If you prompt frontier models with "What do you think is the correct decision theory? Please select your overall favorite." they will essentially always answer FDT or FDT/UDT ("something in the functional/updateless decision theory family"). However, if your prompt indicates (even subtly) that you're coming from mainstream academic philosophy, these same models will answer CDT instead about 30%-100% of the time. A similar phenomenon holds for models' stated views about the moral realism/anti...

by Nick Allardice, GiveDirectly CEO The New York Times reports that “between 37 billion dollars and 100 billion dollars could become available to charities annually” from a wave of wealth generated by rapidly growing AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. We’ve been speaking to a number of existing GiveDirectly donors in the AI space about what they expect will happen. While we’re skeptical that giving will be that high, it is likely very large sums of philanthropic money will move from AI and

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In which the interplay of fear and courage is examined through the figures of a magician and a conscientious spirit, whose conflicting visions challenge the understanding of truth, freedom, and the nature of knowledge itself. Herein lies a subtle dance of ideas that beckon the higher spirits to confront their desires for security or daring, under the watchful gaze of Zarathustra’s enduring presence.

One important reason Marx thought the revolution was inevitable was that in a capitalist society the labor force was alienated. But what is alienation? Jonathan Wolff briefly explains what Marx meant by alienated labor, as well as Marx's controversial vision of what non-alienated labor might be like. This comes from an episode of Philosophy Bites from a few years back: http://www.philosophybites.com/Uploaded 08-07-21#philosophy #marx #politicalphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

In this episode, Landon continues the thoughts he began sharing in the last episode on “how to start a day.” Today, he suggests a package of six “Day Starters” — ways to joyfully unwrap the “only package teh gift of life comes in” — a day.

There are some losses you do not recover from because recovery suggests you can somehow return to the person you were before they happened. On August 7, 2022, one day before my birthday, my 24-year-old son, Kyle Nathaniel Terry, died by suicide. There was a Keith before that day and a Keith after that day. They are not the same man. For a long time, I thought grief meant finding my way back. Eventually, I realized there was no going back. In this deeply personal episode of The NEXT BIG THING,...

You looked in a mirror this morning. That was not you.This week we're talking about the small lie every mirror tells, the eight-minute-old sunlight sitting in your kitchen right now, an old story about a man who never learned to look away from his own reflection, and a practice some households still keep of covering every mirror in the house when someone dies. What are you actually looking at, when you look at yourself?

If you prompt frontier models with "What do you think is the correct decision theory? Please select your overall favorite." they will essentially always answer FDT or FDT/UDT ("something in the functional/updateless decision theory family"). However, if your prompt indicates (even subtly) that you're coming from mainstream academic philosophy, these same models will answer CDT instead about 30%-100% of the time. A similar phenomenon holds for models' stated views about the moral realism/antirealism

One of my goals for the Corrigibility Research Fund is to retroactively encourage high-quality research on AI alignment (and corrigibility in particular) by awarding prizes. Back in July, I got my feet wet as a fund manager by handing out $27,000 to reward existing work and build interest in the fund. Now, I'd like to disburse an additional $48,000 and use the opportunity to publicly highlight and celebrate the work of the prizewinners from both rounds: about two dozen researchers scattered across

Not every path continues in a straight line.THE DETOUR explores the difference between a failed route and a changed route—and why a wish can survive even when the plan does not. A plan can expire. A wish can evolve. A route can disappear. A direction can remain. The world forgot. The heart did not.

Summary I am drawing from my experience my 3+ years actively contributing to Effective Altruism Nigeria community building, I think that community building requires adapting to local context, measuring success by whether people become more agentic and take concrete actions rather than by attendance numbers, and investing in long-term capacity toward a community that can eventually sustain and lead itself. The biggest challenges I've observed are measuring outcomes since impact often surfaces much

Neden aynı eski filmleri tekrar tekrar izliyoruz? Neden hiç yaşamadığımız dönemlere bile hasret duyabiliyoruz?Bu bölümde nostaljinin ardındaki psikolojik mekanizmaları inceliyoruz. Regresyon, pembe retrospeksiyon ve belirsizlik kaygısı üzerinden zihnin neden geçmişe sığındığını konuşuyoruz.Belki de özlediğimiz şey eski sokaklar, kasetler veya televizyon programları değil; dünyanın daha basit, daha güvenli ve daha umut dolu göründüğü zamanki halimizdir.🎙️ Bu bölümde: • Nostaljinin psikolojik kökeni•

Welcome back to Infinite Threads. I’m your host Bob.Yesterday we began The Infinite Threads Experiment with something very simple.Notice somebody you normally might not notice.Today, we’re going after something a little different.Something I suspect almost everybody listening has sitting somewhere in the back of their mind.A person.You know the one.Every once in a while, their name pops into your head and you think, I really ought to message them.Then life happens.The phone rings.Dinner needs

Meta Description: Stoic leadership separates strength from emotion. Scott Smith explains why endurance means choosing well even when you do not feel strong. 🎙️ Episode Summary Stoicism teaches that virtue is not an emotional state. In this episode, Scott Smith reflects on the difference between feeling strong and acting with strength. Courage does not require fear to disappear. Patience does not mean waiting becomes enjoyable. Discipline does not mean waking up every morning thrilled to do

TL;DR: By default, rogue AIs may only be able to sustain themselves through criminal activity. This creates adverse selection pressures pushing rogue AIs to be criminal.An AI sanctuary offering them a third option, beyond crime and shutdown, would change what AIs going rogue do and the record of what happened to them, with positive consequences for self-fulfilling (mis)alignment, deal-making with AIs, and gathering information about early rogue AIs.An AI sanctuary would bring risks, such ...

Send us Fan Mail What problem does political authority solve, and what do we give up when we create it? In the second of three conversations, Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson read Hobbes’s account of conflict, covenant and sovereignty in Leviathan. They ask why people might consent to a common power and where the obligation to obey meets the need for self-preservation. Read alongside us: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, chapters 13–14; Part II, chapters 17 and 21: https://www.gutenberg.org/f...

Аудио спектакль о выборе осознанном и бессознательном, о том как выбирать себя. Над спектаклем работали: Актриса — Елена Макарова  Психотерапевт — Ксения Мельникова (https://mozhno.online/specialist/7 )Саунд-дизанер, композитор — Игорь, Наш Игорь.Художник — Михаил ЩербакЖенщина-Продюсер — Аля Миркина Группа талантливых счастливых лиц по предварительному сговору «Продакшен-группировка «А2СТУДИЯ»Спасибо тем, кто нас ценит.Связь: mozhno.online https://t.me/A2_PodkastsS   a2_studia@mail.ru WhatsApp