New episode! Is the planet unsustainably crowded? Or is there, for the environment and development, a positive case for people? Dean Spears joins to talk about peak population. https://t.co/1PHT6Mjulz

→ Why haven't Russian cyberattacks caused more damage in Ukraine? → Why is Stuxnet still the best-known cyberattack after 15yrs? → How do countries decide what cyberattacks are acceptable, and which cross the line? Listen to @Maxwsmeets — https://t.co/GdzGSbgPU3

Great weekend listen - featuring Tom Kalil (@tkalil2050) and @mattsclancy. Lots of the ideas discussed (unlocking bottlenecks, betting on field strategists, using a mix of tools from directed R&D to policy) are why Tom and I created Renaissance Philanthropy (@RenPhil21).

→ Can tech policy create self-fulfilling prophecies? → What can we learn from the “tour of duty” model at ARPAs? → How can philanthropy become more ambitious? Listen to Tom Kalil (@tkalil2050), feat. Matt Clancy (@mattsclancy)! https://t.co/VrhpQgWWgz

→ How can we compare the welfare footprints of different animal products? → Is the ability to feel pain unique to big-brained animals? → What can animal advocates learn from anti-corruption nonprofits? Listen to @CynthiaSchuck —

→ In the ‘marketplace of ideas’, what are we really shopping for? → Do some bad ideas work like ‘mind viruses’? → How dangerous is (AI-generated) misinformation? Listen to @danwilliamsphil — https://t.co/AR0A5sIIKG

→ What changes once AI can automate R&D? → How close are bottlenecks from power, physical resources, and training data? → What (if anything) is most likely to prevent explosive growth from AI? Listen to @tamaybes — https://t.co/AXH2muxaAF

Listening to a superb @hearthisidea on the enormous human and economic returns to research into global health challenges with @JacobTref. It’s wild how little we spend on developing cures for awful diseases—but also a huge opportunity to change the world for not much money!

→ Which new health technologies could exist in 5 years (with a big lift)? → Who funds and does the R&D for neglected diseases? And which policy ideas might speed it up? → Is R&D more cost–effective than bed nets? Listen to @JacobTref — https://t.co/ZY8YyrJTTs

→ What does it mean for an AI model to be ‘open source’? → How useful is access to frontier model weights for research on making AI safer? → How would we know if the risks from open-sourcing future models outweigh the benefits? Listen to @ea_seger — https://t.co/mCPUp2gLH8

The best Effective Altruism podcast is by @80000Hours. But I think a close second is @hearthisidea by @finmoorhouse and @lucafrighetti. They have interviewed @RoryStewartUK, @anderssandberg and countless other amazing guests. Here are the best take aways from my favourite

Superb podcast with Joe Carlsmith coming back on his "Scheming AIs" November 2023 paper. Deceptive alignment, training performance, and why goals that extend beyond AI-systems training could lead to scheming 👏

→ Why might future AIs fake alignment in order to gain power? → Will 'schemers' perform better in training? → How might arguments about deceptive alignment be confused? Listen to @jkcarlsmith — https://t.co/R4SVh1UbLo

→ What should we do when some people are convinced their AI assistants are conscious? Will we know? → Can introspection mislead us about our own experiences? → How might our actions have infinite consequences? Listen to Eric Schwitzgebel (@eschwitz) — https://t.co/KEtWuPObrK

→ How does tacit knowledge make it hard to acquire bioweapons? → Why have so many weapons programmes failed? → What advances in AI or synbio could drastically increase bioweapons proliferation? Listen to Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley (@ScharSchool)  — https://t.co/a0gfpErXny

Thoroughly impressed with this podcast, and this episode with @salonium in particular. Learned a ton about malaria and other public health issues!

→ How do scientists study animal emotions? → When can we anthropomorphise nonhuman animals? → What clues can evolution give us about what farmed animals want? Listen to @JMichelleLavery — https://t.co/roHUSaSDkG

→ What are the biggest harms of unclean indoor air? → What policies and tech would meaningfully improve indoor air quality? → How (and why) do economists put dollar figures on years of life? Listen to Richard Bruns (at @JHSPH_CHS) — https://t.co/GCKT9QX8Mz

→ Why was malaria eradicated in some regions but not others? → Why didn't we get a malaria vaccine sooner? → How can we speed up vaccine research with new funding models? → What key global health data are we missing? Listen to @salonium — https://t.co/pVEbB4YP4I

This was a really fucking good interview, if you want a deeper dive on my stuff than normal, take a listen