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- One of the key promises of artificial intelligence is that it can put a world of data at our fingertips in an instant — so it’s no wonder many animal advocates are eager to use it for research. In this blog, we look at using AI as a research tool and specifically explore the topic of summarization. The post When Is Good Enough Good Enough?
- The post Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
- This month’s Faunalytics Index provides facts and stats about global salmon farm escapes, pro-meat social media campaigns, animal welfare violations in U.S. laboratories, and more. The post Faunalytics Index – December 2025 appeared first on Faunalytics.
- Opinion: Scott Singer argues that the country’s plan to embed AI across all facets of society could create huge growth — and accelerate social unrest...
- A meta-analysis of 41 studies comprising 87,000 participants led researchers to conclude that reducing consumption of meat and animal products is currently an “unsolved problem.”. The post Convincing People To Stop Eating Meat Isn’t Easy appeared first on Faunalytics.
- I am an effective pizzaist. Sometimes, I want the world to contain more pizza, and when that happens I want as much good pizza as I can get for as little money as I can spend. I am not going anywhere remotely subtle with that analogy, but it's the best way I can think of to express my personal stance. I. What would it mean to be an effective pizzaist?.
- The second failed attempt to pass federal preemption of state AI laws could have lasting repercussions for the industry
- EA Forum Digest #269 Hello!. The Donation Election ends on Sunday. At time of writing, the leaderboard is as follows: If you haven’t voted yet, go ahead and do it now! Also — next week is ‘Why I donate’ week on the Forum, so consider writing a post about the reasons behind your donations. Message me on the Forum if you want any feedback/ tips.
- Inside GFI’s 2025 Research Grant Program and the newest projects poised to shape the future of alt proteins.
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- Where do books go? Books are where we live.
- Millions of years of evolution have given us genomes that are like giant datasets for drug development. Finally, we are learning how to use them.
- Explore the results of the Winter 2025 AI Safety Index here: futureoflife.org/index A panel of independent experts graded eight leading AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, Z.ai, Meta, DeepSeek, and Alibaba Cloud) on their efforts to manage both immediate harms and catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems. How did they do?
- December Brief | What's really changing in consulting and AI? Hiring now: Operations, program management, and global campaigns roles ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
- Crossposted from LessWrong. TL;DR: Figure out what needs doing and do it, don't wait on approval from fellowships or jobs. If you.... Have short timelines. Have been struggling to get into a position in AI safety. Are able to self-motivate your efforts. Have a sufficient financial safety net. ... I would recommend changing your personal strategy entirely.
- Zyn met her in a dance club, as she sashayed under slowly pulsing lasers. He matched her pace, drop-swaying with each sidelong flick of her jet black hair. He closed his eyes and let her rhythm guide his steps, finding he liked the gentler flavor it gave the music.
- Shaping Food Culture Together: Lessons from Jakarta’s Walking Tour gloireri Wed, 12/03/2025 - 02:41 . Jakarta moves fast. So do its appetites. Over the past five years, Indonesia’s food landscape has shifted further towards convenience and high-risk options, moving away from diets that are nourishing and environmentally grounded.
- Learning to do misaligned-coded things anywhere teaches an AI (or a human) to do misaligned-coded things everywhere. So be sure you never, ever teach any mind to do what it sees, in context, as misaligned-coded things.
- [My novel, Red Heart, is on sale for $4 this week. Daniel Kokotaijlo liked it a lot, and the Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI is currently reading it.]. “Formal symbol manipulations by themselves … have only a syntax but no semantics.
- Is life coaching worth it? Learn what coaching really is, who it helps, and how to spot good coaches—and avoid scams—in an unregulated industry.
- Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
- The (new) Center for Wild Animal Welfare, the Wild Animal Initiative, the EA Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Charity Evaluators have all been in the Donation Election's top 3 candidates this week. How should we compare between interventions focused on wild animals, and those focused on farmed animals?.
- I have a number of intrinsic values, but two of my most important intrinsic values are happiness and the lack of suffering for conscious beings. While these are fairly common intrinsic values, I suspect many people actually value them more than they realize. In other words, upon careful reflection, many people would realize that happiness and lack of […]...
- Throughout the final months of 2025, CLTC is releasing short 30-second testimonial videos on our LinkedIn page featuring voices from our community — students, alumni, and collaborators —…. The post “Because of CLTC…” Short Video Series Showcases a Decade of Impact appeared first on CLTC.
- Acknowledgments: Tom Marty, Vanessa Sarre, Clare Diane Harris and Jack Koch contributed to the design of the survey, Jack Koch also carried out outreach to patient support groups, and Magdalena Kolczyńska, Jordan Clist and Michael Smith contributed to the analysis of the raw data.
- Your climate donations achieve the biggest impact if you follow the recommendations by charity evaluators.
- There are obviously conceivable cases where it's good to destroy nature!
- As Anthropic prepares to publish its whistleblowing policy, can the industry make the most of protecting those who speak out?
- Researchers examined how adding a canine family member shapes children’s and adults’ mental health, revealing both positive experiences and daily challenges. The post How Getting A Puppy Affects Families With Children appeared first on Faunalytics.
- The image accompanying this post is created by the artist Wakana Yamauchi, one of several original artworks produced for the … More...
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- February 2025 By Mia Taylor and Tristan Cook Overview Many promising technical interventions for s-risk reduction are routed through the AI safety community, frontier AI labs, and AI Safety Institutes. In 2025, CLR's primary focus will be on developing expertise and collaborative relationships with these groups.
- MIRI is running its first fundraiser in six years, targeting $6M. The first $1.6M raised will be matched 1:1 via an SFF grant. Fundraiser ends at midnight on Dec 31, 2025. Support our efforts to improve the conversation about superintelligence and help the world chart a viable path forward. MIRI is a nonprofit with a goal of helping humanity make smart and sober decisions on the topic of...
- Support the science and technology of the future – donate to Foresight Institute this Giving Tuesday.
- For information. If you are considering donating to AMF very soon, there is the possibility your donation could be doubled if you make it via the Double Up Drive. AMF has been chosen as one of very few charities and there is a matching pot of US$500,000. Maximum of US$5,000 per donor per charity. There is no limit to how many people can donate to AMF.
- "They can weigh the costs and benefits and they can say, actually, even though we promise to be transparent about the existence of this model and its capabilities, now that was just a promise." "So it makes a strong case for government regulation, but it also demonstrates the fact that government regulation needs to have like real implementation and enforcement strategies attached to it."...
- "You wouldn't get in an airplane with a 10% chance of crashing. You wouldn't cross a bridge with that chance." "And so when people building the technology say, yeah, there's a 10% chance this goes really wrong in a catastrophic way, like no other technology has gone wrong."...
- GiveDirectly, CoGi & the End of Progress
- Every time a MacKenzie Scott grantee talks about receiving one of her multimillion-dollar gifts, there is always a hint of the same bashfulness, the same reverence, and the same glee. Their eyes light up. They blush a little. There’s a giggle here and there. “It’s disarming,” said Michael Lomax, head of the United Negro College […]...
- Donating money isn’t the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood. Although approximately 62 percent of Americans are eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs blood every few seconds in the US. While the average red blood cell transfusion is about three units, […]...
- Hive Slack Threads: November
- As the writer of an ethical advice column, I get a lot of questions from people who really want to do good in the world but are running into problems. They want to know how to give charity — and how to do it optimally. They want to know if they should be pressuring their parents […]...
- How to donate Donors from the UK can donate tax-deductibly and claim Gift Aid using the form below. Donors from the USA can donate tax-deductibly through the Giving What We Can platform. Donors in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Austria can donate tax-deductibly through Effektiv Spenden platform for donations of more than EUR 20.000.
- Bay Solstice is this weekend (Dec 6th at 7pm, with a Megameetup at Lighthaven on Friday and Saturday). I wanted to give people a bit more idea of what to expect. I created Solstice in 2011. Since 2022, I've been worried that the Solstice isn't really set up to handle "actually looking at human extinction in nearmode" in a psychologically healthy way.
- In the past 10 years, Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) has funded dozens of projects doing important work related to AI safety / navigating transformative AI. And yet, perhaps most activities that would improve expected outcomes from transformative AI have no significant project pushing them forward, let alone multiple.
- We rely on benchmarks to measure AI capabilities, but even the best benchmarks are just narrow glimpses into what AI can do. Consider a benchmark. If a model is really bad, it will score 0% on the benchmark. But the same is true for a model that’s extremely bad — the benchmark offers no signal to distinguish these two models, even though one is much better than the other. .
- Executive Summary. The Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has made a strategic pivot over the past year, from ambitious reverse-engineering to a focus on pragmatic interpretability: Trying to directly solve problems on the critical path to AGI going well [ ] . Carefully choosing problems according to our comparative advantage.
- Executive Summary. The Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has made a strategic pivot over the past year, from ambitious reverse-engineering to a focus on pragmatic interpretability: Trying to directly solve problems on the critical path to AGI going well [ ] . Carefully choosing problems according to our comparative advantage.
- We have a ritual around these parts. Every year, we have ourselves a little argument about the annual LessWrong Review, and whether it's a good use of our time or not. Every year, we decide it passes the cost-benefit analysis . Oh, also, every year, you do the following: Spend 2 weeks nominating the best posts that are at least one year old,.
- The School for Moral Ambition (SMA) describes itself as a movement of idealists taking on the world’s most pressing problems. Their proposed campaign to 'abolish the tobacco industry altogether' is one of their more ambitious proposals.
- For the purposes of this transcript, some high-pitched clicking sounds have been removed. The below is an otherwise unedited transcript of an interview between Dwarkesh Patel and a bat. DWARKESH: Thanks for coming onto the podcast. It’s great to have you—. BAT: Thanks for having me. Yeah. DWARKESH: You can hear me okay? I mean, uh, all the equip—.
- We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December 1, 2025. Over the last few months, we have been engaged in a highly important activity: finding AIM's next CEO.
- Executive Summary. Over the past year, the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has pivoted to a pragmatic approach to interpretability, as detailed in our accompanying post [ ] , and are excited for more in the field to embrace pragmatism!
- We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December 1, 2025. Over the last few months, we have been engaged in a highly important activity: finding AIM’s next CEO.
- We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December 1, 2025. Over the last few months, we have been engaged in a highly important activity: finding AIM’s next CEO.
- Executive Summary. Over the past year, the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has pivoted to a pragmatic approach to interpretability, as detailed in our accompanying post [ ] , and are excited for more in the field to embrace pragmatism!
- In this paper, we make recommendations for how middle powers may band together through a binding international agreement and achieve the goal of preventing the development of ASI, without assuming initial cooperation by superpowers. You can read the paper here: asi-prevention.com.
- The following statement regarding the Prairie Farms milk recall due to potential cleaning agent contamination may be attributed to Jennifer Behr, Director of Plant-Based Initiatives at Mercy For Animals: “The recall of Prairie Farms Gallon Fat Free Milk, with approximately 320 gallons sold potentially contaminated with food-grade cleaning agents, is a serious public health concern. […].
- "The chance of rain is 0.50496847", said no one
- This was a super fun chat!
- Back to The Lunar Society mission
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- One third fundraising, one third debate, one third comedy
- TL;DR: We are live: The Karoteno effective giving platform is now operational at karoteno.org. The Goal: A "normie-friendly" donation experience for Spanish speakers who find traditional EA analysis alienating. Action: Share this with your non-EA friends! We are also running a donation-matching campaign this December—please reach out if you’d like to help fund the matching pool. Introduction.
- The demand for wild fishes as feed for European aquaculture operations is projected to increase by 70% by 2040, highlighting immense risks to marine ecosystems. The post Carnivorous Aquaculture Threatens Wild Fishes And Ecosystems appeared first on Faunalytics.
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- AI models’ relationship with our data is getting more dynamic, contextual and private—and the stakes are high The Claim Earlier this year, Elon Musk claimed that ‘all human data for AI training has been exhausted’. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, has said the world has reached ‘peak data’. A recent episode of the BBC’s […].
- The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! . In this round, we completed two evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2025 giving season.
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- "That's an adversarial process to an extent, if that's the mindset of the company." "We know there was pushback on SB53, the whistleblower protection side." "Companies were not happy to have that as broad as possible."
- "if you violate the California state whistleblower protection provisions, you have to pay a fine of $10,000 as a company, which is probably like a five-second burn for most companies these days. Not a terrible deterrent." "how strong is your trust in government to understand and act well on concerns that are brought to you, and that was extremely low."...
- Portfolio Lead admin_inox Mon, 12/01/2025 - 14:00 vacancy_id SYS-1301 location Kigali, Rwanda Contract type Fixed Term Duration 24 Months Frontend apply URL https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1301/apply/ Closing date Mon, 12/08/2025 - 12:00 Department Programmes Partnerships about_the_role <p>The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Portfolio Lead...
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- I wasn’t always a boring newsroom-bound editor. Back in my days as a Time magazine foreign correspondent, I used to fly to far-flung places, recorder and notebook in hand. That’s how, in the summer of 2005, I found myself in Mae Sot, a small city in Thailand near the border with Myanmar, tasked with contributing […]...
- Donating money isn’t the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood. Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs blood every few seconds in the US. While the average red blood cell transfusion is about three units, […]...
- "You have to know it's a big deal." "You have to know that we're not prepared." "Some of them will not admit that to you, but look at their track record and you'll be able to see that they're not prepared for this."
- Nationalism and occultism in Ireland
- In my previous post Traditional Food*, I explained how what we think of as a "traditional" diet is a nationalist propaganda campaign that's making us sick. In this post I'll go into the biological mechanisms. There are four substances that the body can metabolize: carbohydrates, fats, protein and alcohol.
- or, why dualists can believe in conscious robots
- Child-rearing, corrections, co-location, Claude's cultural conformity, consciousness conference
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