Born on March 23, 1944; the talented British blues guitarist Tony 'T.S.' McPhee, founder of The Groundhogs in late 1963. McPhee died on June 6, 2023 of complications from a fall that occurred the previous year. He was 79.

Another Year, Another Milestone: Singer is Heading to Coachella To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson,…

"This is what Singer and his ilk do frequently — conflate the treatment of nonhuman entities as somehow wrong because it would be so to treat humans in an equivalent manner." www.nationalreview.com/corner/peter...

6/ A part ça, 7 (dont lui même et les inévitables Yudkowsky et Bostrom) sont listés dans une catégorie commune "Rationnalists & EAs" (dans les connus Toby Ord est étrangement absent).

Great to see GiveWell CEO Elie Hassenfeld on the TIME100 Philanthropy list, well chosen! time.com/collection/...

A great double header today—joining our team to engage on our Colorado Blueprint and how we build a better future, and participating in a Students Demand Action forum on gun violence prevention.

What does it take to build a "massively better" healthcare system? @halle.blue joins @isjoshua.bsky.social & Sean Cavanaugh to explore how we can bridge the gap between margin and mission, engage patients with new tech and involve every stakeholder in the future of medicine. https://bit.ly/4dVreTA

Each week, we list some ways to get engaged in the city — whether that’s protesting, organizing with your neighbors, or testifying before your councilmembers. Here's this week's full guide: 51st.news/washington-d...

Come out and meet me in person tomorrow! This campaign is about our community and for our neighbors - I want to hear from all of you about how we can build a better future together. Hope to see you tomorrow at Tavern!

There's an extremely funny ongoing Instagram crisis involving the support bot, which is now powered by the latest Meta AI. It's very eager to help, and so you can just ask it to e.g. hand over Barack Obama's old Instagram account, and it will.

Wow, that's fantastic. Never saw 'em but I was there in spirit Richard Greene was a stellar player who added so much whenever he appeared, as on Gene Clark's masterpiece NO OTHER Peter Rowan is a marvelous singer songwriter & an American treasure I've been a fan since the 1st Earth Opera LP in '68 😎

Social Media Giants to Pay $27 Million in Kentucky Student Mental Health Settlement Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Google settle lawsuit alleging platforms contributed to youth mental health crisis. wenewsenglish.com/social-media...

All this, and also the new Supreme Court ruling on disabled people's rights. You can now have your liberty taken from you without oversight, because the judges have bought into the Nazi-Peter Singer argument that if you're disabled enough, you can't really have it in the first place

Are Your Kidneys Safe? New Meta-Analysis Reveals A Fast-Spreading Silent Crisis - NDTV - goo.gl/alerts/x2d5S8 #GoogleAlerts

Genesis Losing Peter Gabriel could have ended them, but they reinvented themselves and kept making great music. Phil Collins stepping into the lead singer role worked far better than anyone expected.

Why are Effective Altruism people still doing that.

Was it though? I read the program as far wider than that: to explain all of evolution. But anyway, the idea that selection of alleles "finds" effective ways to propagate them is of course fine, and altruism can be one of those. No need for selfishness, but just for a gene's-eye view.

Just to be clear effective altruism was basically the justification for charity, which was always a tool for the rich to whitewash their image and also have an extra excuse to not pay taxes

The values that shape us, the Ideas that express them and how we achieve them are our best answer to the challenges of the world today. They are also the only thing worth fighting for if we want to build a better future. 1/2

I leader doing some great work for underprivileged kids.

May I suggest this article please? davidgraeber.org/articles/the...

longtermism suffers the same Anselm-brained philosophical weakness as safetyism, just mirrored: one gives moral force to possibly nonexistent beneficiaries, the other to possibly nonexistent threats. with how completely the culture surrendered to safetyism, its mirror will find our door already open

He did rely heavily on Lynn in his "Dysgenics objections to longtermism" paper. Funnily, the pre-review version is also online and comparing it to the published versions shows that reviewers complained about the Lynn data. Which DV "solved" by adding citation of Russell Warne... /1

This article calls this a new belief, but it's not. This kind of Longtermism Transhumanism stuff has been the guiding philosophy of VC/SV tech world for a while, and it's appalling. If you, an AI Engager, are frustrated with AI Haters Being So Polarized, look no further to this for why.

The graviton simulation does some interesting things when you reduce the scope of the forces. Sort of pretty. #simulations #gravity #physics

it would be interesting to know what the price point was going to be pre-crisis and whether people would react well or not. honestly I still stand by the price likely being $600-$1000 and most people calling it overpriced because of how Meta squeezed the market.

Saturday Sessions: Peter Frampton performs Peter Frampton is best known for his smash hits "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like I Do." Now, the multi-Grammy Award-winning guitarist and singer-songwriter is out with his first original album in 16 years, "Carry the Light." Here's Peter Frampton…

"A Kentucky school district secured roughly $27 million in settlements from Meta Platforms and other ​social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis, according to records seen by Reuters on Friday."

🦉 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗗𝗨 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥 Peter Singer a posé la question de la libération animale en 1975. ➔ En 50 ans, qu'est-ce qui a vraiment changé pour les animaux d'élevage ? #Histoire #DroitAnimal #Justice

Meta's doing fine financially, but its soul is on life support. Google's chasing AI, but the kids are checking out. What's the real cost of this tech reckoning? Read more: https://gli7ch.com/news/meta-crisis-google-search-makeover-ai-graduates-booed

SILLY - 'Mont Klamott' album (1983) The 2nd studio album, produced by Klaus Peter Albrecht & released in East Berlin #DDR #EastGermany on Amiga. With original lead singer Tamara Danz. Includes the single, 'Mont Klamott'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iffb... #Silly #NewWave #DeutschRock

"a catch for those greedy grubs; each agent remembers who has defected against them and physically avoids them from then on" Aay lmaao

Feeling dumb is what actual learning feels like.

For any of you on #LessWrong, I've got some of my posts as sequences over there on the topics of: #Polymaths #Moloch #Alignment & #GameTheory. Feel free to nerd-out in the comments.

The biggest podcast episode so far... if you haven't listened yet to the Non•Zero•Sum James podcast yet, this is NOT the one to begin with. But if you've been enjoying / following the emergence series you *might* enjoy. #Emergence #Physics #LessWrong #Yudkowski #Traffic #Science

in related news https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-cost-crisis-hits-tech-giants-as-employee-tokenmaxxing-backfires-agentic-ai-eats-up-to-1000x-more-tokens-than-standard-ai-sparks-corporate-pullback-at-microsoft-meta-and-amazon

Peter Singer tvrdí, že bohatí majú morálnu povinnosť pomáhať chudobným. Video rozoberá rozdiel medzi absolútnou (základné potreby) a relatívnou chudobou, poukazuje na nárast prosperity a kladie otázku: nemali by sme riešiť chudobu namiesto luxusu?

the fewer examples of reach, the better for my internet presence, i have no other social platforms; no facebook, no insta (no meta subsidiaries), no tiktok, snap, twitter (RIP in peace), nothing. this is my cognitive livelihood, my crisis center, my dear friends.

PETER MURPHY : 'Swoon (Magic Wands Remix)' - remix of song from 2025 album by iconic post-punk singer out 29th May 2026 (Metropolis Records) portable-infinite.blogspot.com/2026/05/pete...

The Masked Dancer Reality dancing competition ITV (Bandicoot) 29 May 2021 - 22 October 2022 2 series - 15 episodes A spin-off from The Masked Singer, instead celebrities dance in masks. Series 1 winner was Louis Smith, Heather Morris won series 2. Hosted by Joel Dommett.

William MacAskill has written on "effective altruism" which is how charity can be more effective. The first part of this talk covers that. The second covers AI and that's a rather more disturbing conversation as it turns out. youtu.be/KVbw4j__FOc?...

Example four: Tom Davidson of forethought Example five: William Macaskill of forethought

would mean turning the mass of the entire observable universe into the technomass of civilization. Example 1: William Macaskill and Tom Davidson of Forethought Foundation

Amanda Askell is a philosopher who wrote a 30,000-word soul document on values and ethics, teaching Claude AI how to be good. Alongside Joe Carlsmith, Chris Olah and Holden Karnofsky, she shaped what it means for an AI to be trustworthy. #Claude #AI www.anthropic.com/constitution

Context: Anthropic quietly dropped its own internal safety pause commitment in February, under what Holden Karnofsky described as "enormous pressure."

CEG’s past director, Holden Karnofsky, gave $30 million to OpenAI in exchange for a board seat. When that didn’t work out, he advised CEG’s billionaire backer, Dustin Moskovitz, to invest in Anthropic. Then Holden left to Anthropic and started directing their “responsible scaling policy”.

I don't think that works- we can pool info and decisionmaking without pooling wealth, right? e.g. you can look up effective charities to donate to, or just give to givewell max impact or smth and let them do it

Not just one founder but one of the two founders. I mean to say that Toby Ord said that his ideas were based on those of Beckstead and Bostrom, and Beckstead of course, wrote in his PhD thesis about saving a life in a developed country being better and such.

"Our big aid charities need to learn to let go and accept that those closest to a problem are often best placed to act towards effective resolution." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...