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Pigeon Hour
by Aaron Bergman
Recorded conversations; a minimal viable pod www.aaronbergman.net
Episodes
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#17: Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse knows everything there is to know about AI
A podcast with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse, who is on Substack, Twitter (@littIeramblings) and potentially elsewhere Topics discussed * Current thing: Fable gets export-controlled * Sarah defends government-enforced staged deployment * Non-misalignment misuse as an existential risk, maybe * Internal...
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#16: Tommy Crow is extraordinarily based and correct about everything
Episode main page: https://www.aaronbergman.net/p/tommy-crowA podcast with Tommy Crow, who is on Substack, Twitter (@tommyjoancrow), TikTok, and elsewhere, recorded irl after a recent EAGx conference in DC! Topics discussed - Tommy’s awake top surgery: how it happened, why almost every doctor…
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#15: Robi Rahman and Aaron tackle donation diversification, decision procedures under moral uncertainty, and other spicy topics
Summary In this episode, Aaron and Robi reunite to dissect the nuances of effective charitable giving. The central debate revolves around a common intuition: should a donor diversify their contributions across multiple organizations, or go “all in” on the single best option? Robi breaks down...
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Vegan Hot Ones | EA Twitter Fundraiser 2024
A great discussion between my two friends Max Alexander of Scouting Ahead and Robi Rahman (in response to a fundraiser that we wrapped up more than 13 months ago)Tweet with context: https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1999918243205779864?s=20 Transcript (AI-generated, likely imperfect) MAX Hello…
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Post readout: Utilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering Cannot be “Offset”
This is an audio readout of my recent post Utilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering Cannot be “Offset”, also on the EA Forum Enjoy! Get full access to Aaron's Blog at www.aaronbergman.net/subscribe
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#14: Jesse Smith on HVAC, indoor air quality, and generally being an extremely based person
Summary Join host Aaron with Jesse Smith, a self-described "unconventional EA" (Effective Altruist) who bridges blue-collar expertise with intellectual insight. Jesse recounts his wild early adventures in Canadian "bush camps," from planting a thousand trees daily as a teen to remote carpentry…
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Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion (paper readout and commentary)
Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion is a recent paper by Fin Moorhouse and Will MacAskill. * 00:00 - 1:58:04 is me reading the paper. * 1:58:05 - 2:26:06 is a string of random thoughts I have related to it I am well-aware that I am not the world's most eloquent speaker lol. This is also a…
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#12: Arthur Wright and I discuss whether the Givewell suite of charities are really the best way of helping humans alive today, the value of reading old books, rock climbing, and more
Please follow Arthur on Twitter and check out his blog! Thank you for just summarizing my point in like 1% of the words -Aaron, to Arthur, circa 34:45 Summary (Written by Claude Opus aka Clong) * Aaron and Arthur introduce themselves and discuss their motivations for starting the podcast. Arthur...
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Drunk Pigeon Hour!
Intro Around New Years, Max Alexander, Laura Duffy, Matt and I tried to raise money for animal welfare (more specifically, the EA Animal Welfare Fund) on Twitter. We put out a list of incentives (see the pink image below), one of which was to record a drunk podcast episode if the greater Very...
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#8: Max Alexander and I solve ethics, philosophy of mind, and cancel culture once and for all
* Follow Max on Twitter * And read his blog * Listen here or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts * RIP Google Podcasts 🪦🪦🪦 Summary In this philosophical and reflective episode, hosts Aaron and Max engage in a profound debate over the nature of consciousness, moral realism, and subjective...
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#7: Holly Elmore on AI pause, wild animal welfare, and some cool biology things I couldn't fully follow but maybe you can
* Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts * Be sure to check out and follow Holly’s Substack and org Pause AI. Blurb and summary from Clong Blurb Holly and Aaron had a wide-ranging discussion touching on effective altruism, AI alignment, genetic conflict, wild animal welfare, and the importance of...
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#6 Daniel Filan on why I'm wrong about ethics (+ Oppenheimer and what names mean in like a hardcore phil of language sense)
Listen on: * Spotify * Apple Podcasts * Google Podcasts Note: the core discussion on ethics begins at 7:58 and moves into philosophy of language at ~1:12:19 Daniel’s stuff: * AI X-risk podcast * The Filan Cabined podcast * Personal website and blog Blurb and bulleted summary from Clong This...
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#5: Nathan Barnard (again!) on why general intelligence is basically fake
Very imperfect transcript: bit.ly/3QhFgEJ Summary from Clong: The discussion centers around the concept of a unitary general intelligence or cognitive ability. Whether this exists as a real and distinct thing. Nathan argues against it, citing evidence from cognitive science about highly…
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#4 Winston Oswald-Drummond on the tractability of reducing s-risk, ethics, and more
Summary (by Claude.ai) This informal podcast covers a wide-ranging conversation between two speakers aligned in the effective altruism (EA) community. They have a similar background coming to EA from interests in philosophy, rationality, and reducing suffering. The main topic explored is reducing...
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#3: Nathan Barnard on how financial regulation can inform AI regulation
Summary/specific topics: - Stress Tests and AI Regulation: Nathan elaborates on the concept of stress tests conducted by central banks. These tests assess the resilience of banks to severe economic downturns and the potential for a domino effect if one bank fails. They believe that lessons from...
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#2 Arjun Panickssery solves books, hobbies, and blogging, but fails to solve the Sleeping Beauty problem because he's wrong on that one
- Follow Arjun on Twitter: https://twitter.com/panickssery - Read and subscribe to his blog: https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com - A mediocre transcription can be found at https://www.assemblyai.com/playground/transcript/6x5h1mcemt-bff1-40fc-a676-9b59c66985f0 🦆 👍 Get full access to Aaron's…
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#1 Laura Duffy solves housing, ethics, and more
A transcript can be found at assemblyai.com/playground/transcript/6y7e7wz28c-30aa-4e83-ba4f-1bddf2e23dad Get full access to Aaron's Blog at www.aaronbergman.net/subscribe
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Aaron's Blog, podcast edition
For All Good's inaugural episode, we talked to Rob Wiblin and Keiran Harris of 80,000 Hours about how and why they produce their show. This episode first appeared on their new feed "80,000 Hours: After Hours" here:...
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Aaron Bergman on the Narratives Podcast: EA, career, and more
Hear EA Georgetown member Aaron Bergman's recent interview as a guest on the Narratives Podcast! During the show, host Will Jarvis talks to Aaron about a key way he thinks people go wrong when choosing a career, how society treats children, how bureaucracy works, whether the FDA should have to...
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Introducing All Good
Welcome to All Good, a show by Georgetown Effective Altruism. Get full access to Aaron's Blog at www.aaronbergman.net/subscribe
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Kids are people too
Update Feb 12, 2023: Automated audio experiment with the Automator app no one uses Intro Back in 2016, I got my first job as a summer camp counselor. It was an outdoor adventure day camp, to which the six figure-making lawyers and consultants of Washington, D.C. sent their straight-A getting,...
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