Jared Bartman for Vox
Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame. Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous.
Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on American roads, and even sedans have become an endangered species. (Ford, producer of the iconic Model T a century ago, no longer sells any sedans in its home market.).
Key takeaways. Apply for our 5-week virtual Career Fellowship before May 12th. It will take place online in May and June 2024. Who should apply? Medical students and doctors planning or considering making impact-driven career changes and/or career-related decisions relatively soon. About.
This work was produced as part of Neel Nanda's stream in the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2023-24 Cohort, with co-supervision from Wes Gurnee. This post is a preview for our upcoming paper, which will provide more detail into our current understanding of refusal. We thank Nina Rimsky and Daniel Paleka for the helpful conversations and review. Executive summary.
The Neoplatonic argument is old news
Scott Alexander on Wednesday: I’ve spent fifteen years not responding to [Hanson’s medicine] argument, because I worry it would be harsh and annoying to use my platform to beat up on one contrarian who nobody else listens to. But I recently learned Bryan Caplan also takes this seriously. Beating up on two contrarians who nobody else listens to is a great use of a platform!
We all know that Trump is a terrible person who belongs in jail. But that doesn’t mean he’s guilty of everything he’s accused of. What about the hush money case currently on trial? The Case As far as I understand it (which may not be very far; someone please correct me if you see any errors), the allegations are these (see...
⚠️ Découvrez du contenu EXCLUSIF (pas sur la chaîne) ⚠️ ⇒ https://the-flares.com/y/bonus/
⬇️⬇️⬇️ Infos complémentaires : sources, références, liens... ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Le contenu vous intéresse ? Abonnez-vous et cliquez sur la 🔔
Vous avez aimé cette vidéo ? Pensez à mettre un 👍 et à la partager.
We’re hiring for senior research and tech team members! Please apply if you’re interested, and share the openings with people in your network who might be a great fit. The Head of Technology will take broad ownership of GiveWell's technology function and build a strong tech team.
TL;DR: In this post, I distinguish between two related concepts in neural network interpretability: polysemanticity and superposition. Neuron polysemanticity is the observed phenomena that many neurons seem to fire (have large, positive activations) on multiple unrelated concepts.
TL;DR: In this post, I distinguish between two related concepts in neural network interpretability: polysemanticity and superposition. Neuron polysemanticity is the observed phenomena that many neurons seem to fire (have large, positive activations) on multiple unrelated concepts.
TL;DR: In this post, I distinguish between two related concepts in neural network interpretability: polysemanticity and superposition. Neuron polysemanticity is the observed phenomena that many neurons seem to fire (have large, positive activations) on multiple unrelated concepts.
A cruise ship is searching for the colossal squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Is death bad? Are hotdogs bad? And who is the mathematician who so thoroughly outclassed a fields medal winner that he quit math?
Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. What would Ruth and Henry do?. How much can one person achieve for animals? Ruth Harrison (1920-2000) and Henry Spira (1927-1998) started out pessimistic.
On 12-13 April 2024 Pugwash convened a workshop in Istanbul to assess opportunities for galvanizing nuclear arms control. Seventeen experts … More...
Debuting at the Mercy For Animals 25th Anniversary Gala was Night Market: The Future of Food. At this curated experience food-tech pioneers presented their innovations to more than 600 of Mercy For Animals’ most influential supporters, media partners, and social media influencers. Technology and innovation further our programs to ease suffering for animals in the […].
Introduction and Summary. Why focus on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in the animal cause area?. When we started our international interventions in September 2023, we were quite certain that MEL could increase the cost-effectiveness and impact of interventions in the animal cause area, and avoid doing harm. See e.g.
Executive summary. Although often seen as outsiders, activists represent values that can be found in all strata of society including the very institutions that are targeted by social movements. Individuals inside these institutions are often faced with uncomfortable moral dilemmas when their values as citizens conflict with their responsibilities at work.
Summary: Evaluations provide crucial information to determine the safety of AI systems which might be deployed or (further) developed. These development and deployment decisions have important safety consequences, and therefore they require trustworthy information. One reason why evaluation results might be untrustworthy is sandbagging, which we define as strategic underperformance on an...
The two halves of Western civilization are poor in different ways. Neither is building the future anymore. Both should. The post America and Europe Are Equally Poor
appeared first on Palladium.
This study argues that animal experimentation is driving an improperly unregulated macaque trade that endangers both animal welfare and human health. The post Animal Research And The Macaque Trade appeared first on Faunalytics.
The Immune-Computer-Interface and other biotechnologies, and how to govern them.
As World Immunization Week comes to a close, I am taking a moment to reflect on the remarkable progress made in global health thanks to vaccines. Since the launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974, immunisations have played a pivotal role in the improvement of global … Continue reading "World Immunisation Week: Reflecting on...
Carolyn Fong/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Harvard dishonesty researcher Francesca Gino faked her research. But she still has a lot to teach us. When it is alleged that a scientist has manipulated data behind their published papers, there’s an important but miserable project ahead: looking through the rest of their published work to see if any of that is fabricated as well.
Project Manager - Product Owner for Digital LSFF
admin_inox
Fri, 04/26/2024 - 12:30
vacancy_id
SYS-1168
location
Abuja, Nigeria / London, UK
Contract type
Fixed Term
Duration
Other
Frontend apply URL
https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1168/apply/
Closing date
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:00
Department
Programmes
about_the_role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is...
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
Ella Purnell as Lucy in Fallout. | JoJo Whilden/Prime Video
What a post-nuclear aftermath could really look like. Between the crumbling of trust in our institutions and escalating global conflict, dystopia feels deeply familiar in today’s world.
The post Particularly impactful career paths you might have overlooked appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
The Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH) is an EA organization working on cause prioritization research as well as grantmaking and donor advisory. This project was commissioned by the leadership of the Meta Charity Funders (MCF) – also known as the Meta Charity Funding Circle (MCFC) – with the objective of identifying what is underfunded vs overfunded in EA meta.
Summary: Where there’s overfishing, reducing fishing pressure or harvest rates — roughly the share of the population or biomass caught in a fishery per fishing period — actually allows more animals to be caught in the long run.
A “surgical pause” won’t work because:1) Politics doesn’t work that way2) We don’t know when to pause1) Politics doesn't work that wayFor the politics argument, I think people are acting as if we could just go up to Sam or Dario and say “it’s too dangerous now. Please press pause”. Then the CEO would just tell the organization to pause and it would magically work.That’s not what would happen.
This is a linkpost for Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis by Andrew Stawasz. The article is forthcoming in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Abstract. Federal agencies’ cost-benefit analyses do not capture nonhuman animals’ (“animals’”) interests. This omission matters. Cost-benefit analysis drives many regulatory decisions that substantially affect many billions of animals.
One of the more depressing realizations of my life followed by an explanation of why it shouldn't be that depressing. Also, why risk averse altruists should become president.
YouTube link. In 2022, it was announced that a fairly simple method can be used to extract the true beliefs of a language model on any given topic, without having to actually understand the topic at hand.
Alexander Sahn on Exclusionary Zoning Welcome to Abundance, a Metropolitan Abundance podcast where we chat with the academics, researchers, and practitioners who inspire and inform our work. Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode of Abundance, Ned Resnikoff chats with…. The post Episode 18 appeared first on California YIMBY.
Authors: Senthooran Rajamanoharan*, Arthur Conmy*, Lewis Smith, Tom Lieberum, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár, Rohin Shah, Neel Nanda. A new paper from the Google DeepMind mech interp team: Improving Dictionary Learning with Gated Sparse Autoencoders! .
Malaria is massive. Our World in Data writes: “Over half a million people died from the disease each year in the 2010s. Most were children, and the disease is one of the leading causes of child mortality.” Or, as Rob Mather, CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) phrases it: the equivalent of seven jumbo jets full of children die of Malaria each day.
In human history, one in two children died prematurely, before becoming an adult. Today, one in twenty humans die before the age of 15. Somalia, where half of the population lives in extreme poverty, has the highest child mortality rate … Lees verder →...
"People with vaginas"? Well, maybe
In-ovo sexing is a new technology with a strong potential to halt chick culling. This article reports its current availability in the European Union. The post Tracking In-Ovo Sexing Progress In The E.U. appeared first on Faunalytics.
Dairy cows at an operation in Lodi, California, in 2020. | Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
The US Department of Agriculture’s failed response to bird flu in cows, explained. Bird flu has had a busy couple of years.
Summary: Where there’s overfishing, reducing fishing pressure or harvest rates — roughly the share of the population or biomass caught in a fishery per fishing period — actually allows more animals to be caught in the long run.
The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection. But all of this is coming to an end.
Photo credit should read Umer Qadir/ Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images
It is almost hard to believe just how effective vaccines are at saving infants’ lives. The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last 50 years. Since 1974, infant mortality worldwide has plummeted. That year, one in 10 newborns died before reaching their first birthday.
Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria threatens the lives of 3.2 billion people around the world. Every year, the disease accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths, the majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
25th of April 2024 marks the annual World Malaria Day, an opportunity for the worldwide malaria community to share information about differing approaches toward malaria eradication, celebrate milestones in research, and highlight the ongoing need for funding and political support in the fight against malaria. Our theme for this year’s World Malaria Day is “Gender, […].
We recently published a new core career advice series. It provides a concise, accessible intro to some of the most important ideas for planning an impactful career. Check it out on our site!. What is the core advice series?. The core advice series distills the most important ideas from our in-depth career guide and repackages them with a more accessible framing.
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. It seems to me worth trying to slow down AI development to steer successfully around the shoals of extinction and out to utopia. But I was thinking lately: even if I didn’t think there … Continue reading →...
It seems to me worth trying to slow down AI development to steer successfully around the shoals of extinction and out to utopia. But I was thinking lately: even if I didn’t think there was any chance of extinction risk, it might still be worth prioritizing a lot of care over moving at maximal speed.
There are institutional incentives that make contrarian views that catch on mostly wrong.
As you may have noticed, 80k After Hours has been releasing a new show where I and some other 80k staff sit down with a guest for a very free form, informal, video(!) discussion that sometimes touches on topical themes around EA and sometimes… strays a bit further afield.
Guest post by Hashem Elassad. Edited by Travis. The Nobel Prize recipient and father of modern neuroscience who was integral to our...
We had four Canadian academic leaders sharing their thoughts on where the cell ag industry stands today. If you missed out, we've got you covered! Here are the key takeaways from the discussion. The post Key Takeaways from our Second Cell Ag in Canada Virtual Series Event appeared first on New Harvest.
Welcome to the April 24, 2024 Main edition of The Homework, the official newsletter of California YIMBY — legislative updates, news clips, housing research and analysis, and the latest writings from the California YIMBY team. News from Sacramento The legislative…. The post The HomeWork: April <span class="dewidow">24, 2024</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
In which I shill. Also a more general case for being a paid subscriber to blogs you like.
AI 'Summer School' and Roles Perfect for Consultants | EACN Job Blast #35🚀
Check out these high-impact roles, we're here to help you map out your next career move! | EACN Job Blast #35🚀
View this email in your browser
EACN's High-Impact Job Blast
The Effective Altruism Consulting Network team knows that...
As intensive industrial farming grows across Africa, second-hand battery cages pose a threat to egg-laying hens and animal welfare progress across the continent. The post Africa’s Second-Hand Battery Cage Dilemma appeared first on Faunalytics.
Researchers analyzed animal product consumption using data from purchases made at 411 Tesco supermarkets across London, and found that July and August are the busiest times for meat consumption. The post Measuring Meat Consumption Trends Using Supermarket Data appeared first on Faunalytics.
Summary: For pandemics that aren’t ‘stealth’ pandemics (particularly globally catastrophic pandemics): Reason 1: Not All 'Detections' Are Made Equal: there can be significant variation in the level of information and certainty provided by different detection modalities (e.g.
A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky
A coyote in the El Capitan meadow area at sunrise in Yosemite National Park. | Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Your taxes fund an obscure government program that kills millions of wild animals to benefit Big Ag. A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare.
Our new residential seminar for 18 to 22-year-olds, during August 2024
Stay updated and inspired
Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini-abstract: In this Article I argue that most of the time, privacy consent is fictitious.
EA Forum Digest #186
Hello!. CEA is hiring for a Program Lead for EA Global. Apply here. Also, if you benefit from the weekly Forum Digest, we'd love it if you left us some feedback (we learn from both critique and compliments). — Toby (for the Forum team)
We recommend:
Part of our 80/20 series. sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day. focus on your sensory experiences (touch, sight, smell, sound). Try to perceive them as accurately as possible . footnotes: is that really all? on one level, yes -- both in the sense that. .
In a recent announcement, Manifold Markets say they will change the exchange rate for your play-money (called "Mana") from 1:100 to 1:1000. Importantly, one of the ways to use this Mana is to do charity donations. TLDR: The CTA here is to log in to your Manifold account and donate currency you have on your account before May 1st.
Epistemic status: party trick. Why remove the prior. One famed feature of Bayesian inference is that it involves prior probability distributions. Given an exhaustive collection of mutually exclusive ways the world could be (hereafter called ‘hypotheses’), one starts with a sense of how likely the world is to be described by each hypothesis, in the absence of any contingent relevant evidence.
Launched in 2022, the AI Policy Hub trains UC Berkeley researchers to develop effective governance and policy frameworks to guide artificial intelligence, today and into the future. Each…. The post 2023-2024 AI Policy Hub Fellows to Showcase Research appeared first on CLTC.
On March 19th, the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity hosted a talk by Shai Dhaliwal, a cybersecurity manager within Accenture’s Technology Services and Digital Transformation team. Drawing on more than a decade of experience working with both public- and private-sector organizations, Dhaliwal shared her perspectives on the role of consultants in helping organizations navigate the complex...
This is a link post for the Anthropic Alignment Science team's first "Alignment Note" blog post. We expect to use this format to showcase early-stage research and work-in-progress updates more in the future. Twitter thread here. Top-level summary:
Your existence points to God's existence
The Löwenheim–Skolem theorem implies, among other things, that any first-order theory whose symbols are countable, and which has an infinite model, has a countably infinite model. This means that, in attempting to refer to uncountably infinite structures (such as in set theory), one "may as well" be referring to an only countably infinite structure, as far as proofs are concerned.
Long Now talks with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman, authors of "Children of a Modest Star," about pandemics, climate change, and the planetary systems required to deal with them.
Abstract. This paper presents ProLU, an alternative to ReLU for the activation function in sparse autoencoders that produces a pareto improvement over both standard sparse autoencoders trained with an L1 penalty and sparse autoencoders trained with a Sqrt(L1) penalty. ProLU(mi,bi)={miif mi+bi>0 and mi>00otherwiseSAEProLU(x)=ProLU((x−bdec)Wenc,benc)Wdec+bdecThe gradient wrt.
Abstract. This paper presents ProLU, an alternative to ReLU for the activation function in sparse autoencoders that produces a pareto improvement over both standard sparse autoencoders trained with an L1 penalty and sparse autoencoders trained with a Sqrt(L1) penalty. ProLU(mi,bi)={miif mi+bi>0 and mi>00otherwise. The gradient wrt.
An abundance of climate and urban planning research has shown that urban sprawl is responsible for a significant share of global climate pollution. Sprawl requires longer trips in private vehicles, measured in “vehicle miles traveled,” or VMT. It also increases…. The post Housing Policy Is (Still) <span class="dewidow">Climate Policy</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
Inclusionary Zoning (IZ), the practice of requiring home builders to set aside some units in new housing construction to be rented at below-market rates (BMR) to low-income households, is a popular strategy to increase the production of affordable housing while…. The post The Tradeoffs of Inclusionary Zoning: A <span class="dewidow">Closer Look</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
To make men more accepting of veganism, should we describe vegan food using conventionally masculine words?. The post Changing Men’s Perceptions Of Veganism Through Framing appeared first on Faunalytics.
Project Officer, Behavior Change Unit - RFSA
admin_inox
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 15:30
vacancy_id
SYS-1167
location
Quelimane, Mozambique
Contract type
Permanent
Duration
Indefinite
Frontend apply URL
https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1167/apply/
Closing date
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 12:00
Department
Programmes
about_the_role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is...
Research Advisor, Market Research
admin_inox
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 15:00
vacancy_id
SYS-1166
location
This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in New Delhi, Nairobi and London. Contract type
Fixed Term
Duration
24 Months
Frontend apply URL
https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1166/apply/
Closing date
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:00
Department
Research, monitoring and...
An open thread
Thanks go to Travis (from the Clearer Thinking team) for coauthoring this with me. This is a cross-post from Clearer Thinking. How can you tell who is a valid expert, and who is full of B.S.? On almost any topic of importance you can find a mix of valid experts (who are giving you reliable […]...
Procurement Manager
admin_inox
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 13:00
vacancy_id
SYS-1161
location
Nairobi, Kenya
Contract type
Fixed Term
Duration
24 Months
Frontend apply URL
https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1161/apply/
Closing date
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 12:00
Department
Administration
about_the_role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Procurement Manager to...
Crosspost of my blog. You shouldn’t eat animals in normal circumstances. That much is, in my view, quite thoroughly obvious. Animals undergo cruel, hellish conditions that we’d confidently describe as torture if they were inflicted on a human (or even a dog). No hamburger is worth that kind of cruelty. However, not all animals are the same.
I’m an international security professional with experience conducting open source analysis, satellite imagery interpretation, and independent research, and I’m launching a new consulting organization, Earthnote! I’m really interested in applying my skills to the EA community and help to reduce existential threats to humanity, so let me know if I can help you/your org!.
Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft: Grotto told us Microsoft had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to provide logging capabilities to the government by default, and given the fact the mega-corp banked around $20 billion in revenue from security services last year,...
A new study found that empathy among young Americans is rebounding after having reached worrying lows a decade ago. | Getty Images/iStockphoto
A decade ago, research showed a troubling dip in empathy. A new study provides more hope. Think back to the United States as it was a year ago, a decade ago, a generation ago. Is the US a more caring or less caring nation now than it was back then? .
Regulators should review the 2014 DeepMind acquisition. When Google bought DeepMind in 2014, no regulator, not the FTC, not the EC's DG COMP, nor the CMA, scrutinized the impact. Why? AI startups have high value but low revenues. And so they avoid regulation (and tax, see below).
Loading...