The text is a FAQ written by the author to explain why they believe it is wrong to eat meat. They argue that animals raised for food suffer a lot, and as a result, people ought not to eat meat. The FAQ is organized into ten sectio...
midihum is a command-line tool for humanizing MIDI compositions, using gradient boosted trees trained on 2.6K competition piano performances. It is easy to use and can make digital compositions sound more natural and expressive. T...
The text discusses the growing concern about existential risk from AI and how it may distract from current harms from AI. It presents evidence that attention on x-risk has not reduced attention or resources devoted to current harm...
0Amish Country
2025-03-13 • ethics authenticity anabaptism amish gelassenheit
The text discusses the author's thoughts on the Amish culture and their way of life, as inspired by the movie 'Witness'. It delves into the concept of Gelassenheit, the Anabaptists' attitude towards life, and the author's contempl...
0Alpha
2025-03-13 • finance alpha sports betting horse racing
The text discusses the concept of alpha in finance, which refers to excess returns earned on an investment above the market when adjusted for risk. It also recounts anecdotes of individuals trying to find a system to make money be...
William Eden forecasts an AI winter, arguing that AI systems are unreliable and inscrutable, won't improve much due to hardware limitations, and won't be profitable. He predicts a 5% chance of an AI winter by 2030, operationalized...
The text discusses the reductionist view of large language models (LLMs) as mere pattern matchers, look-up tables, or autocomplete engines. The author argues against this view, presenting evidence that LLMs can learn general algor...
The text provides various ways to acquire the full text of an academic paper, including using Sci-Hub, Libgen, Google Scholar, web searches, checking authors' personal websites, and requesting the paper on r/Scholar or via email.
0The Mating Season
2025-03-13 • terrorism nato sweden recep tayyip erdoğan kurdish
The majority of Swedes and politicians want Sweden to join NATO, but socialists protested against NATO and Erdogan. A far-right nationalist burned the Quran outside the Turkish embassy, causing a strain between Sweden and Turkey. ...
The post explains the author's reasoning on three forecasts about Nigeria. The first forecast is about Nigeria's population exceeding 400 million before 2050, with a 32% probability. The second forecast is about a successful coup ...
CICERO is a new AI developed by Meta AI that achieves good performance at the board game Diplomacy. It involves tactical and strategic reasoning as well as natural language communication. CICERO comprises a strategic model decidin...
0Impact above Replacement
2025-03-13 • career decision making impact repairability
The text discusses the concept of replaceability and its implications for making career decisions. It presents four different views on impact and replaceability, and analyzes the results of Monte Carlo simulations to determine whi...
The text is a review of The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a collection of short stories, plays, letters, essays, and more. The author describes Pessoa's prose as beautiful in its descriptions of pure feeling but frustrating i...
The text discusses the concept of irony and provides examples of irony in literature and real life. It also delves into the idea of wealth and the relationship between rich and poor people.
0Apropos the Swedish General Election
2025-03-13 • politics commentary
The text discusses the Swedish General Election and the age at which politicians joined their respective parties. It also explores the possibility of politicians being close-minded soldiers and the pressure to conform to the party...
The author discusses the health effects of veganism on mental health and cognitive function. They review several studies and meta-analyses that suggest a possible link between veganism/vegetarianism and depression, but the evidenc...
The text discusses the prediction of the number of effective altruist billionaires in 2027. It mentions the success of FTX and the potential impact on the number of billionaires. The author presents a model and assumptions to pred...
The text discusses the author's interest in AI and ML systems and the desire to uncover hidden patterns and knowledge about the world. It also touches on the potential dangers of AI and the author's upcoming career change.
The text discusses the place of people with below-average intelligence in the effective altruism community. It argues that intelligence is real and largely determined by genes, and that it is an important driver of how much good o...