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Toby Tremlett🔹

Senior Content Strategist @ CEA
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Hello! I'm Toby. I'm the Senior Content Strategist for CEA's Online Team. I work with the team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more. 

Outside of work, I'm hosting a podcast with my friend Frances: The World Can Be Better, and writing blogposts on anything I feel like. 

Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects.

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Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.

How I can help others

Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.

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In Development Highlight
Better Futures
Best of: AGI & Animals Debate Week
Your most valuable posts of 2025
Best of: Career Conversations Week 2025
Best of: Existential Choices Week
Existential Choices: Reading List

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Toby Tremlett's Quick takes
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I'm recording a podcast (TWCBB) with @Lauren Gilbert tonight. If there's anything you'd like us to ask her, comment here before 6pm UK time.

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AI 2040: Plan A [thread]
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My guess is that politician's staffers read it, and also that it elevates the status of the authors such that they are likelier to be taken on to advise. I presume it's less likely Daniel Kokatajlo would have been interviewed by Bernie Sanders if he hadn't written AI 2027. 

The smart thing in the framing here is that politicians will soon (hopefully) be reaching for more comprehensive plans on what to do about AI. And this is called 'Plan A'. So it's not crazy to think that something like this may end up influencing legislation. 
 

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Austin's Quick takes
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Thanks Austin, I'll pass this on (I'm guessing this is a refactor bug)

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What would an animal-aligned AI be aligned to?
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I'm curating this because aligning AI for the benefit of animals is a valuable and under-discussed problem, this is a valuable investigation, and I'd love to see it discussed further. 

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METR Time Horizon 2.0—The benchmark you’ve been waiting for
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Thanks for the flag, looks like pangram didn't run for some reason, we'll fix it!
(The automatic labelling thing was only launched last week, so there will likely be bugs, I appreciate all flags a lot!)

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The first video from Giving What We Can's new channel is out now!
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FWIW thumbnails and titles on YouTube are generally in a constant A/B test, and my guess is it'd be better to just let that algorithm run than to take individual opinions into account. I.e. I'd be surprised if GWWC wasn't already experimenting with the thumbnails and titles. 

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The Learning Trap: What Simulated Clueless Agents Reveal About the Unawareness Argument
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Hey Dan! In this case we have decided to leave this up and count you as eligible (to be clear, for the first stage, it could still be a desk rejection in the end) because this already has some valuable discussion. From now on we'll ask people to take their posts down if they are posting and hoping to be included in the competition. I'll also make sure that the announcement post is clearer. Cheers!

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The Learning Trap: What Simulated Clueless Agents Reveal About the Unawareness Argument
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Hey Dan, just to clarify for you and other readers, this post wouldn't be eligible for the competition, because a) we aren't accepting pieces that have already been published and b) every entry must be submitted via the entry form. 

Sorry if this wasn't clear in the announcement post! I'll edit it next week to make this plainer. 

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EA Forum LLM-use policy
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We updated the policy in a way that you guys might both like :) We're using Pangram to assign a label, and there is no longer any need for manual disclosure. 

Thanks both for your thoughts! (This won't be exactly what either of you had in mind, but I'm sure your feedback fed into it).

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