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“Summary of Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead” by OscarD

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 12, 2024 13:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Original by Leopold Aschenbrenner, this summary is not commissioned or endorsed by him. Short Summary Extrapolating existing trends in compute, spending, algorithmic progress, and energy needs implies AGI (remote jobs being completely automatable) by ~2027. AGI will greatly accelerate AI ...

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“I doubled the world record cycling without hands for AMF” by Vincent van der Holst

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 11, 2024 18:50 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
A couple weeks ago I announced I was going to try and break the world record cycling without hands for AMF. That post also explains why I wanted to break that record. Last Friday we broke that record and raised nearly €10.000 for AMF. Here's what happened on friday. You can still donate here. ...

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“Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy” by Sofia_Fogel

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 09, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program will soon become the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy (CMEP), our future secured by a generous $6,000,000 endowment. The CMEP Endowment Fund was established in May 2024 with a $5,000,000 gift from The Navigation Fund and a $1,000,000 gift from Pol...

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In Development Episode 49: Navigating Urban Growth: Insights on Public and Private Sector Collaboration – A Conversation with Clarence Wong, Invistec Consulting

In Development Podcast - June 06, 2024 22:00 - 57 minutes
Join us for an insightful discussion on urban development as we connect with Clarence Wong, Vice President at Investec Consulting. Born and raised in Edmonton, Clarence's background includes a BSc in Civil Engineering and a Master of Engineering Degree in Construction Management from th...

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June 2024: The Army and Nuclear Protection, Collisions in Space and Marine Corps Evacuation

National Defense Magazine - June 06, 2024 13:10 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode, National Defense discusses nuclear protection, preventing collisions in orbit and Marine Corps training for embassy evacuation. 

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“I bet Greg Colbourn 10 k€ that AI will not kill us all by the end of 2027” by Vasco Grilo

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 05, 2024 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Agreement 78 % of my donations so far have gone to the Long-Term Future Fund[1] (LTFF), which mainly supports AI safety interventions. However, I have become increasingly sceptical about the value of existential risk mitigation, and currently think the best interventions are in the area of ani...

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“Review of Past Grants: The $100.000 Grant for a Video Game?” by Nicolae

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 04, 2024 17:50 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Since 2017, EA Funds has been providing grants across four distinct cause areas. While there are payout reports available, there is a lack of reports detailing the outcomes of these grants, so I delved out of curiosity into the Grants Database to review some of the proposals that received fundi...

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Price is Right –– Helping Associations Find Financial Resilience

Association Chat Podcast - June 03, 2024 23:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratings
Associations need to focus on financial resilience, innovative pricing strategies, and value proposition in order to thrive in a changing landscape and ensure their existence. 00:00 📚 Associations need financial resilience and pricing aligned with value to thrive, as traditional revenue sources...

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“A Scar Worth Bearing: My Improbable Story of Kidney Donation” by Elizabeth Klugh

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 02, 2024 19:40 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
TL;DR: I donated my kidney and you can too. If that's too scary, consider blood donation, the bone marrow registry, post-mortem organ donation, or other living donations (birth tissue, liver donation). Kidney donation sucks. It's scary, painful, disruptive, scarring. My friends and family urg...

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“Introducing Ansh: A Charity Entrepreneurship Incubated Charity” by Supriya

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - June 02, 2024 15:20 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Executive Summary Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, has been delivering an evidence-based, scientifically proven intervention called Kangaroo Care to low birth weight and premature babies in 2 government hospitals in India since January 2024. Ansh estimates that t...

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Young Professionals – Attracting and Keeping Emerging Leaders

Produce Talks - May 31, 2024 13:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, we listen to the recording of a Learning Lounge from the recent CPMA’s Annual Convention and Trade Show in Vancouver. Moderator Kevin Sorichetti of EarthFresh Foods leads a discussion with Passion for Produce Alumni who speak about their produce journeys, what motivates them, an...

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“Against a Happiness Ceiling: Replicating Killingsworth & Kahneman (2022)” by charlieh943

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 30, 2024 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Epistemic Status: somewhat confident: I may have made coding mistakes. R code is here if you feel like checking. Introduction:  In their 2022 article, Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Kahneman looked to reconcile the results from two of their papers. Kahneman (2010) had reported that above ...

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That’s A Great Question!

Into Africa - May 30, 2024 13:54 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratings
After more than three decades of experience as a media entrepreneur, Claude Grunitzky’s passion for telling the authentic stories of Africans has only expanded. While perceptions and narratives of Africa have slightly shifted, the Western gaze on Africa has not. Limitless Africa is “the podcast t...

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“AI companies aren’t really using external evaluators” by Zach Stein-Perlman

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 30, 2024 12:50 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
From my new blog: AI Lab Watch. All posts will be crossposted to LessWrong. Subscribe on Substack. Many AI safety folks think that METR is close to the labs, with ongoing relationships that grant it access to models before they are deployed. This is incorrect. METR (then called ARC Evals) did...

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“89%of cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2023 or earlier have been fulfilled” by ASuchy

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 29, 2024 17:10 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This is a link post. The report concludes that the cage-free fulfillment rate is maintaining its momentum at 89%. The producer, retailer, and manufacturer industries are some of the most cage-free forward sectors when it comes to fulfillment. Some major companies across sectors that fulfilled th...

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Behind the scenes at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations with Magnus Løvold

Packaging Europe's Podcast - May 29, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes
What really happens at the Global Plastics Treaty INC negotiations, how did the most recent INC-4 unfold and what work is left to do before INC-5 in Busan? Victoria Hattersley finds out from Magnus Løvold of the Norwegian Academy of International Law. Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the l...


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“Articles about recent OpenAI departures” by bruce

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 24, 2024 23:20 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This is a link post. A brief overview of recent OpenAI departures (Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Daniel Kokotajlo, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Pavel Izmailov, William Saunders, Ryan Lowe Cullen O'Keefe[1]). Will add other relevant media pieces below as I come across them. Some quotes perhaps worth hig...

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“I’m attempting a world record to raise money for AMF” by Vincent van der Holst

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 24, 2024 20:50 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
TL;DR It's time for an absurd challenge. On June 7th around 11:00, I'm going to (try to) break the world record for cycling without hands! 🚴🏻‍♂️ For more than 100km, I am raising money for the The Against Malaria Foundation (100% donated, costs covered by my company and myself) with the help of...

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“5 things you’ve got wrong about the Giving What We Can Pledge” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 23, 2024 20:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
How well do you know the details of the Giving What We Can Pledge? A surprising number of people we’ve spoken to — including many who know a lot about effective giving — shared some or all of these pledge misconceptions. Misconception #1: If you sign the pledge, you have to donate at least 1...

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Listening vs. Reading: Is Learning Braille Necessary?

Change Makers: A Podcast from APH - May 23, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes
On today’s episode we’re talking about listening vs. reading, Is learning braille necessary? I’m talking to experts in the field and a young adult on their experiences and thoughts on this topic. On this episode (In order of appearance) Narrator Sara Brown, APH Public Relations Manager Abby ...

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AsiaFoundation70: Reforming Agricultural Land Titling in the Philippines

InAsia - May 22, 2024 18:00 - 23 minutes
 In 1936, the Philippines gave traditional farmers formal title to the lands they had farmed for generations. The Public Land Act was expected to boost agriculture by encouraging landowners to invest in their property, yet for years it didn’t work. The puzzle was why, and what to do about it. J...

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The tipping point for digital print? HP's Eli Mahal

Packaging Europe's Podcast - May 22, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes
On the eve of drupa 2024, HP's Eli Mahal discusses the landscape around print for packaging and labels, why advances in speed and productivity means digital print is poised to go mainstream, how HP is addressing packaging's sustainability demands, and what challenges will define the innovation a...

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“The Charity Commission has concluded its inquiry into Effective Ventures Foundation UK” by Rob Gledhill

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 22, 2024 11:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
The Charity Commission for England and Wales has concluded its statutory inquiry into Effective Ventures Foundation UK (EVF UK), which was originally launched in 2023 following the collapse of FTX. The full report on the inquiry can be found here, and the Commission's press release on the inqui...

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“Announcing UK Voters for Animals!” by eleanor mcaree, James Özden, Holly Baines, Alina Salmen, Max Taylor, vicky_cox, Mandy Carter

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 21, 2024 17:50 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
We’re excited to announce a new volunteer-run organisation, UK Voters For Animals, dedicated to mobilising UK voters to win key legislative changes for farmed animals. Our goal is to recruit and train voters to meet with MPs and prospective MPs to build political support for our key asks. Due t...

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“What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?” by Ozzie Gooen

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 21, 2024 12:40 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This is a quickly-written opinion piece, of what I understand about OpenAI. I first posted it to Facebook, where it had some discussion. Some arguments that OpenAI is making, simultaneously: OpenAI will likely reach and own transformative AI (useful for attracting talent to work there). ...

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“GDP per capita in 2050” by Hauke Hillebrandt

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 21, 2024 02:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Latest Draft Here Abstract. Here, I present GDP (per capita) forecasts of major economies until 2050. Since GDP per capita is the best generalized predictor of many important variables, such as welfare, GDP forecasts can give us a more concrete picture of what the world might look like in j...

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“Call for Attorneys for OpenAI Employees and Ex-Employees” by Vilfredo’s Ghost

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 19, 2024 06:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
I am a lawyer. I am not licensed in California, or Delaware, or any of the states that likely govern OpenAI's employment contracts. So take what I am about to say with a grain of salt, as commentary rather than legal advice. But I am begging any California-licensed attorneys reading this to loo...

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“Marisa, the Co-Founder of EA Anywhere, Has Passed Away” by carrickflynn

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) - May 18, 2024 09:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
(Apologies for errors or sloppiness in this post, it was written quickly and emotionally.) Marisa committed suicide earlier this month. She suffered for years from a cruel mental illness, but that will not be legacy–her legacy will be the enormous amount of suffering she alleviated for others...

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Into the Africa Land Forces Summit

Into Africa - May 16, 2024 15:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratings
Since 2018, senior leaders from land forces across Africa, the United States, and other partner nations have met to strengthen their relationships, exchange information, and encourage cooperation at the Africa Land Forces Summit (ALFS). This marked the 5th anniversary of the summit, which was hos...

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