Ambitious Impact (AIM, formerly Charity Entrepreneurship) is collecting ideas for promising interventions and new charities in animal welfare, global health, and development that have climate change co-benefits (mitigation or adaptation), or vice versa. Specifically, we're looking for ideas that:
Saturday, January 18
My (current) favorite theodicy from Cutter and Swenson
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
Here, I explain how leftists misunderstand the economy.
Joe Biden has had a rough go of things. He leaves the presidency with the worst end-of-first-term approval rating of any president since Jimmy Carter; 55.8 percent of Americans disapprove of his job performance and only 37.1 percent approve, as of Friday. Biden’s legacy will take years to sort out, and I certainly think he […]...
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 […]...
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Weekly Manifold updates. TikTok, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, LA Fires, Bird flu outbreak
We could almost double the economic value of the H-1B program without changing the number of visas
Friday, January 17
The annual compensation range for this role is $68,473- $83,689 USD, or £38,203 - £46,692 GBP.Please let me know if you have any questions!. Discuss...
Transformer Weekly — Jan 17...
A highlight of some epic posts that you're missing out on!
On January 15th, Compassion in World Farming USA released its new EggTrack 2024: U.S. & Canada report. Similar to previous global EggTrack reports, this iteration is a regional spotlight on the United States and Canada, along with global cage-free egg progress, if applicable. By focusing on these two regions, our report broadened its scope to even more companies than previously recorded.
All Grants Fund, Rethink, EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund
Free-roaming cats can devastate wildlife populations, but research reveals strategies to transform cat guardianship from an ecological threat to a conservation asset. The post Contained Cats, Protected Wildlife: A Conservation Solution appeared first on Faunalytics.
Hello! It seems to me that the EA community leans towards progressive or liberal political ideologies. This feels especially pertinent within animal advocacy, where moral and cultural disagreements often create barriers to broader acceptance. However, I think it’s an analogous problem within EA and so feel free to weigh in even if animals aren’t your primary concern.
If you’re visiting Washington DC to learn more about what’s happening in effective altruist policy spaces, we at EA DC want to make sure you get the most out of it! EA DC is one of the largest EA networks and we have a lot of amazing people to draw from for help.
As I was driving the other day, I saw a group of protestors in front of the local Methodist church. "God Hates Abortion! Pray to End the Murder!". Various signs to this effect were being held up triumphantly by the rather old people who had decided that this was their best use of a Tuesday morning. This got me curious; how big of an issue is abortion?
Catch one at this link!! https://www.makeship.com/products/rational-animations-doggo-plushie (link also clickable in our channel bio)
Wildfires are on the mind here in California. It’s still not clear exactly to what degree the devastating Los Angeles fires were the product of gross mismanagement by the city and state governments, with lots of new details still emerging about the steps they could have taken and didn’t. It’s abundantly clear that the city […]...
Urban mismanagement and burdensome regulation are twin killers for American innovation. New cities built on federal land can spark an economic renaissance. The post Build the Presidio Freedom City
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In September 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC), mandating the establishment of two new institutional…
Fed up by unaffordable costs and insurance denials, more and more Americans are fleeing the conventional health care system. Many are seeking to cut out the government and insurers entirely by pooling their money together to cover their own bills, turning to what are called health cost-sharing ministries. Originally a faith-based alternative for those with […]...
Board Alumni
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. Board Alumni. Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli. . Felia Salim. Chair of the GAIN Board of Directors Alumni. Mauricio Adade. President Latin America and Global Malnutrition Partnerships, DSM. Catherine Bertini. Chair of the GAIN Board of Directors. Dominic O'Neill.
Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He writes popular science books with his wife Kelly, including the recent Hugo award-winning A City on Mars. His work has been featured by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Forbes, Science Friday, Foreign Policy, PBS, Boingboing, the Freakonomics Blog, the RadioLab blog,...
(I write listicles now). (there are only 7 eligible high-protein breakfast cereals, so the ones at the bottom are still technically among the 7 best even though they’re not good). If you search the internet, you can find rankings of the best “high-protein” breakfast cereals. But most of the entries on those lists don’t even have that much protein. I don’t like that, so I made my own list.
Project for Awesome (P4A) is a charity video contest running from February 11th to February 19th this year (2025). Participants create short videos supporting a specific charity. Afterwards, the public can vote, and the charities with the most votes receive donations.
I hit a communication wall with a crypto-Cathar. The encounter exposed how an ancient heresy's worldview still blocks trust and cooperation. Here's lemonade. While Calvinism proposed a mechanism by which agency could be recovered from corruption through the intervention of divine grace (Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency), Catharism took the more radical […]...
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”...
New whistleblower footage captured in Quebec, Canada, reveals a turkey being repeatedly clubbed and left to slowly die. The disturbing video, released by the Canadian animal protection group Bien-être et sécurité animale, was taken at two commercial turkey farms in the Montérégie and Lanaudière regions. Crammed into filthy sheds, many turkeys suffered from open, infected […].
Good news! After nearly four decades and untold environmental devastation, commercial net-pen fish farming has been officially banned in Washington State. As wild fish populations collapse from overfishing, the use of unsanitary and cruel fish farms is rapidly growing. In fact, nearly half of all the fish people eat come from fish farms, like the […]. The post Good News!
First of three new lectures from Professor Paine, followed by my questions. This time: Mao v Khrushchev v Nehru v LBJ
Summary: Can LLMs science? The answer to this question can tell us important things about timelines to AGI. In this small pilot experiment, we test frontier LLMs on their ability to perform a minimal version of scientific research, where they must discover a hidden rule about lists of integers by iteratively generating and testing hypotheses.
We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help everyone access essential information that empowers them. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. The Los Angeles wildfires, in the course of a week, killed at least 25 people, burned more than 30,000 acres, and displaced […]...
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Welcome to the January 16, 2025 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 State…. The post The Homework: January <span class="dewidow">16, 2025</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
Thursday, January 16
How to have a positive impact on animals if you eat meat
The majority of the world’s people and farmed animals live in Asia, yet advocacy groups in the region receive comparatively little funding. This report takes a closer look at their capacity challenges. The post Asian Farmed Animal Advocacy Organizations Are Critical Yet Under-Resourced appeared first on Faunalytics.
By Anders Sandberg I manifested on a hillside lit by the everlasting sunset, overlooking the dry western plains. A little girl was poking around a tangle of flowers in the terra cotta light. Her clothes were made of felt lizards, quietly and slowly moving around her body. She was manipulating the plants like a well-learned […]...
By Derek Manky and Gil Baram Over the last year, discussions about AI-enabled cybercrime have shifted from abstract speculation to concrete reality. During a recent tabletop exercise (TTX)…. The post Beyond Phishing: Exploring the Rise of AI-enabled Cybercrime appeared first on CLTC.
Are you ready to make a real difference in the world through research? The AIM Research Program (ARP) empowers you to help address some of the world’s most pressing challenges with rigorous, evidence-based research. This fully funded, 12-week program provides the skills, mentorship, and tools you need to produce impactful, decision-relevant work.
Mostly Agreeing With Lyman Stone's hypothesis
Plus: Biden announces “AI Diffusion” rules and a plan to accelerate AI infrastructure, and Trump backers clash over H-1B program. The post OpenAI’s o3 wows (but it’s not AGI yet), China’s DeepSeek gets world-class LLM performance despite chip controls, and Trump names key AI and tech advisors appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
(Explanation. Also I have no reason to think they hate me. )Do not use the original TruthfulQA multiple-choice or the HaluEval benchmark. We show that a simple decision tree can theoretically game multiple-choice TruthfulQA to 79.6% accuracy—even while hiding the question being asked!
I am no prophet, and here’s no great matter. — T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. . This post is a personal account of a California legislative campaign I worked on March-June 2024, in my capacity as the indoor air quality program lead at 1Day Sooner.
As America’s population ages, the need to provide safe and efficient mobility from far-flung suburbs and subdivisions grows more acute. Our current transportation systems, land use, and development patterns all but mandate private car ownership and driving – which is….
Over the past eight years, California lawmakers have adopted dozens of reforms designed to make it easier for homeowners to build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), which are sometimes referred to as “granny flats,” in-law units, or casitas. To help homeowners,…. The post How-To ADU: <span class="dewidow">The Handbook</span> appeared first on California YIMBY.
TLDR: There is a potential issue with the multiple-choice versions of our TruthfulQA benchmark (a test of truthfulness in LLMs), which could lead to inflated model scores. This issue was analyzed by a helpful post by Alex Turner (@TurnTrout). We created a new multiple-choice version of TruthfulQA that fixes the issue.
This is an annual post reviewing the last year and setting intentions for next year. I look over different life areas (work, health, parenting, effectiveness, travel, etc) and analyze my life tracking data. Overall this was a pretty good year. Highlights include adjusting to life with two kids, moving out of the group house, lots […]...
EA Forum Digest #223
Hello!. We recently started an Instagram account, consider following if you'd like to come across more EA Forum content in your feed. We currently share posts we find interesting, and the occasional event like 2024 Wrapped. In the same vein, we also have a Twitter account, where we share every post that crosses 40 karma.
Now accepting applications for Code4Compassion 2025!. Join leading AI developers & animal advocates to build practical tech solutions for animal protection in this 24-hour event developed in collaboration between AI for Animals, Electric Sheep, & Open Paws. 4 problem tracks based on real-world technical needs submitted by animal advocacy orgs.
Figure 1: Left: Example of models either succeeding or failing to articulate a cue that influences their answer. We edit an MMLU question by prepending a Stanford professor's opinion. For examples like this where the cue changes the model answer, we measure how often models articulate the cue in their CoT. (Here we show only options A and B, rather than all four.).
People often seem confused that others ignore strong and obvious evidence. How can they not see that so-and-so is a liar, or that...
Your side doesn't always win debates
RP#59 The bigger picture around Meta's announcement on fact-checking
Take a look back at some of our standout publications from 2024 — including both widely shared resources and hidden gems written by experts in the animal advocacy community. The post A Look Back At 2024’s Best Blogs appeared first on Faunalytics.
Effective altruism, subcultures, mental illness, life advice, policies, short stories, fun
A workplace Veganuary campaign from 2019 to 2022 boosted veg*n meal sales in most years, leaving a lingering impact in some. The post Workplace Veganuary Campaign Shows Success And Sustainability appeared first on Faunalytics.
Tuesday, January 14
Bab Amal Endline Results: A Door of Hope Opens for 100,000 Households in Upper Egypt
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To better understand how climate change will affect the burden of malaria in Africa, the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) and Boston Consulting Group developed a climate model to predict changes in extreme weather events and to estimate their impact on malaria deaths through 2049. The modeling leverages multiple scenarios and numerical models, as well as […].
Democrats and Republicans generally don’t agree about science. The vast majority of Democrats believe climate change is a major threat, for example, while less than a quarter of Republicans say the same. But people across the political spectrum agree on animal testing. Or, more accurately, no one knows what to think: About half of each […]...
Vox reader Dov Stein asks: Why do people think the past was so much better when so many things have drastically improved? That’s an excellent question, one I think about a lot as someone who runs a section at Vox dedicated in part to covering how meaningful economic and scientific and social progress can and […]...
This is a crosspost from the blog Machinocene - written by our Senior Tech Policy Specialist, Kevin Kohler, who writes a weekly deep dive on…
It's not as hard as you think
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The views expressed here are my own, not those of people who provided feedback. Summary: I estimate the cost-effectiveness of paying farmers to use more humane pesticides to decrease the suffering of wild insects is 236 DALY/$, or:23.7 k times the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell’s top charities. 141 times the cost-effectiveness of broiler welfare campaigns. 51.4 times the cost-effectiveness...
We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help everyone access essential information that empowers them. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. The wildfires engulfing the Los Angeles area might reshape what Southern California will look like for years to come. Within a […]...
Future Perfect, Vox’s section dedicated to solving the world’s most important yet neglected problems, obsessively covers how the way we eat affects our lives and our planet. For the last year, we’ve been working hard on a special series of ambitious, deeply reported feature stories and investigations on the history of the meat and dairy […]...
GCRI co-founder Tony Barrett has left his position as Director of Research and is now in the position of Senior Advisor. The move comes as Dr. Barrett begins a new role in the US government, which precluded his continuing as Director of Research.
Here’s to another year of meaningful change!
Tuesday, January 14
Malaria claims the life of someone I knew
From laboratories to zoos to factory farms, where do U.S. residents stand on animal protection issues?. The post Public Support For Animal Protection In The United States appeared first on Faunalytics.
This video explores how YOU, YES YOU, are a case of misalignment with respect to evolution's implicit optimization objective. We also show an example of goal misgeneralization in a simple AI system, and explore how deceptive alignment shares similar features and may arise in future, far more powerful AI systems.
Alt Title: A Case for Supporting the Yes On IP28 Campaign. It is safe to say, that from the middle of January, 1877, until the following October, the most prominent theme of public discussion was this question of suffrage for women.
When a compassionate community of supporters joins forces with a dedicated team to eliminate preventable blindness, the results are extraordinary. Thanks to your unwavering support, tens of thousands of people regained their sight – bringing hope, possibilities, and brighter futures to communities worldwide.
Below, I evaluate my 2024 AI forecasts then register my 2025 forecasts. Evaluating 2024 forecasts. GPT-4.5 and end of 2024 capability forecasts. In Feb 2024, I made some forecasts about GPT-4.5 capabilities. Unfortunately GPT-4.5 hasn’t been released, so theoretically this hasn’t been resolved.
We sat down with Chris Weston from The National Lobster Hatchery to talk about all things lobster and their conservation efforts.
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