imagine an alternate version of the Effective Altruism movement, whose early influences came from socialist intellectual communities such as the Fabian Society, as opposed to the rationalist diaspora. Let's name this hypothetical movement the Effective Samaritans. Like the EA movement of today, they believe in doing as much good as possible, what…
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“My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia” by William Howard
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About a year ago I decided to try using one of those apps where you tie your goals to some kind of financial penalty. The specific one I tried is Forfeit, which I liked the look of because it's relatively simple, you set single tasks which you have to verify you have completed with a photo. I’m generally pretty sceptical of productivity systems, to…
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“The Incredible Fentanyl-Detecting Machine” by sarahconstantin
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An NII machine in Nogales, AZ. (Image source)There's bound to be a lot of discussion of the Biden-Trump presidential debates last night, but I want to skip all the political prognostication and talk about the real issue: fentanyl-detecting machines. Joe Biden says: And I wanted to make sure we use the machinery that can detect fentanyl, these big m…
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“AI catastrophes and rogue deployments” by Buck
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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.[Thanks to Aryan Bhatt, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Adam Kaufman, Vivek Hebbar, Hanna Gabor, Justis Mills, Aaron Scher, Max Nadeau, Ryan Greenblatt, Peter Barnett, Fabien Roger, and various people at a presentation of these arguments for comments. These ideas aren’t very …
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“Loving a world you don’t trust” by Joe Carlsmith
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(Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.) This is the final essay in a series that I'm calling "Otherness andcontrol in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that the individual essays can beread fairly well on their own, butsee here fora brief summary of the series as a whole. There's also a…
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Meet Leah Goldstein, internationally sought after speaker, author of her book "No Limits", world champion kickboxer at age 17, national cycling champion, winner of the 2021 Race Across America (RAAM) and nine-year veteran of the Israeli Defense Force in which she served as the first female elite commando instructor as well as a special forces intel…
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Judith Smith on Mothering Difficult Adult Children
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Judith Smith, discusses her research on how older women experience mothering as they get older and the impact of their adult children's issues on them. Specifically, she focuses on serious mental illness and substance use disorder as the primary issues faced by these mothers. Key Takeaways: What do we mean by "Difficult Adult Children"? Recognizing…
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“Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting” by paulfchristiano
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ARC's current research focus can be thought of as trying to combine mechanistic interpretability and formal verification. If we had a deep understanding of what was going on inside a neural network, we would hope to be able to use that understanding to verify that the network was not going to behave dangerously in unforeseen situations. ARC is atte…
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“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
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Summary Summary . LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully general reasoning, and if so, short timelines are less plausible. Longer summary There is ML research suggesting that LLMs fail badly on attempts at general reasoning, such as planning problems, scheduling, and attempts to solve novel visual puzzles. This post provides a brief introduct…
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“SAE feature geometry is outside the superposition hypothesis” by jake_mendel
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Summary: Superposition-based interpretations of neural network activation spaces are incomplete. The specific locations of feature vectors contain crucial structural information beyond superposition, as seen in circular arrangements of day-of-the-week features and in the rich structures. We don’t currently have good concepts for talking about this …
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“Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data” by Johannes Treutlein, Owain_Evans
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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This is a link post.TL;DR: We published a new paper on out-of-context reasoning in LLMs. We show that LLMs can infer latent information from training data and use this information for downstream tasks, without any in-context learning or CoT. For instance, we finet…
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This is a link post.I have canceled my OpenAI subscription in protest over OpenAI's lack ofethics. In particular, I object to: threats to confiscate departing employees' equity unless thoseemployees signed a life-long non-disparagement contract Sam Altman's pattern of lying about important topics I'm trying to hold AI companies to higher standards …
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Join us as we dive into a profound conversation with Greg Wrenn, author of Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis. 🌟 Greg opens up about his journey of healing complex trauma through the transformative power of ayahuasca. 🌿✨ Discover the depths of his story and the insights he's gained along the way. Key Takeaways: Complex PTSD vs. PTSD and how …
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“Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models” by evhub, Carson Denison
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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This is a link post.New Anthropic model organisms research paper led by Carson Denison from the Alignment Stress-Testing Team demonstrating that large language models can generalize zero-shot from simple reward-hacks (sycophancy) to more complex reward tampering (…
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“I would have shit in that alley, too” by Declan Molony
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After living in a suburb for most of my life, when I moved to a major U.S. city the first thing I noticed was the feces. At first I assumed it was dog poop, but my naivety didn’t last long. One day I saw a homeless man waddling towards me at a fast speed while holding his ass cheeks. He turned into an alley and took a shit. As I passed him, there w…
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Jeanne Mari Retief-Dealing With A Panic Disorder and Living Your Figgi Life
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Meet Jeanne Retief who hold a PhD in International criminal and humanitarian law, has presented on key human rights issues worldwide and consulted for 15 years in that field. After struggling all her life with anxiety, at age 35 she experienced a health and soul crisis and was diagnosed with panic disorder. She tells us how she made difficult decis…
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“Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o” by ryan_greenblatt
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ARC-AGI post Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o I recently got to 50%[1] accuracy on the public test set for ARC-AGI by having GPT-4o generate a huge number of Python implementations of the transformation rule (around 8,000 per problem) and then selecting among these implementations based on correctness of the Python programs on the examples…
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“Why I don’t believe in the placebo effect” by transhumanist_atom_understander
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Have you heard this before? In clinical trials, medicines have to be compared to a placebo to separate the effect of the medicine from the psychological effect of taking the drug. The patient's belief in the power of the medicine has a strong effect on its own. In fact, for some drugs such as antidepressants, the psychological effect of taking a pi…
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