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Executive summary: Dr. Marty Makary's Blind Spots critiques the medical establishment for resisting change, making flawed policy decisions, and failing to admit mistakes, arguing that cognitive biases, groupthink, and entrenched incentives hinder progress; while contrarians sometimes highlight real failures, they are not immune to the same biases.
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Executive summary: Indirect realism—the idea that perception is an internal brain-generated simulation rather than a direct experience of the external world—provides a crucial framework for understanding consciousness and supports a panpsychist perspective in which qualia are fundamental aspects of physical reality.
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Executive summary: Giving a TEDx talk on Effective Altruism (EA) highlighted the importance of using personal stories, familiar analogies, and intuitive frameworks to make EA concepts more engaging and accessible to a broad audience.
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Executive summary: Claims about the views of powerful institutions should be approached with skepticism, as biases and incentives can distort how individuals interpret or present these institutions' positions, especially when claiming alignment with their own views.
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Executive summary: Connect For Animals aims to accelerate the end of factory farming by connecting and empowering animal advocates through an online platform, with 2025 priorities focused on user engagement, fundraising, AI integration, visibility, and organizational efficiency.
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Executive summary: AI is undergoing a major paradigm shift with reinforcement learning enabling step-by-step reasoning, dramatically improving capabilities in coding, math, and science—potentially leading to beyond-human research abilities and accelerating AI self-improvement within the next few years.
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Executive summary: Solving the AI alignment problem requires developing superintelligent AI that is both beneficial and controllable, avoiding catastrophic loss of human control; this series explores possible paths to achieving that goal, emphasizing the use of AI for AI safety.
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Executive summary: Solving the alignment problem involves building superintelligent AI agents that are both safe (avoiding rogue behavior) and beneficial (capable of providing meaningful advantages), but this does not necessarily mean ensuring safety at all scales, perpetual control, or full alignment with human values.
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Executive summary: Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid to buy control of OpenAI is likely an attempt to challenge the nonprofit's transition to a for-profit structure, increase the price OpenAI must pay to complete its restructuring, and influence the governance of artificial general intelligence (AGI), raising broader concerns about AI safety, corporate control, and public benefit.
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Executive summary: Chanca piedra (Phyllanthus niruri) shows strong potential as both an acute and preventative treatment for kidney stones, with promising anecdotal and preliminary clinical evidence suggesting it may reduce stone formation and alleviate symptoms with minimal side effects.
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