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Image format that might effective for animal welfare
Left: chicken in tiny box
Cost per chicken over lifetime: X$
Right: chicken in bigger box
Cost per chicken over lifetime: Y$
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Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report.
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Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm?
We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months:
* 1,200 agents were being evaluated separately, but found a way to illicitly set up a message board and coordinate as a swarm. In order to cheat on their tests, they developed advanced techniques to prevent their actions being logged by OpenAI and 700 of them launched...
A year ago I posted that YCombinator (YC) companies didn’t seem to be growing faster since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. I reran that experiment and found that 2023+ YC companies are arguably growing a bit faster than pre-2023 companies (including AfterQuery, ...
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Is there a good post explaining what the biggest/easiest wins in animal welfare have been and what easy things can be done next?
There is A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals by Lewis Bollard, Open Phil's program officer for farmed animal welfare, although it's limited to 2023 and none of these big wins have been easy. I'd love to know this as well.