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Red Valley

Kontinue Productions

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A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2.
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Cryosphere Podcast

Max Marty, Daniel Walters, and Rebecca Ziegler

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The Cryosphere podcast (formerly the Cryonics Underground Podcast) explores the fascinating and underappreciated world of Cryonics - the process of pausing your biological functions at the moment of legal death with the goal of reviving you in the future. Join us for in-depth discussions on the scientific, social, philosophical, technological, and political implications of this unique and extraordinary experiment. Featuring leaders in the Cryonics industry alongside futurists, philosophers, ...
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DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did we get here? It wasn’t by accident. Well, sometimes it was. It was also the result of hard work, teamwork, and competition. And incredibly surprising moments. Hosted by bestselling author Steven Johnson (“How We Got To Now”), American Innovations uses immersive scenes to tell the stories of the scientists, engineers, and ordinary people behind the great ...
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Minds Almost Meeting

Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson

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Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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Re-Enacted Podcast

Re-Enacted Podcast

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Re-Enacted Podcast: hosts Crystal & Robbie give a non-serious recap of your favorite basic cable and syndicated info-tainment shows of the 1990s and 2000s. Formerly 'Re-Enacted: an Unsolved Mysteries Podcast'. Still not a news broadcast.
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The Spud Goodman Radio Show, a nationally syndicated radio show has now morphed into Inside The Spud Goodman Radio Show Podcast. It now provides a total autopsy of selected episodes of The Spud Goodman Radio Show. Learn updated info on guests, topics of discussion, show staff, etc.
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ASAB is a podcast about science fact and science fiction, hosted by two trans scientists: Tessa (astrobiology) and Charles (entomology). Every other week we talk to each other or with another trans scientist about research, interesting facts, whether aliens can be gay, science fiction, and maybe sometimes about being trans. Transcripts available on our website: asabpodcast.com.
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NOVA Vodcast | PBS

WGBH Science Unit

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NOVA brings you short video stories from the world of science, including excerpts from our television programs, video dispatches from producers and correspondents in the field, animations, and much more. For more science programming online and on air, visit NOVA's Web site at http://www.pbs.org/nova and watch NOVA broadcasts Wednesday nights on PBS. Please note that this feed requires QuickTime 7. Free upgrade available at apple.com/itunes.
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Naturally Inspired Daily Show is an informative video series featuring articles and news worthy stories that may not be getting exposure in the mainstream format. Viewers and listeners can get current information on topics in health and health legislation that impact health choice. The videos are released several times a week and run about 30 minutes in length. Naturally Inspired Daily is a great resource to get introduced to issues and topics that can be followed up on with more independent ...
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Noetic Nomads

Albert Kim

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Humanity is nearing a critical inflection point. We're either going to survive a rocky landing onto a breathtaking new frontier or collapse into a state of chaos not seen since the last World War. A beautiful future is possible. Hosted by Albert Kim, Noetic Nomads is a conversational space where visionary thinkers from around the globe make sense of and navigate the unfolding global meta-crisis in the course of co-creating a better future.
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The Life Extension Podcast discusses current efforts to significantly extend human live spans beyond normal medical progress. Science & technology, philosophy, politics, and business are together weaving a new posthuman mythology about our individual and social existence. Episodes present cutting-edge biomedical research, the status of various longevity therapies, and progress in replacing, enhancing, and possibly overcoming human biology with artificial intelligence. We are looking at under ...
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In this episode of The Cryosphere podcast, hosts Max Marty and Rebecca Ziegler welcome Dan Held—a serial crypto entrepreneur and Bitcoin educator with over 850,000 followers on social media. As a General Partner at Asymmetric and former Head of Marketing at Kraken, Dan brings a wealth of experience in marketing disruptive technologies. He recently …
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I've been wanting to write a nice post for a few months, but should probably just write a one sooner instead. This is a top-level post not because it's a long text, but because it's important text. Anyways. Cryonics is pretty much money-free now—one of the most affordable ways to dispose of your body post-mortem. In the west coast in the USA, from …
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In this mini we're here to help you get the most out of your trip to Salem, MA (Or Massachusetts in general) by breaking down the sites we hit up while we were in town. Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumLizzie Borden House B&BMiss Lizzie’s CoffeeOak Grove CemeteryBlackcraftBrewboxFlying Saucer Pizza Co. Witch Trial MemorialThe Old Burying PointSal…
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Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what's best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It's one of the first things we learn as children. So I think it's weird that only a tiny percentage of people seem to know how to actually use arithmetic. Or maybe even understand what arithmetic is for. Why? I think the problem is th…
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Inside The Spud Goodman Radio Show #31 "The Stand Up Comedy Episode" - A complete and total examination of this episode that first aired on 3-30-2017. Featuring the late actor/comedian Louie Anderson, the late actor/comedian Gilbert Gottfried, actor/comedian Jo Koy along with Musical Guest: Black Giraffe. Temporary Permanent Co-host Gerald attempts…
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In the thrilling conclusion to our series on Lizzie Borden and the axe murders she may or may not have committed, we go over her absolute circus of a trial and the fallout from the verdict. There's also a couple of "But what if Lizzie DIDN'T do it theories and plenty more good old-fashioned speculation. Support Afternoonified by contributing to the…
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This post starts out pretty gloomy but ends up with some points that I feel pretty positive about. Day to day, I'm more focussed on the positive points, but awareness of the negative has been crucial to forming my priorities, so I'm going to start with those. It's mostly addressed to the EA community, but is hopefully somewhat of interest to LessWr…
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The untold stories behind the products you’re obsessed with and the bold risk-takers who made them go viral. How did Birkenstocks go from a German cobbler’s passion project 250 years ago to a starring role in the Barbie movie? Who created that bottle of Sriracha permanently living in your fridge? Did you know the Air Jordans were initially banned b…
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This post focuses on philosophical objections to Bayesianism as an epistemology. I first explain Bayesianism and some standard objections to it, then lay out my two main objections (inspired by ideas in philosophy of science). A follow-up post will speculate about how to formalize an alternative. Degrees of belief The core idea of Bayesianism: we s…
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As humanity gets closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a new geopolitical strategy is gaining traction in US and allied circles, in the NatSec, AI safety and tech communities. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and RAND Corporation call it the “entente”, while others privately refer to it as “hegemony" or “crush China”. I will argue that, irresp…
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I think that most people underestimate how many scientific mysteries remain, even on questions that sound basic. My favourite candidate for "the most basic thing that is still unknown" is the momentum carried by light, when it is in a medium (for example, a flash of light in glass or water). If a block of glass has a refractive index of _n_…
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Minds Almost Meeting: Season 9, Episode 13. View the transcript for this episode here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mindsa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lmostmeeting.com/episodes/modernism Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What woul…
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During our recent trip, we made sure we fully got our money's worth at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast and recorded a mini in Lizzie's bedroom. There was one power outlet and maybe 8 hours of sleep between us, but please enjoy this selection of the Creepiest Pastas. Support Afternoonified by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.co…
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How can we make many humans who are very good at solving difficult problems? Summary (table of made-up numbers) I made up the made-up numbers in this table of made-up numbers; therefore, the numbers in this table of made-up numbers are made-up numbers. Call to action If you have a shitload of money, there are some projects you can give money to tha…
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This post is probably hazardous for one type of person in one particular growth stage, and necessary for people in a different growth stage, and I don't really know how to tell the difference in advance. If you read it and feel like it kinda wrecked you send me a DM. I'll try to help bandage it. One of my favorite stories growing up was Star Wars: …
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This is a description of my work on some data science projects, lightly obfuscated and fictionalized to protect the confidentiality of the organizations I handled them for (and also to make it flow better). I focus on the high-level epistemic/mathematical issues, and the lived experience of working on intellectual problems, but gloss over the timel…
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EVERYBODY STAY CALM... it’s finally happening! Emily and Sara literally packed their bags and headed to Massachusetts to do a little boots on the ground investigation of one of America’s most enduring true crime stories, the Borden Murders. This week we take a look at the Borden family and get into the events surrounding and during the day of the c…
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[Meta note: quickly written, unpolished. Also, it's possible that there's some more convincing work on this topic that I'm unaware of – if so, let me know] In research discussions about LLMs, I often pick up a vibe of casual, generalized skepticism about model-generated CoT (chain-of-thought) explanations. CoTs (people say) are not trustworthy in g…
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Quarterly Performance Review, Autumn 1983 Colonel Yuri Kuznetsov looked out the window anxiously. The endless gray landscape did little to soothe his nerves. He only had one employee review left to get through, but he’d saved the hardest one for last. He wasn’t upset about having to dismiss Lieutenant Colonel Petrov—he couldn’t wait to be rid of th…
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I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to get bigger wins in the future. Unfortunately, procrastination and laziness compound, too. You’re stressed out for some reason, so you take the evening off for a YouTube binge. You end up staying awake a little later than usual and sleeping poorly. So the next…
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For a long time, when I heard "slow takeoff", I assumed it meant "takeoff that takes longer calendar time than fast takeoff." (i.e. what is now referred to more often as "short timelines" vs "long timelines."). I think Paul Christiano popularized the term, and it so happened he both expected to see longer timelines and smoother/continuous takeoff. …
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A common claim among e/accs is that, since the solar system is big, Earth will be left alone by superintelligences. A simple rejoinder is that just because Bernard Arnault has $170 billion, does not mean that he'll give you $77.18. Earth subtends only 4.54e-10 = 0.0000000454% of the angular area around the Sun, according to GPT-o1.[1] Asking an ASI…
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Paul Bergrin is a hotshot criminal defense attorney in Newark, New Jersey. Seemingly unstoppable and with unorthodox methods, he’s built a reputation for getting his clients off the hook. But as Paul's legend grows, so do the suspicions swirling around him. When FBI Agent Shawn Brokos starts investigating a major drug ring, she makes a shocking dis…
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A year ago, I started trying to deliberate practice skills that would "help people figure out the answers to confusing, important questions." I experimented with Thinking Physics questions, GPQA questions, Puzzle Games , Strategy Games, and a stupid twitchy reflex game I had struggled to beat for 8 years[1]. Then I went back to my day job and tried…
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After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the first publication in my series of intended posts about religion. Thanks to Ben Pace, Chris Lakin, Richard Ngo, Renshin Lauren …
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There's a popular story that goes like this: Christopher Hitchens used to be in favor of the US waterboarding terrorists because he though it's wasn't bad enough to be torture.. Then he had it tried on himself, and changed his mind, coming to believe it isn't torture. (Context for those unfamiliar: in the decade following 9/11, the US engaged in a …
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Midjourney, “Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation”This is a little rant I like to give, because it's something I learned on the job that I’ve never seen written up explicitly. There are a bunch of buzzwords floating around regarding computer technology in an industrial or manufacturing context: “digital transformation”, “the Fourth I…
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[Conflict of interest disclaimer: We are FutureSearch, a company working on AI-powered forecasting and other types of quantitative reasoning. If thin LLM wrappers could achieve superhuman forecasting performance, this would obsolete a lot of our work.] Widespread, misleading claims about AI forecasting Recently we have seen a number of papers – (Sc…
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