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- Supervillain monologues are strange. Not because a supervillain telling someone their evil plan is weird. In fact, that's what we should actually expect. No, the weird bit is that people love a good monologue. Wait, what?. OK, so why should we expect supervillains to tell us their master plan?
- Crosspost from my blog. Synopsis. When we share words with each other, we don't only care about the words themselves. We care also—even primarily—about the mental elements of the human mind/agency that produced the words. What we want to engage with is those mental elements. As of 2025, LLM text does not have those elements behind it.
- 🚀 Las últimas novedades de la comunidad de AE...
- Here, I explain why Phenomenal Conservatism is better than Phenomenal Explanationism. *
- How morality might be inverted
- Dean Spears is an an Economic Demographer, Development Economist, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. With Michael Geruso, Dean is the co-author of After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People. You can see a full transcript and a list of resources on the episode page on our website. We're back from a hiatus!
- The practices of industrialized animal farming are aesthetically and morally revolting. These practices can be phased out. The post Factory Farming is a Blight appeared first on Palladium.
- For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it was launched, Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index has found that the share of US adults reporting obesity has climbed and climbed, rising from 25.5 percent in 2008 to 39.9 percent in 2022. That survey caught the […]...
- I am doing Inkhaven this month, which means that (if all goes well) you’ll get to hear from me every day for the next 30 days.
- And the greatest gift psychology gave the world
- TLDR: I went through the entirety of the career choice, career advising, career framework, career capital, working at EA vs. non-EA orgs, and personal fit tags and have filtered to arrive at a list of all posts relevant to figuring out the career aspect of the EA journey up until now (10/25/25).
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- A reflection on a selection of results by the exceptional Jack Lindsey
- This Halloween, I didn’t need anything special to frighten me. I walked all day around in a haze of fear and depression, unable to concentrate on my research or anything else. I saw people smiling, dressed up in costumes, and I thought: how? The president of the Heritage Foundation, the most important right-wing think tank […]...
- As practice for potential future Responsible Scaling Policy obligations, we're releasing a report on misalignment risk posed by our deployed models as of Summer 2025. We conclude that there is very low, but not fully negligible, risk of misaligned autonomous actions that substantially contribute to later catastrophic outcomes.
- Report on decentralized training, new Epoch Capabilities Index for tracking AI progress, FrontierMath evaluations of leading models, revenue insights on OpenAI, and hiring for two open positions.
- Our Mission: Rapidly scale up the size and influence of the community trying to make AI and other transformative technologies go well for sentient nonhumans. One of the key ways we do this is through our events. This article gives insight into our most recent event, AI, Animals and Digital Minds NYC 2025 including: Lightning talks. Topics and ideas covered. Attendee feedback.
- YWA deployed Talk to the City (T3C) as one of their research platforms, introducing an innovative interface that bridged the gap between large-scale data collection and qualitative insight. The platform's key innovation lay in its interactive visualization interface, which allowed researchers to dynamically explore relationships between different data points while maintaining direct...
- Hello everyone! Here you can find the October updates from Animal Equality. We hope that you find it helpful and inspiring. We also include our current job openings. Thank you!. Global. Animal Equality concluded seven weeks of protests in the Netherlands against grocery giant Ahold Delhaize, demanding an end to the use of cages for hens in its U.S. supply chain.
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- China’s Cyberspace Administration last month banned companies from purchasing Nvidia’s H20 chips, much to the chagrin of its CEO Jensen Huang. This followed a train wreck of events that unfolded over the summer. The post The Rise and Fall of Nvidia’s Geopolitical Strategy appeared first on AI Now Institute.
- At the Center for Open Science (COS), our work is about making research more transparent, rigorous, and verifiable. As AI tools enter the research workflow, we need evidence about what they actually contribute to scientific credibility.
- The post Open positions to grow our podcast team appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
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- Transformer Weekly: Blackwell chips and China, White House warning to pro-AI super pac, and OpenAI’s restructure...
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- Hello FAST community. I hope you're all doing great!. We would like to invite you to register for our Third Latin American Congress of Animal Law, Arba 2025, which will be held virtually on Thursday, November 13, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Peruvian time). We believe that holding this third congress represents a significant achievement for the region.
- Plus, where Russia and China go from here
- Across the European Union, member states have taken different approaches to animal welfare legislation, causing gaps in protection that leave farmed animals vulnerable to harmful systems and practices. The post Animal Welfare Legislation In The European Union: A Call For Consistency appeared first on Faunalytics.
- Compassion in World Farming International is a global movement transforming the future of food and farming. We’re recruiting for a creative and driven part-time Senior Digital Campaigns Coordinator to help us mobilise public support and influence decision-makers through compelling digital campaigns. .
- How health is financed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) determines the effectiveness and reach of global health efforts. In this talk, Peter Koziol explores the key dynamics of health financing—from the scale of different funding sources and the roles of major actors, to how these factors impact specific diseases—revealing what this means for those aiming to maximize their positive...
- By Robert Wiblin | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify | Read transcript. Episode summary. Whatever your skills are, whatever your interests are, we’re out of the world where you have to be a conceptual self-starter, theorist mathematician, or a policy person — we’re into the world where whatever your skills are, there is probably a way to use them in a way that is helping make maybe...
- Incofin and GAIN expand nutrition-focused investments in East Africa’s dairy sector gloireri Fri, 10/31/2025 - 14:16 . Incofin Investment Management and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), through the fund ‘Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F)’, announce two new investments in East Africa’s dairy sector: Mujuni Ventures Limited in Uganda and Narumoro Dairy in Kenya.
- They’re growing miniature 3D brains from stem cells. These aren’t your fictional mad scientists’ brains in a vat; they’re organoids, and they grow in petri dishes. They’re also incredibly cool. We can, should, and will use cerebral organoids to discover new medical treatments, study brain development, reduce the demand for animal testing, and even power […]...
- Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to take meat off the menu and replace it with insects. The charge has been spouted in one version or another by provocateurs like Tucker Carlson, Mike Cernovich, and Jordan Peterson, and repeated by countless accounts on social […]...
- We are delighted to see a strong recommendation from the UK Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) which calls for a ban on the use of CO₂ to stun pigs. The report, to which we contributed evidence, echoes our calls for a ban with a phase-out period that should be as short as possible and within five years.
- Halloween, human enhancement, heartbreak, hermeneutics
- Around two months ago, John and I published Resampling Conserves Redundancy (Approximately). Fortunately, about two weeks ago, Jeremy Gillen and Alfred Harwood showed us that we were wrong. This proof achieves, using the Jensen-Shannon divergence ("JS"), what the previous one failed to show using KL divergence ("DKL").
- As practice for potential future Responsible Scaling Policy obligations, we're releasing a report on misalignment risk posed by our deployed models as of Summer 2025. We conclude that there is very low, but not fully negligible, risk of misaligned autonomous actions that substantially contribute to later catastrophic outcomes.
- Technological progress is often equated with invention, yet history shows that invention alone rarely transforms society without effective diffusion. This paper examines the persistent “diffusion dilemma,” the lag between the emergence of general-purpose technologies and their broad, productive adoption.
- According to the Sonnet 4.5 system card, Sonnet 4.5 is much more likely than Sonnet 4 to mention in its chain-of-thought that it thinks it is being evaluated; this seems to meaningfully cause it to appear to behave better in alignment evaluations.
- According to the Sonnet 4.5 system card, Sonnet 4.5 is much more likely than Sonnet 4 to mention in its chain-of-thought that it thinks it is being evaluated; this seems to meaningfully cause it to appear to behave better in alignment evaluations.
- 🐦 Tweet thread, 📄 Paper, 🖥️ Code, 🤖 Evaluation Aware Model Organism. TL, DR:;. We train an evaluation-aware LLM. Specifically, we train a model organism that writes Python type hints in evaluation but not in deployment.
- 🐦 Tweet thread, 📄 Paper, 🖥️ Code, 🤖 Evaluation Aware Model Organism. TL, DR:;. We train an evaluation-aware LLM. Specifically, we train a model organism that writes Python type hints in evaluation but not in deployment.
- I'm putting together Metaculus' first animal-focused forecasting tournament, and am reaching out to ask for your support in making this happen. What is it?. This tournament will generate probabilistic forecasts on decision-relevant questions affecting animals, from alternative proteins and animal welfare policy to AI impacts and wild animal welfare.
- GiveDirectly has written a lot about what giving people money is consistently very good at (e.g., recipients earn more, spend more, own more assets, and the local economy gets a boost), the myths that aren’t true (e.g, cash doesn’t make people work less or drink more), and the fact that it’s what most recipients prefer. […]...
- Our Beyond the Spreadsheets podcast mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations.
- “Can LLMs go beyond pattern-matching to produce fully formalized mathematical proofs and novel cryptographic attacks?” w. Kevin Buzzard, Alex Kontorovich, Kristin Lauter, Yang-Hui He.
- “How close are today’s large-language models to genuine mathematical creativity?” with mathematicians Richard Borcherds, Sergei Gukov, Daniel Litt, and Ken Ono (originally uploaded Aug 18, 2025).
- Key regulators have agreed to let the company kill its profit caps and restructure as a for-profit — with some strings attached. This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence.
- Global Corporate Relations Lead. 🐓About the role 🐓. As Global Corporate Relations Lead, you will be part of a small, high-impact team that specializes in advancing the welfare of animals raised for food through outreach to major international food companies.
- When researchers Danika Pfeiffer, Austin Thompson, Alisa Baron, Collin Brice, Brittany Ciullo, Micah E. Hirsch, Helen Long, and Andrea Ford posted their latest study on EdArXiv, a preprint server hosted on the Open Science Framework (OSF), they didn’t expect to inspire new research almost immediately.
- It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of a dozen eggs soared to a record high of $6.23. (It’s now at $3.49.). The cause was H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza — or bird flu — that wild birds shed near farms as […]...
- What happens when researchers make their findings openly available before the traditional peer-review and publication process? For Maris Vainre, PhD, and her co-authors, sharing their study as a preprint led to media attention from outlets like New Scientist, generated over 1,800 downloads in several months, and sparked invitations to share their findings with audiences in and beyond academia.
- The post Holden Karnofsky on dozens of amazing opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
- Supporters demand transparency and an end to routine cruelty in the dairy industry ROSEMONT, Ill. — On October 29, Mercy For Animals hand-delivered thousands of petition signatures to the headquarters of Dairy Management Inc., urging the corporation to stop whitewashing the routine cruelty behind dairy products. The action follows a recent undercover investigation at a […].
- The country’s penalty-free AI legislation relies on social pressure and voluntary compliance — and experts say it could work elsewhere...
- New international assessments showcase where national climate plans succeed and fall short on food systems, with Kenya, Somalia, Switzerland and the UK leading the way while others lag. LOS ANGELES — As countries prepare for COP30 in Belém, the Food Systems NDC Scorecard presents the first independent evaluation of how countries around the world integrate […].
- From chatbots supporting new mothers and nutrition coaches guiding families, to tutoring tools for children and apps advising farmers, artificial intelligence is beginning to find its place in development. But is it ready—and are we?.
- For as long as humans have been able to imagine other minds, we’ve wanted to speak to animals. With the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence models, scientists believe we may only be a few years away from a world where we talk to animals — and they talk back. The post The Ethics Of Using AI To Talk To Animals appeared first on Faunalytics.
- The best approach to take to hiring differs by industry. This means that best practice differs across startups, think tanks, video production, non-profits, academia, and news outlets will all have different practices. The practices that work best in the EA ecosystem will be different again – but unfortunately the effective altruism organisation landscape is much smaller than all of those,...
- GFI and Tufts University accelerate progress with new open-access cultivated meat cell lines and culture media formulations that can save researchers time and money.
- Angola Building a Sustainable Path to NTD Elimination: Angola’s Movement to Strengthen Health Systems – October 30, 2025 Angola is charting a new course in.... The post Building a Sustainable Path to NTD Elimination: Angola’s Movement to Strengthen Health Systems appeared first on The END Fund.
- Substack archives are hard to search, which makes me sad because my old posts are full of incredible bangers.
- And this seems caused by training on alignment evals.
- "Too much of the narrative is around it being an all knowing Oracle which hinders how we think about it." "Slow down, break it down into small steps, think about it, really engage, really bring your full self." "Work together for quality, not just for speed."
- Crustacean Compassion hosted a meet outside of Parliament with other animal advocates to urgently call on Defra to ban boiling alive.
- (This post will be much easier to follow if you’ve first read either “Should you go with your best guess?” or “The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance”. But it’s meant to be self-contained, assuming the reader is familiar with the basic idea of cluelessness.).
- Last year, GiveWell revised its estimate of our cost-effectiveness, rating our work 3–4x higher than before. That shift was driven in part by evidence on how cash transfers affect local economies. In this post, we break down that evidence, explaining how cash boosts local economies. Summary:
- This is a post about our recent work ImpossibleBench: Measuring LLMs' Propensity of Exploiting Test Cases (with Aditi Raghunathan, Nicholas Carlini) where we derive impossible benchmarks from existing benchmarks to measure reward hacking. Figure 1: Overview of the ImpossibleBench framework.
- L'épisode complet : https://youtu.be/WexyMWLVvX0
- New Anthropic research (tweet, blog post, paper): We investigate whether large language models can introspect on their internal states. It is difficult to answer this question through conversation alone, as genuine introspection cannot be distinguished from confabulations.
- I've been curious about how good LeelaPieceOdds is, so I downloaded a bunch of data and graphed it. For context, Leela is a chess bot and this version of it has been trained to play with a handicap. This is BBNN odds, meaning Leela starts without bishops and knights. I first heard about LeelaQueenOdds from simplegeometry's comment, and I've been playing against it occasionally since then.
- Forecasting AI's leading firm
- We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Learn more about how to support our work. Hurricane Melissa plowed through the Caribbean on Tuesday as an enormous Category 5 storm, knocking out power lines, flooding hospitals, and killing dozens of people in its path. Already, the damage has been catastrophic. In […]...
- Summary: Overall satisfaction with the EA community remains high (7.11/10).Satisfaction is slightly (though non-significantly) lower than in 2020 (7.26) and 2022 (7.16). People who joined EA more recently report higher satisfaction than those who joined earlier. Respondents identifying as men report higher satisfaction (7.24) than those who do not (6.88).
- Editors’ Note: This post from Henry Farrell originally appeared on his Substack, Programmable Mutter. There are many possible stories about why American political conservatism is such an intellectual trainwreck. Here’s one. Conservatives used at least nominally to argue that it was important to protect civil society from the depredations of government, and many genuinely believed … Continue...
- Clean water. Most of us take it for granted. We can turn on the tap and have safe water to drink whenever we want, without having to give it a second thought. That’s not the case for more than a billion people around the world who lack access to uncontaminated drinking water.
- Animal Law Focus, with the support of the Aquatic Animal Alliance and the communications development of Marketing Vegano, launched the global campaign #22Minutes, an initiative that seeks to debunk one of the most persistent myths in the debate about animals: that fish do not feel pain. Every year, billions of fish are slaughtered without legal recognition of their capacity to suffer.
- The post From eggs to spuds: Why a cage-free shortfall is a wake-up call for potato sustainability claims appeared first on Mercy For Animals.
- "Because that's what's killing us is the mindset. Not even the reality. It's like the fear and delusion." "What makes us think that we reach the pinnacle of human intelligence when, if we look 200 years ago, there's such a massive gap?" "We're nowhere near our capabilities."
- I’m moving this substack to nosologist.substack.com so I can manage my two substacks from the same email account.
- AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value
- Your farmed animal advocacy update for late October 2025
- Opinion: Alexandru Voica argues that application-layer AI companies are best off opening themselves up to rigorous testing rather than opining on AI safety
- It would be immoral to run a factory farm so it's immoral to buy from one
- The meat industry orchestrated a coordinated online campaign to discredit the landmark 2019 EAT-Lancet planetary health diet. The post Inside The Meat Industry’s Backlash To EAT-Lancet appeared first on Faunalytics.
- Empower the Next Generation to End Factory Farming. What would it mean to dedicate your time, talent, and energy to creating a more just and sustainable food system?. New Roots Institute is a growing nonprofit dedicated to ending factory farming by empowering the next generation of advocates.
- Some say AI will solve medicine within a decade. Others believe biology is far more complex than people imagine and AI will hit the limits of clinical trials and economics. Who's right?
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