This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack.
The goals of this post are to:
1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
Hello! I'm Justin Portela. I got hired by GWWC to make YouTube videos after AI in Context did such a kickass job.
My channel is using that same cinematic, high-production value beauty to talk about everything in the EA universe that isn't AI.
...
This is a linkpost for Request for Proposals: Research and Applied Work on Digital Minds.
I'm glad to announce a request for proposals for research and applied work on digital minds at Longview Ph...
(For context I work on EA Global at the Centre for Effective Altruism.)
If helpful, we've put together this list of potential accommodation spaces in the area.
Also just to note, we aren’t currently planning to do room/hotel blocks for attendees for this conference (i.e., booking hotel rooms on behalf of attendees) — mostly because there historically hasn’t been much demand for this (though a version of this was done for EAGxBoston 2022). We also got around to thinking about hotel blocks/bookings quite late and you need a fair bit of planning and warning to do this well. That said, it’s very possible we do this in the future (and slight chance we do this for EA Global: Washington, D.C.).
Hope this is helpful!