Does anyone know whether there's a way to buy cultivated (lab-grown) meat now? I've always wanted to host a cultivated meat barbecue and invite my omnivorous friends, but I have not been able to find any cultivated meat that's currently commercially available.

I'd like to have conversations with people who work or are knowledgeable about energy and security. Whether that's with respect to energy grids, nuclear power plants, solar panels, etc. I'm exploring a startup idea to harden the world's critical infrastructure against powerful AI. (I am also building a system to make formal verification more deployable at scale so that it may reduce loss of control and misuse scenarios.) I've given workshops on using AIs for productivity/research to various research organizations like MATS. I'm happy to offer a bit of my time to share my expertise on that if that would make the meeting more interesting for you (or any other topics you'd like to hear my perspective on). Context about me: I'm Jacques. I started working on technical AI safety research in January 2022. Before that, I had been engaging with AI ethics in a more personal capacity, worked as a data scientist at the Canada Energy Regulator, and earned a BSc/master's in Physics. I'm currently based in Montreal. Please schedule a meeting if interested (or DM if you know someone I should talk to): https://calendly.com/jacquesthibodeau/45-minute-meeting

  I wanted to make this poll to see how the community views the speed/x-risk tradeoff. I'm personally 99% x-risk and 1% speed, so I would hard agree. My prediction is most people will agree, maybe a 70/30 split, but I'm curious to see.

Been thinking about morality recently. Here are my current thoughts, take them with a grain of salt because they aren't battle-tested yet. There are some strong arguments for utilitarianism, but regardless of what is correct theoretically, in practise utilitarianism doesn't work well without some kind of deontological bars. Continuing with attempting to develop a pragmatic morality, it then become clear that virtue ethics is important too because a) rules are rigid compared to judgement b) decisions aren't independent but also affect how you'll act in the future[1]. Some folks may be quite tepid in integrating virtue ethics, but my intuition is that the more common fault will be to give yourself too much latitude, so you'll probably want to revive some of your old deontological bars. I view the next stage after this as introducing a sort of meta-virtue ethics to balance the three components (utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics; obviously it would be possible to break this down further). But this likely gives you too much latitude again, so you'll probably want to introduce some kind of meta-deontology to limit how you update the balance. You could go further than this, but you'd probably be running into decreasing marginal utility. 1. ^ Thanks to Austen Erickson who I first learned this perspective from.

"On the Promotion of Safe and Socially Beneficial Artificial Intelligence" by @SethBaum from 2016