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In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and streaming shows I watched in winter 2024/2025, and share my opinions on them. I also take a look at my ebook advertising results from January 2025. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Half-Orc Paladin, Book #3 in the Half-Elven Thief series, (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store: PALADIN50 The coupon code is valid through February 28, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for the bad February weather, we've got you covered! 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 238 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February 7, 2025 and today we are discussing the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter 2024 and 2025. Before that, we will do Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing projects, Question of the Week, and my ad results from January 2025.   First, let's start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Half-Orc Paladin, Book Three in the Half-Elven Thief Series (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is PALADIN50. This coupon code will be valid through February the 28th, 2025, so if you need a new audiobook to get you through the bad February weather, we have got you covered.   Now for an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. As I mentioned last week, Shield of Deception is now out and you can get it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords and my Payhip store. It is doing quite well. Thank you all for that. I hope you enjoy the book and I've been hearing good things about it from people who read it.   Now that Shield of Deception is done, my main project is now Ghost in the Assembly and I am 36,000 words into it as of this recording, which puts me almost on Chapter 8 of 21. So I'm about one third of the way through the rough draft, give or take. If all goes well. I'm hoping that book will be out in March. My secondary project is Shield of Battle, which is the sequel to Shield of Deception and I am about 2,000 words into that. I'm also 50,000 words into what will be the third and final Stealth and Spells book, Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest. It was originally named Reactant, but I decided to change the name to Final Quest because that sounds better and if all goes well, that will probably be out in the middle of the year, give or take.   In audiobook news, Cloak of Masks (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now out at all audio stores, including Audible, so you can listen to that there. Work is almost done on Cloak of Dragonfire. It's being proof-listened to as I record this and hopefully that should be out before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and audiobook projects.   00:02:19 Question of the Week   Next up is Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's topic, which ties into our main topic: what was the favorite movie you saw in 2024? No wrong answers, obviously (including “I hate everything I saw in 2024”). We have a few responses for this.   JD says: It was either Transformers One or Deadpool and Wolverine.   Mary says: I didn't see any movies in 2024.   Doug says: Dune was one of the books I read in the ‘70s. Like your books, I never got enough back then. I was buying Hardcovers. I still have six of them. I have seen the two versions of the books. Can't wait to see this version of the books. I have seen the first movies. Hope to see more.   David says: Godzilla versus Kong was pretty much the only one from last year I saw. I just bought Gladiator 2 but haven't watched it yet.   Davette says: I enjoyed both Dune 2 and The Fall Guy and Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine. My favorite was Wicked, mainly because I've been waiting on that movie for years.   Bonnie says: I haven't seen any movies or watched TV in years.   For myself, I think it would be a tie for my favorite movie of 2024 for between Dune 2 and The Fall Guy. The two Dune movies, for all the stuff they changed from the book, are probably the most faithful adaptation it was possible to make with that very dense and very weird book. I thought The Fall Guy was just hilarious and I had no idea it was based on TV series from the ‘80s until I read up about it on the Internet after I saw the movie. It was interesting that we didn't have very many responses to this question the week and of those responses, one third of them was “I didn't see any movies in 2024.” So if the movie industry is wondering why it's in so much trouble, I think we might have just found the answer here in that nobody wants to go to see movies in the theater anymore.   00:04:09 Ad Results for January 2025 Now onto our next topic, how my ads performed in January 2025. Now as usual for my books in January, I used Facebook ads, Amazon ads, and BookBub ads, so let's break them down by category- first, by Facebook ads. As usual, I advertised The Ghosts and Cloak Games/Cloak Mage.   GHOSTS: $4.08 for every dollar, with 22% of the profit coming from the audiobooks.   CLOAK GAMES/MAGE: $3.38 for every dollar, with 6% of the profit coming from the audiobooks. So that went pretty well. I'm hoping that percentage will go up once Cloak of Dragonfire is done and we can put together Cloak Mage Omnibus Three.   I also did some Amazon ads – specifically for HALF-ELVEN THIEF, STEALTH & SPELLS ONLINE: CREATION, and THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNERS GUIDE.   Remember, for an Amazon ad to be effective, it usually needs to be generating at least one sale for every eight clicks on the ads.   HALF-ELVEN THIEF: $4.65 for every dollar spent, 1.85 sales for every click. It's just an amazing ratio-thank you for that.   STEALTH & SPELLS ONLINE: CREATION: Lost $0.15 for every dollar spent, 1 sale for every 4.76 clicks.   THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNER'S GUIDE: $3.16 for every dollar spent, 33% of the profit from audio, 1.34 sales for every click.   The standout was HALF-ELVEN THIEF, which actually had more sales than clicks on the ads. That hardly ever happens!   You can see there's a reason I'm going to conclude STEALTH & SPELLS with the third book, because it just doesn't sell well. All of the advertising experiments I have tried to make it sell well have not responded to date. That said, we did improve from December, where I only got a sale for every 14 clicks.   Additionally, Amazon ads work really well with nonfiction books, since they respond a lot better to keyword ads.   Finally, I used Bookbub ads for THE GHOSTS on Apple. That went pretty well.   THE GHOSTS: $4 for every $1 spent.   So, all in all, a pretty good month for ads, though STEALTH & SPELLS remains the weak point. As always everyone, thank you for buying the books and listening to the audiobooks.   00:06:50 Main Topic: Movie/TV Show Reviews of Winter 2024/Early Winter 2025 Now onto our main topic, the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter 2024 and early winter 2025. As always, my ratings are totally subjective and based on nothing more concrete than my own opinions.   Our first one is Red One, which came out in 2024. This was a strange mashup of genres, a holiday movie, urban fantasy, a thriller, and just a little bit of existential horror. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Callum Drift, who is the head of Santa Claus's security. Meanwhile, Chris Evans plays an unscrupulous hacker and thief named Jack O'Malley. Jack unwittingly helps unknown malefactors kidnap Santa Claus and so Callum and Jack have to team up to rescue Santa from his kidnappers. This sounds like a lighthearted holiday movie, but it really isn't. The movie is rather dour and takes itself very seriously. Callum acts like he's in a Jason Bourne movie and deals with various supernatural creatures like a special forces operator assessing targets. Additionally, there are some urban fantasy elements with the vast government agency dedicated to hiding the supernatural world from normal people. I don't think the dissonance really worked at all. It had pieces of a light holiday movie and pieces of a thriller and they really didn't mesh. It's not hard to see why this one didn't do well in the theaters, on top of its enormous budget. Overall Grade: D (In the spirit of Christmas generosity)   Next up is Argylle, which came out in 2024. This was a dumb movie, but I enjoyed it, kind of like Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston on Netflix. I mean that wasn't exactly Shakespeare or Milton, but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy myself while watching it. Same thing applies to Argylle. The plot is that the protagonist Ellie Conway is a bestselling spy novelist. Ellie is a bit of an eccentric personality and travels everywhere with her cat in a backpack that has a window in it so the cat can see what's going on. However, it turns out that Ellie's novels are accurately predicting events in real life espionage, so several sinister spy agencies are hunting her down to learn her secret. A spy named Aidan saves Ellie, claiming that he's the only one she can trust. Of course, this is the kind of movie that has a shocking betrayal and plot twist every eight minutes or so, and the revelation of the central twist made me face palm a bit. There is a fight scene at the end involving colored smoke that's absolutely bonkers. It was on Apple Plus or Apple TV or whatever it's called, but that means all the characters did all their computing on shiny new Apple devices, which is always amusing. Overall Grade: D+ (but barely)   Next up is Venom: The Last Dance, which came out in 2024. It wasn't as good as the first two since so many of the characters did not return, but it brought the Venom Trilogy to a mostly satisfying conclusion. Eddie Brock and Venom are on the run after the events of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Unbeknownst to either of them, the US government has a secret facility holding captured symbiant aliens and the agency that runs the facility is hunting for them. Unbeknownst to the US government, the creator of the symbiotes, an evil entity named Knull is preparing to escape his prison and to do that, he needs Eddie/Venom delivered to him alive, so he dispatches his creatures to Earth hunt down Eddie and Venom, with disastrous results. The best part of the movie was the comedic duo of Eddie and Venom since the movie takes the absurdity of their situation and leans into it. Overall Grade: B- Next up is the Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which came out in 2024. I read an interview with Brandon Sanderson where he said that a big part of the problem with movie adaptations of books is that the filmmakers often want to tell their own story, not the books'. So they basically used the book as a framework for telling their own story, which inevitably annoys the readers of the book. I suspect that was what happened with The War of the Rohirrim. This movie was a mixture of strong points and weaknesses. Apparently it only exists because New Line needed to put out something or they'd lose film rights to Tolkien's stuff, and so The War of the Rohirrim was fast-tracked.   The strong points: the animation looked pretty, the battle scenes were fun to watch, the voice performances were good, and the music was also good.   The weak points: it felt too long and slow-paced. I think a good half-hour could have been cut of the characters looking pensive and thoughtful (and saved the animators a lot of work in the process). Additionally, I don't think the changes to the plot quite worked. It's based out of the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings, specifically the history of Rohan. In the book, the plot is touched off when the corrupt Lord Freca demands that King Helm's daughter Hera marry Freca's son Wulf. Helm takes exception to this and ends up killing Freca. His son Wulf swears vengeance, gathers an army from Rohan's enemies, and sets out to seize the crown for himself. In the book, Helm's sons are killed, and Helm himself dies in the defense of the Hornburg (which later becomes known as Helm's Deep), but his nephew Frealof gathers an army, kills Wulf, and becomes the new king of Rohan.   That would have been perfectly good for the plot, but as we mentioned above, I think the screenwriters decided they wanted to write about a Strong Female Character, so they massively expanded Hera's part and made her the protagonist. The problem with this as an adaptation is that Hera is only mentioned once in the book, so the script has to make up a lot of extra stuff to justify Hera's presence, which always weakens an adaptation of a book. This version of Hera would have been in danger of becoming a stereotypical #girlboss character, but she acts more like a Japanese anime protagonist, which does work better in this sort of movie than an Americanized Strong Female Character.   So, in the end, not a bad movie, but I think it would have worked better if they had stuck closer to the original plot in the book. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Golden Era, which came out in 2022. This is a documentary about the making of the classic Nintendo 64 game Goldeneye and the company behind it. Until I watched this, I never knew that Rare, the company that made Goldeneye, was based in the UK.   I admit I really didn't play Goldeneye back in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. I did a few times at various social events, but I never really got into it since I didn't own a game console from 1998 to 2019. Nonetheless, Goldeneye was a very influential game that left its mark on all first-person shooter games since. The documentary interviews most of the people who were involved in the making of Goldeneye, and it was fascinating to see how they more or less accidentally created a genre-defining game.   If you enjoyed Goldeneye or are interested in video game history at all, the documentary is worth watching. After many years of official unavailability, Goldeneye is now available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox, so I may have to give it a try. Overall grade: B     Next up is Wonka, which came out in 2023. I didn't really intend to watch this, but it was on in the background while I was playing Starfield…and Starfield has a lot of loading screens. This movie wasn't made for me, not even remotely, but I thought it was a competently executed example of a movie musical.   Anyway, the plot revolves around a young Willy Wonka coming to a city that seems like a weird hybrid between Paris and New York. Wonka sets out to start selling his innovative chocolates, but soon runs into stiff opposition from the corrupt local candy industry, the corrupt local police chief, and his equally corrupt landlady, who has somehow transitioned from hospitality to luring people into debt slavery. Wonka makes allies from his fellow indentured workers, and soon he is conducting local chocolate manufacturing like a heist.   Like I said, this really wasn't made for me, and I'm sure people who actually like musicals would have many more detailed opinions. But this had some genuinely funny bits. Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa was hilarious, and so was Rowan Atkinson as a corrupt bishop. The best line: “Judgment has come…in a most unexpected form!” Overall grade: B     Next up is Man on the Inside, which came out in 2024, and this is a Netflix comedy series from Mike Schur, who created Parks and Recreation, The Good Place and Brooklyn 99. To describe this show, think of a meditation about accepting the inevitability of aging and death through Schur's comedic style, and you'll be there.   Anyway, Ted Danson stars as a recently widowed retired professor of engineering named Charles. His daughter is worried that he's not handling things well and becoming too isolated, so suggests that he find a hobby. Charles answers a classified ad for an “older man who can use technology” and finds himself recruited by a private investigator named Julie. Julie's company has been hired to find a thief within a retirement home, and Julie is about 35 years too young to convincingly infiltrate a retirement home. Hence, Charles pretends to be a new resident, and finds himself befriending the residents he is supposed to investigate. All the while, he tries to deal with the remaining grief from his wife's death, which he never got around to processing in the moment.   In my opinion, The Good Place and Brooklyn 99 both kind of fell apart in their final seasons, but Man on the Inside avoids that in its final episodes, providing good resolution to both the conflict and the emotional stakes. I thought it was both bittersweet and quite funny, and I approve that there's going to be a 2nd season. Overall grade: B   Next up is Minted, which came out in 2023, and this was an interesting documentary about the rise in the fall of the NFT, which in the early 2020s we were assured was going to be the next big thing, but it just turned out to be yet another scam.   The documentary follows an interesting course, first explaining what an NFT is, and then interviewing artists who made life-changing money from minting their early NFTS. But then the speculators arrived, and followed swiftly by the scammers. As of 2025, of course, NFTs are quite worthless, like so many much-vaunted Web 3.0 style technologies.   I think the documentary's biggest weakness was assuming that NFT technology was around to stay and would find a use that would help artists. I agree that it's around to stay, but I don't think it adds value to anything at all. Nevertheless, an interesting look into the NFT fad and the impact it had on artists. Overall grade: B     Next up is Gladiator 2, which came out in 2024. This is basically the same movie as the original Gladiator, just reshuffled a bit and with twenty years of improved technology. The main character Hanno is a soldier in an African city that rebels against Rome. After the rebellion is inevitably crushed, he is taken as a slave and ends up as a gladiator in Rome, determined to take his vengeance on the Roman general who ordered the death of his wife. However, the general was only carrying out the orders of the insane twin emperors Geta and Caracalla. For that matter, Hanno's owner, the charming and affable Macrinus, has his own agenda. As Hanno seeks revenge, he finds himself drawn into the deadly game of imperial politics and must confront the secrets of his own past.   The movie is only very vaguely accurate in terms of history, but it does a good job of capturing the corruption and decadence of the Roman Empire at that time. The empire was in very bad shape, and in fact was only a few years from what historians call the Crisis of the Third Century, a fifty year period of continual civil war, assassination, usurpation, and economic meltdown that resulted in the empire breaking into three separate states for about fifteen years. Everyone knows that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, but it very nearly didn't make it even to 300 AD. So the ending of Gladiator 2 is a total fantasy, like one of those alt-history books where the Roman Empire ends up conquering the Americas or expanding into outer space.   That said, I enjoyed the movie. Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and Connie Nielsen in particular gave very good performances, with Denzel Washington's Macrinus as the standout. Overall grade: B Next up is High Sierra, which came out in 1941, and this is 1940s true crime grimdark. A common misconception is that black and white films are generally more sanitized and saccharine than modern fare. This definitely isn't true – there wasn't any gratuitous violence and nudity in ‘40s movies, but some of them were very cynical and dark. High Sierra definitely falls into that category. Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a bank robber currently in Indiana state prison. His former boss Big Mac arranges a pardon for him, and brings him out to California for one last big job.   Unfortunately, the other people on Earle's crew are idiots, and he has a growing sense of impending disaster. Additionally, Earle gets emotionally entangled with two women – Velma, a sick woman from his hometown, and Marie, a woman inured to the lifestyle of criminals. As Earle prepares for the job and attempts to deal with the two women, things get more and more complicated. Definitely on the darker side as I mentioned, but well worth watching, both as a historical artifact and a crime story in its own right. Overall grade: B+   Next is Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, which came out in 2024. Lower Decks is an example of a parody of a thing that is so good that it sort of loops around the horseshoe and becomes a good example of the thing it is parodying. Season 5 is the undeserved end to the very funny Lower Decks series. Paramount really, really wants to get purchased by Skydance, and that's probably going to happen in 2025, so there's a lot of clearing the decks at Paramount, and I expect Lower Decks was one of the casualties.   Then again, our protagonists are no longer lower deckers but junior officers, so perhaps it was a natural place to end the show. So Lower Decks went out pretty strong with a collection of funny and good episodes. All the characters experienced plot arcs and development. The lower deckers matured from the callow ensigns they were in Season 1, and the senior officers likewise experienced character growth and development. (I liked Commander Ransom's triumphant battle cry of “high intensity interval training!”)   I'd say the only weakness is that the show ended with multiverse stuff, and I don't like multiverse stuff in general. Still, the show made a compelling argument for the multiverse as a concept, and the multiverse plot did give an excuse to bring back various Trek actors for speaking parts. And, to be fair, Star Trek has been doing multiverse stuff long, long before the Marvel movies ran the concept into the ground – Captain Kirk was dealing with alternate universe stuff back in the 1960s.   The last episode was a satisfactory conclusion to the series. Lower Decks might be over, but once the Skydance acquisition settles down, maybe the character will return in a new show called Junior Officers? One can hope! Overall grade: B+   Next up is the Frasier reboot Season 2, which also came out in 2024. I liked this about as much as I liked Season 1, which is to say I enjoyed it and found it funny. Frasier's and his son Frederick's relationship seems to have reached equilibrium, so the season spent more time on more 1940s style screwball comedy, which is not a bad thing. Some of the best comedy remains the conflicts between Frasier and Frederick, which is of course an echo of Frasier's own conflicts with his father back in the original show in the 1990s.   I think the best episode was the return of Frasier's scheming, Machiavellian agent Bebe and her daughter Phoebe, who did not exactly fall far from the maternal apple tree. The 10-episode format for the season does seem rather cramped compared to the 20-ish episodes per season of the original show, but that was a different era.   Frasier remains, as one of the characters said in the previous season, the same well-meaning buffoon who goes “that extra, ill-advised mile.” I hope we get a Season 3, but with the shakeups we mentioned at Paramount, that seems unlikely. Overall grade: A-     Finally, let's close with the three best things I saw in Winter 2024/2025.   The first of my favorite three is Saturday Night, which came out in 2024. This is a biopic about the chaotic first night of Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s. Quite hilarious in a vicious sort of way, and (from what I understand) it accurately captures the sheer chaos of live TV. Of course, the chaos surrounding SNL is probably a bit higher than usual for standard live television.   After I watched it, I looked it up, and it seems the movie compresses about three months' worth of events into the hour and a half before the launch of the very first episode. What's amusing is that the more outlandish an event in the movie was, the more likely it was to have actually happened in the leadup to the show's launch. It was the mundane stuff that was made up, not the crazy stuff.   JK Simmons was hilarious as Milton Berle. Nowadays, SNL is an Institution, so it was amusing to see it back when everyone thought it was a bad idea that would fail catastrophically. The movie convincingly captured the “look” of the 1970s – all the characters looked like they were made of nicotine, cholesterol, and cocaine, and in some instances, a lot of cocaine. That stuff is bad for you, as several SNL stars later found out to their sorrow.   It really shows the randomness of history – watching the creation of SNL, you wouldn't expect it to have lasting cultural impact, but it did. Overall grade: A The second of my three favorite things I saw was The Thin Man, which came out in 1934. This is based on a novel by Dashiel Hammett (most famous for writing The Maltese Falcon), and was made pre-Hays Code, so the female lead tended to wear outfits that show off a bit more skin than you would otherwise expect in a 1930s movie. Interestingly, The Thin Man is a fusion of a noir detective movie and a screwball comedy, not two genres that are usually connected, and somehow it all works.   Anyway, the movie centers around detective Nick and his wife Nora, who have returned to New York after a four-year sojourn to California. Nick used to be a private detective, but then he married the wealthy Nora, and wanted to retire to a life of ease and parties with a lot of alcohol. Except everyone in New York assumes that Nick isn't retired and is back on the case, and so he gets dragged into the disappearance of an eccentric factory owner and a string of murders that pop up around it. Of course, Nick isn't as reluctant to come out of retirement as he pretends.   As is often the case in many movies made in the 1930s, many of the rich characters are shown as malicious buffoons, especially the factory owner's ex-wife. Nick and Nora, as the protagonists, are of course exempt from this.   This is considered a classic, and deservedly so – the characters are sharply drawn, the dialogue is good, the performances are excellent, the movie manages to portray a fairly complex plot in 90 minutes. You'll want to watch it with the captions on, of course, because while human nature may not have changed in the ninety years since this movie came out, audio technology has sure improved.   Fun fact: Nick and Nora's dog is named Asta, which is apparently a frequent answer in crossword puzzles due to the double vowels. Overall grade: A   Now, for the third of my three favorite things I saw in Winter 2024/2025, that would be Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which came out in 2024. This is Star Wars meets The Goonies meets Pirates of the Caribbean, and despite that very odd combination of influences, the show was really quite good. The show opens on the idyllic planet of At Attin, which looks like an idealized version of 1980s suburbia filtered through Star Wars. Everyone on the planet has the same job – contributing to the Great Work (whatever that is). Since our four protagonists are kids, they don't pay much attention to that or the concerns of the adults. When one of the children discovers a derelict spaceship in the woods, they accidentally activate it and fly off-planet.   This is a problem because At Attin is protected by a Barrier that doesn't allow travel, and the galaxy is a dangerous place with a lot of pirate gangs roaming around looking for prey. However, the children fall in with Jod, who claims to be a Jedi who will help the kids get back to their home. Everyone they meet warns them that Jod is a con artist and not to be trusted, but he demonstrates Force powers again and again (which would seem to support his claim that he's a Jedi). And the kids' home of At Attin has a mysterious secret, one that Jod desperately wants to claim for himself.   This is very entertaining all the way through. Star Wars really works best as a kids' adventure show (in my opinion), though I'm still looking forward to the second season of Andor, which is Star Wars crossed with a John le Carre spy thriller. Overall grade: A     So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Abby, Patrick, and Dan take up a topic that couldn't be more relevant to the contemporary zeitgeist – aggression – as theorized by an unlikely source: the British analyst and pediatrician D.W. Winnicott. What did this beloved and famously gentle figure have to say about aggression, and our taboos and fantasies surrounding it? Where does aggression come from, and what is its function developmentally? And what role can acknowledging feelings of “hate” play in the family, in psychotherapy, and in everyday life? To answer all these questions, this episode – the first in a three-part series – sees Abby, Patrick, and Dan sketch out Winnicott's biography, discuss his theoretical preoccupations, and unpack his approach to therapy, especially with severely distressed children and adults. Close-reading his essay, “The Roots of Aggression” (collected in the The Child, the Family, and the Outside World) they explore how, for Winnicott, the capacity to work with aggression implicates everything from our ability to move in physical space to our feeling deserving of love.Robert Adès et al., editors. “Index of Available Audio Recordings.” The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 12, Appendices and Bibliographies, Oxford University Press, 2016: https://doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190271442.003.0011“Winnicott: The ‘Good-Enough Mother' Radio Broadcasts.” OUPblog, Dec. 2016:https://blog.oup.com/2016/12/winnicott-radio-broadcasts/Brett Kahr, “Winnicott's ‘Anni Horribiles': The Biographical Roots of ‘Hate in the Counter-Transference.'” American Imago, vol. 68, no. 2, 2011, pp. 173–211.D. W. Winnicott, “Hate in the Counter-Transference.” The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, vol. 3, no. 4, 1994, pp. 348–56.Winnicott, “Roots of Aggression.” The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966, edited by Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson, Oxford University Press, 2016:https://doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190271398.003.0018Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847 A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Jasmine has returned and she has more GREAT ideas to bring the appendices to the screen.

Welcome to the twelve days of Edition Wars - in this year's series we are taking a deep dive into the 2024 update to the 5e DMG. What has changed? What has stayed the same? Is this a better buy than the 2014 DMG? We are going to talk about all that, and more! On the twelfth day of Edition Wars, Brandes and Sam tell twelve drummers drumming about the Appendices and their Final Thoughts. Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? Email us at DnDeBrief@gmail.com Links: Brandes on the Web Brandes on Bluesky Brandes on Mastodon Brandes at Tribality Sam on Twitter Sam on the Web Sam on You Tube Sam on Blue Sky Sam on Mastodon Thetomeshow.com Patreon.com/thetomeshow Patreon.com/BrandesStoddard

Welcome to the twelve days of Edition Wars - in this year's series we are taking a deep dive into the 2024 update to the 5e DMG. What has changed? What has stayed the same? Is this a better buy than the 2014 DMG? We are going to talk about all that, and more! On the twelfth day of Edition Wars, Brandes and Sam tell twelve drummers drumming about the Appendices and their Final Thoughts. Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? Email us at DnDeBrief@gmail.com Links: Brandes on the Web Brandes on Bluesky Brandes on Mastodon Brandes at Tribality Sam on Twitter Sam on the Web Sam on You Tube Sam on Blue Sky Sam on Mastodon Thetomeshow.com Patreon.com/thetomeshow Patreon.com/BrandesStoddard

With the success of War of the Rohirrim, Jon and Ron talk about what other stories from the Appendices they would like to see animated.

J.R.R. Tolkien gave us the book “The Lord Of The Rings” 69 years ago and creators are still adapting that legendary work. Do they always respect his work and not mangle it to reflect their worldview? Definitely not. See “The Rings Of Power” TV series. This week we get a movie adaptation of a very brief side story to “The Lord Of The Rings” in anime form. That movie is “The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim.” This movie appears to have the full backing of Peter Jackson, who directed the exemplary “The Lord Of The Rings” triilogy and the not so exemplary “The Hobbit” trilogy. This new movie features the kingdom of Rohan and its king, Helm Hammerhand and his war against Wulf, who vows to kill Helm because Helm killed his father with one punch. What's new, that was most definitely not in the “Appendices” book that Tolkien wrote, that this movie is based on his Hera Hammerhand, Helm's daughter. She's really the main character in that she's portrayed as the main savior of Rohan. When the war becomes too intense, and Rohan is on the brink of extinction, the people of Rohan retreat to what they call the Hornburg. Thanks to the movie “The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers”, it prominently became known as Helm's Deep, named after Helm Hammerhand. Helm is voiced by well-known character actor Brian Cox. Can Helm, Hera and the people of Rohan survive the war against Wulf? Is it worth finding out? Check out this episode to find out! Support the showFeel free to reach out to me via:@MoviesMerica on Twitter @moviesmerica on InstagramMovies Merica on Facebook

We've lost count of how many times we've seen The Two Towers, a film Rob reckons he could recite beginning to end (especially the Gollum scenes). As before, there's no fandom experiment going on here - we're simply watching something we all love, occasionally delving into the books and mentioning the Appendices too much. Enjoy the episode and join us next week for The Return of the King!Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshirtcinemaclub to receive two bonus episodes every month as well as our newsletter, The Civilian Observer.You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema, and get in touch at redshirtcinemaclub@gmail.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Overview: Host Mike Sacopulos interviews Hanah Polotsky, MD, MBOE, and Lisa Williams on the intersection of healthcare, leadership, and innovation explored in their book Physician Leader: How Exam Room Experience Drives Leadership Excellence. Key Discussion Points: Background and Journey: Lisa Williams: Shares her extensive career in healthcare, from nursing home administration to executive roles and her passion for coaching and teaching. Hanah Polotsky: Describes her journey from clinician educator to physician executive, emphasizing her fascination with healthcare management and LEAN leadership. Motivation for Writing the Book: Lisa Williams: Discusses the need for physicians to transition from clinical experts to effective leaders and how the book aims to fill the gap in leadership training for healthcare professionals. Hanah Polotsky: Highlights the importance of physicians shedding command-and-control leadership tendencies for a more collaborative approach. Physician Burnout: Lisa Williams: Discusses the varying burnout levels in different healthcare settings and the common pressures faced by physicians. Hanah Polotsky: Explains the impact of inefficient processes and the importance of physician leadership in improving systems to reduce burnout. Leadership Attributes: Lisa Williams: Emphasizes the mindset of a strategic thinker and the need for physicians to think beyond their immediate clinical responsibilities. Hanah Polotsky: Focuses on the importance of effective communication and listening, sharing personal experiences from the exam room. Appendices and Additional Resources: Lisa Williams: Highlights the practical applications of the GUIDES framework and other tools provided in the appendices. Hanah Polotsky: Talks about the valuable appendices in the book, including research on change management, problem-solving models, and cross-functional redesigns. About the Experts: Lisa Williams has nearly 30 years of experience leading healthcare organizations with expertise in leadership development, organizational strategy, and change management. Key roles include: President, Lisa Williams & Associates, LLC Former Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Coach at The Polyclinic Chief Administrative Officer for the Pacific Northwest at OptumCare Hanah Polotsky, MD, MBOE, has 20 years of progressive leadership in value-based healthcare and is known for her innovative approach to integrating clinical experience with leadership. Key roles include: Executive Medical Director at CommonSpirit Health Care in Denver, Colorado Practicing physician specializing in internal medicine and endocrinology Completed Master of Business Operational Excellence at Ohio State University Listen now: Learn how exam room experience shapes healthcare leadership, reduces burnout, and drives innovation. Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership.

Dans ce onzième épisode, on revient sur le tournage du Mythique Tourlou 2017. Roy Dupuis était-il assez ténébreux? Les pieds de Provençal ont-ils été maquillés? Les réponses dans cet épisode!La Boutique des Appendices ►https://www.lesappendices.tv/Le podcast de JF Provençal et Julien "Les Appendeux" ► https://www.youtube.com/@lesappendeuxNos réseaux:Youtube ► https://www.youtube.com/@lesappendicesFacebook ► https://www.facebook.com/lesappendicesInstagram ► https://www.instagram.com/lesappendices/ TIK TOK ► https://www.tiktok.com/@les_appendicesDISCORD► : https://discord.gg/5QNPcW9eWd Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Summary of the episode: In this final episode of the season, we delve into the invaluable appendices of Loving Your Muslim Neighbor by Timothy and Miriam Harris. These practical resources and insights serve as the perfect companion to the book, equipping listeners with tools to engage better, understand, and love Muslim neighbors in their communities. The appendices provide a roadmap for living out Christlike love with boldness and grace, from tips on starting meaningful conversations to recommended prayers and actionable strategies. Join us as we reflect on the key takeaways from the book, discuss the significance of these closing materials, and highlight how they can inspire and challenge us in our mission to share the Gospel. Whether you're new to the series or have followed the journey from the beginning, this episode offers fresh encouragement to continue loving and reaching out to those around us. Please tune in to The E.A.R. Podcast as we wrap up this impactful season with practical steps to live out what we've learned! Meet the Guest: Timothy and Miriam speak in churches everywhere to educate, equip, and energize Christians to gain God's heart for Muslim people and to love them. Please listen to Episode #1 of this season to learn more about Timothy and Miriam Harris. Calls to action: Please visit their website, www.lovingyourmuslimneighbor.com. You can also purchase a copy of the book and follow along this season! To contact Timothy and Miriam Harris, email them at timothyandmiriamharris@gmail.com. Note: This podcast is part of the Christian Podcast Community. You can click here to access more episodes and similar podcasts. Works Cited: Cover Art: Brandon Queen | Bible Translations – English Standard Version (unless stated/noted in the interview) | Quotes: authentic from the host and guest (unless stated/pointed out during the podcast) | Song: Turkish Beat - Music by: Muzaproduction from Pixabay --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elderqueen/support--- Support this podcast by subscribing to our Patreon page! CLICK HERE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elderqueen/support

As you get ready to leave for your missions field, here is a conclusion of last thoughts. There are some things that will prove very useful to you and your church, which are contained as Appendices in the print book: A. Practical guidelines for security concerns B. A Sample partnership agreement between your sending church and the sending missions agency C. Questions for missionary candidates, usually applied near the beginning of your journey in missionary training D. Why "church planting" is THE priority in missions Then, some personal reflection encouraging you to keep a personal journal, intentionally build godly friendships that will span time and distance, and, finally, think about recruiting and encouraging others to joy you in eventually become your teammates in ministry on the field.

Tolkien regrets the ‘truncated and compressed form' of the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, while Alan and Don regret the truncated and compressed form of this episode! Join The Man of the West and The Obscure Lord of the Rings Facts guy as Tolkien gives us the fastest version of The Silmarillion ever in our first episode on the Annals of the Kings and Rulers. We beat the Fëanor piñata, visit the Hotel Thangorodrim and watch the Edain follow the second star to the right and straight on 'til morning to reach their new land. Also starring: grim grinning door handles and the avoided-for-that-cometh-anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to roll the dice and dive into the latest edition of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook! With the release of the 2024 Rules, there's been a lot of buzz and speculation about the impact on classes, changes, and improvements. Today, we're diving deep into the changes and evaluating which classes come out as winners and which as losers in this new iteration. So grab your pencil, paper, and your favorite set of dice as we explore the exciting updates in the world of D&D. Let's get started! Summary In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we review the 2024 Players Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). The team talks about the improved art in the book and the reordering of chapters to prioritize learning how to play the game before character creation. We discuss the inclusion of suggested traits based on alignment and attributes in character creation. We discuss the changes to the barbarian class, noting that some subclasses have become more usable. In this part of the episode, we go over the changes to various classes in the 2024 rules of Dungeons and Dragons. We cover the changes to the Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard classes. We highlight the improvements and nerfs to each class, as well as the impact on subclasses and specific features. We have mixed feelings about some classes, while others are seen as winners or losers in the update. In this final part of the episode, we discuss the chapters on Origins, Feats, Equipment, Spells, and the Appendices in the 2024 D&D Player's Handbook. We also let you know our opinions on the changes and improvements made in the new edition. Finally, we answer a listener question about optimizing marshal characters in the 2024 rules. Links Player's Handbook (affiliate link) Takeaways The 2024 rules for D&D have been released, and the hosts provide an overview of the changes in the new Player's Handbook. The art in the book has improved, with a mix of action-adventure and everyday life depictions. Character creation now includes suggested traits based on alignment and attributes, providing a starting point for role-playing. The artificer class is not included in the new handbook, disappointing some players. The barbarian class has seen improvements, with some subclasses becoming more usable. The 2024 rules of Dungeons and Dragons bring changes to various classes, with some classes seeing improvements and others experiencing nerfs. The Bard class remains mostly the same, with some quality of life improvements and a big upgrade at high levels. The Cleric class receives small quality of life improvements, detachment of armor from subclasses, and improved features like Divine Intervention. The Druid class gets offensive improvements for Moon Druids and quality of life improvements for Land Druids. The Fighter class benefits from weapon mastery, allowing for new and powerful combat options. The Monk class is considered the biggest winner of the 2024 rules, with improved features and more options for customization. The Paladin class sees changes to Divine Smite, making it a spell and limiting its usage per turn, but gains increased tankiness. The Ranger class receives mixed reviews, with an overemphasis on Hunter's Mark and potential challenges for Beastmaster Rangers. The Rogue class is seen as better due to the ability to do more than just sneak attack on their turn. The Sorcerer class experiences mixed changes, with improvements to some features but nerfs to powerful metamagic options like Twin Spell. The Warlock class is a mixed bag, with some improvements and downgrades to certain features and subclasses. The Wizard class remains largely the same, with minor tweaks to features and the ability to prepare more spells and change them on a short rest. The 2024 D&D Player's Handbook introduces changes and improvements to character creation and gameplay. The chapters on Origins, Feats, Equipment, Spells, and the Appendices provide detailed information and rules for players. The hosts discuss the impact of changes to feats like Great Weapon Master and Sharpshooter. Marshal characters can now focus more on battlefield control and support, rather than pure damage. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. It's a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. If you love the show, consider joining us on Patreon, where backers at the $5 and above tiers get ad free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT.Podcast, can chat directly to members of the RPGBOT team and community on the RPGBOT.Discord, and can join us for live-streamed recordings. Support us on Amazon.com when you purchase products recommended in the show at the following link: https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra Twitter: @RPGBOTDOTNET Facebook: rpgbotbotdotnet Bluesky:rpgbot.bsky.social Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games Twitter: @GravenAshes YouTube@ashravenmedia Randall James @JackAmateur Amateurjack.com Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati  

It's time to roll the dice and dive into the latest edition of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook! With the release of the 2024 Rules, there's been a lot of buzz and speculation about the impact on classes, changes, and improvements. Today, we're diving deep into the changes and evaluating which classes come out as winners and which as losers in this new iteration. So grab your pencil, paper, and your favorite set of dice as we explore the exciting updates in the world of D&D. Let's get started! Summary In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we review the 2024 Players Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). The team talks about the improved art in the book and the reordering of chapters to prioritize learning how to play the game before character creation. We discuss the inclusion of suggested traits based on alignment and attributes in character creation. We discuss the changes to the barbarian class, noting that some subclasses have become more usable. In this part of the episode, we go over the changes to various classes in the 2024 rules of Dungeons and Dragons. We cover the changes to the Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard classes. We highlight the improvements and nerfs to each class, as well as the impact on subclasses and specific features. We have mixed feelings about some classes, while others are seen as winners or losers in the update. In this final part of the episode, we discuss the chapters on Origins, Feats, Equipment, Spells, and the Appendices in the 2024 D&D Player's Handbook. We also let you know our opinions on the changes and improvements made in the new edition. Finally, we answer a listener question about optimizing marshal characters in the 2024 rules. Links Player's Handbook (affiliate link) Takeaways The 2024 rules for D&D have been released, and the hosts provide an overview of the changes in the new Player's Handbook. The art in the book has improved, with a mix of action-adventure and everyday life depictions. Character creation now includes suggested traits based on alignment and attributes, providing a starting point for role-playing. The artificer class is not included in the new handbook, disappointing some players. The barbarian class has seen improvements, with some subclasses becoming more usable. The 2024 rules of Dungeons and Dragons bring changes to various classes, with some classes seeing improvements and others experiencing nerfs. The Bard class remains mostly the same, with some quality of life improvements and a big upgrade at high levels. The Cleric class receives small quality of life improvements, detachment of armor from subclasses, and improved features like Divine Intervention. The Druid class gets offensive improvements for Moon Druids and quality of life improvements for Land Druids. The Fighter class benefits from weapon mastery, allowing for new and powerful combat options. The Monk class is considered the biggest winner of the 2024 rules, with improved features and more options for customization. The Paladin class sees changes to Divine Smite, making it a spell and limiting its usage per turn, but gains increased tankiness. The Ranger class receives mixed reviews, with an overemphasis on Hunter's Mark and potential challenges for Beastmaster Rangers. The Rogue class is seen as better due to the ability to do more than just sneak attack on their turn. The Sorcerer class experiences mixed changes, with improvements to some features but nerfs to powerful metamagic options like Twin Spell. The Warlock class is a mixed bag, with some improvements and downgrades to certain features and subclasses. The Wizard class remains largely the same, with minor tweaks to features and the ability to prepare more spells and change them on a short rest. The 2024 D&D Player's Handbook introduces changes and improvements to character creation and gameplay. The chapters on Origins, Feats, Equipment, Spells, and the Appendices provide detailed information and rules for players. The hosts discuss the impact of changes to feats like Great Weapon Master and Sharpshooter. Marshal characters can now focus more on battlefield control and support, rather than pure damage. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. It's a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. If you love the show, consider joining us on Patreon, where backers at the $5 and above tiers get ad free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT.Podcast, can chat directly to members of the RPGBOT team and community on the RPGBOT.Discord, and can join us for live-streamed recordings. Support us on Amazon.com when you purchase products recommended in the show at the following link: https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra Twitter: @RPGBOTDOTNET Facebook: rpgbotbotdotnet Bluesky:rpgbot.bsky.social Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games Twitter: @GravenAshes YouTube@ashravenmedia Randall James @JackAmateur Amateurjack.com Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati  

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Towards shutdownable agents via stochastic choice, published by EJT on July 8, 2024 on LessWrong. We[1] have a new paper testing the Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP). The abstract and main-text is below. Appendices are in the linked PDF. Abstract Some worry that advanced artificial agents may resist being shut down. The Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP) is an idea for ensuring that doesn't happen. A key part of the IPP is using a novel 'Discounted REward for Same-Length Trajectories (DREST)' reward function to train agents to: 1. pursue goals effectively conditional on each trajectory-length (be 'USEFUL') 2. choose stochastically between different trajectory-lengths (be 'NEUTRAL' about trajectory-lengths). In this paper, we propose evaluation metrics for USEFULNESS and NEUTRALITY. We use a DREST reward function to train simple agents to navigate gridworlds, and we find that these agents learn to be USEFUL and NEUTRAL. Our results thus suggest that DREST reward functions could also train advanced agents to be USEFUL and NEUTRAL, and thereby make these advanced agents useful and shutdownable. 1. Introduction 1.1. The shutdown problem Let 'advanced agent' refer to an artificial agent that can autonomously pursue complex goals in the wider world. We might see the arrival of advanced agents within the next few decades. There are strong economic incentives to create such agents, and creating systems like them is the stated goal of companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind. The rise of advanced agents would bring with it both benefits and risks. One risk is that these agents learn misaligned goals: goals that we don't want them to have [Leike et al., 2017, Hubinger et al., 2019, Russell, 2019, Carlsmith, 2021, Bengio et al., 2023, Ngo et al., 2023]. Advanced agents with misaligned goals might try to prevent us shutting them down [Omohundro, 2008, Bostrom, 2012, Soares et al., 2015, Russell, 2019, Thornley, 2024a]. After all, most goals can't be achieved after shutdown. As Stuart Russell puts it, 'you can't fetch the coffee if you're dead' [Russell, 2019, p.141]. Advanced agents with misaligned goals might resist shutdown by (for example) pretending to have aligned goals while covertly seeking to escape human control [Hubinger et al., 2019, Ngo et al., 2023]. Agents that succeed in resisting shutdown could go on to frustrate human interests in various ways. 'The shutdown problem' is the problem of training advanced agents that won't resist shutdown [Soares et al., 2015, Thornley, 2024a]. 1.2. A proposed solution The Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP) is a proposed solution to the shutdown problem [Thornley, 2024b]. Simplifying slightly, the idea is that we train agents to be neutral about when they get shut down. More precisely, the idea is that we train agents to satisfy: Preferences Only Between Same-Length Trajectories (POST) 1. The agent has a preference between many pairs of same-length trajectories (i.e. many pairs of trajectories in which the agent is shut down after the same length of time). 2. The agent lacks a preference between every pair of different-length trajectories (i.e. every pair of trajectories in which the agent is shut down after different lengths of time). By 'preference,' we mean a behavioral notion [Savage, 1954, p.17, Dreier, 1996, p.28, Hausman, 2011, §1.1]. On this notion, an agent prefers X to Y if and only if the agent would deterministically choose X over Y in choices between the two. An agent lacks a preference between X and Y if and only if the agent would stochastically choose between X and Y in choices between the two. So in writing of 'preferences,' we're only making claims about the agent's behavior. We're not claiming that the agent is conscious or anything of that sort. Figure 1a presents a simple example of POST-satisfying ...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Towards shutdownable agents via stochastic choice, published by EJT on July 8, 2024 on LessWrong. We[1] have a new paper testing the Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP). The abstract and main-text is below. Appendices are in the linked PDF. Abstract Some worry that advanced artificial agents may resist being shut down. The Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP) is an idea for ensuring that doesn't happen. A key part of the IPP is using a novel 'Discounted REward for Same-Length Trajectories (DREST)' reward function to train agents to: 1. pursue goals effectively conditional on each trajectory-length (be 'USEFUL') 2. choose stochastically between different trajectory-lengths (be 'NEUTRAL' about trajectory-lengths). In this paper, we propose evaluation metrics for USEFULNESS and NEUTRALITY. We use a DREST reward function to train simple agents to navigate gridworlds, and we find that these agents learn to be USEFUL and NEUTRAL. Our results thus suggest that DREST reward functions could also train advanced agents to be USEFUL and NEUTRAL, and thereby make these advanced agents useful and shutdownable. 1. Introduction 1.1. The shutdown problem Let 'advanced agent' refer to an artificial agent that can autonomously pursue complex goals in the wider world. We might see the arrival of advanced agents within the next few decades. There are strong economic incentives to create such agents, and creating systems like them is the stated goal of companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind. The rise of advanced agents would bring with it both benefits and risks. One risk is that these agents learn misaligned goals: goals that we don't want them to have [Leike et al., 2017, Hubinger et al., 2019, Russell, 2019, Carlsmith, 2021, Bengio et al., 2023, Ngo et al., 2023]. Advanced agents with misaligned goals might try to prevent us shutting them down [Omohundro, 2008, Bostrom, 2012, Soares et al., 2015, Russell, 2019, Thornley, 2024a]. After all, most goals can't be achieved after shutdown. As Stuart Russell puts it, 'you can't fetch the coffee if you're dead' [Russell, 2019, p.141]. Advanced agents with misaligned goals might resist shutdown by (for example) pretending to have aligned goals while covertly seeking to escape human control [Hubinger et al., 2019, Ngo et al., 2023]. Agents that succeed in resisting shutdown could go on to frustrate human interests in various ways. 'The shutdown problem' is the problem of training advanced agents that won't resist shutdown [Soares et al., 2015, Thornley, 2024a]. 1.2. A proposed solution The Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP) is a proposed solution to the shutdown problem [Thornley, 2024b]. Simplifying slightly, the idea is that we train agents to be neutral about when they get shut down. More precisely, the idea is that we train agents to satisfy: Preferences Only Between Same-Length Trajectories (POST) 1. The agent has a preference between many pairs of same-length trajectories (i.e. many pairs of trajectories in which the agent is shut down after the same length of time). 2. The agent lacks a preference between every pair of different-length trajectories (i.e. every pair of trajectories in which the agent is shut down after different lengths of time). By 'preference,' we mean a behavioral notion [Savage, 1954, p.17, Dreier, 1996, p.28, Hausman, 2011, §1.1]. On this notion, an agent prefers X to Y if and only if the agent would deterministically choose X over Y in choices between the two. An agent lacks a preference between X and Y if and only if the agent would stochastically choose between X and Y in choices between the two. So in writing of 'preferences,' we're only making claims about the agent's behavior. We're not claiming that the agent is conscious or anything of that sort. Figure 1a presents a simple example of POST-satisfying ...

Dans ce dixième épisode, on révèle les surnoms que tous avaient sur les plateaux, la fois où Julien et Provençal on prit un bain ensemble et un hommage à une vedette oubliée.La Boutique des Appendices ►https://www.lesappendices.tv/Abonnez-vous à notre chaîne Youtube pour RIEN MANQUER ► https://bit.ly/3wSmWXOLe podcast de JF Provençal et Julien "Les Appendeux" ► https://www.youtube.com/@lesappendeuxLeur Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/lesappendeuxNos réseaux:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/lesappendicesInstagram ► https://www.instagram.com/lesappendices/ TIK TOK ► https://www.tiktok.com/@les_appendicesDISCORD► : https://discord.gg/5QNPcW9eWd Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

THE EVERLASTING MAN by Gilbert Kyle Chesterton APPENDICES Gilbert Kyle Chesterton remains one of the great voices of Christian faith in the last century, and it is a tragedy that more Christians are not familiar with his work. C. S. Lewis credits Chesterton, and in particular The Everlasting Man, with displaying the rationality of the Christian worldview par excellence to him, though it was not one work alone that changed his mind, but a progressive development away from atheism and toward God, that Lewis discusses. I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. It was while in the army in WWI that Lewis said: It was here that I first read a volume of Chesterton's essays. I had never heard of him and had no idea of what he stood for; nor can I quite understand why he made such an immediate conquest of me. It might have been expected that my pessimism, my atheism, and my hatred of sentiment would have made him to me the least congenial of all authors. It would almost seem that Providence, or some "second cause" of a very obscure kind, quite over-rules our previous tastes when It decides to bring two minds together. Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. I was by now a sufficiently experienced reader to distinguish liking from agreement. I did not need to accept what Chesterton said in order to enjoy it.... For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or "paradoxical" I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question. Moreover, strange as it may seem, I liked him for his goodness. I can attribute this taste to myself freely (even at that age) because it was a liking for goodness which had nothing to do with any attempt to be good myself. I have never felt the dislike of goodness which seems to be quite common in better men than me.... It was a matter of taste: I felt the "charm" of goodness as a man feels the charm of a woman he has no intention of marrying. It is, indeed, at that distance that its "charm" is most apparent. It seems as though Lewis himself took up this "charm" when he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia years later, introducing the real-world content of the Gospel message in a digestible form for those who might not wish to taste it full strength, and thus avoiding the censor. In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. This is a point that motivates ALL of our work here on Simple Gifts ... ALL of God's creation, and thus all of man's best creative efforts, when properly understood point us to the Creator. For Lewis, one work in particular was the proverbial "straw": Then I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense. Somehow I contrived not to be too badly shaken. You will remember that I already thought Chesterton the most sensible man alive "apart from his Christianity". Now, I veritably believe, I thought--I didn't of course say; words would have revealed the nonsense--that Christianity itself was very sensible "apart from its Christianity". We present here this text with the hope that the effect might be reproduced in others, too. Enjoy!   If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal via https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist   Take a moment to enjoy our weekly Photos of the Day videos here - short slideshows with relaxing music ...https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9GPi4HTqoZ8xFgTldbBaA   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelism #hegelianism #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #paradox #oxymoron

Welcome to the Appendices! In this series, Fallon and I will go back and dive into some of the details of diplomatic life and work that we missed in the main seasons. In this episode, we revisit the basics of the U.S. Foreign Service history, and its evolution through time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alexisjhuff/support

Mike dives deep into Shadowed Keep of the Borderlands by Raging Swan Press. 00:00 Show Start 01:39 What Is Shadowed Keep of the Borderlands? 04:59 Why is it So Good? 07:07 What Do You Get? 10:09 Dulwich Overview and Quick References 18:24 The Duchy of Ashlar 22:42 The Shadowed Keep 31:35 Appendices and Player Handouts 33:35 My Own Shadowed Keep Campaign 42:22 Final Recommendation: Buy It Links Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: https://shop.slyflourish.com/ Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands (affiliate link)

Welcome to "Deep Dive into the Prince of Nothing Trilogy," where we explore the intricacies, themes, and mysteries of R. Scott Bakker's epic fantasy series. Join us as we embark on a journey through the appendices and spoilers of this captivating saga, delving into the depths of its world-building, characters, and philosophical underpinnings.In this episode, we dissect various elements of the trilogy, from the enigmatic No-God and the machinations of the Consult to the profound questions of free will and determinism. Our discussions are fueled by curiosity and a passion for storytelling, as we uncover hidden layers, analyze symbolic motifs, and contemplate the broader implications of Bakker's masterwork.Whether you're a seasoned reader of the series or discovering it for the first time, our podcast offers a thought-provoking exploration of the Prince of Nothing trilogy, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in a world of magic, intrigue, and existential reflection.PageChewing.comPAGECHEWING: Comics & Manga PodcastFilm Chewing PodcastBuy me a coffeeLinktreeLogo by The GlimmerTwin Art HouseJoin Riverside.fm

Dave, last week we said that we were getting very close to Armageddon, and I don't know if that got anybody out there excited, but I think you'd better spell it out exactly what you meant by that.Dave: Well, of course, we are at least seven years away, from my understanding. A pre-Trib Rapture…so the Rapture will occur first, take the true Christians out of here…Tom: Which is imminent, could happen at any time.

Don't miss this episode. All four of us are in on this one to talk about the recruiting season. It's January and the international teacher recruiting season is in full swing. It's not over. The second half of this New Years show is a roundtable (except Matt, who doesn't like New Years) of stories from around the world. Kent drinks Jack Daniels with older Grecians in Greece. Greg skips up to Canada. JP dons her mint colored Kimono and parades through the streets of Tokyo. Visit Amazon and add Greg's second book to your arsenal of research before you interview. ⁠International Teacher: The Best-kept Secret in Education⁠ (In the Appendices, you will find a comprehensive list of great books and useful websites for your research) Also mentioned in this episode, the ⁠UNI Overseas Teacher Fair 2024⁠ is being held in Iowa from Feb 3-4. The 2024 signature ⁠ISS Global Recruitment Fair⁠ is being held in New York this year! Feb 8-11. Sign up!

Summary.EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF)[1] has historically had a somewhat scattershot focus within “EA meta.” This makes it difficult for us to know what to optimize for or for donors to evaluate our performanceWe propose that we switch towards focusing our grantmaking on Principles-First EA[2]This includes supporting:research that aids prioritization across different cause areasprojects that build communities focused on impartial, scope sensitive and ambitious altruisminfrastructure, especially epistemic infrastructure, to support these aimsWe hope that the tighter focus area will make it easier for donors and community members to evaluate the EA Infrastructure Fund, and decide for themselves whether EAIF is a good fit to donate to or otherwise supportOur tentative plan is to collect feedback from the community, donors, and stakeholders until the end of this year. Early 2024 will focus on refining our approach and helping ease transition for grantees. We'll begin piloting our new vision in Q2 2024.Introduction and background [...] ---Outline:(01:17) Introduction and background context(04:29) Proposal(05:10) Examples of projects under the new EAIF's purview(06:01) Examples of projects that are outside of the updated scope(06:46) Why focus on Principles-First EA?(08:43) Potential Metrics(10:05) Potential Alternatives for Donors and Grantees(10:52) Tentative Timeline(11:46) Appendices(11:53) Examples of projects that I (Caleb) would be excited for this fund to support(13:00) Scope Assessment of Hypothetical EAIF Applications(15:53) Key ConsiderationsThe original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 6th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FnNJfgLgsHdjuMvzH/ea-infrastructure-fund-s-plan-to-focus-on-principles-first --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

In this BONUS EPISODE of Completely Arbortrary, hear the first trailer for our new December theme month: TREEYAZAKI, a month-long exploration of the trees of Studio Ghibli and the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Also, stick around for a big announcement about the way you support Completely Arbortrary. Then, listen to some cutting room floor audio from three mainline episodes!Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex CrowsonJoin the Cone of the Month ClubSupport the show on PatreonFollow along on InstagramFind Arbortrary merch on our storeFind additional reading on our websiteCover art by Jillian BartholdMusic by Aves and The Mini-VandalsThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5803202/advertisement

ANARE occupation at Heard Island ran short but intense, and sometimes in tents.  In addition to large quantities of wind and sleet the island provided a training ground for Antarctic travelers and their dogs.  Challenging maritime approaches led to innovative approaches by maritime challengers, and everyone got home safely, this episode. 

Gandalf explains just how important those “off screen” battles were at the end of the Third Age, as The Man of the West finally concludes his reading in the Appendices on Durin's Folk, wrapping up with a beautiful example of friendship featuring Legolas and Gimli.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5854727/advertisement

The Man of the West continues his readings about Durin's Folk from the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings; Thrór makes a bad decision, Nár begs him to reconsider, Náin challenges a bully, and Dáin finishes the job.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5854727/advertisement

“Appendices”, at the back of this book for additional materials to aid in understanding our Buddhist practice. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

I catch up with Commercial Lending Expert Vin Vieten on the FFIEC's Loan Accommodation Guidance issued late last month. The guidance provides guidance to federal banking regulatory agencies on prudent commercial real estate loan accommodations and workouts. The main points are:Regulators will not criticize financial institutions for engaging in prudent loan workout arrangements with creditworthy borrowers, even if the modified loans are adversely classified due to weaknesses.Modified loans to borrowers who can repay according to reasonable terms will not be adversely classified solely due to declines in collateral value below the loan balance.The guidance covers risk management expectations, loan classification, regulatory reporting, and accounting considerations for commercial real estate loan accommodations and workouts.Short-term accommodations are encouraged as a tool to help borrowers, and the guidance provides principles for prudent risk management of these accommodations.For loan workouts, regulators will evaluate the effectiveness of a financial institution's practices, including having appropriate policies, documentation standards, risk monitoring, and regulatory reporting processes.The guidance provides principles for classification of renewed/restructured loans, problem loans dependent on collateral for repayment, and restructurings with partial charge-offs.The statement emphasizes coordination between the loan workout function and accounting/regulatory reporting staff.Appendices provide loan workout examples, relevant supervisory guidance and rules, valuation concepts, adverse classification definitions, and a summary of current expected credit loss accounting.In summary, the guidance aims to promote consistent supervisory approaches and transparency for commercial real estate loan accommodations and workouts. The goal is to avoid impeding credit availability to sound borrowers while maintaining prudent lending practices.Here Vin's take on why this is A+ guidance.

Finishing off the main books!Podmoot will be going on a season break with the hopes of returning in November. In the meantime remember to follow Mel's adventures in New Zealand by following her on her instagram below.Find the podcast on social mediaTwitter, Facebook, Instagram, YoutubeJoin the DiscordSend us an email: podmoot@gmail.comWebsite: www.podmoot.comFind Kristin on Twitter and InstagramFind Mel on Twitter and InstagramThe icon for our podcast was made by Pixel N' Beams. Find her on twitter @beams_nThe music for our show was composed by Doric_007

The Man of the West wraps up a trilogy of episodes on Beren & Lúthien in the Third Age by visiting the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen in the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings. Aragorn may be abashed, but he's also glad Elrond is no Thingol.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5854727/advertisement

Find the podcast on social mediaTwitter, Facebook, Instagram, YoutubeJoin the DiscordSend us an email: podmoot@gmail.comWebsite: www.podmoot.comFind Kristin on Twitter and InstagramFind Mel on Twitter and InstagramThe icon for our podcast was made by Pixel N' Beams. Find her on twitter @beams_nThe music for our show was composed by Doric_007

Find the podcast on social mediaTwitter, Facebook, Instagram, YoutubeJoin the DiscordSend us an email: podmoot@gmail.comWebsite: www.podmoot.comFind Kristin on Twitter and InstagramFind Mel on Twitter and InstagramThe icon for our podcast was made by Pixel N' Beams. Find her on twitter @beams_nThe music for our show was composed by Doric_007

The Man of the West joins the Tolkiens on their vacation and looks at the concerns Tolkien had with the Appendices and the printers. More perfect Tolkien impatience, and the reviews for The Lord of the Rings begin to come in. Venice moves higher up Alan's bucket list.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5854727/advertisement

We apologise for the delay on this episode! But it's a great one! We get to discuss one of Mel's favourite topics: Aragorn!Find the podcast on social mediaTwitter, Facebook, Instagram, YoutubeJoin the DiscordSend us an email: podmoot@gmail.comWebsite: www.podmoot.comFind Kristin on Twitter and InstagramFind Mel on Twitter and InstagramThe icon for our podcast was made by Pixel N' Beams. Find her on twitter @beams_nThe music for our show was composed by Doric_007

Join The Man of the West as he takes a deeper look into Tolkien's process of writing the Appendices, as seen in the Letters and Carpenter's biography.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5854727/advertisement

In this bonus episode, Marcelle is joined by Michelle Thompson to discuss Hogwarts Legacy! If you've been curious about this game and the shitstorm surrounding it, think of this convo as your primer! We'll be back in two weeks to add to our Appendices. If you want more of Michelle, check out her podcast Never Was a Gamer! If you want to watch Stephanie Sterling's full video about Hogwarts Legacy, check it out here!Enjoyed the episode? Get more bonus content just like it on Patreon! You can become a supporter at any tier for more perks and bonus content include episodes, interviews, bloopers, comics, merch and more. If becoming a paying subscriber isn't in the cards right now, no stress! Please leave us a review instead — it truly helps sustain the show. Of course, you can always follow us on Instagram or Twitter @ohwitchplease to stay connected. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Kali and Andie dive into “A Short Rest,” which is chapter three of The Hobbit, and about 36 minutes of the extended edition of “An Unexpected Journey." This section is really where we start to get into bigger departures from the source material, while also weaving in more from the Appendices. Our discussion includes:The smell of elves — and how the elves act in the movie compared to the bookA song about "a merry old inn"Wargs as pets?The White Council and the role it plays in the bigger pictureAnd don't forget to join Tolkien with Friends on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tolkienwithfriendsTwitter: https://twitter.com/TolkienFriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/TolkienwithFriends

General Business Plan OutlineI. Executive Summary  * Brief overview of the business idea, target market, competitive advantage, and financial projections  * Detailed description of the product or service being offered and its unique selling proposition (USP)  * Brief summary of the target market, including demographic information and key characteristics  * Overview of the competition and the business's competitive advantage  * Financial projections, including revenue, expenses, and profitabilityII. Business Description  * Detailed description of the business mission, vision, objectives, legal structure, ownership, and management team  * Business mission statement outlining the purpose and goals of the business  * Vision statement that describes the desired future state of the business  * Objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART)  * Legal structure, including the type of business (e.g., LLC, corporation, sole proprietorship) and ownership structure  * Management team, including key personnel, their qualifications, and responsibilitiesIII. Market Analysis  * Comprehensive analysis of the target market, including size, demographics, growth potential, competition, and market trends  * Market size and growth potential, including key market segments and their size, growth rates, and potential for profitability  * Demographic information, including age, gender, income, and other relevant characteristics  * Analysis of the competition, including their strengths, weaknesses, and market share  * Overview of market trends, including emerging technologies, consumer preferences, and regulatory changesIV. Marketing and Sales Strategy  * Clear plan for reaching and acquiring customers, including marketing channels, pricing strategy, and sales projections  * Marketing channels that will be used to reach the target market, such as social media, email, and print advertising  * Pricing strategy that is competitive and aligned with the value proposition of the business  * Sales projections, including sales volume and revenue targets for the short- and long-termV. Operations Plan  * Description of the day-to-day operations of the business, including production process, suppliers, inventory management, and logistics  * Production process, including the steps involved, resources required, and quality control measures  * Suppliers, including the sources of raw materials, equipment, and other resources required for the business  * Inventory management, including the management of inventory levels, ordering, and storage  * Logistics, including transportation, warehousing, and distributionVI. Financial Projections  * Detailed financial projections, including revenue and expense forecasts, cash flow projections, balance sheets, and profit and loss statements  * Revenue projections that are realistic and aligned with the sales and marketing strategy  * Expense projections that take into account all costs associated with operating the business, including fixed and variable costs  * Cash flow projections that demonstrate the ability to manage cash flow effectively  * Balance sheets that provide an overview of the assets, liabilities, and equity of the business  * Profit and loss statements that demonstrate profitability and sustainabilityVII. Funding Requirements  * Clear statement of funding requirements, amount of funding required, use of funds, and expected return on investment  * Funding requirements that are realistic and aligned with the financial projections and business objectives  * Use of funds that is clearly defined and demonstrates how the funds will be used to achieve the business objectives  * Expected return on investment that is attractive to potential investors and demonstrates the potential for profitabilityVIII. Risk Analysis  * Assessment of potential risks and challenges, along with plan for mitigating those risks and addressing challenges  * Identification of potential risks and challenges that the business may face, including market, financial, legal, and operational  * Assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of each risk and challenge  * Mitigation strategies for each risk and challenge, including contingency plans and risk management processes  * Plan for regular monitoring and review of risks and challenges to ensure timely mitigation and proactive managementIX. Exit Strategy  * Plan for exiting the business, whether through a sale, merger, or other means, along with an estimated timeline and potential exit valuations  * Description of the preferred exit strategy and the criteria for triggering an exit  * Timeline for executing the exit strategy, including key milestones and objectives  * Estimated exit valuations, including potential return on investment and factors that may impact the valuation  * Plan for communicating the exit strategy to investors, employees, and other stakeholdersX. Appendices  * Supporting materials and additional information that provide context and background for the business plan  * Marketing materials, such as brochures, flyers, and advertisements  * Relevant research and analysis, including market research, competitor analysis, and industry reports  * Legal documents, such as licenses, permits, and contracts  * Financial documents, such as tax returns, financial statements, and bank statements  * Resumes and biographies of key personnel, including the management team and board of directorsExecutive Summary PromptUse and analyze the information below to create an executive summary for a business for [your business that ChatGPT gave along with the description of the business]Insert Executive Summary information ChatGPT gave youExecutive Summary  * Brief overview of the business idea, target market, competitive advantage, and financial projections  * Detailed description of the product or service being offered and its unique selling proposition (USP)  * Brief summary of the target market, including demographic information and key characteristics  * Overview of the competition and the business's competitive advantage  * Financial projections, including revenue, expenses, and profitabilityBusiness Description PromptUse the above information and the information below to write a detailed Business description for [your business].Insert Business Description information ChatGPT gave youBusiness Description  * Detailed description of the business mission, vision, objectives, legal structure, ownership, and management team  * Business mission statement outlining the purpose and goals of the business  * Vision statement that describes the desired future state of the business  * Objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART)  * Legal structure, including the type of business (e.g., LLC, corporation, sole proprietorship) and ownership structure  * Management team, including key personnel, their qualifications, and responsibilitiesMarket Analysis PromptUse the above information and the information below to write a detailed market analysis for [your business].Insert Market Analysis information ChatGPT gave youMarketing and Sales Strategy PromptUse the above information and the information below to write a detailed marketing and sales strategy for [your business].Insert Marketing and Sales Strategy information ChatGPT gave youOperations Plan Prompt Use the above information and the information below to write a detailed operations plan for [your business].Insert Operations Plan information ChatGPT gave youFinancial Projections PromptUse the above information and the information below to write detailed financial projections for [your business].Insert Financial Projections information ChatGPT gave youInsert this as well: My goal is to make in partnership with Antonio T. Smith Jr. $250 million profit for myself. Insert the one month, three month, six month, twelve month, 24 month, 36 month, 48 month, and 60 month sales projections and goals ChatGPT gave you from Prompt #7 Funding Requirements PromptUse the above information and the information below to write detailed funding requirements for [your business].Insert Funding Requirements information ChatGPT gave youRisk Analysis PromptPrompt 1: Use the above information and the information below to write a detailed risk analysis for [your business].Insert Risk Analysis information ChatGPT gave youPrompt 2: Give me a detailed comprehensive plan for mitigating the below risks:[Insert risks ChatGPT gave you]Exit Strategy PromptUse the above information and the information below to write a detailed exit strategy for [your business].Insert Exit Strategy information ChatGPT gave youAppendices PromptUse the above information and the information below to write detailed appendices for [your business].Insert Appendices information ChatGPT gave youPrompts to Present to Investors for GrantsPrompt #1 Using the information above and the information below, write a detailed, in-depth and attractive presentation to present this app for funding from banks and grant organizations:[Tell what the funding is for]Prompt #2 Take this paragraph and include market research, marketing and everything mention above and create an attractive presentation to present this app to any audience to get funding.Prompt for 25-Chapter Book(Prompt #2 from yesterday)I need to write a book that contains 25 chapters on [your subject] and being an empath, and I want to create an app that can coincide with the book. My goal is to use the book as a free lead magnet for the app. In the case of me, we need to nuance this subject with these by having a great focus on:[Enter everything you want]For now, I am only interested in the names of the chapters. Can you list the 25 chapters?Things Needed to Have an Accredited/Certified Coursehttps://cpduk.co.uk/become-accredited Online course has to be a paid courseMust have a certain layoutEach part must have quizzesHave something to download (i.e. ebook)Tell what students need for the course (i.e. book, videos, podcast)Have videos for your courseSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-secret-to-success/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Using ChatGPT for Doctorate's Level Courses, Writing Business Plans, Video Game Development, and Creating In-Depth Podcast Episodes3/27/23Steps for Creating Doctorate Level CoursesGive ChatGPT this promptI would like a doctorate course outline on (whatever you want to learn how to do)Example PromptI would like a doctorate course outline on developing a video game in the Unity Engine. C# will be used as well.After your outline is given, type this prompt into ChatGPT, and copy and paste each bullet point into the prompt:Give me an in-depth doctorate course outline on (bullet point)Once you are given an in-depth doctorate course on each bullet point, take each of those bullet points and give ChatGPT this prompt:Please give me an in-depth education on (bullet point)OpenAI just announced GPT-4, an updated chatbot that can pass everything from a bar exam to AP Biology. Here's a list of difficult exams both AI versions have passed.https://www.businessinsider.com/list-here-are-the-exams-chatgpt-has-passed-so-far-2023-1?op=1#usa-biology-olympiad-semifinal-exam-5 With ChatGPT, Teachers Can Plan Lessons, Write Emails, and More. What's the Catch?https://www.edweek.org/technology/with-chatgpt-teachers-can-plan-lessons-write-emails-and-more-whats-the-catch/2023/01 Business PlanTo get an outline for a business plan, give ChatGPT this prompt:“Give me an outline for a business plan that banks are sure to approve at the top funding rate with low interests.”ChatGPT AnswerI. Executive Summary  * Brief overview of the business idea, target market, competitive advantage, and financial projections  * Detailed description of the product or service being offered and its unique selling proposition (USP)  * Brief summary of the target market, including demographic information and key characteristics  * Overview of the competition and the business's competitive advantage  * Financial projections, including revenue, expenses, and profitabilityII. Business Description  * Detailed description of the business mission, vision, objectives, legal structure, ownership, and management team  * Business mission statement outlining the purpose and goals of the business  * Vision statement that describes the desired future state of the business  * Objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART)  * Legal structure, including the type of business (e.g., LLC, corporation, sole proprietorship) and ownership structure  * Management team, including key personnel, their qualifications, and responsibilitiesIII. Market Analysis  * Comprehensive analysis of the target market, including size, demographics, growth potential, competition, and market trends  * Market size and growth potential, including key market segments and their size, growth rates, and potential for profitability  * Demographic information, including age, gender, income, and other relevant characteristics  * Analysis of the competition, including their strengths, weaknesses, and market share  * Overview of market trends, including emerging technologies, consumer preferences, and regulatory changesIV. Marketing and Sales Strategy  * Clear plan for reaching and acquiring customers, including marketing channels, pricing strategy, and sales projections  * Marketing channels that will be used to reach the target market, such as social media, email, and print advertising  * Pricing strategy that is competitive and aligned with the value proposition of the business  * Sales projections, including sales volume and revenue targets for the short- and long-termV. Operations Plan  * Description of the day-to-day operations of the business, including production process, suppliers, inventory management, and logistics  * Production process, including the steps involved, resources required, and quality control measures  * Suppliers, including the sources of raw materials, equipment, and other resources required for the business  * Inventory management, including the management of inventory levels, ordering, and storage  * Logistics, including transportation, warehousing, and distributionVI. Financial Projections  * Detailed financial projections, including revenue and expense forecasts, cash flow projections, balance sheets, and profit and loss statements  * Revenue projections that are realistic and aligned with the sales and marketing strategy  * Expense projections that take into account all costs associated with operating the business, including fixed and variable costs  * Cash flow projections that demonstrate the ability to manage cash flow effectively  * Balance sheets that provide an overview of the assets, liabilities, and equity of the business  * Profit and loss statements that demonstrate profitability and sustainabilityVII. Funding Requirements  * Clear statement of funding requirements, amount of funding required, use of funds, and expected return on investment  * Funding requirements that are realistic and aligned with the financial projections and business objectives  * Use of funds that is clearly defined and demonstrates how the funds will be used to achieve the business objectives  * Expected return on investment that is attractive to potential investors and demonstrates the potential for profitabilityVIII. Risk Analysis  * Assessment of potential risks and challenges, along with plan for mitigating those risks and addressing challenges  * Identification of potential risks and challenges that the business may face, including market, financial, legal, and operational  * Assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of each risk and challenge  * Mitigation strategies for each risk and challenge, including contingency plans and risk management processes  * Plan for regular monitoring and review of risks and challenges to ensure timely mitigation and proactive managementIX. Exit Strategy  * Plan for exiting the business, whether through a sale, merger, or other means, along with estimated timeline and potential exit valuations  * Description of the preferred exit strategy and the criteria for triggering an exit  * Timeline for executing the exit strategy, including key milestones and objectives  * Estimated exit valuations, including potential return on investment and factors that may impact the valuation  * Plan for communicating the exit strategy to investors, employees, and other stakeholdersX. Appendices  * Supporting materials and additional information that provide context and background for the business plan  * Marketing materials, such as brochures, flyers, and advertisements  * Relevant research and analysis, including market research, competitor analysis, and industry reports  * Legal documents, such as licenses, permits, and contracts  * Financial documents, such as tax returns, financial statements, and bank statements  * Resumes and biographies of key personnel, including the management team and board of directorsWhen ChatGPT give you an outline for a business plan, ask ChatGPT to explain each part of the business plan“Make this an outline, put it into bullet points, and make it extremely detailed.”Prompt for a Letter to the 3 Credit BureausCan you write me a letter to the 3 credit bureaus disputing a derogatory item. You can make up any data to fill up the required fields. This is just an example for the students that I am teaching. I simply want to show your capability and what you can do. Keep in mind I want the derogatory removed from my credit.Here's what you should include.Current dateYour information (name, contact info, date of birth and account number)The credit bureau's contact informationA brief description of the error (no need to regale them with a long and complicated story)Any documents you may have that can help prove your point, such as payment records or court documents (make sure to mention that you're sending these in the letter)Instructions about what you want the credit bureau to do (reinvestigate and remove the item from your report)A copy of your credit report with the error highlightedA scanned copy of your government-issued ID (such as your driver's license) and a bill or some other document to prove your addressSample credit dispute letterBob Loblaw123 First LaneAnytown, FL 12345DOB: 01/01/01Account#: 1234-56789TransUnionPO Box 2000Chester, PA 19016May 1, 2018To whom it may concern:I am writing to inform you about an error I noticed on my TransUnion credit report (account number 1234-56789).Date of item being disputed: (add the date of the item here)Description of dispute: (add a brief description of what is showing up on your credit report and why it's wrong here)Enclosure: (list any supporting evidence you're sending along, such as a billing statement or a credit report with the highlighted error)I am requesting that you remove this information from my credit report.Thank you for your help.Sincerely,(sign your name here)Dear Sir/Madam,I am writing to dispute a derogatory item that is listed on my credit report. My personal information is as follows:Name: John SmithContact Information: 123 Main Street, Anytown, NY 12345Date of Birth: 01/01/1990Account Number: 987654321The credit bureau I am disputing this item with is Equifax. The bureau's contact information is:Equifax Information Services LLCP.O. Box 740256Atlanta, GA 30374The item I am disputing is a late payment on my credit card account that is showing up as a derogatory item on my credit report. The date of the item is 03/01/2022. I believe this item is a mistake and should not be on my credit report.I have attached a copy of my credit report with the item highlighted, as well as a copy of my payment records showing that I made the payment on time. I am also attaching a copy of my government-issued ID and a bill to prove my address.I am requesting that Equifax investigate this item and remove it from my credit report as soon as possible.Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.Sincerely,John Smith123 Main StreetAnytown, NY 12345(123) 456-7890Steps for Creating In-depth Podcast EpisodesAsk ChatGPT to write you a podcast outline on your podcast topicAfter ChatGPT give you the podcast outline, take each bullet point and ask ChatGPT to write a detailed paragraph for that bullet pointWrite me an introductory paragraph Welcoming listeners and introducing the topic of the episode: (episode topic)“(Voice and style guide: Use a formal and academic tone paired with sophisticated vocabulary and grammar. Provide a thorough and in-depth analysis of the subject matter. Explain complex scientific concepts in a clear “and accessible way. Use examples from a variety of fields, such as psychology and cognitive science. Present counter-arguments and dissenting opinions in a balanced and objective way.)”Write a concise thesis statement and include "the traditional view of retirement and how it's changing in today's world", and give me every conceivable point in my thesis statement that can be drawn from the information I have given you below. To be clear, it is important to make this a master's degree level thesis statement. The information you will need to accomplish this is posted below. (Enter your podcast outline information below the prompts.)Ask ChatGPT to give you 10 titles from your thesis statement You have inspired me to create a 10-part series. I want to begin first with the 10 titles, but it is important that we draw all 10 titles from my thesis statement below. Can you list the 10 titles for my limited podcast special series? (Insert the thesis statement ChatGPT gave you earlier)Prompt for Developing a Video Game in ChatGPTI would like a doctorate course outline on developing a video game in the Unity Engine. C# will be used as well.ChatGPT ResponseHere is the Gaming Class outline:Module 1: Introduction to Unity and C#* Introduction to Unity Engine* Introduction to C# programming language* Creating a simple game in Unity using C#Module 2: Designing the Game* Conceptualizing the game* Developing the storyline* Designing the game mechanics* Developing the game's visual designModule 3: Developing the Game Mechanics* Developing the stealth mechanics* Developing the resource management mechanics* Developing the decision-making mechanics* Developing the puzzle-solving mechanicsPart 1: Beginner Game Mechanics* Developing the basic movement and interaction mechanics for the player character* Implementing basic AI for non-playable characters (NPCs)* Creating a basic game world with simple assets and terrainPart 2: Gaming Mechanics* Developing the stealth mechanics to include more complex AI and player interactions* Implementing loot-dropping mechanics, including random item generation and inventory management* Expanding the game world with more advanced terrain and environmental featuresPart 3: Advanced Game Mechanics* Developing the resource management mechanics to include more complex systems, such as hunger, thirst, and fatigue* Creating more advanced NPC behaviors, such as dialogues, quests, and factions* Adding additional gameplay mechanics, such as crafting, trading, and combatPart 4: Expert Dynamic and AI-Driven Game Mechanics* Developing more dynamic and AI-driven game mechanics, such as procedural generation of the game world, adaptive difficulty, and advanced AI behaviors* Creating complex and dynamic game events, such as natural disasters, changing weather, and NPC interactions* Implementing advanced gameplay mechanics, such as skill-based progression, character customization, and non-linear narrative designModule 4: Developing the Storyline and Narrative* Writing the game script* Developing the game's characters* Developing the game's world* Integrating the game mechanics with the storylineModule 5: User Interface and Controls* Designing the user interface* Implementing the game controls* Testing and refining the user interface and controlsModule 6: Sound and Music* Creating sound effects* Creating background music* Integrating sound and music into the gameModule 7: Polishing and Refining* Testing and debugging the game* Optimizing game performance* Refining the game's mechanics and narrative* Adding final touches to the gameModule 8: Deployment and Distribution* Preparing the game for deployment* Packaging the game for distribution* Deploying the game on multiple platformsModule 9: Marketing and Promotion* Identifying the target audience* Developing marketing strategies* Promoting the game through various channelsModule 10: Ethical Considerations and Conclusion* Addressing ethical considerations in game development* Conclusion and reflection on the game development process* Presenting the final game to the class and receiving feedback.* Addressing ethical considerations in game development, particularly in the portrayal of sensitive topics such as domestic abuse.* Discussing potential impacts and risks associated with the game's narrative and mechanics.* Analyzing potential player responses and addressing potential concerns.* Conducting user testing to evaluate the impact of the game.* Presenting the final game to the class and receiving feedback.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-secret-to-success/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This updated version of Childhood Shadows, a book first published in 1999, adds new details to a compelling account of the Black Dahlia murder-one of Hollywood's most infamous unsolved crimes. Combining personal experience as a close friend of the victim, Elizabeth Short, with in-depth research, Childhood Shadows brings a unique perspective and opens up an intriguing new area of speculation about who the killer may be. Author Mary Pacios sets the stage by recreating the neighborhood she shared with Elizabeth "Bette" Short during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. The war ends, but instead of peace, the horrendous murder of the young and beautiful Elizabeth Short send shock waves through the nation. Years later, haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend, Pacios sets out to discover the true circumstances surrounding her friend's brutal death. Because of her personal relationship with the victim, Pacios gains access to officials close to the case who discuss with her unpublicized details of the murxder and their own privately held theories of who killed the woman known as the Black Dahlia. The research Pacios expects to last only a few months turns into a strange twenty-year odyssey that explodes many of the myths surrounding the victim and her murder.Appendices include photographs, official documents, synopses of the various suspects and an extensive annotated bibliography. .9 months ago #black, #childhood, #dahlia, #hidden, #murder, #of, #orson, #shadows:, #story, #the, #welles

Aliens. UFOs. Bigfoot. Paranormal mysteries --- All Things - Unexplained.**************************January 2023: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its required unclassified report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. This, Part 2, is a review and analysis of the following sections from that unclassified report:Appendices.****************************************

In this episode from the MeatingPod Vault, Bob Hanson, principal of Hanson Tech LLC and Jeff Sindelar, professor and extension meat specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss their work with the North American Meat Institute's Appendices A & B Core Working Group reviewing the science gaps in the 1999 and 2017 versions of the lethality and stabilization guidance documents. They give the scoop on how the various research activities will help meat and poultry processors better utilize the 2021 Appendices A & B revised guidance, which went into effect in December 2022. 

I welcome Etty Yaniv to the podcast this week! Etty lives and works in Brooklyn but is from Tel Aviv. She makes small paintings, drawings and sculptures, but also creates room-sized installations of swirling vortexes of plastic and found materials. She is the founder of Art Spiel, an online arts magazine, that interviews under-represented artists doing rigorous work and also offers reviews of exhibitions at non-profit and artist-run spaces. A new installment of Glue Tawk™ is forthcoming too, for those who love glue. Etty can be found online here: ettyyanivstudio.com (web) @etty.yaniv (Instagram) Art Spiel can be found here: artspiel.org (web) @artspiel (instagram) German & Yiddish definition of Spiel or Shpiel: שפּיל, shpil, 'play' or German: Spiel, 'play' Catch Etty's work in person at her current exhibitions: -"Detachments" curated by Dasha Bazanova at space 776 at LES, NYC (through Oct 5, 2022) -"Fire and Water" - 2 person show w/ Christina Massey, curated by Carol Salmanson, at Hudson Guild Art Gallery in Chelsea NYC (through Nov 2, 2022) -"Appendices" at Nancy Dryfoos Gallery at Kean University, Union, NJ (through December 7, 2022) -“Tides and Currents” curated by Jeanne Ciravolo at AVS gallery UCONN, Groton, CT (through Oct 16 2022) -"Etty Yaniv: Inversion at Palazzo Mora in Venice" 2022 Venice Biennale. Palazzo Mora in Venice, Italy (through Nov 27, 2022) - Art Fuse Review -"Kameyama Triennial," Kameyama, Japan, curated by William Norton and Kei Kihara (Oct 30 - November 19, 2022) -Etty will be an artist-in-residence at the Golden Foundation Artist Residency this October as well! Glue Tawk™: Etty uses Golden's Matte and Gloss Mediums! Artist shoutouts: Paul Klee late drawings, Joanne Ungar, Christina Massey, Carol Salmanson Recommended Writers/Poets: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, W. G. Selbald, Franz Kafka, Virgina Woolf, Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska, Olga Tokarczuk Thank you, Etty! Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/ Amy on IG: @talluts / Open Studio info: Sept 18-19 at Underdonk, Bushwick, 1-6pm Donate to the Peps: Buy Me a Coffee or https://anchor.fm/peptalksforartistspod/support. All music tracks and SFX are licensed from Soundstripe. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/peptalksforartistspod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/peptalksforartistspod/support

Long time Patron and friend Jordan Rempel takes Shawn's spot in the podcast tonight to get into the weeds as we discuss Amazon's insanely ambitious "The Rings of Power" ?

This updated version of Childhood Shadows, a book first published in 1999, adds new details to a compelling account of the Black Dahlia murder-one of Hollywood's most infamous unsolved crimes. Combining personal experience as a close friend of the victim, Elizabeth Short, with in-depth research, Childhood Shadows brings a unique perspective and opens up an intriguing new area of speculation about who the killer may be. Author Mary Pacios sets the stage by recreating the neighborhood she shared with Elizabeth "Bette" Short during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. The war ends, but instead of peace, the horrendous murder of the young and beautiful Elizabeth Short send shock waves through the nation. Years later, haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend, Pacios sets out to discover the true circumstances surrounding her friend's brutal death. Because of her personal relationship with the victim, Pacios gains access to officials close to the case who discuss with her unpublicized details of the murxder and their own privately held theories of who killed the woman known as the Black Dahlia. The research Pacios expects to last only a few months turns into a strange twenty-year odyssey that explodes many of the myths surrounding the victim and her murder.Appendices include photographs, official documents, synopses of the various suspects and an extensive annotated bibliography. . 9 months ago #black, #childhood, #dahlia, #hidden, #murder, #of, #orson, #shadows:, #story, #the, #welles

This updated version of Childhood Shadows, a book first published in 1999, adds new details to a compelling account of the Black Dahlia murder-one of Hollywood's most infamous unsolved crimes. Combining personal experience as a close friend of the victim, Elizabeth Short, with in-depth research, Childhood Shadows brings a unique perspective and opens up an intriguing new area of speculation about who the killer may be. Author Mary Pacios sets the stage by recreating the neighborhood she shared with Elizabeth "Bette" Short during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. The war ends, but instead of peace, the horrendous murder of the young and beautiful Elizabeth Short send shock waves through the nation. Years later, haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend, Pacios sets out to discover the true circumstances surrounding her friend's brutal death. Because of her personal relationship with the victim, Pacios gains access to officials close to the case who discuss with her unpublicized details of the murxder and their own privately held theories of who killed the woman known as the Black Dahlia. The research Pacios expects to last only a few months turns into a strange twenty-year odyssey that explodes many of the myths surrounding the victim and her murder.Appendices include photographs, official documents, synopses of the various suspects and an extensive annotated bibliography. . 9 months ago #black, #childhood, #dahlia, #hidden, #murder, #of, #orson, #shadows:, #story, #the, #welles

In this episode of my weekly podcast: • How build community among my YouTube viewers? ? World news: • Rising Fuel costs – can I go bike/public transport-only? ? Movies/TV: • Superstore (Prime) ? Faith: • Church building as communication ? Books: • The Appendices – Tolkien ? Science: • Science and alternative energy. https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/4/22917801/emissions-new-cars-record-low-uk-electric-vehiclesContinue reading "Superstore; Church Architecture; Tolkien's Appendices; Car Technology" The post Superstore; Church Architecture; Tolkien's Appendices; Car Technology appeared first on Father Roderick.