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  • Call for suggestions: Climate change charity ideas with strong co-benefits for humans or animals
    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:
  • Being Mortal
    Saturday, January 18
  • The Archon Abandonment Theodicy
    My (current) favorite theodicy from Cutter and Swenson
  • Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
    Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
  • Rich and Poor: How Things Work
    Here, I explain how leftists misunderstand the economy.
  • The best thing that Joe Biden did
    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 […]...
  • Don’t ignore bad vibes you get from people
    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 […]...
  • Mettre en scène le Transhumanisme avec Dominique Leclerc
    ⚠️ 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.
  • TikTok ban looms & Georgia suspends all poultry activities
    Weekly Manifold updates. TikTok, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, LA Fires, Bird flu outbreak
  • Talent Recruitment Roulette: Replacing the H-1B Lottery
    We could almost double the economic value of the H-1B program without changing the number of visas
  • Boltzmann Brains
    Friday, January 17
  • The Humane League is hiring a Director of Philanthropy and OWA Grant Lead Position!
    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...
  • Part-Time Film Festival Executive Director
    Part-Time Film Festival Executive Director Organization: International Vegan Film Festival (IVFF) Location: Canada (Remote) preferred Type: Part-Time Application Deadline: February 10, 2025. About Us The International Vegan Film Festival (IVFF) is a global platform dedicated to celebrating the intersection of veganism, film, and creative storytelling.
  • AI’s big infrastructure week
    Transformer Weekly — Jan 17...
  • Paid Subscription Drive
    A highlight of some epic posts that you're missing out on!
  • New Report - EggTrack 2024: U.S. & Canada
    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.
  • Where I Donated In 2024
    All Grants Fund, Rethink, EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund
  • Contained Cats, Protected Wildlife: A Conservation Solution
    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.
  • Should we try harder to appeal to conservatives?
    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.
  • How EA DC can help you get the most out of visiting Washington DC
    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.
  • How big of a problem is abortion?
    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?
  • It's raining doggos
    Catch one at this link!! https://www.makeship.com/products/rational-animations-doggo-plushie (link also clickable in our channel bio)
  • There are no grown-ups in California
    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 […]...
  • Build the Presidio Freedom 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 appeared first on Palladium.
  • Developing the Modalities of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI & the Global Dialogue on AI Governance - A Workshop Series
    In September 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC), mandating the establishment of two new institutional…
  • Americans are ditching traditional health care for something cheaper — and riskier
    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
    Board Alumni gloireri Fri, 01/17/2025 - 12:21 . 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 | A city on Mars
    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,...
  • The 7 Best High-Protein Breakfast Cereals
    (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.
  • Make a short video for your favorite EA charity! (Project for Awesome 2025)
    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.
  • Links For January 2025
  • 2024 Impact Report
  • Nintendo Switch 2 🎮, Blue Origin reaches orbit 🚀, Google's internal AI coding 👨‍💻
  • Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?
    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 […]...
  • What Would Socrates Do?
    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?”...
  • Turkey Repeatedly Clubbed and Left to Die at Canadian Poultry Farm
    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! Washington State Just Banned Commercial Net-Pen Fish Farming
    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!
  • Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)
    First of three new lectures from Professor Paine, followed by my questions. This time: Mao v Khrushchev v Nehru v LBJ
  • Numberwang: LLMs Doing Autonomous Research, and a Call for Input
    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.
  • Want to help fire victims? The best way to support Los Angeles in the short and long term.
    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 […]...
  • Implications of the inference scaling paradigm for AI safety
    Discuss...
  • The Homework: January 16, 2025
    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.
  • A Promised Land
    Thursday, January 16
  • What To Do If You Love Meat But Hate Factory Farms?
    How to have a positive impact on animals if you eat meat
  • Asian Farmed Animal Advocacy Organizations Are Critical Yet Under-Resourced
    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.
  • Why-chain
    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 […]...
  • Beyond Phishing: Exploring the Rise of AI-enabled Cybercrime
    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.
  • Announcing Applications for the AIM Research Program April 2025
    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.
  • Does Stagnant Male Income Explain Falling Fertility and Marriage?
    Mostly Agreeing With Lyman Stone's hypothesis
  • 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
    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.
  • Fish Victory: NG Hotels Commits to Comprehensive Commitment Including using Electrical Stunning on 100% of the Fishes they source
    We are pleased to announce that NG Hotels has made a comprehensive commitment to improving the welfare of the fish served in their operations. This commitment includes not only sourcing sea bass and sea bream that are harvested using electrical stunning systems, but also implementing other key welfare measures to ensure higher standards of animal care throughout the supply chain.
  • Call to ask the RCVS to investigate routine tail docking
    Dear colleagues,. Last week The Animal Law Foundation launched a new programme dedicated to putting an end to the illegal routine tail docking on pigs across the UK. This initiative holds the promise of potentially raising animal welfare standards for millions of pigs.
  • Fish Victory: Divan Group Commits to Comprehensive Commitment Including using Electrical Stunning on 100% of Its Fishes
    We are pleased to announce that Divan Group has made a comprehensive commitment to improving the welfare of the fish served in their operations. This commitment includes not only sourcing sea bass and sea bream that are harvested using electrical stunning systems, but also implementing other key welfare measures to ensure higher standards of animal care throughout the supply chain.
  • Fish Victory: ILKNAK Aquaculture Commits to Comprehensive Commitment Including using Electrical Stunning on 100% of Its Fishes
    We are pleased to announce that Ilknak Aquaculture, one of the fully integrated producers of the global and Mediterranean farmed fish industry, has committed to our fish welfare commitment which includes electrical stunning. Ilknak had already been meeting the standards outlined in our commitment, including the use of electrical stunning, and agreed to publish a formal written commitment.
  • Gaming TruthfulQA: Simple Heuristics Exposed Dataset Weaknesses
    (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!
  • Highlights From The Comments On Lynn And IQ
  • Retrospective on the California SB 1308 Campaign
    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.
  • Enhancing Mobility for Older Adults: Insights from Land Use in the U.S. and Japan
    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….
  • How-To ADU: The Handbook
    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.
  • Samsung Galaxy leaks 📱, Byju's $20B crash 📉, SpaceX launches 2 moon landers 🌕
  • New, improved multiple-choice TruthfulQA
    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.
  • 2024-25 New Year review
    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 […]...
  • Hidden Open Thread 364.5
  • EA Forum Digest #223
    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.
  • Code4Compassion: a hackathon transforming animal advocacy through technology
    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.
  • Inference-Time-Compute: More Faithful? A Research Note
    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.).
  • Three ways of updating your beliefs, in light of new evidence
    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...
  • Partisan Irrationality Knows No Bounds
    Your side doesn't always win debates
  • Unhinged, unfortunate, unproven, inadequate, misdirected
    RP#59 The bigger picture around Meta's announcement on fact-checking
  • A Look Back At 2024’s Best Blogs
    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.
  • Linkpost for December
    Effective altruism, subcultures, mental illness, life advice, policies, short stories, fun
  • Workplace Veganuary Campaign Shows Success And Sustainability
    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.
  • No Take, Only Throw!
    Tuesday, January 14
  • Bab Amal Endline Results: A Door of Hope Opens for 100,000 Households in Upper Egypt
    Bab Amal Endline Results: A Door of Hope Opens for 100,000 Households in Upper Egypt nwael Wed, 01/15/2025 - 10:01...
  • Climate Impacts on Malaria in Africa
    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 […].
  • Animal rights advocates are ready for Trump’s war on science
    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 […]...
  • How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates
  • Your brain is lying to you about the “good old days”
    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 […]...
  • Crosspost: The case for a Cosmic Endowment Fund
    This is a crosspost from the blog Machinocene - written by our Senior Tech Policy Specialist, Kevin Kohler, who writes a weekly deep dive on…
  • 80/20 Will Writing
    It's not as hard as you think
  • Voluntary Salary Reduction
    Discuss...
  • Cost-effectiveness of paying farmers to use more humane pesticides to decrease the suffering of wild insects
    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...
  • TikTok plans shutdown 📱, ChatGPT tasks 📝, Meta's 5% layoff 💼
  • FrontierMath Competition: Setting Benchmarks for AI Evaluation
  • How the Los Angeles fires highlight the challenge of disaster relief
    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 […]...
  • How factory farming built America
    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 […]...
  • Tony Barrett Moves to Senior Advisor
    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.
  • Resource Roundup: Everything from 2024 in one place
    Here’s to another year of meaningful change!
  • Self-definition
    Tuesday, January 14
  • May Max Chiswick's Memory Be A Blessing
    Malaria claims the life of someone I knew
  • Public Support For Animal Protection In The United States
    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.
  • Culinary Director @ Greener by Default
    At Greener by Default, you will be working towards the ambitious goal of completely transforming institutional foodservice - and the food system as a whole - by making plant-based food the default. We recognize that the fate of humans, animals, and ecosystems are bound together, and strive to create a food system that will allow all life on earth to flourish.
  • Goal Misgeneralization: How a Tiny Change Could End Everything
    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.
  • How can we get the world to talk about animals’ inviolable rights?
    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.
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  • With Gratitude: A Year in Review
    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.
  • My 2025 AI predictions and 2024 evaluations
    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.
  • TikTok discusses sale to Elon 📱, RedNote tops app store 📈, o1 in practice 👨‍💻
  • Meet Chris Weston, the Lobfather at The National Lobster Hatchery
    We sat down with Chris Weston from The National Lobster Hatchery to talk about all things lobster and their conservation efforts.
  • Open role with Mercy For Animals: Corporate Relations Specialist, U.S. & Canada
    We currently seek a corporate relations specialist to join our corporate engagement team. In this role you will engage with major food companies, producers, and other food-industry entities to promote the adoption of progressive farmed animal welfare policies and increase accountability and public progress reporting for policy commitments. You will do invaluable work:

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