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Berlin – ACX Meetups Everywhere 2024
Update: We’ll be joining forces with the Qualia Research Institute, who are in Berlin this week: https://qualiacomputing.com/2024/05/17/qri-in-germany/
I think we’ll get along great and there’s a big overlap. Scott:
The Qualia Research Institute is doing absolutely picture-perfect mad science.
Just an info, nothing actually changes!
Note: Most RSVPs (29 as of now) are on Meetup.
Berlin – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2024 (feat. QRI)
Long survey is long.
A New Paradigm For Emotional Work And Mental Health
ChatGPT is using Whisper for speech to text, which is open source and available through OpenAIs APIs.
I personally tried to use more text to speech on my phone, but was annoyed by it and went back to typing.
I’ve heard Whisper is a definite step-up, especially when mixing English and German.
https://openai.com/research/whisper
https://github.com/openai/whisper
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/whisper€: This used to say text to speech.
AI Risk Scenario Roleplay
Berlin AI Alignment Open Meetup October 2023
Hey everyone, I’m amazed with how many people showed up and the atmosphere. I hope you had fun and interesting conversations as well. If you want to be connected to the Berlin Rationality or EA communities, just contact me! Contact: acx-meetups@martinmilbradt.de, t.me/truemilli or @Milli | Martin.
PS.: “My” monthly workshop is happening tomorrow evening, happy to have you: The Art of Difficult Conversations—Workshop.
Quick heads up: Most of the RSVPs are on Meetup.com (26 atm).
Berlin, Germany – ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2023
EA Germany has an “Employer of Record” program. Your funding gets put into their account, and they pay your salary from it, formally becoming your employer.
This is probably what you want to google or mention to an organization in the UK. :)
Details (EAD): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EePELRNTrZGHgeJa3oeRdF_rDsN7LesYppQah_zE7g4
Be wary of survivorship bias! Of course, everything that is licensed and proven to work was not at some point. But so is everything that was tried out and ineffective / harmful, and (hopefully) still not licensed.
But things that work, accumulate evidence that they do, and good chances get licensed. That’s the way science works.
I don’t blame anyone for trying things out, in fact we need people who do to figure out what actually works. But it’s also perfectly reasonable not to want to do that.
PSA: If you’re like me, you want to subscribe to the Open Threads Tag, to not miss these: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/open-threads
Useful to keep in mind, especially the point of getting an introduction to the next person.
But I want to point out that it’s also easy to undershoot. Many people hesitate to ask questions or contact new people. It makes me sad when people waste hours on something that I can answer / fix in minutes.
Another thing is to keep time spent / saved in mind. A well crafted message, that’s easy to understand and only requires a short answer, is much harder to write than going back and forth a few times.
If you spend 100x the time you save the other person, it’s probably not worth it in most non-Paul-Christiano-cases.
Thanks for the post, it’s useful to be reminded of every now and then. The first time I thought about it was when thinking about the statement by doctors that “somebodies life expectancy is 6 months”. This also actually means that there is a high chance to die very soon, but if that doesn’t happen they’ll probably live on for many years.
Planning as if they would live for +/- 6 months is useless in that case.
Here’s a form to give the Lightcone team anonymous feedback about this decision (or anything).
The link seems to be missing.
Also: Looking forward to the postmortem.
LessWrong open thread, I love it. I hope they become as lively as the ACX Open Threads (if they have the same intention).
I’m reading the sequences this year (1/day, motivated by this post) and am enjoying it so far. Lmk if I’m wasting my time by not “just” reading the highlights.
PS: In case you or someone you know is looking for a software engineer, here’s my profile: https://cv.martinmilbradt.de/. Preferably freelance, but I’m open to employment if the project is impactful or innovative.
Thanks for the lovely meetup, everyone!
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