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A Radical Way of Thinking About Money
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It’s been two weeks since the Silicon Valley Bank run, and we’re still feeling the ripple effects — not just at banks like Signature, First Republic and Credit Suisse, which are definitely taking a beating. Across the industry, too, banks are on edge, and regulators are rushing to keep the system together. Every financial crisis is different. And e…
In this episode, Ezra Klein shares his recent article "This Changes Everything" which reflects on the impact artificial intelligence is likely to have on human affairs.Just kidding; the voice you hear is an AI generated clone. Read the original article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdnes…
"One of two things must happen. Humanity needs to accelerate its adaptation to these technologies or a collective, enforceable decision must be made to slow the development of these technologies. Even doing both may not be enough." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.html…
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Preview of an Indictment (with Joyce Vance, Barb McQuade, and Elie Honig)
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Preet speaks with three former federal prosecutors about the expected indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan DA’s office. He’s joined by former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barb McQuade, and former Organized Crime Chief at the Southern…
This month, the Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case examining the Safe-T Act. The legislation would bring sweeping reform to the state’s criminal justice system, but one policy in particular has caught the eye and the ire of prosecutors: the elimination of cash bail. Proponents say ending cash bail bonds will get rid of inequities…
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Freaked Out? We Really Can Prepare for A.I.
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OpenAI last week released its most powerful language model yet: GPT-4, which vastly outperforms its predecessor, GPT-3.5, on a variety of tasks. GPT-4 can pass the bar exam in the 90th percentile, while the previous model struggled around in the 10th percentile. GPT-4 scored in the 88th percentile on the LSAT, up from GPT-3.5’s 40th percentile. And…
In this episode Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak again to Randy Dible about George Spencer Brown's hugely influential but not widely-known mathematical grimoire Laws of Form, originally published in 1969. Randy is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at St. Joseph's University in New York, and a doctoral student in the Department of Philosop…
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Holden Karfnosky — Success without dignity: a nearcasting story of avoiding catastrophe by luck
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Success without dignity: a nearcasting story of avoiding catastrophe by luck, by Holden Karnofsky. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/75CtdFj79sZrGpGiX/success-without-dignity-a-nearcasting-story-of-avoiding Note: Footnotes in the original article have been omitted.
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Larks — A Windfall Clause for CEO could worsen AI race dynamics
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In this post, Larks argues that the proposal to make AI firms promise to donate a large fraction of profits if they become extremely profitable will primarily benefitting the management of those firms and thereby give managers an incentive to move fast, aggravating race dynamics and in turn increasing existential risk. https://forum.effectivealtrui…
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Otto Barten — Paper summary: The effectiveness of AI existential risk communication to the American and Dutch public
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This is Otto Barten's summary of 'The effectiveness of AI existential risk communication to the American and Dutch public' by Alexia Georgiadis. In this paper Alexia measures changes in participants' awareness of AGI risks after consuming various media interventions. Summary: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fqXLT7NHZGsLmjH4o/paper-summary…
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Shulman & Thornley — How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism's limited role
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Carl Shulman & Elliott Thornley argue that the goal of longtermists should be to get governments to adopt global catastrophic risk policies based on standard cost-benefit analysis rather than arguments that stress the overwhelming importance of the future. https://philpapers.org/archive/SHUHMS.pdf Note: Tables, notes and references in the original …
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In Brief: When Should Banks Be Saved? (with Sheila Bair)
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Sheila Bair is the former chair of the FDIC where she was a central figure in decision making during the financial crisis in 2008. Preet and Bair discuss whether the defunct Silicon Valley Bank should have received a bailout from the government and why Bair believes the Federal Reserve should stop raising interest rates. Stay Tuned in Brief is pres…
This is something a bit different: Not an interview, but a commentary of my own. We’ve done a lot of shows on A.I. of late, and there are more to come. On Tuesday, GPT-4 was released, and its capabilities are stunning, and in some cases, chilling. More on that in Tuesday’s episode. But I wanted to take a moment to talk through my own views on A.I. …
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Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes Next
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Last Friday, in the largest bank failure since 2008, Silicon Valley Bank failed. Banks fail all the time. But unless it’s a big or highly-connected bank, most of us don’t pay much attention. That’s because at the average bank, about half of all accounts are F.D.I.C.-insured. That means, if a typical bank fails, the F.D.I.C. will step in and pay eve…
Mehdi Hasan, a political journalist and the host of The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC, has a reputation for debating guests across the political spectrum. He joined Preet live at The Strand Book Store in New York City to discuss his new book, Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking. Plus, the Manhattan DA’s office is re…
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Elika Somani — Advice on communicating in and around the biosecurity policy community
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"The field of biosecurity is more complicated, sensitive and nuanced, especially in the policy space, than what impressions you might get based on publicly available information. As a result, say / write / do things with caution (especially if you are a non-technical person or more junior, or talking to a new (non-EA) expert). This might help make …
You’ve probably heard by now that President Joe Biden released his 2024 budget proposal. You’ve also probably heard that it has almost no chance of passing through both chambers of Congress. What is likely to come to pass is more drama over a recurring problem: the fight over the debt ceiling. If the US doesn’t raise the ceiling and defaults on its…
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Riley Harris — Summary of 'Are we living at the hinge of history?' by William MacAskill.
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The Global Priorities Institute has published a new paper summary: 'Are we living at the hinge of history?' by William MacAskill. https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/summary-summary-longtermist-institutional-reform/ Note: Footnotes and references in the original article have been omitted.
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Riley Harris — Summary of 'Longtermist institutional reform' by Tyler M. John and William MacAskill
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The Global Priorities Institute has published a new paper summary: 'Longtermist institutional reform' by Tyler John & William MacAskill. https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/summary-summary-longtermist-institutional-reform/ Note: Footnotes and references in the original article have been omitted.
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How China Went From Economic Superstar to Faltering Giant
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In just a few years, the narrative on China has almost completely flipped. The dominant sentiments in America had been awe, envy and a kind of fear. China’s growth seemed relentless. Its manufacturing prowess was lapping ours. It weathered the pandemic without the mass death seen in the West. It could build housing and transit and infrastructure at…
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CAFE Insider 3/14: The 10th Justice (with Joyce Vance & Michael Dreeben)
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In this special episode of the CAFE Insider podcast, Joyce Vance interviews Michael Dreeben, while Preet is out. Dreeben served in the Solicitor General’s office for over 30 years, including 24 years as the Deputy Solicitor General in charge of the federal government’s criminal docket. He is one of only eight people, in the history of the country, …
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Hayden Wilkinson — Global priorities research: Why, how, and what have we learned?
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The Global Priorities Institute has released Hayden Wilkinson's presentation on global priorities research. (The talk was given in mid-September last year but remained unlisted until now.) https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/hayden-wilkinson-global-priorities-research-why-how-and-what-have-we-learned/…
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Piper — What should be kept off-limits in a virology lab?
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New rules around gain-of-function research make progress in striking a balance between reward — and catastrophic risk. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/2/1/23580528/gain-of-function-virology-covid-monkeypox-catastrophic-risk-pandemic-lab-accident
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In Brief: Debating Daylight Saving (with Dan Diamond)
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Dan Diamond is a national health reporter for the Washington Post. He’s written extensively on the debate about whether to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Preet speaks with Diamond about the tug of war on Capitol Hill to pass legislation and why not all states are on the same page about what to do. Stay Tuned in Brief is presented by CAFE and …
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Victoria Krakovna — Near-term motivation for AGI alignment
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Victoria Krakovna makes the point that you don't have to be a longtermist to care about AI alignment.
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Anthropic — Core views on AI safety: when, why, what, and how
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Anthropic shares a summary of their views about AI progress and its associated risks, as well as their approach to AI safety. https://www.anthropic.com/index/core-views-on-ai-safety Note: Some footnotes in the original article have been omitted.
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The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright
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In 1972, when Congress passed Title IX to tackle gender equity in education, men were 13 percentage points more likely to hold bachelor’s degrees than women; today women are 15 points more likely to do so than men. The median real hourly wage for working men is lower today than it was in the 1970s. And men account for almost three out of four “deat…
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Gambling on the Economy (with Zanny Minton Beddoes)
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Zanny Minton Beddoes has been editor-in-chief of The Economist since 2015. She joined the international weekly publication in 1994 as its emerging markets correspondent. In 2018, Beddoes was ranked among Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in the world. She joins Preet to discuss the state of U.S.-China relations, whether AI technology should be regula…
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Noah Smith — LLMs are not going to destroy the human race
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Noah Smith argues that, although AGI might eventually kill humanity, large language models are not AGI, may not be a step toward AGI, and there's no plausible way they could cause extinction. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/llms-are-not-going-to-destroy-the
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Andy Greenberg — A privacy hero's final wish: an institute to redirect AI's future
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Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying out his vision to steer artificial intelligence toward “human flourishing.” https://www.wired.com/story/peter-eckersley-ai-objectives-institute/
What is happiness? Can it be studied? Are there steps we can all take in order to become happy? To answer these questions, Pedro Pinto interviews Laurie Santos in this episode of “It’s Not That Simple”, a podcast by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. An expert on the science of happiness, Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor…
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Up Against The Mob: It’s Shangri-La Up There
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Springfield, Massachusetts, 2003. Mob boss Alfonso “Big Al'' Bruno is shot dead in a parking lot, shocking the community. How does an “untouchable” man get killed? This is Up Against The Mob: The Springfield Crew. Host Elie Honig takes you inside the notorious Genovese crime family and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan where prosecutors are h…
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CAFE Insider 3/7: Will SCOTUS Strike Down Student Loan Forgiveness?
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In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments in a pair of challenges to the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss: – The court filing by the Department of Justice in which prosecutors argued that former President D…
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What East Palestine can tell us about the rail industry
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On the evening of February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed outside of East Palestine, Ohio. The environmental impact was almost immediate: Residents were forced to evacuate while authorities carried out a controlled release of the hazardous chemical vinyl chloride. The aftermath also raises questions about freigh…
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If You Read the G.O.P.’s Anti-Trans Policies, You’ll See What It Really Wants
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In the 2023 legislative session alone, Republican state legislators have introduced more than a hundred bills seeking to restrict transgender people’s freedoms, rights and health care access. To put that in perspective, in the 2018 legislative session, fewer than 20 such bills restricting transgender rights were proposed. Over the weekend, at the C…
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In Brief: The Unconventional Wisdom on Jimmy Carter (with Jonathan Alter)
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Veteran journalist Jonathan Alter is a contributing correspondent to NBC and the author of a biography of President Jimmy Carter, “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life.” In light of the news that Carter has entered hospice care in Georgia, Preet speaks with Alter about Carter’s presidency, his life, and his legacy. Stay Tuned in Brief is presented b…
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Noy & Zhang — Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence
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A working paper by Shakked Noy and Whitney Zhang examines the effects of ChatGPT on production and labor markets. https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Noy_Zhang_1.pdf Note: Some tables and footnotes in the original article have been omitted.
Robin Hanson restates his views on AI risk. https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/ai-risk-again
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Williams and Kane — Preventing the Misuse of DNA Synthesis
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In an Institute for Progress report, Bridget Williams and Rowan Kane make five policy recommendations to mitigate risks of catastrophic pandemics from synthetic biology. https://progress.institute/preventing-the-misuse-of-dna-synthesis/
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The Art of Noticing – and Appreciating – Our Dizzying World
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“Poetry is the attempt to understand fully what is real, what is present, what is imaginable, what is feelable, and how can I loosen the grip of what I already know to find some new, changed relationship,” the poet Jane Hirshfield tells me. Through poetry, she says, “I know something new and I have been changed.” Hirshfield is the award-winning aut…
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Kevin Collier — What is consciousness? ChatGPT and advanced AI might redefine our answer
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Kevin Collier on how ChatGPT and advanced AI might redefine our definition of consciousness. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-ai-consciousness-rcna71777
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Landgrebe, Barnes & Hobbhahn — Reflection Mechanisms as an Alignment Target - Attitudes on “near-term” AI
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Eric Landgrebe, Beth Barnes and Marius Hobbhahn discuss a survey of 1000 participants on their views about what values should be put into powerful AIs. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4iAkmnhhqNZe8JzrS/reflection-mechanisms-as-an-alignment-target-attitudes-on Note: Some tables in the original article have been omitted.…
Risto Uuk published the EU AI Act Newsletter #24. https://artificialintelligenceact.substack.com/p/the-eu-ai-act-newsletter-24
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On Social Media and Self Delusion (with Jia Tolentino)
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Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the bestselling author of 2019’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion.” At age 34, she has quickly become one of the most celebrated essayists and cultural critics of her generation. Tolentino joins Preet to discuss the incentive structure behind social media companies, how becoming a mot…
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Noam Kolt — Algorithmic black swans
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The prospect of automated systems manipulating our information environment, distorting societal values, and destabilizing political institutions is increasingly palpable. At present, it appears unlikely that market forces will address this class of risks. Organizations building AI systems do not bear the costs of diffuse societal harms and have lim…
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Matthew Barnett — Why I think it's important to work on AI forecasting
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Matthew Barnett on the importance of work on AI forecasting. (This audio version is based on a talk given at EA Global: Bay Area 2023.)https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zrSx3NRZEaJENazHK/why-i-think-it-s-important-to-work-on-ai-forecasting
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Scott Alexander — OpenAI's planning for AGI and beyond
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Scott Alexander on OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond" https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/openais-planning-for-agi-and-beyond
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CAFE Insider 2/28: Is the Fulton County Foreperson Undermining the DA’s Case?
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In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the public statements made by the foreperson of the Fulton County, Georgia special purpose grand jury, which conducted an investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Did the grand jury recommend that the district attorney …
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How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything
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Almost 30 years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act into law. This policy would have far-reaching implications and ripple effects that are still present today. Here to explain are two beloved Weeds alumni: Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews. References: (2016) The disastrous, forgotten 1996 l…
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Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food
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Our society’s dominant narrative is that body size is a product of individual willpower. We are skinny or fat because of the choices we make: the kinds of food we buy, the amounts we eat, the exercise regimens we follow. Research has never been kind to this thesis. It’s a folk narrative we use to punish people, not an empirical account of why resid…
