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Resources on how to do good with your career — and anything else we here at 80,000 Hours feel like releasing.
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Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.
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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you'd like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, specifically selected to help listeners get up to speed on effective altruism as quickly as possible.
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
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The Harvard Effective Altruism student podcast
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Join us as we explore how to use our resources to do the most good. Learn more about effective giving, high impact charities, philanthropy, and effective altruism.
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A compilation of ten key episodes on artificial intelligence and related topics from 80,000 Hours. Together they'll help you learn about how AI looks from a broadly longtermist, existential risk, or effective altruism flavoured point of view.
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Bennett and Cas discuss historical moments in the cryptocurrency and finance industries, focusing on frauds, hacks, exit scams, and other malfeasance.
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'Utopia' Podcast: People solving world problems and alleviating suffering for sentient beings. This is an effective altruism podcast.
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A show about things that tickle your brain.
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How can we enable us to create social change and effective altruism while addressing the dichotomy of our modern life and values driven by markets.
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We all want to make a difference — but knowing exactly what we should do with our limited time, money and energy is an extremely hard question. Doing Good Better is a podcast about using reason and evidence to figure out how we can do the most good, using the ideas of effective altruism. We talk to researchers, development economists, philosophers, journalists, charity workers, entrepreneurs, and social scientists to try to figure out what works — and just as importantly, what doesn't. More ...
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Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways you can best help others, whether through your charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Talks features presentations and discussions that can help you find something you're excited about. Lately, we've been focusing a lot on new opportunities in pandemic prevention, charity entrepreneurship, and AI safety. But we also have talks on other important topics like animal welfare, global health, nuclear securi ...
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Lives Well Lived is hosted by Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek. Episodes consist of interviews with remarkable guests who have lived well, both in the sense of living an ethical life, but also in that they are fulfilled and happy with what they have achieved in their lives. Some of these guests will be well-known figures, but others who are doing extraordinary things will be unfamiliar to almost all of our listeners. The conversations will often cover ground that involves ethics, how to ...
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Zac Crippen discusses Catholic theology (and culture through the lens of Catholic theology) with guests from all over the world.
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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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The Cryosphere podcast (formerly the Cryonics Underground Podcast) explores the fascinating and underappreciated world of Cryonics - the process of pausing your biological functions at the moment of legal death with the goal of reviving you in the future. Join us for in-depth discussions on the scientific, social, philosophical, technological, and political implications of this unique and extraordinary experiment. Featuring leaders in the Cryonics industry alongside futurists, philosophers, ...
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Get to know unique and inspiring individuals, as I ask them about their lives, careers and beliefs. New interviews every week! Watch Filmed Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHumanPodcastofficial
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Visit Our Facebook Page Join The Livegan Podcast with hosts Kevin Lahey and Ben Le Roi, as they interview inspirational leaders in the animal rights community and help vegan activists become more effective. Kevin is an ex-undercover investigator with CARE and Mercy for Animals Ben is co-founder of Nation Rising
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Waking Up with Brooke Sprowl | Leaders in Spirituality, Psychology, Mental Health, & Social Change
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Psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and author Brooke Sprowl interviews the foremost experts on self-discovery, psychology, spirituality, creativity, peak performance, cognitive science, philosophy, effective altruism, and personal and collective transformation. Brooke draws from her rich, cross-disciplinary experience in self-transformation, business, and neuroscience as she engages in emergent conversations with some of the greatest minds of our time.
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Welcome to "The Lost Estate: Building Legacies Through Financial Literacy," a groundbreaking podcast series dedicated to empowering African American and Hispanic communities with the knowledge and tools necessary for effective estate planning and generational wealth creation. Hosted by Jermaine E. Whiteside, author, and visionary behind The Lost Estate Educational Series, this podcast deepens into the often-overlooked aspects of financial planning, offering actionable insights and expert adv ...
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Simon Monsour talks with guests about human behavior, scientific methods, environmental sustainability, psychology and governance, education, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Through thoughtful and open discussion, and an enduring sense of playfulness, our purpose is to support, and hopefully further the sharing of ideas that may lead to the betterment of the lives of all creatures on earth, and deepen our understanding of life, the universe, and everything.
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On The Knowledge Podcast, you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds. The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. In every issue, David shares stories, ideas and frameworks from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business. With insights that are bo ...
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I talk to the most interesting people about economic growth
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Welcome to the UnComplicated English podcast, where we learn English through interesting stories.
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Columnist and author Tim Dowling gets world-leading experts to help him understand complex, interesting and unique topics.
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What are the greatest forces, risks, and ideas that define the 21st Century? Each week existential risk researcher Coleman Snell speaks with academics, thinkers, and artists whose work speaks to life in the 21st Century for the modern individual. We talk about the biggest risks/challenges facing our species, solutions, unique aspects of 21st Century Life, and how we can find meaning in this strange century. Learn more about the field of global catastrophic & existential risk and about the po ...
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An interview podcast where I, Daniel Filan, interview guests about topics I'm interested in, with the aim of clarifying how the guest understands that topic.
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Two friends and a blog.
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Thoughts from a couple of people that are constantly thinking about how to make things better. Check out our blog at http://justthinkinpodcast.blogspot.com.
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We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them. Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing. Join edu ...
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Interviews with fascinating people on science, ethics, and politics.
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Hi-Phi Nation is philosophy in story-form, integrating narrative journalism with big ideas. We look at stories from everyday life, law, science, popular culture, and strange corners of human experiences that raise thought-provoking questions about things like justice, knowledge, the self, morality, and existence. We then seek answers with the help of academics and philosophers. The show is produced and hosted by Barry Lam of UC Riverside.
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Join Chris & Kayla on their journeys of humor, discovery, and the absurd as they try to answer the question... is it a cult, or just weird?
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The Bioethics Podcast is an audio resource exploring the pressing bioethical challenges of our day featuring staff, fellows, and friends of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
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Two aspiring rationalists bring you mind-bending ideas from science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Whether you enjoy wide-ranging discussions or are looking to upgrade your reasoning and critical thinking skills, this podcast will satisfy your intellectual hunger and sharpen your skeptical eye.
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Conversations with Adam Kruger. The previous name of this podcast was 'Can I Ask You a Question?'
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An insightful look into the craziness of the world through the eyes and wisdom of a genius cynic. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/montgomery-ambrose/support
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The show is an exploration of the characteristics that make up the human condition through the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, mythology, history, art, and science.
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Join your host and guide Matt Castner as we explore the world of health equity. In the first season, subtitled The Headwaters, we will explore the question of what health equity is and why we should care about it.
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Jack Lawrence is best known for his TikTok videos, whereby he explores themes of philosophy, science and anything else that takes his fancy. In this podcast he dives deeper into these concepts, interviewing scientists, philosophers, and frankly anyone he thinks is interesting or funny.
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“Preparing Effective Altruism for an AI-Transformed World” by Tobias Häberli
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In recent years, many in the Effective Altruism community have shifted to working on AI risks, reflecting the growing consensus that AI will profoundly shape our future. In response to this significant shift, there have been efforts to preserve a "principles-first EA" approach, or to give special thought into how to support non-AI causes. This has …
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“[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty” by tandem
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(Both characters are fictional, loosely inspired by various traits from various real people. Be careful about combining kratom and alcohol.) The original text contained 24 images which were described by AI. --- First published: January 7th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KfZ4H9EBLt8kbBARZ/fiction-comic-effective-altruism-and-rationali…
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“Training on Documents About Reward Hacking Induces Reward Hacking” by evhub
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This is a link post.This is a blog post reporting some preliminary work from the Anthropic Alignment Science team, which might be of interest to researchers working actively in this space. We'd ask you to treat these results like those of a colleague sharing some thoughts or preliminary experiments at a lab meeting, rather than a mature paper. We r…
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“AI companies are unlikely to make high-assurance safety cases if timelines are short” by ryan_greenblatt
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One hope for keeping existential risks low is to get AI companies to (successfully) make high-assurance safety cases: structured and auditable arguments that an AI system is very unlikely to result in existential risks given how it will be deployed.[1] Concretely, once AIs are quite powerful, high-assurance safety cases would require making a thoro…
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“Mechanisms too simple for humans to design” by Malmesbury
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Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip As we all know, humans are terrible at building butterflies. We can make a lot of objectively cool things like nuclear reactors and microchips, but we still can't create a proper artificial insect that flies, feeds, and lays eggs that turn into more butterflies. That seems like evidence that butterflies are incre…
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133. Innovation, Risk, and Prosperity with Luca Dellana
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David speaks with Luca Dellana, an author, business consultant, and lecturer who helps companies increase their revenue through better people and risk management. Luca has been featured at Nudgestock, the largest behavioural sciences conference, as well as on Econtalk, among other platforms. More than 25,000 people around the world read Luca regula…
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Adam Grant is an organisational psychologist and bestselling author who explores the science of motivation, generosity, rethinking, and potential. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, rethink assumptions, and live more generous and creative lives. In this episode, Adam Grant discusses his multifaceted life—from his earl…
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This is a link post.A story I wrote about living through the transition to utopia. This is the one story that I've put the most time and effort into; it charts a course from the near future all the way to the distant stars. --- First published: January 19th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rz4ijbeKgPAaedg3n/the-gentle-romance --- Narra…
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“Quotes from the Stargate press conference” by Nikola Jurkovic
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This is a link post.Present alongside President Trump: Sam Altman Larry Ellison (Oracle executive chairman and CTO) Masayoshi Son (Softbank CEO who believes he was born to realize ASI) President Trump: What we want to do is we want to keep [AI datacenters] in this country. China is a competitor and others are competitors. President Trump: I'm going…
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“The Case Against AI Control Research” by johnswentworth
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The AI Control Agenda, in its own words: … we argue that AI labs should ensure that powerful AIs are controlled. That is, labs should make sure that the safety measures they apply to their powerful models prevent unacceptably bad outcomes, even if the AIs are misaligned and intentionally try to subvert those safety measures. We think no fundamental…
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Our mental landscape is irrevocably bound up in variations of 26 characters, but we’re historical exceptions. Video: http://youtu.be/N7Q4yU719FA Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/01/21/257.-Orality-and-Literacy.htmlBy Josh Pelton
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“Don’t ignore bad vibes you get from people” by Kaj_Sotala
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I think a lot of people have heard so much about internalized prejudice and bias that they think they should ignore any bad vibes they get about a person that they can’t rationally explain. But if a person gives you a bad feeling, don’t ignore that. Both I and several others who I know have generally come to regret it if they’ve gotten a bad feelin…
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“What are we doing about the EA Forum? (Jan 2025)” by Sarah Cheng
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This post is my personal perspective. I’m sure that my colleagues on the Forum Team and at CEA disagree with parts of this. However, since I am the Interim EA Forum Project Lead, I recognize that my opinions and beliefs carry extra weight. I’m very happy to receive feedback and push back from others, since I believe that my decisions matter a fair …
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“What I’m celebrating from EA and adjacent work in 2024” by Emma Richter🔸
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As 2024 draws to a close, I’m reflecting on the work and stories that inspired me this year: those from the effective altruism community, those I found out about through EA-related channels, and those otherwise related to EA. I’ve appreciated the celebration of wins and successes over the past few years from @Shakeel Hashim's posts in 2022 and 2023…
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10 Questions With World Memory Champion, Ben Pridmore
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WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/vMVkRVviiRw __________________ NEW SERIES WHERE I ASK FASCINATING PEOPLE 10 QUESTIONS EACH! Ep #2 is with Former World memory Champion, Ben Pridmore. Ben was the first person to ever memorise a deck of cards in under 30 seconds. He's also an accountant who loves to holiday in Las Vegas. Subscribe for new episodes …
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“Voluntary Salary Reduction” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
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Until recently Ithought Julia and I were digging a bit into savings todonate more. With the tighter funding climate for effective altruismwethoughtit was worth spending down a bit, especially considering that ourexpenses should decrease significantly in 1.5y when our youngeststarts kindergarten. I was surprised, then, when I ran thenumbers and real…
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“Building AI Research Fleets” by bgold, Jesse Hoogland
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From AI scientist to AI research fleet Research automation is here (1, 2, 3). We saw it coming and planned ahead, which puts us ahead of most (4, 5, 6). But that foresight also comes with a set of outdated expectations that are holding us back. In particular, research automation is not just about “aligning the first AI scientist”, it's also about t…
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“What Is The Alignment Problem?” by johnswentworth
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So we want to align future AGIs. Ultimately we’d like to align them to human values, but in the shorter term we might start with other targets, like e.g. corrigibility. That problem description all makes sense on a hand-wavy intuitive level, but once we get concrete and dig into technical details… wait, what exactly is the goal again? When we say w…
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“Your 2024 EA Forum Wrapped” by Sarah Cheng, Agnes Stenlund, Ollie Etherington, Toby Tremlett🔹
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It's time once again for EA Forum Wrapped 🎁, a summary of how you used the Forum in 2024 [1]. Open your EA Forum Wrapped Thank you for being a part of our community this year! :) ^ You can also view your stats from 2023 and 2022. The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. The original text contained 1 image whic…
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132. Passion, Profit, and Simplicity with Jonathan Goodman
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David speaks with Jonathan Goodman, an author, entrepreneur, host, and a leading expert helping people grow and simplify their businesses. He is the creator of the Personal Trainer Development Center ($35M+ rev) and host of the Obvious Choice podcast, a top show for coaches, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. He is the author of multiple fit…
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Holocaust survivor Edith Eger shares her emotional journey of surviving Auschwitz, her encounter with Josef Mengele, and how she became known as the 'Ballerina of Auschwitz.' Edith highlights the slow, evolving process of coming to terms with her past, influenced by Viktor Frankl's work, and how she uses her traumatic experiences to help others as …
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“The ugly sides of two approaches to charity” by Julia_Wise🔸
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Cross-posted from Otherwise. Most EAs won't find these arguments new. Last month, Emma Goldberg wrote a NYT piece contrasting effective altruism with approaches that refuse to quantify meaningful experiences. The piece indicates that effective altruism is creepily numbers-focused. Goldberg asks “what if charity shouldn’t be optimized?” The egalitar…
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Who is Google DeepMind Scientist / Ex Machina Advisor, Murray Shanahan?
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WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/eonR5-VN4y8 In this episode, I speak to the scientific advisor of the film 'Ex Machina', Professor Murray Shanahan. Murray works at Google DeepMind as a Principal Research Scientist, and is a Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London. He is an expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Human Podc…
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“Applying traditional economic thinking to AGI: a trilemma” by Steven Byrnes
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Traditional economics thinking has two strong principles, each based on abundant historical data: Principle (A): No “lump of labor”: If human population goes up, there might be some wage drop in the very short term, because the demand curve for labor slopes down. But in the longer term, people will find new productive things to do, such that human …
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Poker pro, art collector, photographer, investor, AI researcher, chronic website creator, endless traveller, and omnipresent volunteer in nascent things. An independent and an invariant. I briefly worked with him on an accountability partner service. We had funding but he never invoiced me. Every time I called him he was somewhere else on Earth. Se…
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“Passages I Highlighted in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien” by Ivan Vendrov
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All quotes, unless otherwise marked, are Tolkien's words as printed in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition. All emphases mine. Machinery is Power is Evil Writing to his son Michael in the RAF: [here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind,…
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Off the Clock #7: Getting on the Crazy Train with Chi Nguyen
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Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/IRRwHCK279E Matt, Bella, and Huon sit down with Chi Nguyen to discuss cooperating with aliens, elections of future past, and Bad Billionaires pt. 2. Check out: Matt’s summer appearance on the BBC on funding for the arts Chi’s ECL Explainer (get in touch to support!)…
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Hope at the End of Life w/Dr. Ethan Schimmoeller
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In this episode, Dr. Ethan Schimmoeller joins me to discuss the critical role of palliative care in medicine, addressing common misconceptions and the importance of understanding its purpose. We explore the intersection of Christianity and modern medicine, the historical influence of Christianity on the practice of modern medicine, the metaphysical…
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“Parkinson’s Law and the Ideology of Statistics” by Benquo
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The anonymous review of The Anti-Politics Machine published on Astral Codex X focuses on a case study of a World Bank intervention in Lesotho, and tells a story about it: The World Bank staff drew reasonable-seeming conclusions from sparse data, and made well-intentioned recommendations on that basis. However, the recommended programs failed, due t…
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“Capital Ownership Will Not Prevent Human Disempowerment” by beren
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Crossposted from my personal blog. I was inspired to cross-post this here given the discussion that this post on the role of capital in an AI future elicited. When discussing the future of AI, I semi-often hear an argument along the lines that in a slow takeoff world, despite AIs automating increasingly more of the economy, humanity will remain in …
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“Thoughts on Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman” by Patrick Gruban 🔸
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I can’t recall the last time I read a book in one sitting, but that's what happened with Moral Ambition by bestselling author Rutger Bregman. I read the German edition, though it's also available in Dutch. An English release is slated for May. The book opens with the statement: “The greatest waste of our times is the waste of talent.” From there, B…
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10 Questions With... Leading Infinity Expert, Joel David Hamkins (New Series, Ep 1)
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WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/MvfXFpJX2ps Welcome to a new series where I ask fascinating people 10 intriguing questions. The first episode is with Professor Joel David Hamkins, a Mathematician/Philosopher and leading expert on infinity. Joel is the O'Hara Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame. Subscribe for n…
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“Activation space interpretability may be doomed” by bilalchughtai, Lucius Bushnaq
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TL;DR: There may be a fundamental problem with interpretability work that attempts to understand neural networks by decomposing their individual activation spaces in isolation: It seems likely to find features of the activations - features that help explain the statistical structure of activation spaces, rather than features of the model - the feat…
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Funding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforces, and 80% on ARC-AGI. These systems will be built in 2026-2027 and enable pretraining models for 5e28 FLOPs, while o3 itself is plausibly based on an LLM pretrained only for 8e25-4e26 FLOPs. The natur…
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