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This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

This is your season-ahead reading for Gemini Season (May 21-June 21, 2023) from Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology. Listen/read for your Sun/Rising/Moon signs.

Capital Games was kind enough to not really make any news at all this week so that we’d have a chance to celebrate as the [...] The post Galactic War Report – Episode 343: No Time For Losers appeared first on Radio Free Tatooine.

Gaming hosts Josh and Paul and Ryan are bringing you all the weekly gaming news you need in another can't miss episode of This Week in Gaming.  Tears of the Kingdom released to massive fanfare, Xbox CEO admits they may be losing the console war, Hollowknight: Silksong delayed, EA tries to hype next Battlefield, and there's a slew of fighting game news as Street Fighter 6 announces their beta, Tekken 8 releases more footage and Mortal Kombat is getting rebooted (again?). Don't miss the best video game news of the week from your favorite video games podcast! Video games covered this week:  Tears of the Kingdom Hollowknight: Silksong Street Fighter 6 Tekken 8 Mortal Kombat Thanks to our LEGENDARY supporters: Skippy, Kiitaclyzm, Gideon Is Lit, Toro, Scrump, Gaius, Remi, MarbleMadness, Dr. Catatonic, Blackstar (DQ), Glapsuidir, Phelps, Michele B, Redletter, Nevo, Waynerman, TFolls, AceofShame, Jake, RangerMiller, and Ad Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/multiplayerpodcast Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/multiplayerpod/ Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/MultiplayerPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q  Visit us on the web: multiplayerpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Profit Talk! In this show, we're going to help you explore strategies to help you maximize profits in your business while scaling and creating the lifestyle that you want as an entrepreneur. I am your host, Susanne Mariga! I'm a CPA, a Fractional CFO, and a Certified Profit First Professional Mastery Level providing tax strategies to 7 and 8-figure entrepreneurs. Let's dive into strategies to maximize profits in your business!  In this episode, I interview Tonya Thomas. She is the founder of Team Delegate, a provider of elite virtual executive assistant support to seasoned executives turned into small business owners. Team Delegate's highly trained executive VAs provide comprehensive administrative support that helps time-starved CEOs to double their productivity so they can triple their earnings.   In this episode, you'll learn:  -The difference between a Virtual Assistant and Executive Assistant and which is best for you?  -Why are they important to your business operations?  -How do you find the right type of help?  -Where does it go wrong with hiring a VA or EA?  To learn more about Tonya and the services she provides, connect with him on LinkedIn Tonya Thomas, or visit her website https://teamdelegate.com/   Visit my FREE Facebook Group, The Profit First Masterclass, where I'll be sharing additional exclusive trainings to members of the community.   If you're excited about what's next for your business and upcoming episodes, please head to our itunes page and give us a review! Your support will help me to bring in other amazing expert interviews to share their best tips on how to powerfully grow in your business!  DISCLAIMER: The information contained within these videos is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute, an accountant-client relationship. While we use reasonable efforts to furnish accurate and up-to-date information, we assume no liability or responsibility for any errors, omissions, or regulatory updates in the content of this video. Any U.S. federal tax advice contained within is not intended to be used for the purpose of avoiding penalties under U.S. federal tax law. 

My guest this week on the podcast is Esther Avant.  Esther is an online weight loss coach, personal trainer and sports nutritionist who has been working with women since 2006. Esther started EA Coaching online in 2015 after meeting her now – husband who's in the Navy and knowing she didn't want to table her career to follow him around the country (world, now). Throughout her 17+ years of education, professional experience, and personal trial-and-error, Esther has  come to realize that the true equation for lasting success in weight loss is consistency, commitment, and confidence.  This was an easy conversation with someone who knows how difficult it can be to lose weight and keep it off.  Esther's programs will help you meet your goals for better nutrition, mindset, and weight loss.  She is the real deal.  You can find Esther and her EA coaching programs at www.estheravant.com. You can also find Esther on Instagram @esther.avant.   For all your nutrition supplement needs, go to www.athleticgreens.com/ANNA to receive your free one year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs.    And don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast with 5 stars! Mad love!          

Welcome to Episode 315 of WSTR! This episode's topics include: - Looking at the entire zoo of creatures from The Phantom Menace - Jedi Survivor performing well against EA's expectations - Tony Gilroy joins WGA strike, stepping away from Andor - ...and much, much, more! For all your galactic news and talk needs, this is the podcast you've been looking for - tune in to WSTR Galactic Public Access! Email: mailbox@wstrmedia.com Voicemail: (630) 557-9787

Tax season is now behind us, but that doesn't mean we move on and think about it later when it comes back. Don't leave tax planning for the next season. Start doing it now! In this episode, we look ahead to plan for the next tax season, so we're better equipped to facilitate the changes in our business. Joining Michelle Weinstein is a nationally recognized speaker and educator on federal tax law matters, Thomas A. Gorczynski, EA, USTCP. Among the titles under his belt, Tom is the editor-in-chief of EA Journal, co-author of the PassKey Learning Systems EA Review Series, and co-owner of Compass Tax Educators. He brings his expertise and insights to today's show to prepare us for the next tax season with a list of the top ten areas to assess in your firm. What are the common mistakes people make? What is the future of the accounting profession? What client metrics should you consider? Tom answers these and more. So tune in to learn and hopefully skip past the tears and anxiety of the tax season when it arrives.

Ever wondered what it's like to shape the future of the gaming industry? Buckle up, because we're diving deep into the extraordinary journey of Andy Billings, Ph.D., the brains behind EA's ascendancy in this sensational episode.Andy's a living legend who's spent 25 years at EA, helping transform it into a global gaming giant. He's got a unique knack for making anyone feel like the smartest person in the room, but don't be fooled – he's a mastermind when it comes to leading companies through technological change and financial intelligence.Here's what we're unpacking in this incredible episode:The Genesis of EA: How EA grew from a fledgling start up into a global gaming powerhouse.The Billion-Dollar Gaming Boom: With 5 billion active players projected in the near future, how does the industry plan to cater to this explosive growth?The Console Wars: Journey back to the 90s, where the genesis of a collaboration with football coach John Madden and the innovative talents of EAs founder Trip Hawkins reshaped EA's destiny.Gaming as a Cultural Force: It's not just entertainment – it's an art form that shapes our society.Leadership Lessons from EA: Discover how EA cultivated future industry leaders and countered market disruptions using strategic leadership programs.The Digital Revolution: From the rise of live services, E-Sports, and mobile gaming to the limitations of packaged goods, we'll dive into EA's digital transformation journey and the significance of Sim City, John Riccitiello, Larry Probst, and Andrew Wilson.AI and the Future of Gaming: What does the rise of AI mean for the gaming industry, and how is it influencing cultural behaviours and society?By the end of our chat, you'll gain insider knowledge on the gaming industry, learn powerful leadership lessons, and get a sneak peek into the future of gaming.Intrigued? Then tune in, sit back, and join us for an enlightening conversation with Andy Billings. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.Remember, disruption isn't a stumbling block – it's the springboard for transformation. We all have the strength to shape the course of the future, and it all originates from welcoming the unfamiliar. Stay curious! Peter Join our tribe and lets grow together https://plus.acast.com/s/purpose-made-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Krayt Dragon Raid has only been around for a couple weeks, but it’s already gone through some big changes. We talk about those changes [...] The post Galactic War Report – Episode 342: Gus the Undefeated appeared first on Radio Free Tatooine.

Jesse Smithey of 5Star Preps joined the EA show to talk high school softball, baseball, and spring football. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first hour of the EA show, Erik and Brian discuss Julian Phillips entering the transfer portal, talk to Jesse Smithey of 5Star Preps, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the second hour of the EA show, Erik and Brian talk more about Julian Phillips transferring, comments made by Lions HC Dan Campbell and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tyler Wyatt of Bet Smart US joined the EA show to talk, college football power rankings, where does he have Tennessee and other SEC schools. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AI might be taking the world by storm, but the QTB Crew hasn't been replaced yet! This episode we're chatting about how AI could benefit the gaming industry (and apparently EA has big plans), plus a fresh hot take from Bruno and the debut of YOUR questions with the new segment, Hey QTB! Support us on Patreon and get incredible perks, including shoutouts on every episode: https://patreon.com/quitthebuild Save up to 90% on best selling video games, including new releases and even pre-orders: https://cdkeys.pxf.io/qtb Level up your gaming sessions with Advanced.GG, the only supplements, drinks and more that are scientifically proven to quicken your decision making skills! Use promo code QTB10 to save 10% sitewide: https://advanced.gg/?ref=quitthebuild Quit The Build Official Website - Podcast, Merch, Blog & More: https://quitthebuild.com Intro by BEATette: https://quitthebuild.com/beatette Twitter: https://twitter.com/quitthebuild Instagram: https://instagram.com/quitthebuildpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@quitthebuild Facebook: https://facebook.com/gaming/quitthebuild Quit The Build is the most influential up and coming video game podcast available! Tackling all the latest gaming news and pop culture, Millennial hosts and friends Bruno, Brad & Nick bring laughs and insights to each episode. Join the QTB crew for an amazing gaming podcast to accompany your week!

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: Fatebook for Slack: Track your forecasts, right where your team works, published by Adam Binks on May 11, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Announcing Fatebook for Slack - a Slack bot designed to help high-impact orgs build a culture of forecasting. With Fatebook, you can ask a forecasting question in your team's Slack: Then, everyone in the channel can forecast: When it's time to resolve the question as Yes, No or Ambiguous, the author gets a reminder. Then everyone gets a Brier score, based on their accuracy. It's like a tiny, private, fast Metaculus inside your team's Slack. Why build a culture of forecasting? Make better decisions Communicate more clearly Build your track record Trust your most reliable forecasters We built Fatebook for Slack aiming to help high-impact orgs become more effective. See the FAQs on the website for more info. We'd really value your feedback in the comments, in our Discord, or at adam@sage-future.org. You can add Fatebook to your workspace here. Thanks to all our alpha testers for their valuable feedback, especially the teams at 80,000 Hours, Lightcone, EA Cambridge, and Samotsvety. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

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: US Supreme Court Upholds Prop 12!, published by Rockwell on May 11, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The United States Supreme Court just released its decision on the country's most pivotal farmed animal welfare case—NATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL ET AL. v. ROSS, SECRETARY OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, ET AL. —upholding California's Prop 12, the strongest piece of farmed animal legislation in the US.In 2018, California residents voted by ballot measure to ban the sale of pig products that come from producers that use gestation crates, individual crates the size of an adult pig's body that mother pigs are confined to 24/7 for the full gestation of their pregnancies, unable to turn around. In response, the pork industry sued and the case made its way to the nation's highest court.If the Supreme Court had not upheld Prop 12, years of advocacy efforts would have been nullified and advocates would no longer be able to pursue state-level legislative interventions that improve welfare by banning the sale of particularly cruelly produced animal products. It would have been a tremendous setback for the US animal welfare movement. Instead, today is a huge victory. Groups like HSUS spearheaded efforts to uphold Prop 12, even in the face of massive opposition. The case exemplified the extent to which even left-leaning politicians side with animal industry over animal welfare, as even the Biden administration sided with the pork industry. Today is a monumental moment for farmed animal advocacy. Congratulations to everyone who worked to make this happen! Read more about it: Summary and analysis from Lewis Bollard (Senior Program Officer for Farm Animal Welfare at Open Phil) here on Twitter. Victory announcement by the Humane Society of the United States here. New York Times coverage here. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

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: How much funging is there with donations to different EA animal charities?, published by Brian Tomasik on May 11, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. My main question The EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund makes grants to many different animal charities. Suppose I want to support one particular charity that they grant to because I think it's better, relative to my values, than most of the other ones. For example, maybe I want to specifically give to Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC), so I donate $1000 to them. Because this donation reduces LIC's room for more funding, it may decrease the amount that the Animal Welfare Fund itself (or Open Philanthropy, Animal Charity Evaluators, or individual EA donors) will give to LIC in the future. How large should I expect this effect to be in general? Will my $1000 donation tend to "funge" against these other EA donors almost fully, so that LIC can be expected to get about $1000 less from them? Is the funging amount more like $500? Is it roughly $0 of funging? Or maybe donating to LIC helps them grow faster, so that they can hire more people and do more things, thereby increasing their room for funding and how much other EA donors give to them? The answer to this question probably varies substantially from one case to the next, and maybe the best way to figure it out would be to learn a lot about the funding situation for a particular charity and the funding inclinations of big EA donors toward that charity. But that takes a lot of work, so I wonder if EA funders have some intuition for what tends to happen on average in situations like this, to inform small donors who aren't going to get that far into the weeds with a particular charity. Does the funging amount tend to be closer to 0% or closer to 100% of what an individual donor gives? I notice that the Animal Welfare Fund sometimes funds ~10% to ~50% of an organization's operating budget, which I imagine may be partly intentional to avoid crowding out small donors. (It may also be motivated by wanting charities to diversify their funding sources and due to limited funds to disburse.) Is it true in general that the Animal Welfare Fund doesn't fully fill room for funding, or are there charities for which the Fund does top up the charity completely? (Note that it would actually be better impact-wise to ensure that the very best charities are roughly fully funded, so I'm not encouraging a strategy of deliberately underfunding them.) In the rest of this post, I'll give more details on why I'm asking about this topic, but this further elaboration is optional reading and is more specific to my situation. My donation preferences I think a lot of EA donations to animal charities are really exciting. About 1/3 of the grants in the Animal Welfare Fund's Grants Database seem to me roughly as cost-effective as possible for reducing near-term animal suffering. However, for some other grants, I'm pretty ambivalent about the sign of the net impact (whether it's net good or bad). This is mainly for two reasons: I'm unsure if meat reduction, on the whole, reduces animal suffering, mainly because certain kinds of animal farming, especially cattle grazing on non-irrigated pasture, may reduce an enormous amount of wild-animal suffering (though there are huge error bars on this analysis). I'm unsure if antispeciesism in general reduces net suffering. In the short run, I worry that it may encourage more habitat preservation, thereby increasing wild-animal suffering. In the long run, moral-circle expansion could encourage people to create lots of additional small-brained sentience, and in (hopefully unlikely) scenarios where human values become inverted, antispeciesist values could multiply total suffering manyfold. If I could press a button to reduce overall meat consumption or to increase concern for an...

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: In defence of epistemic modesty [distillation], published by Luise on May 10, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a distillation of In defence of epistemic modesty, a 2017 essay by Gregory Lewis. I hope to make the essay's key points accessible in a quick and easy way so more people engage with them. I thank Gregory Lewis for helpful comments on an earlier version of this post. Errors are my own. Note: I sometimes use the first person (“I claim”/”I think”) in this post. This felt most natural but is not meant to imply any of the ideas or arguments are mine. Unless I clearly state otherwise, they are Gregory Lewis's. What I Cut I had to make some judgment calls on what is essential and what isn't. Among other things, I decided most math and toy models weren't essential. Moreover, I cut the details on the “self-defeating” objection, which felt quite philosophical and probably not relevant to most readers. Furthermore, it will be most useful to treat all the arguments brought up in this distillation as mere introductions, while detailed/conclusive arguments may be found in the original post and the literature. Claims I claim two things: You should practice strong epistemic modesty: On a given issue, adopt the view experts generally hold, instead of the view you personally like. EAs/rationalists in particular are too epistemically immodest. Let's first dive deeper into claim 1. Claim 1: Strong Epistemic Modesty To distinguish the view you personally like from the view strong epistemic modesty favors, call the former “view by your own lights” and the latter “view all things considered”. In detail, strong epistemic modesty says you should do the following to form your view on an issue: Determine the ‘epistemic virtue' of people who hold a view on the issue. By ‘epistemic virtue' I mean someone's ability to form accurate beliefs, including how much the person knows about the issue, their intelligence, how truth-seeking they are, etc. Determine what everyone's credences by their own lights are. Take an average of everyone's credences by their own lights (including yourself), weighting them by their epistemic virtue. The product is your view all things considered. Importantly, this process weighs your credences by your own lights no more heavily than those of people with similar epistemic virtue. These people are your ‘epistemic peers'. In practice, you can round this process to “use the existing consensus of experts on the issue or, if there is none, be uncertain”. Why? Intuition Pump Say your mom is convinced she's figured out the one weird trick to make money on the stock market. You are concerned about the validity of this one weird trick, because of two worries: Does she have a better chance at making money than all the other people with similar (low) amounts of knowledge on the stock market who're all also convinced they know the one weird trick? (These are her epistemic peers.) How do her odds of making money stack up against people working full-time at a hedge fund with lots of relevant background and access to heavy analysis? (These are the experts.) The point is that we are all sometimes like the mom in this example. We're overconfident, forgetting that we are no better than our epistemic peers, be the question investing, sports bets, musical taste, or politics. Everyone always thinks they are an exception and have figured [investing/sports/politics] out. It's our epistemic peers that are wrong! But from their perspective, we look just as foolish and misguided as they look to us. Not only do we treat our epistemic peers incorrectly, but also our epistemic superiors. The mom in this example didn't seek out the expert consensus on making money on the stock market (maybe something like “use algorithms” and “you don't stand a chance”). Instead, she may have li...

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: Advice for newly busy people, published by Severin T. Seehrich on May 11, 2023 on LessWrong. After writing "Advice for interacting with busy people", I was asked to write a follow-up on advice for newly busy people. So, here's a quick list of tools and mental models that help me prioritize. This list is by no means comprehensive. It's just the tools I know and have loved. Take what's useful, and drop what doesn't fit your brain and life. 1. Prioritizing between projects a. Apply the Tomorrow Rule. When someone asks you to join an exciting project that's due half a year from now, it is very, very tempting to say "yes". You'll immediately have a vivid imagination of the shiny outcome, while the workload is far enough in the future to not cross your mind. To mitigate this tendency, it makes sense to apply the Tomorrow Rule. It goes as such: "Am I committed enough to this that I'd clear up time in my schedule tomorrow to make it happen?" b. If things get too much, do a Productivity Purge. If you already have too many projects on your plate and can't make reasonable progress on any of them, you might want to go through a round of Cal Newport's productivity purge algorithm. The steps: "When it feels like your schedule is becoming too overwhelmed, take out a sheet of paper and label it with three columns: professional, extracurricular, and personal. Under “professional” list all the major projects you are currently working on in your professional life (if you're a student, then this means classes and research, if you have a job, then this means your job, etc). Under “extracurricular” do the same for your side projects (your band, your blog, your plan to write a book). And under “personal” do the same for personal self-improvement projects (from fitness to reading more books). Under each list try to select one or two projects which, at this point in your life, are the most important and seem like they would yield the greatest returns. Put a star by these projects. Next, identify the projects that you could stop working on right away with no serious consequences. Cross these out. Finally, for the projects that are left unmarked, come up with a 1-3 week plan for finalizing and dispatching them. Many of these will be projects for which you owe someone something before you can stop working on them. Come up with a crunch plan for the near future for shutting these down as quickly as possible. Once you completed your crunch plan you'll be left with only a small number of important projects. In essence, you have purged your schedule of all but a few contenders to be your next Theory of Relativity. Here's the important part: Try to go at least one month without starting any new projects. Resist, at all costs, committing to anything during this month. Instead, just focus, with an Einsteinian intensity, on your select list." 2. Prioritizing between people At some point in January/February, I felt pretty lonely and decided to make a list of all the lovely people I know and spend too little time with. After writing down the names of 40 people in Berlin alone and more in other cities, I realized what was the problem: I fully optimized for creating loose ties, for getting the spark of novelty and knowing what's going on in my various communities. In the meantime, I didn't commit enough to anyone as that I'd know who to call when I'm feeling low. So - you might want to create two networks simultaneously, which work by different rules: A large network of loose ties. These people are there for uncommitted play, for exchanging knowledge and occasional favors, for having as many people as possible in your life who know somebody who knows somebody who happens to be really skilled at that particular thing. Treat them with kindness and integrity, but don't hesitate to say "no" if your heart isn't...

In the final hour of the EA show, Erik and Brian play Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, talk to Tyler Wyatt of Bet Smart US and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tony Van is a true gaming legend. He has produced and designed games for LucasFilm Games, Activision, SEGA, EA and lots more iconic companies. In this really fun and in-depth interview, Tony reflects on his amazing career.  He shares stories about working Indiana Jones titles, producing Star Wars: Rebel Assault and what it was like working at LucasFilm Games (LucasArts) in the 90s.  Tony then shares his memories of what SEGA was really like in the mid-90s. Tony worked on many classic Genesis, SEGA CD and 32X titles. These include Shadowrun, Home Alone, Fahrenheit and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and many more. Tony also reflects on his time working at SegaSoft, HEAT.net and helping to launch EA.com.  Fancy discussing this podcast? Fancy suggesting a topic of conversation? Please tweet us @arcadeattackUK and catch us on Facebook or Instagram. All copyrighted material contained within this podcast is the property of their respective rights owners and their use here is protected under ‘fair use' for the purposes of comment or critique.

In the final hour of the EA show, Erik and Riley discuss which SEC teams could finish higher or lower in the top-25 post spring football rankings, what they learned today and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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: Psychological safety as the yardstick of good EA movement building, published by Severin on May 10, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I recently learned about the distinction between "movement building" and "community building": Community building is for the people involved in a community, and movement building is in service of the cause itself. A story I've heard from a bunch of EA groups is that they start out with community building. They attract a couple people, develop a wonderful vibe, and those people notoriously slack on their reading group preparations. Then, the group organizers get dissatisfied with the lack of visible progress on the EA path, doubt their own impact, and pivot all the way from community building to movement building. No funny pub meetups anymore. Career fellowships and 1-on-1s all the way. I think this throws the baby out with the bathwater, and that more often than not, community building is indeed tremendously valuable movement building, even if it doesn't look like that at first glance. The piece of evidence I can cite on this (and indeed cite over and over again) is Google's "Project Aristotle"-study. In Project Aristotle, Google studied what makes their highest-performing teams highest-performing. And alas: It is not the fanciness of degrees or individual intelligence or agentyness or any other property of the individual team members, but five factors: "The researchers found that what really mattered was less about who is on the team, and more about how the team worked together. In order of importance: Psychological safety: Psychological safety refers to an individual's perception of the consequences of taking an interpersonal risk or a belief that a team is safe for risk taking in the face of being seen as ignorant, incompetent, negative, or disruptive. In a team with high psychological safety, teammates feel safe to take risks around their team members. They feel confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea. Dependability: On dependable teams, members reliably complete quality work on time (vs the opposite - shirking responsibilities). Structure and clarity: An individual's understanding of job expectations, the process for fulfilling these expectations, and the consequences of one's performance are important for team effectiveness. Goals can be set at the individual or group level, and must be specific, challenging, and attainable. Google often uses Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to help set and communicate short and long term goals. Meaning: Finding a sense of purpose in either the work itself or the output is important for team effectiveness. The meaning of work is personal and can vary: financial security, supporting family, helping the team succeed, or self-expression for each individual, for example. Impact: The results of one's work, the subjective judgement that your work is making a difference, is important for teams. Seeing that one's work is contributing to the organization's goals can help reveal impact." What I find remarkable is that "psychological safety" leads the list. While some factors in EA actively work against the psychological safety of its members. To name just a few: EA tends to attract pretty smart people. If you throw a bunch of people together who have been used all their lives to being the smart kid in the room, they suddenly lose the default role they had in just about any context. Because now, surrounded by even smarter kids, they are merely the kid. I think this is where a bunch of EAs' impostor syndrome comes from. EAs like to work at EA-aligned organizations. That means that some of us feel like any little chat at a conference (or any little comment on the EA Forum or our social media accounts) also i...

Today we chat with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset. We cover a ton of ground - starting with the Sunday idea club that led to Thumbtack, how to scale a marketplace, and how to choose ideas you'd happily spent a decade on. Next, we jump into the science of delegation - the idea at the core of Athena. Jonathan talks through how to delegate to an EA, when to start with one, a system of delegation that creates asymmetric upside and what type of founders should consider it. Athena deal for Idea to Startup listeners (good through 6/30)Athena / Thumbtack / PowersetTacklebox

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Please be aware the stories, theories, re-enactments and language in this podcast are of an adult nature and can be considered disturbing, frightening and in some cases even offensive.  Listener Discretion is therefore advised.  Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I'm your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, frighteningly imagined creatures, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries but I promise all sorts of weirdness.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma....  And on today's Dark enigma well, we are diving deep into some more myths and legends!  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always my darlings, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Tiawath that will be a single shot and every time I say Merodach, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today's dark enigma… so don your best scholarly duds, grab your thinking cap as we dive into today's offering of  The Birth Of The Gods And The Battle Against Tiawath As in so many creation myths we find chaotic darkness brooding over a waste of waters; heaven and earth were not yet. Naught existed save the primeval ocean, Mommu Tiawath, from whose fertile depths came every living thing. Not were the waters distributed, as in the days of man, into sea, river or lake, but all were confined together in one vast and bottomless abyss. Neither did god or man exist: their names were unknown and their destinies undetermined. The future was as dark as the gloom which lay over the mighty gulf of chaos. Nothing had been designed or debated concerning it.  But there came a stirring in the darkness and the great gods arose. First came Lahmu and Lahame; and many epochs later, Ansar and Kisar, component parts of whose names signify 'Host of Heaven' and 'Host of Earth.' These latter names we may perhaps accept as symbolical of the spirits of heaven and of earth respectively. Many days afterward came forth their son Anu, god of the heavens.

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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: Better debates, published by TsviBT on May 10, 2023 on LessWrong. [Crossposted from.] When two people disagree about a proposition even though they've thought about it alot, the disagreement is often hard to resolve. There's a gulf of data, concepts, intuitions, experiences, inferences. Some of this gulf has to be resolved by the two people individually trying to collate and present their own positions more clearly and legibly, so that they can build up concepts and propositions in whoever is receiving the model. Also, most new understanding comes from people working on their own or with others who are already synced up--for the most part they already agree on what and how to investigate, they have shared context of past experience and data, they agree on background assumptions, they have a shared language, they trust each other. But still, a lot of value comes from debate. The debaters are forced to make their evidence and logic legible. Ideas are tested against other ideas from another at least somewhat coherent perspective. Analogies and disanalogies are drawn out. Bundles of facts can be sifted, spot-checked, and compared; predictions can be resolved into updates. The case, in being laid out to the debate partner, is also made clearer to the audience. The audience can see where another expert thinks the strong and weak points are in a position. So there's value on the table from debates. But debates usually suck. People talk past each other. They waste effort talking about non-cruxy claims. The truth about verifiable claims isn't made available, missing the chance to bring one or the other perspective into contact with reality. People cite statistics and analyses which become meaningless in a context where they can't be investigated and can't take on their full meaning by relating in detail to the discourse context. What would a better debate look like? Below is a speculative list of ways to structure a debate so that it finds and explains more truth. As armchair speculation, this list is gesture or inspiration, not tested advice. Multiple rounds. Have multiple conversations with the same debaters on the same topic. Debaters sometimes have to pause a thread of conversation and go off to collect data, clarify their case, reevaluate and update, look into counterdata, come up with a more concise response to critiques, pass the other's Ideological Turing Test, or mull over the other's concepts and perspective. Seconds. Debaters bring seconds--people who can step in to make certain points, or can (being already versed in the perspective) efficiently work in the background to bring up information for the main debater to use. Free-flowing. Debates often have a regimented structure, with a fixed overall length, and alternating statements with prescribed length. Don't do that, let the debaters have back and forth. Technical facilitation. Offload cognitive labor from the debaters by having support people who (perhaps on big visible screens): Check easily-checkable claims. Bring in numbers and diagrams and exact statements from citations. Map the argument. Summarize claims and counterclaims, define terms (especially clarifying how each debater uses important words), track sub-points and digressions. Track stated cruxes and double-cruxes. Remind the debaters of the current thread stack, if needed. Filter comments from an audience. Discourse facilitation. Have one or two facilitators who more directly guide the discourse: Encourage debaters to paraphrase each other's position, and sometimes try to pass their Ideological Turing Test. Highlight when the debaters are using terms differently, or are making unshared background assumptions. MC the conversation, e.g. sometimes briefly summarizing the conversation so far, and summarizing prior rounds at the beginning of subsequent ro...

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: On missing moods and tradeoffs, published by Lizka on May 9, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. My favorite jargony phrase of the ~week is "missing mood." How I've been using it: If you're not feeling sad about some tradeoffs/facts about the world (or if you notice that someone else doesn't seem to be), then you might not be tracking something important (you might be biased, etc.). The “missing mood” is a signal. Note: I'm sharing this short post with some thoughts to hear disagreements, get other examples, and add nuance to my understanding of what's going on. I might not be able to respond to all comments. Examples 1. Immigration restrictions An example from the linked essay: immigration restrictions are sometimes justified. But "the reasonable restrictionist mood is anguish that a tremendous opportunity to enrich mankind and end poverty must go to waste." You might think that restricting immigration is sometimes the lesser evil, but if you don't have this mood, you're probably just ~xenophobic. 2. Long content The example from Ben — a simplified sketch of our conversation: Me: How seriously do you hold your belief that “more people should have short attention spans?” And that long content is bad? Ben: I think I mostly just mean that there's a missing mood: it's ok to create long content, but you should be sad that you're failing to communicate those ideas more concisely. I don't think people are. (And content consumers should signal that they'd prefer shorter content.) (Related: Distillation and research debt, apparently Ben had written a shortform about this a year ago, and Using the “executive summary” style: writing that respects your reader's time) 3-6. Selective spaces, transparency, cause prioritization, and slowing AI I had been trying to (re)invent the phrase for situations like the following, where I want to see people acknowledging tradeoffs: Some spaces and events have restricted access. I think this is the right decision in many cases. But we should notice that it's sad to reject people from things, and there are negative effects from the fact that some people/groups can make those decisions. I want some groups of people to be more transparent and more widely accountable (and I frequently want to prioritize transparency-motivated projects on my team, and am sad when we drop them). In some cases, it's just true that I think transparency (or accountability) is more valuable than the other person does. But as I learn more about or start getting involved in any given situation, I usually notice that there are real tradeoffs; transparency has costs like time, risks, etc. There are two ways missing moods pop up in this case: When I'm just ~rallying for transparency, I'm missing a mood of "yes, it's costly in many ways, and it's awful that prioritizing transparency might mean that some good things don't happen, but I still want more of it." If I don't have this mood, I might be biased by a vibe of "transparency good.” When I start thinking more about the tradeoffs, I sometimes entirely change my opinion to agree with the prioritization of whoever it is I'm disagreeing with. Alternatively, my position becomes closer to: "Ok, I don't really know what tradeoffs you're making, and you might be making the right ones. I'm sad that you don't seem to be valuing transparency that much. Or I just wish that you were transparent — I don't actually know how much you're valuing transparency." The people I'm disagreeing with might also be missing a mood. They might just not care about transparency or acknowledge its benefits. There's a big difference (to me) between someone deciding not to prioritize transparency because the costs are too high and someone not valuing it at all, and if I'm not sensing the mood, it might be the latter. (This is especially true if I don't h...

Major averages closed lower today. Wilmington Trust's Meghan Shue and Decatur Capital CEO Degas Wright break down the market action amid earnings from Affirm, Airbnb, EA, Wynn, Occidental, Rivian, Twilio and IAC. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna weighs in on the company's new AI offering Watsonx and the macro environment in tech spending. Former Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart weighs in on the debt ceiling talk and when the market will begin to worry. Plus, GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield talks the semiconductor business and whether there are signs of softening. Our Julia Boorstin launches this year's Disruptor 50 list. 

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