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

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

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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...

Why does something cost $19.99 instead of $20? It's one cent. We all know it's basically twenty dollars. The retailer knows we know it's basically twenty dollars. We know they know we know. And yet... $19.99 survives. In this episode of Wait... Why Do We Do That?, we investigate one of retail's most persistent little tricks: charm pricing. We'll discover why our brains can treat $2.99 differently from $3.00, how the first digit of a price can influence the way we perceive it, and why that see...

I thought I was a present father; my sons said otherwise. When my granddaughter arrived I made an offer.Psyche audio helps you to better understand yourself and others through expert guides, provocative ideas and personal life stories. We address psychological questions and puzzles from a range of perspectives including philosophy, history, anthropology and more. You will discover practical knowledge and insights to help you navigate everyday challenges, overcome difficulties and find

This episode dives into the most important fight any warrior, leader, or high‑performer will ever face—the one happening inside their own mind. External challenges are visible, loud, and easy to identify. Internal battles are quiet, persistent, and far more dangerous. This episode explores how doubt, fear, insecurity, ego, and old narratives sabotage progress long before any outside opponent ever shows up.Listeners will learn how to recognize the patterns of internal conflict, how to separate truth

Everybody seems to be scared of artificial intelligence. Or maybe the press makes it seem like everybody is scared of artificial intelligence.AI is going to take our jobs. AI is going to replace artists. AI is going to manipulate elections. AI is going to become smarter than us. Eventually AI is going to destroy civilization.Why are we always doing this?Why do human beings always think civilization is about to end?In my lifetime, first it was nuclear war. We are all going to die. Then the millennium

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.This episode features a presentation from Mauro Senatore Abstract: In his Freiburg lectures on passive syntheses (Hua XI), Husserl evokes a catastrophic scenario concerning consciousness and the world as a limit-case of standard perceptual experience. He supposes that, although problematic uncertainty (doubt) and disappointment (unfulfilled expectations) are admitted, a certain unity of sense (namely, a

Summary I ran GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6.1 Sol on the task suite from Think Fast. Surprisingly, 6.1 Sol performs substantially better than 6 Sol, almost matching the performance of GPT-6 Astra. The plot below gives a quick overview of the results: Measured by mean accuracy across the 27 tasks, GPT-6.1 Sol closes 80% (95% CI: 72–87%) of the gap between GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, and is closer to Astra than to GPT-6 Sol on 24 of 27 tasks. The likely reason behind this gap is that, like GPT-6 Astra and

When was the last time you felt guilty before you'd even finished the thought? Most people call that their conscience. This is where a lot of it came from.The Inherited Ladder looked at the guilt handed down by your parents. This one goes back further, to organised religion. The church took the oldest human fear and stretched it past death, where nobody can check it. It taught that the only way to God ran through its own doors, and it held the happiest and saddest days of family life inside its