Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Results: Cluelessness Critiques Competition” by Will Aldred, Toby Tremlett🔹
Last week, the Forum grappled with cluelessness. The volume of entries (76 essays!)—from newcomers and Forum power users alike—was a happy surprise, …
1 month ago
“The Hugging Face attack surprised me” by Ajeya
Note: This post was crossposted from Planned Obsolescence by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comm…
1 month ago
“The Hugging Face attack surprised me” by Ajeya
Note: This post was crossposted from Planned Obsolescence by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comm…
1 month ago
“Is mild lifelong acne really worse than stunted growth?” by Kasey Markel
A preliminary estimate, and a request for better ones.
Summary
I believe the standard literature estimates for the number of DALYs attributable to …
1 month ago
“Research report: modern alternative proteins did not replace meat purchases in restaurants” by Jared Winslow, Jayisha Dhargawe, Seth Ariel Green 🔸, Jacob_Peacock, MMathur🔸, Hailey Sherman
Overview
This post summarizes a new preprint on alternative proteins from the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab: New alternatives, same orders. We inv…
1 month ago
“AI Safety Acculturation is Neglected” by jenn
At the local AI safety co-working space, there are ~two kinds of regulars.
There's the kind of regular who's been thinking seriously about AI safet…
1 month ago
“Is Extinction Risk Mitigation Uniquely Cost-Effective? Not in Standard Population Models” by Vasco Grilo🔸
This is a linkpost for Is Extinction Risk Mitigation Uniquely Cost-Effective? Not in Standard Population Models by Gustav Alexandrie and Maya Eden, …
1 month ago
“We need more empirical research on biological AI model safety” by Noga Aharony
Epistemic status: We are quite confident that Biological AI models (BAIMs) safety requires further work, but uncertain about its scale. The apparent…
1 month ago
“Beware Silver Bullets: Are we making “welfare tech” into the next animal advocacy bubble?” by Rockwell, Tom Billington
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversat…
1 month ago
“Hiring Good In-House Counsel - a braindump” by Molly
I'm Molly Kovite, General Counsel at Coefficient Giving. I joined in 2021 as the organization's first lawyer and have since grown the team to (soon …
1 month ago