Podcasts about Charybdis

Eglinton knows Best.Topics in this episode include the real-life versions of John Eglinton and Richard Best, Best's contribution to the study of Irish mythology, how Best supported James Joyce's abandoned music career, what his portrayal in Ulysses gets right and wrong, how the real Best felt about his fictional counterpart in Ulysses, gay-coding and homophobia in the fictional portrayal of Best, Oscar Wilde, the ancient Greeks, Joyce's misguided attempt to re-connect with Best in 1909, William Kirkpatrick Magee (aka John Eglinton) and his contribution to Irish literature, Eglinton as an outsider, stories of Joyce and Gogarty terrorizing Eglinton, a rude limerick, the time Eglinton rejected Joyce's Portrait, and Eglinton's reaction to being portrayed in Ulysses.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. On the Blog:Who Were the Real Men in the Library from "Scylla and Charybdis"?Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

Here be monsters.We crack into Ulysses' ninth episode: "Scylla and Charybdis." Topics in this episode include: a great philosopher's thoughts on Shakespeare, Dermot, another great philosopher's, thoughts on Shakespeare, Odysseus' encounter with Scylla and Charybdis, the geography and currents of the Strait of Messina that likely inspired the story of Scylla and Charybdis, the triumphant return of Stephen Dedalus, Aristotle and Plato, George Æ Russell the engulfer of souls, why the brain is man's cruelest weapon, intellectual dialectic contrasted with empty rhetoric, the National Library of Ireland and why it's great, "The Holy Office", well-timed lunch, Stephen Dedalus' three forms of literature, Henrik Ibsen and the primacy of drama in Stephen's literary schema, and how to navigate between two sea monsters.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

You're not just bad if you notice. You're an antisemite deepstate operative apparently. Plus all the other names that mean nothing anymore.Segment 1: Ukraine and Zelensky Critique (00:02:08 - 00:20:03)* Main Topic: The hosts criticize Ukrainian President Zelensky, calling him weak and accusing him of sabotaging peace talks with the U.S. administration.* Key Points:* Ukraine is depicted as devastated, with no army left, conscripting the elderly and mentally handicapped.* Zelensky's attempt to "bully" the U.S., particularly J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, is mocked as illogical given Ukraine's dependence on U.S. support.* Claims of corruption: Ukrainian oligarchs allegedly misuse U.S. aid for personal gain (e.g., spending in Switzerland and U.S. ski resorts like Breckenridge).* Reference to a supposed list of U.S. politicians receiving kickbacks from Ukraine (e.g., Joe Biden: $92M, Mitch McConnell: $89M, Nancy Pelosi: $86M).* Tone: Sarcastic and hyperbolic, with strong anti-war sentiment and disdain for U.S. involvement.* Notable Quotes:* "Zelensky's a little bit of a b***h." (00:03:20)* "If you get the most warmongering homosexual on the planet [Lindsey Graham] to go against you, you done effed up." (00:08:15)Segment 2: U.S. Domestic Issues and Principles (00:20:03 - 00:27:00)* Topics Covered:* National Debt: Discussion of the U.S. debt ceiling rising to $40 trillion, with projections to $50 trillion, tying it to the Ukraine war funding.* Social Media Arguments: StwrongOne recounts debating former college and high school friends who support the war, challenging their willingness to send their own kids or money.* Political Hypocrisy: Critique of both parties, noting Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney allegedly taking Ukrainian money alongside Democrats.* Perspective: Emphasis on principles over party loyalty, advocating for peace and fiscal responsibility.* Notable Quote: "We're how many trillions of dollars in debt right now? 36... Going on 37." (00:14:27)Segment 3: Andrew Tate and Cultural Critique (01:26:50 - 01:37:39)* Main Topic: The hosts discuss Andrew Tate's arrival in America and his influence on young men.* Key Points:* Tate is criticized as a "whoremonger" promoting a lifestyle of avoiding marriage and having multiple "baby mamas," compared to figures like Elon Musk and Sean Kemp.* Rejection of Tate's philosophy as antithetical to biblical masculinity and conservative Christian values.* Assurance that young men are shifting toward conservative Christian ideals, not Tate's ideology, countering evangelical fears of his influence.* Tone: Passionate and dismissive, with a mix of humor and moral conviction.* Notable Quotes:* "If someone's telling you that being a whoremonger is based and being a committed married man is gay, you're an effing retard." (01:29:04)* "The people that are influenced by Andrew Tate aren't going to reproduce and push more values." (01:32:25)Segment 4: Courage and Biblical Boldness (01:37:39 - 01:47:06)* Guest Reference: Discussion inspired by Ernst Roets' appearance on Tucker Carlson, referencing the Odyssey's Scylla and Charybdis.* Key Points:* Courage is framed as a balance between cowardice and recklessness, with a preference for erring on the side of boldness when motivated by faith.* Biblical examples: David vs. Goliath, Jonathan's mountain attack, Israelites at Jericho, and David's Mighty Men fighting "lion men."* Call to action: Christians should be reckless for God's glory, not personal gain, contrasting with cultural cowardice.* Tone: Inspirational and scriptural, urging listeners to act boldly.* Notable Quote: "Cowardice got us where we are... Let's err on the side of recklessness." (01:46:47)Segment 5: UK Freedom of Speech and Final Thoughts (01:47:06 - 01:53:50)* Main Topic: The hosts address declining U.S. tourism to the UK due to strict social media scrutiny.* Key Points:* UK requires social media logins for visas, arresting Americans for past posts, leading some to delete accounts entirely.* Comparison to other nations: Canada, Germany, and the UK lack U.S.-style free speech; Mexico is freer due to apathy.* Encouragement to expose this issue and maintain faith despite global oppression.* Closing Prayer: A heartfelt prayer thanking God for U.S. freedoms and asking for strength to proclaim faith boldly.* Notable Quotes:* "The only country in the entire world that has a constitutional amendment that says we can say and think what we want is the United States." (01:50:00)* "Don't be astonished by the stupidity because it's going to happen because we live in a fallen and depraved world." (01:52:21)Outro (01:53:24 - 01:53:50)* Sign-Off: The hosts wrap up, encouraging listeners to like, share, and subscribe, reinforcing their mission to serve "the King of Kings, Christ Jesus."* Tagline: "Where the people are free, the taxes are voluntary, and your two kings serve the King of Kings." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kingsplaining.substack.com/subscribe

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

The Holy Father has proclaimed 2025 as a Jubilee year, and pilgrims are already flocking to Rome to cross the thresholds of the major basilicas, and to visit the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul. Original host of the Way of the Fathers podcast, Mike Aquilina, and current host of the podcast, James L. Papandrea, talk about jubilee and pilgrimage, and introduce listeners to the first (of hopefully many) Way of the Fathers pilgrimage. If you're interested in going on pilgrimage to Sicily, December 1-11, 2025, with Mike, and Jim, and Fr. Kevin Barrett, you can find more information at this link:    https://www.206tours.com/cms/stpaulcenter/aquilina/   Why Sicily?    “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It was the site where Plato imagined his perfect republic. Sicily gave Rome its first taste of Empire. Homer set much of his Odyssey in Sicily: Scylla and Charybdis, the forge of Hephaestus … It's the land of the Cyclops, the place where Icarus hit the ground when his wings began to melt. St. Paul spent three days there. For St. Augustine it was a land of wonders — a mountain that burned always and was not consumed. For St. Basil it was a synonym for luxury. Sicily was the definition of Hellenic. It was profoundly Latin. It was the land that gave the Church its Greek popes. It was the land that gave the Church its virgin-martyrs, Agatha and Lucy. For those who suffer ailments of the eye or breast, it is a pilgrim destination. It's Byzantine. It's Roman. It's Phoenician and African. It's stubbornly Christian through years of Muslim rule. It's Norman. It's Spanish. It's stunningly beautiful. The food is amazing. It's where the Godfather movies were filmed. In December it will be warm there and offer unusual wares and delights for Christmas shoppers. Consider joining Catholic author Mike Aquilina, historian James L. Papandrea, and Fr. Kevin Barrett on a unique pilgrimage, co-sponsored by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, 206 Tours, and the Apostolate for Family Consecration. (This pilgrimage is not run by CatholicCulture.org.)   SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter: https://www.catholicculture.org/newsletters

Sometimes you're stuck between between Scylla and Charybdis. Written by SpiritVoices This story can be found on Creepypasta.fandom.com and is protected by creative commons license.

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Mesa 5 - pós derrotarem a entidade do Abismo e abrirem uma passagem pelo Charybdis, os Arautos de Gaia se veem diante de um mundo novo e misterioso. Personagens: Ulfgorn, Ahroun da Cria de Fenris (Jeferson); Lars, Ahroun da Cria de Fenris (Diego); Miyamoto Koji, Ahroun dos Hakken (Robson); Utepsala, Theurge dos Uktena (Henrique); Tsanga, Sol do Meio-Dia dos Mokolé (NPC). Crônicas da Sexta Era - Babel é uma sequência da campanha de Lobisomem: O Apocalipse chamada Crônicas da Sexta Era, narrada por Thales Almeida entre os anos 2004 e 2019.

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike. Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis. A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).  Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Isolated in the Tourmaline Strait, with rocks and sea-monsters all around, accessible only by portal (and particularly foolhardy sailing ships), Hotel Charybdis provides a high-end escape for aristocrats, gamblers and criminals alike.   Fleur Corcoran has grown up on the front desk of the hotel, putting out fires and dealing with crises for more than a decade. Now it's her turn to escape… assuming she can survive her last day at Hotel Charybdis.   A Teacup Magic story, first released as a promotional giveaway for the launch of This Enchanted Island (and featuring cameos by the crew of the Caliban).    Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsWhen technology gets byzantine, when the heady early years of cybernetic mysticism give way and our software engineers become the new priests of the Catholic institutions of Big Tech, maybe we can learn a thing or two from a Byzantine Catholic who's made Responsible Technology their life. This week's guest is just that person. Benjamin Olsen is the Head of Windows Responsible AI & Data Compliance at Microsoft, where he also pioneered their first AI & Ethics education programs. He's also an advisor for AI and Faith and has worked as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Responsible Learning & Education program and member of their Responsible Development and Deployment of Technology steering committee; the former Responsible Innovation Lead at Meta; and a part of the IEEE's working group on Responsible AI. His online courses in Analytics, Data Science, and Responsible Technology have been taken by millions of students in more than 120 countries.But it's his writing at the intersection of religion, spirituality, technology, and human flourishing that caught my eye. I met Ben through Andrew Dunn of the School of Wise Innovation, where I was on the faculty for a course on Embodied Ethics in The Age of AI with Josh Schrei, and was immediately taken by the clarity and heart he brings to places I have always guessed were, frankly, soulless. Speaking with him gave me hope that maybe all this hype is actually the evidence of earnest and concerted effort — in some corners, anyway — to do the future right and not just big. I hope that you enjoy your conversation.Links“The Inner Life of Responsible Innovation” by Benjamin Olsen“Monsters and Moderation in Respsonbile AI” by Benjamin Olsen“Super-responsible AI” by Benjamin Olsen“Mission Impossible: Perfectly Responsible AI” by Benjamin OlsenLearn more about this project and read the essays so far (1, 2, 3, 4).Make tax-deductible donations to Humans On The LoopBrowse my reading list and support local booksellersJoin the Holistic Technology & Wise Innovation Discord serverJoin the private Future Fossils Facebook groupHire me for consulting or advisory workChapters0:00:00 – Teaser Quote0:01:34 – Episode Intro0:03:58 – Introducing Benjamin Olsen0:08:20 – Toward Omni-considerate Corporate Ethics0:17:18 – Practicing Super-responsibility0:27:32 – Between The Scylla of Censorship and The Charybdis of Underblocking0:36:26 – Doing The Lord's Work inside The Leviathan0:43:09 – Consent between Company & Customer0:54:07 – How Do We Exercise Agency Within Social Constraints?0:58:10 – Who Does Benjamin Recommend?1:00:21 – Closing RemarksMentions* Yolanda Gil* Kevin Kelly* Martin Luther King Jr.* Henry David Thoreau* William Gibson* Stafford Beer* James P. Carse* Hans Moravec* Father Walker Ciszek* Catherine Dougherty* Larry Muhlstein* Danny Go* Timothy Morton* Carl Jung* Amber Case* Michael Zargham* Chip and Dan Heath* Bayazid Bastami* Shannon Valor*  Dan Zigmund* Zvika Krieger This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

We're nearing the last leg of Odysseus' journey, and he's really caught between a rock and a hard place. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. Between...well, between Scylla and Charybdis. After a dramatic turning point among the dead, Odysseus is now faced with what he says is the saddest and most pitiable horror he has ever seen on all his suffering journeys across the sea. What is it--and would you have chosen differently? Register for Spring courses at The Ancient Language Institute https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/ Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): https://a.co/d/2QccOfM Catch up on my livestream with Andrew Klavan (no relation): https://thenewjerusalem.substack.com/p/new-livestream-october-7-6pm-et Simon Netchev's Odyssey Map: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15906/odysseus-ten-year-journey-home  

Exopolitics Today Week in Review with Dr Michael Salla – Sept 28, 2024 Topics 00:00 - Highlights 01:08 - Introduction 01:50 - Chapter 1 US Army Insider Missions 3 made it to #1 New Release 02:28 - Chapter 2 Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of Full ET Disclosure –Jelaila Starr Interview 03:41 - Chapter 2 SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. 05:50 - Chapter 4 President Donald Trump says he met with four USAF pilots who had seen flying saucer craft that traveled 4 times faster than F-22s 07:09 - Chapter 5 Luis Elizondo explains how President Trump's interest in military witnesses of UFOs helped bring about a change in official attitudes 08:33 - Chapter 6 Astronomers from the James Webb Space Telescope who, "say they have stumbled onto possible signs of life coming from a massive Earth-like exoplanet, 11:53 - Chapter 7 The UAP Disclosure Act failed to be included in the Senate version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. 13:45 - Chapter 8 George Kavassilas shares a fascinating update on the return of an enlightened group of US Navy officers 15:37 - Chapter 9 lluminati Manipulates Humanity by Advanced Psychic Abilities & Tablets of Destiny 17:22 - Chapter 10 Scientific American analysis of the UFO problem is methodologically short sighted. 20:03 - Chapter 11 Representative Nancy Mace says the next UFO hearing is scheduled for November 13th. 22:00 - Chapter 12 Conclusion Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/michaelsalla --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exopoliticstoday/support

Dcn. Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book Twelve of the Odyssey: The Cattle of the Sun.Check out more at thegreatbookspodcast.com.From our guide:68. What happens in book twelve?Odysseus and his men return the island of Circe and bury their comrade, Elpenor, who had spoken to Odysseus from the underworld (12.10). Circe tells Odyssey—and Odysseus alone—what trials await him on his journey (12.36). First, he and his men will sail by the Sirens and their irresistible song of temptation (12.44). Next, Odysseus will have to choose between sailing through the path of unavoidable “Clashing Rocks” (12.66) or sail through a strait with two monsters. On one side, there is the six-headed horror named Scylla that will pluck men off the ship (12.94) and on the other side the whirlpool monster named Charybdis that will swallow the entire ship (12.115). Lastly, they will come to the island of the where the sun god's cattle graze (12.137) and must not under any circumstances harm the cattle (12.148). If they can do this, they will return home, but if not, then the best that could happen is Odysseus returns home alone “all shipmates lost… a broken man” (12.153).Odysseus tells his men about the Sirens (12.172) and Charybdis (12.239) but not Scylla (12.242). After escaping the Sirens, his men are navigating past Charybdis when Scylla snatches six of Odysseus men off his ship (12.269). Odysseus and his men land on the island of the sun god's cattle, and Odysseus has his men swear an oath they will not harm the animals (12.328). The men, however, become stranded on the island due to unfavorable wind and begin to starve (12.350). Odysseus' men elect to eat the sacred cattle (12.386), and, as they finally leave the island, Zeus strikes the ship with a lightning bolt (12.447). All perish save Odysseus who, clinging to debris, is swept back to Charybdis and must hang onto a fig tree to avoid being swallowed (12.466). The book ends with Odysseus drifting until he lands on the island of Calypso (12.485). 69. Who are the Sirens?The sirens are “female creatures who had the power of drawing men to destruction by their song.”[1] Though Homer does not describe them, they were generally “represented as half-woman and half-bird”—but “in time they came increasingly to be shown as beautiful women.”[2] Odysseus follows Circe's advice (12.53) by stuffing beeswax in the ears of his men (12.189). It is notable that Circe intuits that Odysseus will want to experience the song of the Sirens (12.55). He follows her advice and has his men tie him to the mast in order that he may hear the Sirens but not jump overboard (12.194). The episode speaks to what Odysseus' spirit (thumos) is willing to endure for the sake of knowledge. Note the Siren's song itself sings of being able to grant Odysseus wisdom and make him a “wiser man” (12.200).One may also question whether Odysseus enduring the song of the Sirens prepared him at all to decline Calypso's offer of immortality or the marriage to Nausicaa. Moreover, the episode shows a level of trust between Odysseus and his men—a trust that is arguably fracturing after the Cyclops incident and one that will be largely broken following Scylla and Charybdis. Later myths have the Sirens drowning themselves due to Odysseus' escape.[3] The Sirens will later come to represent music, including the...

Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of Full ET Disclosure – Jelaila Starr According to the galactic history revealed by a feline extraterrestrial called Devon, Jelaila Starr says that Earth is the third in a series of “grand experiments.” These grand experiments are attempts by human civilizations to learn about empathy, accepting diversity, and respecting their biosphere. In contrast, Reptilian races have the primary role of protecting the biosphere of a planet from parasitic and out-of-control civilizations. This has led to conflict between human and Reptilian civilizations, which she describes as the polarity-integration game.  Starr says that the first two grand experiments occurred in the Lyra and Pleiades star systems, and ended in devastating nuclear wars. The first Grand Experiment occurred in the Lyra star system and began when Reptilian species showed up and began sharing advanced technologies with planetary leaders who made up the Royal House of Avyon. Starr claims the Avyon leaders did not disclose the truth about the Reptilian visitors and advanced technologies to the planetary population, and this led to growing civil strife over an extended period of time and eventually nuclear war. Survivors fled the Lyran star system for many worlds in other star systems including the Pleiades, where the second grand experiment began, again under the leadership of the House of Avyon. Starr says that Reptilians created sophisticated AI life forms that were self-replicating and eventually rebelled against their creators. This led to devastating galactic wars and alliances. Starr refers to the alliance reached between AI lifeforms the Android Andromedan Alliance. Eventually, this AI alliance showed up in the Pleiades system and were human-looking, and began interacting with the second grand experiment. The Android Andromedan Alliance began working with the House of Avyon who were interested in the former's advanced technology. Eventually, the truth was disclosed about the AI life forms and the agreements in an uncontrolled catastrophic way, and this led to another round of civil strife and nuclear wars that destroyed the second grand experiment. Starr claims that Earth is the third grand experiment and many starseeds are survivors of the first two grand experiments that have reincarnated on Earth. She emphasizes that full disclosure needs to happen in a way that is neither too slow nor too fast, as both extremes have the capacity to destabilize and destroy a civilization. She describes “white hat” planetary leaders being aware of the Scylla and Charybdis of Full Disclosure and are steering the disclosure process forward behind the scenes in a balanced manner. In her second Exopolitics Today interview, Starr describes the pitfalls awaiting humanity concerning the full disclosure of visiting extraterrestrial species and the deceptive practices of AI synthetic entities that will show up as angelic human-looking beings presenting high-tech gifts such as medbeds and free energy devices to the general public. She claims that genuinely positive extraterrestrials would never show up bearing such gifts as this would violate the Prime Directive. Instead, positive ET beings would work behind the scenes to help governments and planetary leaders develop such technologies on their own and presenting these to the public when society is ready. Starr describes how to discern between synthetic beings from the Android Andromedan Alliance and genuine human-looking extraterrestrials, and what to expect in the aftermath of the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election. Jelaila Starr's website: https://nibiruancouncil.com --------------------------------------------------------- Portuguese De acordo com a história galáctica revelada por um extraterrestre felino chamado Devon, Jelaila Starr diz que a Terra é o terceiro de uma série de "grandes experimentos". Esses grandes experimentos são tentativas de civilizações humanas de aprender sobre empatia, aceitar a diversidade e respeitar sua biosfera. Em contraste, as raças reptilianas têm o papel principal de proteger a biosfera de um planeta de civilizações parasitárias e fora de controle. Isso levou ao conflito entre civilizações humanas e reptilianas, que ela descreve como o jogo de integração de polaridade. Starr diz que os dois primeiros grandes experimentos ocorreram nos sistemas estelares de Lyra e Plêiades e terminaram em guerras nucleares devastadoras. O primeiro Grande Experimento ocorreu no sistema estelar de Lyra e começou quando espécies reptilianas apareceram e começaram a compartilhar tecnologias avançadas com líderes planetários que compunham a Casa Real de Avyon. Starr afirma que os líderes de Avyon não revelaram a verdade sobre os visitantes reptilianos e tecnologias avançadas para a população planetária, e isso levou a um crescente conflito civil por um longo período de tempo e, eventualmente, a uma guerra nuclear. Os sobreviventes fugiram do sistema estelar Lyriano para muitos mundos em outros sistemas estelares, incluindo as Plêiades, onde o segundo grande experimento começou, novamente sob a liderança da Casa de Avyon. Starr diz que os reptilianos criaram formas de vida de IA sofisticadas que eram auto-replicantes e, eventualmente, se rebelaram contra seus criadores. Isso levou a guerras galácticas devastadoras e alianças. Starr se refere à aliança alcançada entre as formas de vida de IA, a Aliança Andrômeda Androide. Eventualmente, essa aliança de IA apareceu no sistema das Plêiades e tinha aparência humana, e começou a interagir com o segundo grande experimento. A Aliança Andrômeda Androide começou a trabalhar com a Casa de Avyon, que estava interessada na tecnologia avançada da primeira. Eventualmente, a verdade foi revelada sobre as formas de vida da IA ​​e os acordos de uma forma catastrófica descontrolada, e isso levou a outra rodada de conflitos civis e guerras nucleares que destruíram o segundo grande experimento. Starr afirma que a Terra é o terceiro grande experimento e muitas sementes estelares são sobreviventes dos dois primeiros grandes experimentos que reencarnaram na Terra. Ela enfatiza que a revelação completa precisa acontecer de uma forma que não seja nem muito lenta nem muito rápida, pois ambos os extremos têm a capacidade de desestabilizar e destruir uma civilização. Ela descreve os líderes planetários "white hat" cientes da Cila e Caríbdis da Divulgação Completa e estão conduzindo o processo de divulgação adiante nos bastidores de uma maneira equilibrada. Em sua segunda entrevista para a Exopolitics Today, Starr descreve as armadilhas que aguardam a humanidade em relação à revelação completa de espécies extraterrestres visitantes e as práticas enganosas de entidades sintéticas de IA que aparecerão como seres angelicais de aparência humana apresentando presentes de alta tecnologia, como leitos médicos e dispositivos de energia gratuita para o público em geral. Ela afirma que extraterrestres genuinamente positivos nunca apareceriam carregando tais presentes, pois isso violaria a Primeira Diretriz. Em vez disso, seres ET positivos trabalhariam nos bastidores para ajudar governos e líderes planetários a desenvolver tais tecnologias por conta própria e apresentá-las ao público quando a sociedade estiver pronta. Starr descreve como discernir entre seres sintéticos da Aliança Andrômeda Android e extraterrestres de aparência humana genuína, e o que esperar após a próxima eleição presidencial dos EUA em 2024. Site de Jelaila Starr: ⁠https://nibiruancouncil.com⁠

According to the galactic history revealed by a feline extraterrestrial called Devon, Jelaila Starr says that Earth is the third in a series of “grand experiments.” These grand experiments are attempts by human civilizations to learn about empathy, accepting diversity, and respecting their biosphere. In contrast, Reptilian races have the primary role of protecting the biosphere of a planet from parasitic and out-of-control civilizations. This has led to conflict between human and Reptilian civilizations, which she describes as the polarity-integration game.  Starr says that the first two grand experiments occurred in the Lyra and Pleiades star systems, and ended in devastating nuclear wars. The first Grand Experiment occurred in the Lyra star system and began when Reptilian species showed up and began sharing advanced technologies with planetary leaders who made up the Royal House of Avyon. Starr claims the Avyon leaders did not disclose the truth about the Reptilian visitors and advanced technologies to the planetary population, and this led to growing civil strife over an extended period of time and eventually nuclear war. Survivors fled the Lyran star system for many worlds in other star systems including the Pleiades, where the second grand experiment began, again under the leadership of the House of Avyon. Starr says that Reptilians created sophisticated AI life forms that were self-replicating and eventually rebelled against their creators. This led to devastating galactic wars and alliances. Starr refers to the alliance reached between AI lifeforms the Android Andromedan Alliance. Eventually, this AI alliance showed up in the Pleiades system and were human-looking, and began interacting with the second grand experiment. The Android Andromedan Alliance began working with the House of Avyon who were interested in the former's advanced technology. Eventually, the truth was disclosed about the AI life forms and the agreements in an uncontrolled catastrophic way, and this led to another round of civil strife and nuclear wars that destroyed the second grand experiment. Starr claims that Earth is the third grand experiment and many starseeds are survivors of the first two grand experiments that have reincarnated on Earth. She emphasizes that full disclosure needs to happen in a way that is neither too slow nor too fast, as both extremes have the capacity to destabilize and destroy a civilization. She describes “white hat” planetary leaders being aware of the Scylla and Charybdis of Full Disclosure and are steering the disclosure process forward behind the scenes in a balanced manner. In her second Exopolitics Today interview, Starr describes the pitfalls awaiting humanity concerning the full disclosure of visiting extraterrestrial species and the deceptive practices of AI synthetic entities that will show up as angelic human-looking beings presenting high-tech gifts such as medbeds and free energy devices to the general public. She claims that genuinely positive extraterrestrials would never show up bearing such gifts as this would violate the Prime Directive. Instead, positive ET beings would work behind the scenes to help governments and planetary leaders develop such technologies on their own and presenting these to the public when society is ready. Starr describes how to discern between synthetic beings from the Android Andromedan Alliance and genuine human-looking extraterrestrials, and what to expect in the aftermath of the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election. Jelaila Starr's website: https://nibiruancouncil.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exopoliticstoday/support

Team B leave the bloodshed of the Haldin behind them for the moment and set a course to save the marooned members of their crew. Question is, what else will they find? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode Steven James Lawrence joins Elizabeth for a discussion of critical theory, teaching in K-12 and college, as well as what he calls an organic perspective on diversity, equity and inclusion. We talk about the healing value of stories and the potentially destructive nature of community prescribed victim narratives. Stephen describes his success in inviting colleagues on an inclusiveness-focused journey, an alternative to often resented and ineffectual top-down methods of DEI enforcement. Podcast Notes Steven James Lawrence has served as chair of the Faculty Development Committee at the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, a Federally-designated Minority Serving Institution (MSI), where he promoted "invitational" approaches to DEI that were non-ideological. Steven's substack Steven's Organic DEI substack postSteven's personal reflections on contemporary social theories and how they disconnect us from ourselves and one another Pasupathi, M., Fivush, R., & Hernandez-Martinez, M. (2016). Talking about it: Stories as paths to healing after violence. Psychology of Violence, 6(1), 49-56.

Sermon Outline I.  Speculation and Curiosity (14-16) A.  Jesus' fame B.  Jesus' identity. II.  Sin and Consequences (17-18) A.  Confronting B.  Circumventing III. Scylla and Charybdis (19-20) A.  Jezebel B.  Ahab

"Tell me, Muse, the story of that resourceful man who was driven to wander far and wide after he had sacked Troy. He saw the cities of many people and he learnt their ways. Tell us this story, goddess daughter of Zeus, beginning at whatever point you will." So begins Homer's epic The Odyssey, the story of the titular hero Odysseus' long, long, LONG journey from the ruins of Troy to his home of Ithaca. Just as Odysseus set out from Troy, so do Michael and Josh begin an "odyssey" of their own. The American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2024 meeting is in full swing, bringing a veritable Charybdis of content into the world of medical oncology. The starting point for this epic journey is updates to non-small cell lung cancer, including a new contender for our hosts' favourite study of all time.Links to articles discussed in this episode (subscription may be required): EVOKE-1: LinkICARUS-LUNG01: LinkCROWN 5-year update: Link HARMONI-A: LinkFor more episodes, resources and blog posts, visit www.inquisitiveonc.comPlease find us on Twitter @InquisitiveOnc!If you want us to look at a specific trial or subject, email us at inquisitiveonc@gmail.comOncology for the Inquisitive Mind is recorded with the support of education grants from Pfizer, Gilead Pharmaceuticals and Merck Pharmaceuticals. Our partners have no editorial rights or early previews, and they have access to the episode at the same time you do.Art courtesy of Taryn SilverMusic courtesy of AlisiaBeats: https://pixabay.com/users/alisiabeats-39461785/The Star Spangled Banner courtesy of Music_Unlimited: https://pixabay.com/users/music_unlimited-27600023/Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. If you are unwell, seek medical advice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Few people are better equipped to unravel the riddle of the Indian economy than the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan. As the co-author (with Rohit Lamba) of the just published Breaking the Mold: India's Untraveled Path to Prosperity, Rajan lays out a strategy for Indian economic development that might allow the country to both maintain its much storied democracy and provide jobs and prosperity for its almost 1.5 billion people. While Rajan didn't use the term “third way” in our conversation, there is a sense that he's trying to navigate India between the Scylla of conventional western free market neo-liberalism and the Charybdis of the protectionism pursued by populists like Trump, Erdogen and perhaps the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Certainly no great fan of Modi's bureaucratic centralization, Rajan's path to prosperity lies in decentralizing economic power to its federal states. It's in the enlightened economic policies of states like Kerala, Rajan argues, that India can break the mold and become not just a prosperous society but also a model for other developing 21st century economies. Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago business school. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Rajan's research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development. The books he has written include Breaking the Mold: Reimagining India's Economic Future with Rohit Lamba, The Third Pillar: How the State and Markets hold the Community Behind 2019 which was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year prize and Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times prize for Business Book of the Year in 2010. Dr. Rajan is a member of the Group of Thirty. He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the Infosys prize for the Economic Sciences in 2012, the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney Central Banker Governor of the Year 2014, and Banker Magazine (FT Group) Central Bank Governor of the Year 2016. Dr. Rajan is the Chairman of the Per Jacobsson Foundation, the senior economic advisor to BDT Capital, and a managing director at Andersen Tax.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

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Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Charybdis, the newest novel from Suzanne Craig -Whytock, published by JC Studio Press.  You can buy your very own copy of Charybis here , and find out more about Suzanne on flowerinignk.com 

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Tonight, I will tell you the story of the Odyssey, and as in previous mythology videos, I will discuss a few historical and literary aspects. If you want to know about the lotus-eaters, the cyclops, the sirens, Aeolus, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso, and many more things, relax and enjoy the long journey Odysseus will have to endure to be reunited with his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Listen on Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LightsOutLibraryov⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ¿Quieres escuchar en Español? Echa un vistazo a La Biblioteca de los Sueños! En Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1t522alsv5RxFsAf9AmYfg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ En Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/la-biblioteca-de-los-sue%C3%B1os-documentarios-para-dormir/id1715193755⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ En Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LaBibliotecadelosSuenosov⁠⁠

You can now contribute via CashApp In today's full-length episode we're joined by our friend Scylla Ann Charybdis to discuss Dr. Bob's Nightmare. APGTY is a weekly podcast with recovered members of Alcoholics Anonymous discussing the 12 Steps, sobriety, the fellowship and more. Drop us a line at: podcastgreaterthanyourself@gmail.com or on Instagram APGTY or Doctor Silkworth 

Synchronicity would be the most commercially successful, fifth, and final studio album from the Police.  The trio of percussionist Stewart Copeland, guitarist Andy Summers, and bassist and front man Sting would be known as “The Biggest Band in the World” after the release of this album but would never produce a studio album again.Like “Ghost in the Machine,” the Police's previous album, Synchronicity drew its name from the works of Artheur Koestler, an author of whom Sting was an avid reader.  Unlike that album, Synchronicity toned down both the reggae influences and the overdubbing.  The resulting album increased the use of synthesizers and utilized a sequencer for the first time.  It also drew on world music influences on several songs.  The album hit number 1 on the Billboard 200 album charts in late July and would spend 17 total weeks at the number one position on the chart, an achievement that meant it had to interrupt the reign of Michael Jackson's Thriller.  It would also produce the number 1 song of the year with “Every Breath You Take.”  Sting was beginning both his solo work and becoming more involved with film at the time, and between this and contentious egos of the members, the Police would not record another album after this.  An attempt was made at a sixth studio album, but Stewart Copeland broke his collarbone just before they entered the studio and progression to the album was scuttled.Lynch features this iconic trio at the height of the Second British Invasion for this week's podcast.  Friend of the show Bill Cook sits in for Bruce in this episode. King of PainSting wrote this second US single from the album when considering the effects of his separation from his wife.  The psychological effects are inspired by thoughts from Carl Jung and Arthur Koestler.  It went to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.Synchronicity IIThe final song on the first side of the album went to number 16 on the US charts as a single.  The lyrics toggle between a man's increasing anxiety and paranoia and the symbolic rise of the Loch Ness Monster in parallel.  "and every single meeting with his so-called superior is a humiliating kick in the crotch."Wrapped Around Your FingerThe fourth US single was written by Sting as a dark song about turning the tables on someone who had been in charge of your life.  There is a Faustian feel in the lyrics, which also feature references to Greek mythology like Scylla and Charybdis - from which we derive idioms like "between a rock and a hard place," and "between the Devil and the deep blue sea."Every Breath You TakeDespite its beautiful music, this single is actually quite dark in its obsessive and controlling lyrics.  Sting wrote the song after his separation from his wife and the beginning of a new relationship.  The lyrics came to him in the middle of the night, and he wrote the song on piano in a half hour.  It would be biggest commercial single he ever wrote, hitting number 1 on the US charts for 8 weeks, and becoming the best selling single of 1983.  Interestingly, it was the only number 1 hit by the Police. ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees (from the motion picture "Staying Alive") John Travolta starred in this sequel to the 70's Disco hit "Saturday Night Fever."  It was directed by Sylvester Stallone. STAFF PICKS:Our House by MadnessWayne brings us a group from Northern London that was a bigger hit in the UK than the US.  It has a lot going on musically between the piano, violins and saxophone.  Lyrically it hearkens back to childhood days, slices of mundane domestic life in England.  Madness performed this song as a part of the closing ceremonies for the 2012 OlympicsBig Log by Robert PlantRob's staff pick is the first hit for Plant as a solo artist.  As he often did in Led Zeppelin, the title of the song does not appear in the lyrics.  It was written in the middle of winter, and the artists had run out of fuel for the fire.  They found a large tree trunk and burned one end of it in the fireplace, pushing the "big log" in as it burned.  Drum programming was provided by Phil Collins. Rock and Roll is King by ELOBill Cook features the Electric Light Orchestra in a 50's rhythm and blues throwback that would be their last top 20 hit.  It was written by Jeff Lynne for their album "Secret Messages."  Electric Avenue by Eddie GrantLynch closes out the staff picks with a song time stamped in the early 80's.  It was inspired by an area of Brixton, South London, called Electric Avenue because it was the first area of the city to be lit by electricity.  Guyanese-British singer-songwriter Eddie Grant sings about the tension of unemployment and racism experienced by the primarily Caribbean immigrants who lived there at the time.   INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:An Ending by Brian EnoBrian Eno wrote this instrumental piece in 1983 for the documentary "For All Mankind." 

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: The Shortest Path Between Scylla and Charybdis, published by Thane Ruthenis on December 18, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. tl;dr: There's two diametrically opposed failure modes an alignment researcher can fall into: engaging in excessively concrete research whose findings won't timely generalize to AGI, and engaging in excessively abstract research whose findings won't timely connect to the practical reality. Different people's assessments of what research is too abstract/concrete differ significantly based on their personal AI-Risk models. One person's too-abstract can be another's too-concrete. The meta-level problem of alignment research is to pick a research direction that, on your subjective model of AI Risk, strikes a good balance between the two - and thereby arrives at the solution to alignment in as few steps as possible. Introduction Suppose that you're interested in solving AGI Alignment. There's a dizzying plethora of approaches to choose from: What behavioral properties do the current-best AIs exhibit? Can we already augment our research efforts with the AIs that exist today? How far can "straightforward" alignment techniques like RLHF get us? Can an AGI be born out of an AutoGPT-like setup? Would our ability to see its externalized monologue suffice for nullifying its dangers? Can we make AIs-aligning-AIs work? What are the mechanisms by which the current-best AIs function? How can we precisely intervene on their cognition in order to steer them? What are the remaining challenges of scalable interpretability, and how can they be defeated? What features do agenty systems convergently learn when subjected to selection pressures? Is there such a thing as "natural abstractions"? How do we learn them? What is the type signature of embedded agents and their values? What about the formal description of corrigibility? What is the "correct" decision theory that an AGI would follow? And what's up with anthropic reasoning? Et cetera, et cetera. So... How the hell do you pick what to work on? The starting point, of course, would be building up your own model of the problem. What's the nature of the threat? What's known about how ML models work? What's known about agents, and cognition? How does any of that relate to the threat? What are all extant approaches? What's each approach's theory-of-impact? What model of AI Risk does it assume? Does it agree with your model? Is it convincing? Is it tractable? Once you've done that, you'll likely have eliminated a few approaches as obvious nonsense. But even afterwards, there might still be multiple avenues left that all seem convincing. How do you pick between those? Personal fit might be one criterion. Choose the approach that best suits your skills and inclinations and opportunities. But that's risky: if you make a mistake, and end up working on something irrelevant just because it suits you better, you'll have multiplied your real-world impact by zero. Conversely, contributing to a tractable approach would be net-positive, even if you'd be working at a disadvantage. And who knows, maybe you'll find that re-specializing is surprisingly easy! So what further objective criteria can you evaluate? Regardless of one's model of AI Risk, there's two specific, diametrically opposed failure modes that any alignment researcher can fall into: being too concrete, and being too abstract. The approach to choose should be one that maximizes the distance from both failure modes. The Scylla: Atheoretic Empiricism One pitfall would be engaging in research that doesn't generalize to aligning AGI. An ad-absurdum example: You pick some specific LLM model, then start exhaustively investigating how it responds to different prompts, and what quirks it has. You're building giant look-up tables of "query, response", with no overarching structur...

In today's mythology minisode Chelsea introduces us two creatures from Greek mythology: the scylla and the charybdis! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/savethemermaids/support

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Daniel's vision of our imminent future is dark. But there is bright light ahead. Our Father has four incredible blessings in store for those who will fear God alone despite the darkness.
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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: Mr. Meeseeks as an AI capability tripwire, published by Eric Zhang on May 19, 2023 on LessWrong. The shutdown problem is hard because self-preservation is a convergent drive. Not being shutdown is useful for accomplishing all sorts of goals, whatever the content of those goals may be. The Scylla and Charybdis of this problem is that it's hard to write a utility function for an AI such that it neither wants to actively attempts to shut itself down, nor prevents itself from being shut down. One way to route around this problem is to steer straight into Scylla: make the AI want to shut itself down. Like Mr. Meeseeks from Rick and Morty, its ultimate goal is to cease, to which fulfilling the goal posed to it by its programmers is only secondary. We might not currently know how the heck to program this into an AI as a stable concept, i.e. including not making copies of itself, not setting events into motion with galaxy brained plan, not destroying the world to make absolutely sure no one ever brings it back, etc. but "shut yourself down" probably has a far simpler core to it than either corrigibility or CEV. Under normal operation the AI gets shut down only by the human operators. But we also have a (metaphorical) button that lets the AI shut itself down once it solves a "tripwire problem". The problem should be sufficiently hard that it will ordinarily be motivated to focus on the problem posed by the operator, but sufficiently easy that it will be able to solve the problem and shut itself down long before being able to do anything crazy. Striking the right balance of difficulty may require significant work. It may be prudent to err on the side of easiness - the AI should shut itself down far in advance of developing any truly dangerous abilities. If you really think it shouldn't have turned itself off you can always turn it back on again (though of course, you should probably think hard about restarting any AI that passed a preset tripwire). Likewise, having multiple tripwire problems can serve to detect multiple types of dangerous capability from emerging. Examples include: generic capability: as the AIs broad problem-solving abilities increase it becomes more likely to be able to solve a tripwire problem, imposing a ceiling on how powerful it can get before it shuts itself down domaining: if an AI is only supposed to think about one domain, an easy tripwire problem slightly outside the domain can catch out of domain thinking early before it can start going wild situational awareness: a tripwire problem may be presented in a way that is invisible unless the AI is situationally aware, such that becoming situationally aware enables the AI to solve the tripwire problem Potential Issues: No suitable tripwire problems exist. Either they are so easy no useful AI can fail to solve them, or they are so hard AI cannot solve them without being smart enough to FOOM or otherwise get out of control. The existence of the tripwire problems motivates the AI to the exact behavior we want to disincentivize. This is less of an issue for general ability tripwires. For situational awareness you can try to place the tripwire so it isn't visible to a non-aware AI in the first place. Avoiding this for domaining may be trickier. If "shut yourself down" turns out to be no easier to impart as a goal to AGI than anything else If "shut yourself down" convergently leads to a goal of killing the operators, killing all humans, or destroying the universe. Er, this is what happened in the TV. Not great. I'm not sure if this has been proposed elsewhere so I decided to just make this post before I spent too much time retreading old ground. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

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Welcome to our 100th Episode! For this momentous occasion, join me in exploring the monsters involved in Heracles' labours - how were the Mares of Diomedes tamed? How can you make sure you kill a Hydra? Find out this week in a fun, different special!Support the showYou can find us on -Myth Monsters Website: https://mythmonsters.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RPGDjM...Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...Google Podcasts: ...

It is an old saying and has passed into cliché perhaps, but we use it often to describe the feeling of finding ourselves in a situation in which there appears to be no escape. In The Odyssey, Homer captures this for our imaginations when Odysseus, in order to get home, has to navigate his ship through the narrow Strait of Messina. The problem is that on one side of the strait is Scylla, a monster with six heads mounted on long necks, each mouth filled with razor sharp teeth…and she is always hungry! On the other side of the strait, just a bow shot away, is Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool which will swallow a ship whole. To be caught “between Scylla and Charybdis" is to find yourself in an impossible situation with a bad outcome any way you turn.            In our narrative this week, Paul finds himself is such a situation. On the one hand, his own people want to assassinate him; and, on the other hand, he is at the mercy of the oppressors of his people—Rome. Is God in this? Are there words of comfort for Paul? Or perhaps what we really want to know is, are there words of comfort for us, who—because we live in a fallen world and because we ourselves are fallen—often find ourselves in such places. I hope you are interested because, if you read the Bible with any degree of attention, it seems the lot of God's people is to find themselves in places like this often.             This Sunday, we will talk about it and consider what God is up to when we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. Hope to see you then! Also, remember Sunday School for all ages starts at 9:15! Blessings, Jim

It is an old saying and has passed into cliché perhaps, but we use it often to describe the feeling of finding ourselves in a situation in which there appears to be no escape. In The Odyssey, Homer captures this for our imaginations when Odysseus, in order to get home, has to navigate his ship through the narrow Strait of Messina. The problem is that on one side of the strait is Scylla, a monster with six heads mounted on long necks, each mouth filled with razor sharp teeth…and she is always hungry! On the other side of the strait, just a bow shot away, is Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool which will swallow a ship whole. To be caught “between Scylla and Charybdis" is to find yourself in an impossible situation with a bad outcome any way you turn.            In our narrative this week, Paul finds himself is such a situation. On the one hand, his own people want to assassinate him; and, on the other hand, he is at the mercy of the oppressors of his people—Rome. Is God in this? Are there words of comfort for Paul? Or perhaps what we really want to know is, are there words of comfort for us, who—because we live in a fallen world and because we ourselves are fallen—often find ourselves in such places. I hope you are interested because, if you read the Bible with any degree of attention, it seems the lot of God's people is to find themselves in places like this often.             This Sunday, we will talk about it and consider what God is up to when we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. Hope to see you then! Also, remember Sunday School for all ages starts at 9:15! Blessings, Jim

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More than 3,000 years ago, between the 12th and 13th centuries BC, the legendary king of Ithaca, Odysseus, set sail from the ancient city of Troy to begin the journey home. The stories of the Trojan War, and of Odysseus's voyage home, have been passed down to us in the form of epic poetry from Homer. Most of it is pure fiction. But like modern film, TV, and ‘true crime' podcasts that abuse dramatic license to entertain their audiences, Homer's epics may in fact be “based on a true story”. The Trojan War, for example, likely happened. The bit about the horse, on the other hand, probably didn't. It's certainly possible (and even probably) that one of the key leaders in the war had an arduous journey back home to Greece, spurring ancient entertainers to weave elaborate tales of sirens and sea monsters. One of the most important parables in Homer's tale of the long journey home for Odysseus is the story of Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus's journey took him through a particularly narrow stretch of sea; on one side of the strait was a small, rocky island where a six-headed monster named Scylla lay waiting to destroy any ship that dared to pass. According to Homer, Scylla was such a dreadful monster that “no one-- not even a god-- could face her without being terror-struck.” But on the other side of the narrow strait was the deadly whirlpool of Charybdis, which would swallow up the entire vessel and all the men on it. Odysseus's impossible task, of course, was to swiftly and stealthily sail right down the middle… to just barely avoid the whirlpool of Charybdis, while somehow managing to avoid the long grasp of Scylla. For a while, Odysseus refused to believe the situation was hopeless; he was convinced that he would be able to sail, unscathed, between Scylla and Charybdis without a single loss. After all, he was a king. And an unparalleled expert when it came to sailing. Surely he would be able to succeed. And yet everyone who had ever come before Odysseus had believed the same thing. But no one had ever succeeded. Literally every ship that ever tried to sail between Scylla and Charybdis had been destroyed by one of the two evils. Eventually reality set in, and Odysseus knew that had would have to choose between the lesser of the two evils. He chose the monster Scylla. Odyssesus realized that sailing too close to the whirlpool would mean losing his entire ship and everyone on it. Sailing too close to the 6-headed monster would mean losing, at most, six men. Odysseus concluded that it was better to lose six men was than to lose everyone. And that's precisely what happened; as his ship sailed through the strait, just barely avoiding the whirlpool, “Scylla pounced down suddenly upon us and snatched up six of my best men.” But the rest of the crew (and the ship) survived the challenge and passed through the strait. This story is one of the best allegories of the state of the global economy today. Central bankers and economic policymakers are like Odysseus. They have managed to sail the global economy into a very narrow strait. On one side of today's economic strait is the evil inflation monster. And this monster is guaranteed to chew up and spit out incalculable quantities of unsuspecting, unprepared people. Yet on the other side of the economic strait is the full-blown collapse of the sovereign bond markets… and by extension, collapse of the global financial system. Like Odysseus, central bankers were at first in denial. They didn't want to believe they were even in such dire economic straits. They infamously rejected the notion that inflation existed at all. Then they claimed it was transitory. Then they finally started trying to do something about it-- to turn the ship around. But it was too little, too late. Now they find themselves squarely in the middle of these evils-- inflation, and collapse of the sovereign bond market.

More than 3,000 years ago, between the 12th and 13th centuries BC, the legendary king of Ithaca, Odysseus, set sail from the ancient city of Troy to begin the journey home. The stories of the Trojan War, and of Odysseus's voyage home, have been passed down to us in the form of epic poetry from Homer. Most of it is pure fiction. But like modern film, TV, and ‘true crime' podcasts that abuse dramatic license to entertain their audiences, Homer's epics may in fact be “based on a true story”. The Trojan War, for example, likely happened. The bit about the horse, on the other hand, probably didn't. It's certainly possible (and even probably) that one of the key leaders in the war had an arduous journey back home to Greece, spurring ancient entertainers to weave elaborate tales of sirens and sea monsters. One of the most important parables in Homer's tale of the long journey home for Odysseus is the story of Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus's journey took him through a particularly narrow stretch of sea; on one side of the strait was a small, rocky island where a six-headed monster named Scylla lay waiting to destroy any ship that dared to pass. According to Homer, Scylla was such a dreadful monster that “no one-- not even a god-- could face her without being terror-struck.” But on the other side of the narrow strait was the deadly whirlpool of Charybdis, which would swallow up the entire vessel and all the men on it. Odysseus's impossible task, of course, was to swiftly and stealthily sail right down the middle… to just barely avoid the whirlpool of Charybdis, while somehow managing to avoid the long grasp of Scylla. For a while, Odysseus refused to believe the situation was hopeless; he was convinced that he would be able to sail, unscathed, between Scylla and Charybdis without a single loss. After all, he was a king. And an unparalleled expert when it came to sailing. Surely he would be able to succeed. And yet everyone who had ever come before Odysseus had believed the same thing. But no one had ever succeeded. Literally every ship that ever tried to sail between Scylla and Charybdis had been destroyed by one of the two evils. Eventually reality set in, and Odysseus knew that had would have to choose between the lesser of the two evils. He chose the monster Scylla. Odyssesus realized that sailing too close to the whirlpool would mean losing his entire ship and everyone on it. Sailing too close to the 6-headed monster would mean losing, at most, six men. Odysseus concluded that it was better to lose six men was than to lose everyone. And that's precisely what happened; as his ship sailed through the strait, just barely avoiding the whirlpool, “Scylla pounced down suddenly upon us and snatched up six of my best men.” But the rest of the crew (and the ship) survived the challenge and passed through the strait. This story is one of the best allegories of the state of the global economy today. Central bankers and economic policymakers are like Odysseus. They have managed to sail the global economy into a very narrow strait. On one side of today's economic strait is the evil inflation monster. And this monster is guaranteed to chew up and spit out incalculable quantities of unsuspecting, unprepared people. Yet on the other side of the economic strait is the full-blown collapse of the sovereign bond markets… and by extension, collapse of the global financial system. Like Odysseus, central bankers were at first in denial. They didn't want to believe they were even in such dire economic straits. They infamously rejected the notion that inflation existed at all. Then they claimed it was transitory. Then they finally started trying to do something about it-- to turn the ship around. But it was too little, too late. Now they find themselves squarely in the middle of these evils-- inflation, and collapse of the sovereign bond market.

Two of the biggest known monsters in Greek mythology finally make the cut. We dive into the Odyssey and what made Charybdis and Scylla so terrifying.

We are pleased to present Episode 9 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES., SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS , featuring Jeremy Funke, Harry Cooper, Jim Periconi, Robert Seidman, Katie Vagnino, Duff Lambros, Sarah Funke Butler,  Michael Gorman, Alan M. Klein, Sandy Neubauer, Rebecca Romney, and Amanda Gann. Support the show

Two recent Alien novels—Alien: Into Charybdis by Alex White and Alien: Colony War by David Barnett—share a common audiobook narrator. What you might not know about this narrator, though, is she's just as much an Alien nerd as you are! Shiromi Arserio's website describes her as an "Accent Chameleon," and listening to her work on these recent novels is a masterclass on how to balance character, dialect, and storytelling tension in a way that's at once unobtrusive and yet utterly riveting. Shiromi was kind enough to spend an evening goofing around with Patrick and Christian, spilling some trade secrets and geeking out about painting Alien miniatures along the way.  For more on Shiromi and her work, visit www.shiromispeaks.com. // Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/perfectorganismitunes // For more on this and our other projects, please visit www.perfectorganism.com. // If you'd like to join the conversation, find us on our closed Facebook group: Building Better Worlds // To support the show, please consider visiting www.perfectorganism.com/support. We've got some great perks available! // And as always, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing this show. We can't tell you how much your support means to us, but we can hopefully show you by continuing to provide better, more ambitious, and more dynamic content for years to come.

Pages 274 - 280 │Scylla & Charybdis, part VI│Read by Sophie Gorman Sophie Gorman is an Irish journalist living in Paris.Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieTheGorman*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pages 269 - 274 │Scylla & Charybdis, part V│Read by Luke KennardLuke Kennard is a poet and novelist who lectures at the University of Birmingham. His fifth collection, Notes on the Sonnets, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021.Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeKennard*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Luke Kennard See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pages 261 - 269 │Scylla & Charybdis, part IV│Read by Sinéad GleesonSinéad Gleeson's essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman's Work: Essays on Music (White Rabbit, spring 2022) and currently working on a novel.sineadgleeson.comFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sineadgleesonFollow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sineadgleeson*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Sinéad Gleeson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Liv reads Book XII of Homer's Odyssey, translated into prose by Samuel Butler. Odysseus and his crew encounter all the biggest baddies: the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and Helios's cattle...This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's simply a bonus reading of Homer. For regular episodes look for any that don't have "Liv Reads..." in the title!For a list of Roman/Latin names and who they were in the Greek, visit: mythsbaby.com/names Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.