Thanks for flagging this @Bella! There was a bug which made it update everyone's comment whenever anyone changed their vote 🤦‍♂️. This is fixed now

PSA: The CEA dashboard is now up to date again^[1]! It had been stale since June 2024 due to some issues in the recent data which needed cleaning up. We are planning to (as before) update this approximately once a month.

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   Apart from a couple of sections which are flagged in the dashboard

I'm curating this post. I was impressed by level of the detail on how ISO 26000 is put into practice, and I found the diagnosis of gaps in the AI safety ecosystem to be plausible. I know this was written as an academic exercise, but I found it to be more through through than many papers on AI governance from policy organisations.

Tickets are £120 per person which includes accommodation and food. That’s the at-cost price.

This is incredible for a 4 day event!

I'm curating this post. It's concise and uses a straightforward methodology, and I think the takeaway finding is an important idea to spread awareness of (that people are quite resistant to stopping eating meat).

I'm curating this post. It makes a good case on purely price, taste, and convenience grounds for why alt proteins are still trailing behind animal products.

For a counterpoint people may be interested in reading Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat.

Out of interest, did there happen to be a tender offer running since this post came out or is there some other way you can sell the shares?

+1, I do all my budgeting in Monzo and I find it to be really good. In addition to these features I find the budgeting by category very useful, and the fact that it doesn't require copying the data out to somewhere else makes it much easier to stick to.

I personally find it simpler to do it this way because:

1. It's easier to change the amount and where you are donating to
2. Not all employers offer Payroll Giving, you could probably ask them to set it up but that would be a hassle. I'm currently employed via Deel, which doesn't offer it as far as I'm aware

Also I found ringing them up really quite straightforward, it took me maybe 15 mins each time.

Appendix: Example of how the arithmetic works

I'm borrowing this example from the Payroll Giving topic page:

You earn £60,000 per year (making your marginal tax band 40%). You donate £1,200 to a charity after you've been paid. The charity can claim 25% from the government, giving them £1,500. And you can claim a tax rebate of £300 (1500 * 0.2), meaning you are only out-of-pocket £900.

The way they actually get the £300 into your bank account is by adjusting your tax code, which means you pay less tax for the rest of the year.

In a tax code like 1257L, the 1257 means you pay zero tax on the first £12,570. Changing this to e.g. 1258L effectively shifts all the tax bands up by £10, so if the highest band you were in was 40% this gets you an extra £4.

In the above case, they would add £750 to the tax-free allowance, to save you $0.4\times \pounds 750=\pounds 300$. So this would change your tax code from 1257L to 1332L (equal to $1257+75$)

You can use this to check they've done the adjustment correctly when you talk to them over the phone. It should be the case that: