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Dec 10 2024 6 ep. 39 mins 3

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“EA Forum audio: help us choose the new voice” by peterhartree, TYPE III AUDIO

Dec 10 2024 1 mins

We make AI narrations of EA Forum posts available via our audio player and podcast feeds. We’re thinking about changing our narrator's voice.There are three new voices on the shortlist. They’re all similarly good in terms of comprehension, emphasis, error rate, etc. They just sound different—like people do. We think they all sound similarly agreeable. But, thousands of list

“AI #91: Deep Thinking” by Peter Hartree

Did DeepSeek effectively release an o1-preview clone within nine weeks? The benchmarks largely say yes. Certainly it is an actual attempt at a similar style of product, and is if anything more capable of solving AIME questions, and the way it shows its Chain of Thought is super cool. Beyond that, alas, we don’t have enough reports in from people using it. So it's still too soon t

“Economics Roundup #2” by Zvi

Jul 02 2024 45 mins

Previously: Economics Roundup #1 Let's take advantage of the normality while we have it. In all senses. Insane Tax Proposals There is Trump's proposal to replace income taxes with tariffs, but he is not alone. So here is your periodic reminder, since this is not actually new at core: Biden's proposed budgets include completely insane tax regimes that would cripple

How to Do Great Work

Jul 01 2023 65 mins

July 2023If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise shows is that it does have a definit

The diversity myth

Jun 11 2023 21 mins

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 27, 2023, honoring Peter Thiel with the tenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society. I was involved in a good many campus and culture wars for almost a decade, in the late Eighties and early Nineties when I was at Stanford. I started a conservative studen

“AI Is Life ” by Sara Walker

Jun 11 2023 23 mins

Credits Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University; external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute; and a fellow at the Berggruen Institute. Toward the end of August 1924, the orbits of Mars and

Talleyrand (Part 5)

May 28 2023 42 mins

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.