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  • 2023 October EA Updates
    AI pause debates, 80,000 Hours updated career guide, GWWC's new community strategy, TED talks, many people writing about their jobs and much more
  • Competitive, Cooperative, and Cohabitive
    (I’ve been writing this in bits and pieces for a while, and Peacewager was the impetus I needed to finally stitch it together and post it. Peacewager sounds like a really fun game and an example of the thing I’m talking about, but I do not want this whole genre to get called Peacewager Games when I think I have a better title for the genre.).
  • Three possible roles for philosophy
    Peter Godfrey-Smith on integration, incubation, and education
  • Two cheap ways to test your fit for policy work
    At EAGs I often find myself having roughly the same 30 minute conversation with university students who are interested in policy careers and want to test their fit. This post will go over two cheap tests, each possible to do over a weekend, that you can do to test your fit for policy work.
  • Why I'm still going out to bat for the EA movement post FTX
    From the looks of it, next week might be rough for people who care about Effective Altruism. As CEA acting CEO Ben West pointed out on the forum: “Sam Bankman-Fried's trial is scheduled to start October 3, 2023, and Michael Lewis’s book about FTX comes out the same day. My hope and expectation is that neither will be focused on EA ….
  • FWI's September 2023 Updates
    FWI's September 2023 Updates Breaking Down FWI’s Corrective Actions, and More View this email in your browser Hey there, We hope you’ve had a great month! In this newsletter, we spotlight our welfare interventions for farmed Indian major carp.
  • What's So Great About Marriage?
    In a recent post on the secrets of happiness, I mentioned the importance of marrying a suitable partner (https://fakenous.substack.com/p/the-secrets-of-happiness-and-the). Some readers wondered whether marriage is really important or good. Let’s talk about that.
  • Statement on the Expiration of the Farm Bill
    The following statement regarding the expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill may be attributed to Leah Garcés, CEO and president of Mercy For Animals. “The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 lacks protection for those who need it most: farmed animals and everyone trapped in the cruel clutches of industrial animal agriculture. It is imperative that […].
  • Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
    Introduction. In March 2023, we launched the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest. The goal of the contest was to surface novel considerations that could affect our views on the timeline to transformative AI and the level of catastrophic risk that transformative AI systems could pose. We received 135 submissions. Today we are excited to share the winners of the contest.
  • Basic Mathematics of Predictive Coding
    This is an overview of the classic 1 999 paper by Rajesh Rao and David Ballard that introduced predictive coding. I'm going to focus on explaining the mathematical setup instead of just staying at a conceptual level.
  • Éliminer l’extrême pauvreté – avec Anthea Gordon (GiveDirectly)
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  • Stuff I found interesting in September
    1) The reddit rumour mill on Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research:Apparently, they have laid off half of the 45 people working there. If you go on the BU website, the team pages are all offline.
  • What Has the CEA Uni Groups Team Been Up To? – Our Summer 2023 Review
    TLDR: CEA’s University Groups Team worked on a wide range of projects this summer . We wrapped up a round of UGAP and OSP (our programs supporting university group organizers with digital resources, mentorship, training, and for UGAP a stipend) and launched a new one. Both rounds had over 100 people participating across both programs.
  • The Lighthaven Campus is open for bookings
    Lightcone Infrastructure (the organization that grew from and houses the LessWrong team) has just finished renovating a 7-building physical campus that we hope to use to make the future of humanity go better than it would otherwise. We're hereby announcing that it is generally available for bookings.
  • Open Philanthropy is hiring for multiple roles across our Global Catastrophic Risks teams
    It’s been another busy year at Open Philanthropy; after nearly doubling the size of our team in 2022, we’ve added over 30 new team members so far in 2023. Now we’re launching a number of open applications for roles in all of our Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) cause area teams (AI Governance and Policy, Technical AI Safety, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, GCR Cause Prioritization, and GCR...
  • Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
  • List of how people have become more hard-working
    Discuss...
  • Friday Squid Blogging: Protecting Cephalopods in Medical Research
    From Nature: Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid could soon receive the same legal protection as mice and monkeys do when they are used in research. On 7 September, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked for feedback on proposed guidelines that, for the first time in the United States, would require research projects involving cephalopods to be approved by an ethics board before...
  • Bids To Defer On Value Judgements
    Consider two claims: “broccoli is good for you”. “broccoli decreases cholesterol”. Even though the former might be considered a lossy summary of the latter, the two feel very different; they pull very different levers in my brain. “Broccoli decreases cholesterol” pulls levers like: Is the claim even true? Does broccoli really decrease cholesterol?
  • Should 80,000 hours have more near-termist career content?
    TDLR: Assuming that Long Termist causes are by far the most important, 80,000 hours might still be better off devoting more of their space to near-termist causes, to grow the EA community, increase the number working in long term causes and improve EA optics. Background. 80,000 hours is a front page to EA, presenting the movement/idea/question to the world.
  • Europe might abandon its animal welfare revolution
    A caged female breeding pig at a farm in Spain. | Jo-Anne McArthur/Lauren Veerslaat/We Animals Media The EU could backslide on its cage-free farming initiative and more. Billions of animals hang in the balance. Europe was on the cusp of an animal welfare revolution.
  • "Diamondoid bacteria" nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation
    Confidence level: I’m a computational physicist working on nanoscale simulations, so I have some understanding of most of the things discussed here, but I am not specifically an expert on the topics covered, so I can’t promise perfect accuracy.
  • "Diamondoid bacteria" nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation
    Discuss...
  • Alignment Workshop talks
    In February 2023, researchers from a number of top industry AI labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic) and universities (Cambridge, NYU) co-organized a two-day workshop on the problem of AI alignment, attended by 80 of the world’s leading machine learning researchers. We’re now making recordings and transcripts of the talks available online.
  • Statement Mourning the Death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein
    The following statement regarding the passing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein may be attributed to Alex Cragun, director of government affairs at Mercy For Animals. “Mercy For Animals mourns the passing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose commitment to public service and dedication to animal welfare are a testament to her belief in compassion and justice for […].
  • 11 Accidentally Vegan Mexican Foods Cherished and Preserved for Generations
    More and more Hispanic and Latinx people are opting for plant-based foods. For many, this is a way to reconnect with their Indigenous heritage and take control of their health. I grew up in South Texas near the Mexican border, and being of Mexican American heritage with Indigenous roots, I had access to a lot […].
  • Welcoming Rachel Glennerster and Andrew Dilnot
    We are very excited to share that Rachel Glennerster and Andrew Dilnot have joined our Board of Trustees.
  • Welcoming Rachel Glennerster and Andrew Dilnot
    We are very excited to share that Rachel Glennerster and Andrew Dilnot have joined our Board of Trustees.
  • Germany’s slow move toward supply-side reform
    High energy prices, a skilled labor shortage, and bureaucratic hurdles stand in the way of economic growth. If holdouts can be convinced, the response may resemble American supply-side progressivism.
  • List of how people have become more hard-working
    I've recently asked how people have become more hard-working. I compiled the answers across the EA Forum and LessWrong (and some private messages) in a list for myself to make it easier for me to experiment with the suggestions. I thought I'd share the list here in case it's useful for anyone else. I also list the things that people said didn't work and a couple of other things.
  • A Model Estimating the Value of Research Influencing Funders
    Various groups seek to improve the allocations of funders by completing research. Often the estimates for the impact of such work stop at estimates for the amount of money it influences. In this post, we outline a detailed methodology for estimating the impact of research of this nature, and share some deterministic spreadsheets and online Monte Carlo tools for doing so.
  • A Grand Bargain for Permitting Reform
    American energy production can be transformed, if the parties can find a deal
  • Meet the young scientists of Target Malaria
    What do you do with Target Malaria, and what do you enjoy about your work? I’m a Ph.D. student with Target Malaria Uganda at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). My work involves using mathematical models and simulations to test the effectiveness of novel malaria vector control tools before implementation. I’m fascinated by different aspects […].
  • Journey to IGC: An Introduction and Beyond!
    Hello there! I thought the best way to introduce myself as the newly appointed Director of Impactful Government Careers was to write this...
  • Project Officer, Food Fortification
    Project Officer, Food Fortification admin_inox Fri, 09/29/2023 - 13:00 vacancy_id SYS-1071 location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Contract type Fixed Term Duration Other Frontend apply URL https://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/1071/apply/ Closing date Fri, 10/13/2023 - 12:00 Department Programmes about_the_role The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project...
  • Summary — When should an effective altruist donate? By William MacAskill
    This summary was first published on the Global Priorities Institute website, the original paper can be found here. Effective altruists seek to do as much good as possible given limited resources. Often by donating to important causes like global health and poverty, farmed animal welfare, and reducing existential risks. Can we help more by donating now or later?
  • Why The US Canceled A Pandemic Virus Hunt
    #biology #biohazard #pandemic #government #usa #virus My main source was an article by Kelsey Piper for Vox Future Perfect titled "The dangers of virus hunting".
  • What's your standard for good work performance?
    A lot of people in the community, including me, are working independently (or have a lot of autonomy, even if they are employed). A lot of people, including me, often feel like they are underperforming or at least wonder if they are. But how do I actually know when I'm not underperforming? I'd like to make some criteria for under which circumstances I'll consider my work satisfactory.
  • Building career capital: some new advice on three paths
    The post Building career capital: some new advice on three paths appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
  • High-level interpretability: detecting an AI's objectives
    Thanks to Monte MacDiarmid (for discussions, feedback, and experiment infrastructure) and to the Shard Theory team for their prior work and exploratory infrastructure. Thanks to Joseph Bloom, John Wentworth, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Johannes Treuitlein, Marius Hobbhahn, Jeremy Gillen, Bilal Chughtai, Evan Hubinger, Rocket Drew, Tassilo Neubauer, Jan Betley, and Juliette Culver for...
  • Zet kweekvlees nog niet bij het afval
    Opinie in De Standaard (29-09-2023) Lekker spierweefsel kweken zonder dier, zou dat niet fantastisch zijn? Want dat dier in het vleesproductieproces zorgt voor behoorlijk wat problemen. De longen zorgen voor infecties van besmettelijke ziektes zoals vogelgriep en varkensgriep, de ingewanden … Lees verder →...
  • Sustainable Seafood must include animal welfare
    There seems to have been a spate of opinion pieces recently about the benefits of eating seafood for people and planet. It’s seen as a...
  • On the Edge of Superintelligence
    My new paper - *Tipping Point: On the Edge of Superintelligence* - highlights broad reforms for the UK to succeed and spearhead international AI safety efforts.
  • EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem
    note: I've copy pasted the whole article but am uncertain how well it worked, especially the images. Introduction. Effective altruism prides itself on truthseeking. That pride is justified in the sense that EA is better at truthseeking than most members of its reference category, and unjustified in that it is far from meeting its own standards.
  • Peacewagers so Far
    A peacewager is a partially cooperative, partially competitive multiplayer game that provides an anarchic dojo for development in the art of negotiation, or cooperative bargaining. Applied cooperative bargaining isn't currently taught, despite being an infrastructural literacy for peace, trade, democracy or any other form of pluralism. We suffer for that.
  • IHOP Adds Vegan Sausage and Burgers to Menus Nationwide
    Here's what's vegan at IHOP!. The post IHOP Adds Vegan Sausage and Burgers to Menus Nationwide appeared first on Mercy For Animals.
  • High-level interpretability: detecting an AI's objectives
    Thanks to Monte MacDiarmid (for discussions, feedback, and experiment infrastructure) and to the Shard Theory team for their prior work and exploratory infrastructure. Thanks to Joseph Bloom, John Wentworth, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Johannes Treuitlein, Marius Hobbhahn, Jeremy Gillen, Bilal Chughtai, Evan Hubinger, Rocket Drew, Tassilo Neubauer, Jan Betley, and Juliette Culver for...
  • The point of a game is not to win, and you shouldn't even pretend that it is
    This post started out as a supporting point for another post about games. It developed into a bit of a practical philosophy post. Why do boardgames generally end by declaring just one absolute winner? There are many reasons, most bad, I'd argue. One reason, probably a major factor in their spread, is that it seems to make it easier to teach the game.
  • Jony Ive's iPhone of AI 📱, Microsoft considered selling Bing 🔍, big tech vs startup jobs 👨‍💻
  • How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions
    This post is a copy of the introduction of this paper on lie detection in LLMs. The Twitter Thread is here. Authors: Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Alex J. Chan, Sören Mindermann, Ilan Moscovitz, Alexa Y. Pan, Yarin Gal, Owain Evans, Jan Brauner. Our lie dectector in meme form. Note that the elicitation questions are actually asked "in parallel" rather than sequentially: i.e.
  • How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions
    This post is a copy of the introduction of this paper on lie detection in LLMs. The Twitter Thread is here. Authors: Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Alex J. Chan, Sören Mindermann, Ilan Moscovitz, Alexa Y. Pan, Yarin Gal, Owain Evans, Jan Brauner. Our lie dectector in meme form. Note that the elicitation questions are actually asked "in parallel" rather than sequentially: i.e.
  • Existential Hope Podcast: Joe Carlsmith | Infite Ethics and the Sublime Utopia
    Joe Carlsmith is a writer, researcher, and philosopher. He works as a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy, focusing on existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence. He also writes independently about various topics in philosophy and futurism and has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford. Much of his work is about trying to help us orient wisely towards...
  • September 2023 North America Newsletter
    September 2023 North America Newsletter J-PAL North America's September newsletter features our 10-year anniversary: highlights from our two-day convening, a new impact webpage and blog series, and our inaugural Evidence Champions. kchristie@pove… Thu, 09/28/2023 - 17:14...
  • Tarbell Fellowship 2024 - Applications Open (AI Journalism)
    The Tarbell Fellowship is accepting applications until October 15th. Apply here. Key details. What: One-year programme for early-career journalists interested in covering artificial intelligence. When: January → December 2024 (with some flexibility). Benefits: Fellows receive a stipend of up to $50,000, secure a 9-month placement at a major newsroom, participate in a study group covering...
  • The Ongoing Transformation Podcast Features the Evolution of Open Science
    This week, The Ongoing Transformation podcast from Issues in Science and Technology showcased the Center for Open Science (COS), featuring an insightful conversation with Executive Director and Co-Founder Brian Nosek about the progress of the open science movement.
  • EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem
    Introduction Effective altruism prides itself on truthseeking. That pride is justified in the sense that EA is better at truthseeking than most members of its reference category, and unjustified in that it is far from meeting its own standards.
  • Your intrinsic values: why they matter and how to find them
    What do you value most fundamentally? Today, we're going to tell you why we believe you should answer this question, and then we’re going...
  • Weighing Animal Worth
    It's common for people who approach helping animals from a quantitative direction to need some concept of " moral weights" so they can prioritize. If you can avert one year of suffering for a chicken or ten for shrimp which should you choose?
  • My Current Thoughts on the AI Strategic Landscape
    I started working at AI Impacts slightly less than a year ago. Before then, I was not following developments in either AI or AI safety. I do not consider myself a rationalist and did not engage with LessWrong before starting this job. While I have mostly been working on historical case studies,
  • Different views of alignment have different consequences for imperfect methods
    Almost any powerful AI, with almost any goal, will doom humanity. Hence alignment is often seen as a constraint on AI power: we must direct the AI’s optimisation power in a very narrow direction. If the AI is weak, then imperfect methods of alignment might be sufficient. But as the AI’s power rises, the alignment methods must be better and better.
  • New surveys find that most Americans support AI regulation, believing that AI risk mitigation is a global priority
    Rethink Priorities has released the findings of three studies of U.S. public opinion on artificial intelligence (AI) policy and risk.
  • Regulate AI Now
    In the six months since FLI published its open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments, we have seen overwhelming expert and public concern about the out-of-control AI arms race - but no slowdown. In this video, we call for U.S. lawmakers to step in, and explore the policy solutions necessary to steer this powerful technology to benefit humanity.
  • The Hidden Complexity of Wishes - The Animation
    This video introduces a series focused on the outer alignment problem. In future videos, we'll explore how this problem affects machine learning systems today and how it could lead to catastrophic outcomes for humanity. The video is an adaptation of @Eliezer Yudkowsky's post The Hidden Complexity of Wishes.
  • The HomeWork: September 28, 2023
    The post The HomeWork: September 28, 2023 appeared first on California YIMBY.
  • From Passion to Depression and Pessimism: My Journey with Effective Altruism
    I want to share a deeply personal and painful journey I've had with the EA movement. It’s not an easy story to tell, but I believe there's value in presenting this side of the coin. I really want to protect my anonymity, so I'd ask you to please be respectful of my wish and to not reach out to me. Not so long ago, I became wholeheartedly committed to the EA cause.
  • What Do We Need to Know? A Seven-Part Division of Knowledge
    My division of knowledge into seven domains. The post What Do We Need to Know? A Seven-Part Division of Knowledge appeared first on James Aitchison.
  • Whatever happened to the industrial R&D lab?
    From the Works in Progress archives.
  • Opening A Dialogue To Improve Animal Studies
    The fields of compassionate conservation and multispecies studies offer fresh perspectives on important animal issues. The post Opening A Dialogue To Improve Animal Studies appeared first on Faunalytics.
  • Indiana contemplating own strategic medical stockpile following national shortages
    The post Indiana contemplating own strategic medical stockpile following national shortages appeared first on Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense.
  • September: Next Events & Brand New Programs!
    September: Next Events & Brand New Programs! We cooked many things for you during the summer, and have a lot of announcements! Bear with us! View this email in your browser September: Next Events & Brand New Programs!. Hey <<First Name>>, Welcome to our September update! To bring you closer to the community, you can:
  • Commonsense Good, Creative Good
    Let's say you're vegan and you go to a vegan restaurant. The food is quite bad, and you'd normally leave a bad review, but now you're worried: what if your bad review leads people to go to non-vegan restaurants instead? Should you refrain from leaving a review? Or leave a false review, for the animals? .
  • Treating cataracts in Zambia: “I know their future is going to be bright”
    Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness. On World Sight Day, learn what Sightsavers is doing to protect the sight of children with cataracts in Zambia.
  • Wählen wir eine tierfreundliche Zukunft!
  • Petrov Day Retrospective, 2023 (re: the most important virtue of Petrov Day & unilaterally promoting it)
    When Stanislav Petrov's missile alert system pinged, the world was not watching. Russia was not watching. Perhaps a number of superiors in the military were staying in the loop about Stanislav's outpost, waiting for updates. It wasn't theatre. In contrast, LessWrong's historical Petrov Day celebrations have been pretty flashy affairs.
  • Links For September 2023
  • MMLU’s Moral Scenarios Benchmark Doesn’t Measure What You Think it Measures
    In examining the low performance of Large Language Models(LLMs)on the Moral Scenarios task, part of the widely-used MMLU benchmark by Hendrycks et al., we found surprising results. When presented with moral scenarios individually, the accuracy is 37% better than with the original duel-scenario questions.
  • Projects I would like to see (possibly at AI Safety Camp)
    I recently discussed with my AISC co-organiser Remmelt, some possible project ideas I would be excited about seeing at the upcoming AISC, and I thought these would be valuable to share more widely. Thanks to Remmelt for helfull suggestions and comments... . What is AI Safety Camp?. AISC in its current form is primarily a structure to help people find collaborators.
  • OpenAI's AI hardware 🤖, Meta's smart glasses 👓, Zuckerberg on AI & metaverse 🧑
  • Unital dynamics are mixedness increasing
    After years of not having an intuitive interpretation of the unital condition on CP maps, I recently learned a beautiful one: unitality means the dynamics never decreases the state’s mixedness, in the sense of the majorization partial order.
  • EA Forum Digest #156: Petrov Day
    EA Forum Digest #156: Petrov Day AMAs, animal welfare research, AI pause debate posts, and more! Hello!. We celebrated Petrov Day this week. You’re invited to ask questions in two related AMA threads — post your questions as comments by Friday, September 29: AMA: Andy Weber (U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2009-2014).
  • Commonsense Good, Creative Good
    Let's say you're vegan and you go to a vegan restaurant. The food is quite bad, and you'd normally leave a bad review, but now you're worried: what if your bad review leads people to go to non-vegan restaurants instead? Should you refrain from leaving a review? Or leave a false review, for the animals?.
  • Human progress has come at the expense of animals. It doesn’t have to.
    Several newly hatched chicks are crammed together in metal drawers inside an incubator at a hatchery in Poland. | Andrew Skowron/We Animals Media Add in the extreme suffering of tens of billions of farmed animals, and suddenly the world looks like a much darker place.
  • REPORT — Housing Underproduction in California: 2023
    September 27, 2023 — By one estimate, California must build 3.5 million housing units by 2025 to end the state’s housing shortage. This shortage has resulted in rising rents and prices, closed access to homeownership for many families, and forced many Californians to leave the state altogether. A significant body of research suggests that the shortage is the result […].
  • Jacob on the Precipice
    And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
  • Meet the next generation of alternative protein startups
    Learn about six innovative startups building a more sustainable food system and how they are doing it.
  • New report from Deloitte Canada highlights the social and economic impacts of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
    TORONTO, September 27, 2023 – A report published today by Deloitte Canada’s AI Institute in collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and Canada’s three National AI Institutes: Amii, Mila, and the Vector Institute outlines how the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy has created significant social and economic benefits for Canada, with our AI sector.... Read More.
  • “Our tofu book has launched!! (Upvote on Amazon)” by George Stiffman
    As some of you know, I’m working on growing the US market for Chinese tofus. I believe it could be a way to significantly reduce animal suffering, while shifting American dining culture. We just launched our book - Broken Cuisine - which introduces five of these tofus to Western home cooks.
  • Making AIs less likely to be spiteful
    Which forms of misalignment might result in particularly bad outcomes? And to what extent can we prevent them even if we fail at ​​intent alignment? We define spite as a terminal preference for frustrating others’ preferences, at least under some conditions.
  • Think Locally, Upzone Globally
    Overly restrictive zoning is a major factor contributing to the housing shortage and affordability crisis. In a new paper, Jack Y Favilukis and Jaehee Song present a new theory to explain why some municipalities have more restrictive zoning than others: the metro area’s level of fragmentation. The authors find empirical evidence that metros that are […].
  • Next Experiment in the Laboratories of Democracy: Housing Progress
    With the end of the California legislative session on September 14, several major housing bills were approved by the Legislature and sent to Governor Newsom’s desk. While attention has been focused on California, a number of other states have passed major housing reforms in 2023. A recent policy brief from the Mercatus Center at George […].
  • The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
    This video is about AI Alignment. At the moment, humanity has no idea how to make AIs follow complex goals that track human values. This video introduces a series focused on what is sometimes called "the outer alignment problem". In future videos, we'll explore how this problem affects machine learning systems today and how it could lead to catastrophic outcomes for humanity.
  • Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown
    In this blueprint, we explain why a tiered approach makes sense in the EU AI Act and how to build a risk-based tiered regulatory regime for GPAI – the technicalities involved, which requirements should be imposed on their corresponding tiers, and how to enforce them. The post Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown appeared first on The Future Society.
  • It's Not A Bad Restaurant, It's A Bad Dish
    We assume consistency from producers but it isn't really there
  • Polysemy and Porn
    The many meanings contained within a hentai gif
  • Domination And Exploitation: Understanding Industry Costs For Chicken, Egg, And Fish Products In The United States, Brazil, And China
    Our latest Faunalytics study examines lesser known mechanics of animal agriculture industries, with the hope of highlighting leverage points that are thus far underused by advocates. The post Domination And Exploitation: Understanding Industry Costs For Chicken, Egg, And Fish Products In The United States, Brazil, And China appeared first on Faunalytics.
  • The EA Global Conference arrives at your doorstep, plus our selection of high-impact job roles and fellowships | EACN Job Blast #23 🚀
    The EA Global Conference arrives at your doorstep, plus our selection of high-impact job roles and fellowships | EACN Job Blast #23 🚀 Check out these high-impact roles, we're here to help you map out your next career move!
  • The Bulwark's Article On Effective Altruism Is a Short Circuit
    Crosspost of this on my blog. I really like the Bulwark. Their articles are consistently funny, well-written, and sensible. But recently, Mary Townsend wrote a critique of effective altruism titled “Effective Altruism Is a Short Circuit,” that seems deeply confused.
  • [Linkpost] Prospect Magazine - How to save humanity from extinction
    This is a story in Prospect Magazine featuring the work of several EAs (full disclosure: including myself) working on existential and catastrophic risks framed around the occasion of Petrov Day. Discuss...
  • Biodefense commission discusses COVID-19 response, future pandemic strategies at IMS
    The post Biodefense commission discusses COVID-19 response, future pandemic strategies at IMS appeared first on Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense.
  • Biodefense Meeting at IMS
    The post Biodefense Meeting at IMS appeared first on Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense.

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