Best Ben Piper Podcasts (2024)

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The king is coming to town 32:23

19h ago32:23

32:23

On this episode of the podcast, Ben and Chad talk about the recent Board of Alderman meeting. They also break some news about a new business coming to town.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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On to the Summer 33:12

20d ago33:12

33:12

On this episode of The Boardroom podcast, Ben and Chad discuss Memorial Day weekend and the Hernando Board of Alderman Meeting from May 21st.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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A’fair time in Hernando 32:57

1M ago32:57

32:57

By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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Developments and Golf Carts 30:07

2M ago30:07

30:07

Listen to Ben and Chad Recap the 4-16 Hernando Board of Alderman Meeting.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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Signs, Signs, Everywhere there’s a sign 31:40

3M ago31:40

31:40

On the most recent episode of the Boardroom Podcast Ben and Chad discuss the April 2nd Hernando Board of Alderman meeting.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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Marching into April 29:03

3M ago29:03

29:03

By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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Spring Break is coming 37:13

3M ago37:13

37:13

On the most recent episode of the Boardroom Podcast, Ben and Chad discuss the most recent Hernando Board of Alderman meeting.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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Opening Remarks | Ben West | EA Global Bay Area 2024 11:58

3M ago11:58

11:58

Join the organizers for a brief welcome and a group photo of attendees, followed by a short talk from Ben West.Ben is the Interim Managing Director of the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) and he is responsible for overseeing CEA’s work during the transition to new permanent leadership. He will speak on the current state of the EA movement and po…

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Pandemic Proof PPE & AI Safety | Ryan Ritterson | EA Global Bay Area 2024 48:03

3M ago48:03

48:03

In this session, Ryan Ritterson will use examples of his and others’ work at Gryphon to tell stories about how to effectively influence public policy. Based on Gryphon’s data-driven approach, he’ll provide key lessons learned and takeaways for others interested in influencing policy.Along the way, he’ll also talk about two recent Gryphon efforts, i…

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Scheming AIs | Joe Carlsmith | EA Global Bay Area 2024 51:52

4M ago51:52

51:52

This talk examines whether advanced AIs that perform well in training will be doing so in order to gain power later — a behavior Joe Carlsmith calls "scheming" (also often called "deceptive alignment"). This talk gives an overview of his recent report on the topic, available on arXiv here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08379.Joe Carlsmith is a senior …

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Preventing Engineered Pandemics | Tessa Alexanian | EA Global Bay Area 2024 40:38

3M ago40:38

40:38

Should you be able to order smallpox DNA in the mail? Biosecurity professionals have argued for almost 20 years that synthesis companies should screen orders so that pathogen and toxin sequences are only sent to people with a real scientific use for them. Now, it seems like fears of AI-engineered pandemics may spur governments to make screening man…

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Media Professionals on Impactful GCR Communications | Kelsey Piper, Shakeel Hashim, and Clara Collier | EA Global Bay Area: 2024 56:09

3M ago56:09

56:09

Media coverage of catastrophic risk is going mainstream; our panel of media professionals discuss the ways it's going right vs going wrong, and what actions they are taking to focus the conversation on well-reasoned risk models and effective interventions.On the panel will be Kelsey Piper of Vox Future Perfect, Shakeel Hashim of the AI Safety Commu…

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Cause Prioritization & Global Catastrophic Risk | Hayley Clatterbuck | EA Global Bay Area: 2024 53:00

3M ago53:00

53:00

Hayley Clatterbuck will summarize key findings from Rethink Priorities' ""Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation"" (CURVE) project, which evaluated the cost-effectiveness of existential risk mitigation projects under both standard expected utility maximization and risk aversion. Persistence of effect and future growth trajectory ar…

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The Precipice Revisited | Toby Ord | EA Global Bay Area 2024 45:40

3M ago45:40

45:40

The five years since Toby Ord wrote The Precipice have seen dramatic changes to the landscape of existential risk. Ord will explore the biggest changes to the biggest risks, showing how new developments have upended key assumptions and pushed some of these risks into new phases. And we’ll see how the world has woken up to the very idea of existenti…

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Sleeper Agents | Evan Hubinger | EA Global Bay Area: 2024 49:53

3M ago49:53

49:53

If an AI system learned a deceptive strategy, could we detect it and remove it using current state-of-the-art safety training techniques? That's the question that Evan and his coauthors at Anthropic sought to answer in their work on ""Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training"", which Evan will be discussing. Evan…

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The Sword of Damocles | Dan Zimmer | EA Global Bay Area: 2024 39:20

3M ago39:20

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The final session of the conference will include some closing words, followed by a talk and fireside chat with Dan Zimmer.Dan Zimmer completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses on the implications that anthropogenic existential risk (x-risk) poses for some of the foundational categories of Weste…

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Getting back in the groove 34:47

4M ago34:47

34:47

On the latest episode of the podcast Ben and Chad discuss the last two Hernando Board of Alderman meeting. 2024 has gotten off to quick start and the guys talk about all the comings and goings.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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The longest January ever 35:53

5M ago35:53

35:53

On the most recent episode of The Boardroom Podcast, Ben and Chad recap the Hernando Board of Alderman meeting from January 16th and 23rd. The meeting consisted of a few planning issues that received some lengthy discuss.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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2024 in Hernando 45:00

6M ago45:00

45:00

On the 26th episode of The Boardroom Podcast, Ben and Chad discuss upcoming issues that will be front and center in the Mississippi Legislature the session. They also talk about getting high speed internet to some rural parts of the county.By Chad Wicker and Ben Piper

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The Boardroom Podcast Christmas Edition with Special Guest Mayor Chip Johnson 1:04:28

6M ago1:04:28

1:04:28

On the 25th episode of The Boardroom Podcast, hosts Ben and Chad delve into the December 19th Hernando Board of Alderman meeting, covering crucial topics such as street repairs, soccer field lights, and PUD development at Getwell and Byhalia Road. Following this, they have an insightful conversation with Hernando Mayor Chip Johnson, exploring the S…

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Are we still talking about parks? 45:53

7M ago45:53

45:53

On this episode of the Boardroom Podcast Ben and Chad breakdown the 12-5-23 Hernando Board of Alderman. Most notably, they discuss the now approved park facility plan for improvements to the baseball and soccer fields. Later in the podcast, Ben and Chad are joined by incoming Mississippi State Representative for District 20 Rodney Hall. Mr. Hall di…

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Screening all DNA synthesis and reliably detecting stealth pandemics | Kevin Esvelt | EAG Boston 23 54:21

7M ago54:21

54:21

Pandemic security aims to safeguard the future of civilisation from exponentially spreading biological threats. In this talk, Kevin will outline two distinct scenarios–"Wildfire" and "Stealth"–by which pandemic-causing pathogens could cause societal collapse. He will then explain the ‘Delay, Detect, Defend’ plan to prevent such pandemics, including…

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Quantifying animal suffering and the impact of welfare interventions | Cynthia Schuck| EAG Boston 23 54:12

7M ago54:12

54:12

Content warning: This presentation contains images some may find distressing.In this talk Cynthia Schuck, Research Director of the Welfare Footprint Project, describes their approach to quantifying animal suffering, and how it can be used to measure the impact of interventions and inform policies. She also addresses major gaps in welfare research a…

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Panel on nuclear risk | James Acton, Francesca Giovannini, and Heather Williams | EAG Boston 23 56:11

7M ago56:11

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This will be a panel discussion on nuclear policy, deterrence, inadvertent escalation, entanglement, emerging technologies, and related topics.James Acton holds the Jessica T. Mathews Chair and is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A physicist by training, Acton is currently writing a book o…

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Opening session | Frances Lorenz, Arden Koehler, Lizka Vaintrob, Kuhan Jeyapragasan | EAG Boston 23 44:31

7M ago44:31

44:31

Join the organizers for a brief welcome and a group photo of attendees, followed by three short talks from key community members.We will hear remarks from:Lizka VaintrobKuhan JeyapragasanArden KoehlerLizka runs the EA Newsletter, the EA Forum Digest, and the non-engineering side of the EA Forum at the Centre for Effective Altruism.Kuhan currently r…

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Lessons from reinforcement learning from human feedback | Stephen Casper | EAG Boston 23 55:40

7M ago55:40

55:40

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has emerged as the central alignment technique used to finetune state-of-the-art systems such as GPT-4, Claude-2, Bard, and Llama-2. However, RLHF has a number of known problems, and these models have exhibited some troubling alignment failures. How did we get here? What lessons should we learn? And…

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Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation | Bob Fischer, Laura Duffy | EAG Boston 23 53:34

7M ago53:34

53:34

We want to help others as much as we can. Knowing how is hard: there are many empirical, normative, and decision-theoretic uncertainties that make it difficult to identify the best paths toward that goal. Should we be focused on sparing children from vitamin deficiencies? Reducing suffering on factory farms? Mitigating the threats associated with A…

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Evidence Action: Inside the accelerator | Kevin Kelsey | EAG Boston 23 51:53

7M ago51:53

51:53

Associate Director of New Program Development and Cost-Effectiveness, Kevin Kelsey, will give us an inside look at Evidence Action's Accelerator - their engine for new program development. The Accelerator develops new programs using a six-stage, decision-focused process designed to scale only the most cost-effective, evidence-based interventions. H…

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Closing session: Averting future pandemics | Matthew Meselson | EAG Boston 23 44:45

7M ago44:45

44:45

The final session of the conference will include some closing words, followed by a talk on averting future pandemics from Dr. Matthew Meselson.Dr. Meselson will discuss past pandemics, the mode of transmission of the particular pathogen, measures to prevent such transmission, and the practical politics of implementing such measures.Dr. Meselson has…

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Let’s talk Football, HYFA Football. 50:29

7M ago50:29

50:29

On this episode of the Boardroom Podcast Ben and Chad Recap the recent Hernando Board of Alderman Meeting that was held on November 21st. Then the guys welcome HYFA President Harley Brown to the podcast to discuss the Hernando Youth Football Association that just finished its 20th season with record number of participants.…

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What we’re learning about spreading EA ideas | Grace Adams | EAGxAustralia 2022 52:38

7M ago52:38

52:38

In this talk, we will cover: why we need to spread the ideas of effective altruism, the principles Giving What We Can uses to spread EA ideas, what has worked well in the past, some preliminary results and insights from recent marketing tests completed and how individuals can best share these ideas.

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Using stories to make the long-term feel real | Michael Aird and Elise Bohan | EAGxAustralia 2022 27:11

7M ago27:11

27:11

Join Elise Bohan (Future of Humanity Institute) and Michael Aird (Rethink Priorities) as they discuss how to use stories to get people to care about the long-term future. Elise will reflect on her book Future Superhuman and the importance of stories when talking about transhumanism.

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The role of politics and policy in effective animal advocacy | Emma Hurst | EAGxAustralia 2022 52:33

7M ago52:33

52:33

Join Kieran Greig from Farmed Animal Funders and Emma Hurst from the Animal Justice Party as they discuss animal advocacy. They intend to talk about a range of topics including recent achievements, the challenges that come with politics, and looking to the mid-to-long-term future of advocacy.

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Technical AI Safety Research: An Overview | Magdalena Wache | EAGxBerlin 2023 53:42

7M ago53:42

53:42

In this talk, Magdalena explains different research directions in technical AI safety. The talk is for you if you already believe that AI safety is an important problem, and want to get a better understanding of current technical research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKZahM44KQA

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Opening Talk | Carolin Basilowski, Sarah Tegeler, Patrick Gruban | EAGxBerlin 2023 24:34

7M ago24:34

24:34

Join us for a brief welcome and opening talk by Carolin Basilowski (Team Lead for EAGxBerlin), and the EA Germany Directors Sarah Tegeler and Patrick Gruban.

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Mechanistic Interpretability for AI Alignment | Callum McDougall, Joseph Bloom | EAGxBerlin 2023 50:34

7M ago50:34

50:34

This talk covers the fundamentals of mechanistic interpretability: what it is, why it might be impactful for alignment, and how you can get involved. It is most useful for people who are either new to AI safety, or limited knowledge about mechanistic interpretability. The speakers hope you gain insights into what interpretability research can look …

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Lightning talks: Sunday session 2 | David Quarel | EAGxAustralia 2022 10:39

7M ago10:39

10:39

Brief 8-minute talks about a range of topics.David Quarel: Intro to AI safetyJames Fodor: AIs versus Humans: Similarities and Differences between Human and Machine Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPVqYcBihM

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Lightning talks: Sunday session 2 | Amanda Storm Schuster | EAGxAustralia 2022 9:27

7M ago9:27

9:27

Brief 8-minute talks about a range of topics.Amanda Storm Schuster: Don't forget about fundraising! A career path making a differenceDavid Quarel: A summary of state-of-the-art AI

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Lightning talks: Sunday session 1 | Louise Pfeiffer | EAGxAustralia 2022 11:06

7M ago11:06

11:06

Brief 8-minute talks about a range of topics.Louise Pfeiffer: The Life You Can Save's new Charity Evaluation FrameworkSimon Zhang: Thoughts on EA China Outreach: the two-way flow of context

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Keynote talk from Lily Ordano | EAGxAustralia 2022 25:00

7M ago25:00

25:00

Lily Ordano is the Director of CATF’s Energy and Climate Innovation Program, Africa. She leads CATF’s effort to address the dual need of expanding affordable energy in Africa and building a global decarbonized energy system. Her work focuses on development-centric energy transitions, utility markets, and technology innovation for low-carbon energy …

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Keynote talk from Judith Rensing and Tony Senanayake | EAGxAustralia 2022 17:08

7M ago17:08

17:08

Judith is a passionate generalist energized by complex challenges & making the highest possible impact. She has a diverse professional background in project management, team leadership, academic & applied research, and digital communications. At CE, Judith currently creates and executes highly predictive vetting processes to find top talent future …

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Keynote talk from Emma Hurst Emma Hurst EAGxAustralia 2022 29:33

7M ago29:33

29:33

Emma Hurst is a Member of the NSW Legislative Council representing the Animal Justice Party. Emma has campaigned for animal protection for over 15 years, first working as a campaign director for Animal Liberation and later as media officer at PETA. During this time, Emma ran a number of highly successful campaigns that saw two major duck producers …

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Introduction to the Effective Altruism Ecosystem | Catherine Low | EAGxAustralia 2022 28:20

7M ago28:20

28:20

This session is for attendees that are fairly new to the EA community. Catherine will give a quick overview of Effective Altruism, what the EA community does, and the ways our community is unique. EA conferences are unlike any other conferences! So Catherine will also share some tips on how you can make the most of your weekend, and give you a chan…

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Intercausal Impacts and the Power of Food System Change | Chris Popa | EAGxBerlin 2023 54:00

7M ago54:00

54:00

The EA movement prioritizes cause areas based on scale, neglectedness, and tractability, and seeks effective interventions within each area. However, certain interventions can address multiple cause areas simultaneously. This talk explores the concept of intercausal impacts and analyses food system change as a prime example, given that our current …

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GiveDirectly: How to Grow Effective Work beyond EA | Harris Roberts | EAGxBerlin 2023 27:34

7M ago27:34

27:34

GiveDirectly grew 6x during COVID-19, in part because the realities of the pandemic made cash transfers exciting to many more people than before. Two years later, a senior leader from their growth team shares lessons learned about to build and adapt an effective-intervention brand to multiple audiences and retain mass-appeal.…

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Fireside Chat with Will MacAskill | Abra Ganz | EAGxBerlin 2023 54:06

7M ago54:06

54:06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5tg1ghvAfI

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Everything you wanted to know about AI but were afraid to ask James Fodor EAGxAustralia 2022 10:14

7M ago10:14

10:14

This session will be an interactive introduction to some of the key ideas, concepts, and terminology of artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide a focused and accessible introduction for EAs little or no background in AI, but who would like to be able to understand what all the fuss is about. Topics addressed include machine learning, neural …

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Effective Giving in 2022 Louise Pfeiffer Luke Freeman and Michael Noetel EAGxAustralia 2022 26:08

7M ago26:08

26:08

Join representatives from The Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can and Effective Altruism Australia as they discuss the current landscape of effective giving in Australia and abroad, implications for causes and donors, and what it means for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVSJ3A2R7q0

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Applying what youve learnt Catherine Low EAGxAustralia 2022 14:29

7M ago14:29

14:29

This weekend you have been surrounded by ambitious, like minded people. You might have learnt, made new connections, and/or been inspired to take action! In this session we’ll share tips and set up systems so you are more likely to stay motivated and follow up with your plans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnxxmhcQQc…

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Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering Value Diversity and Grand Futures EAGxCambridge 2023 54:43

7M ago54:43

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See main posting at: https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/sandberg-live/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMIWsrS39dI Description: Hear This Idea is a podcast about new thinking in effective altruism, hosted by Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti. In this episode, recorded live at EAGxCambridge 2023, they interview Anders Sandberg, who is a researcher, fut…

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