Best Good Small Group Study Podcasts (2025)

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“Orienting Toward Wizard Power” by johnswentworth 8:20

3h ago8:20

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For months, I had the feeling: something is wrong. Some core part of myself had gone missing. I had words and ideas cached, which pointed back to the missing part. There was the story of Benjamin Jesty, a dairy farmer who vaccinated his family against smallpox in 1774 - 20 years before the vaccination technique was popularized, and the same year Ki…

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Increasing Bible Literacy in Our Children's Ministry 28:59

2d ago28:59

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In this episode, Jen Wilkin is joined by Julie Wilding to talk about how to foster a Bible-literacy-focused children's ministry. Julie Wilding holds a degree in Christian Education from Carolina University, and pours her passion for kids into creating spaces where the next generation can hear and respond to the gospel. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher…

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Finding True Rest in Jesus for the Anxious Heart - with Becky Thompson of Midnight Mom Devotional 46:45

2d ago46:45

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Are you a mom who feels weary, anxious, or constantly overwhelmed? In today’s powerful episode of Gather the Gals, we're joined by Becky Thompson—bestselling author of 10 books and the heart behind the Midnight Mom Devotional, followed by millions of moms across the world. Becky shares encouragement from her newest book on rest and speaks directly …

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MESSAGE | "How Stuff Works" Series (Week 2) | Humility is a GOOD thing! 32:25

3d ago32:25

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Today, Pastor Bucky Dennis continues our new series called "How Stuff Works" with his sermon called "Humility is a good thing"! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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“Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI” by Neel Nanda 13:15

3d ago13:15

13:15

(Disclaimer: Post written in a personal capacity. These are personal hot takes and do not in any way represent my employer's views.) TL;DR: I do not think we will produce high reliability methods to evaluate or monitor the safety of superintelligent systems via current research paradigms, with interpretability or otherwise. Interpretability seems a…

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“Slowdown After 2028: Compute, RLVR Uncertainty, MoE Data Wall” by Vladimir_Nesov 11:33

4d ago11:33

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It'll take until ~2050 to repeat the level of scaling that pretraining compute is experiencing this decade, as increasing funding can't sustain the current pace beyond ~2029 if AI doesn't deliver a transformative commercial success by then. Natural text data will also run out around that time, and there are signs that current methods of reasoning t…

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“Early Chinese Language Media Coverage of the AI 2027 Report: A Qualitative Analysis” by jeanne_, eeeee 27:35

7d ago27:35

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In this blog post, we analyse how the recent AI 2027 forecast by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean has been discussed across Chinese language platforms. We present: Our research methodology and synthesis of key findings across media artefacts A proposal for how censorship patterns may provide signal for t…

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What Makes a Teaching Effective? 30:52

9d ago30:52

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In this episode, Jen Wilkin is joined by Colleen Searcy, a fellow Bible Study teacher, to discuss the final leg in the three-legged stool. Colleen D. Searcy is a Bible teacher, speaker, and creator of the Meet Me in the Bible study series. She also leads workshops for churches across the country. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. As…

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Podcast LIVE #3 - What is your mountain? What is standing in the way from all God has for you? 29:36

10d ago29:36

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MESSAGE | "How It Works" Series (Week 1) | Fear of God 38:30

9d ago38:30

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We start our brand new series called "How It Works", a series talking about Biblical Wisdom Literature. Pastor Ben Applebee kicks off the series with his sermon called "Fear of God"! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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[Linkpost] “Jaan Tallinn’s 2024 Philanthropy Overview” by jaan 1:17

13d ago1:17

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This is a link post. to follow up my philantropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthropy page with the 2024 results. in 2024 my donations funded $51M worth of endpoint grants (plus $2.0M in admin overhead and philanthropic software development). this comfortably exceeded my 2024 commitment of $42M (20k times $2100.00 — the minimum price of …

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“Impact, agency, and taste” by benkuhn 15:17

14d ago15:17

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I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart the people who’ve done the best work at Anthropic. You might think that the main thing that makes people really effective at research or engineering is technical ability, and among the general population that's true. Among people hired at Anthropic, though, we’ve restricted the range by screening fo…

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CONVERSATION | Small Groups & Bible Studies | Feat Ben and Teri 52:17

15d ago52:17

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In today's episode of the CONVERSATION podcast, we have Pastor Ben and Teri Dunham talk about Small Groups and Bible Studies what their role is in the church! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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[Linkpost] “To Understand History, Keep Former Population Distributions In Mind” by Arjun Panickssery 5:42

14d ago5:42

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This is a link post. Guillaume Blanc has a piece in Works in Progress (I assume based on his paper) about how France's fertility declined earlier than in other European countries, and how its power waned as its relative population declined starting in the 18th century. In 1700, France had 20% of Europe's population (4% of the whole world population…

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“AI-enabled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power” by Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden, rosehadshar 15:22

15d ago15:22

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We’ve written a new report on the threat of AI-enabled coups. I think this is a very serious risk – comparable in importance to AI takeover but much more neglected. In fact, AI-enabled coups and AI takeover have pretty similar threat models. To see this, here's a very basic threat model for AI takeover: Humanity develops superhuman AI Superhuman AI…

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What Makes a Small Group Successful? 27:03

17d ago27:03

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In this episode, Jen Wilkin is joined by Ann Hastings to discuss the second leg in the three-legged stool. Ann Hastings has worked as an organizer and leader of small groups for several years. She has also served her local church in several capacities. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. As an advocate for biblical literacy, she has o…

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“Accountability Sinks” by Martin Sustrik 28:50

15d ago28:50

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Back in the 1990s, ground squirrels were briefly fashionable pets, but their popularity came to an abrupt end after an incident at Schiphol Airport on the outskirts of Amsterdam. In April 1999, a cargo of 440 of the rodents arrived on a KLM flight from Beijing, without the necessary import papers. Because of this, they could not be forwarded on to …

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Podcast LIVE #2 -The Key to Not Feel Alone in Motherhood—Why Christian Friendship Can Change Everything 18:48

17d ago18:48

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CHECK OUT MY FREE RESOURCES HERE!! :) https://stan.store/gatherthegals Grab my free anxiety guide My #1 Way to make money from home guide! Join our weekly FREE bible study Grab my prayer journal Follow us on social media @gatherthegals All in the link above! I would love your help in supporting this podcast to keep it going! For the price of a Star…

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MESSAGE | "For the World..." Series (Easter Sunday) | The Day Death Died 27:11

17d ago27:11

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This Easter Sunday, Pastor Ben Applebee concludes our series called "For the World and your Neighbor too", with his sermon called "The Day Death Died"! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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“Training AGI in Secret would be Unsafe and Unethical” by Daniel Kokotajlo 10:46

17d ago10:46

10:46

Subtitle: Bad for loss of control risks, bad for concentration of power risks I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for the last year. I wish I’d been able to release it sooner, but on the bright side, it’ll make a lot more sense to people who have already read AI 2027. There's a good chance that AGI will be trained before this decade is out. By AGI I…

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“Why Should I Assume CCP AGI is Worse Than USG AGI?” by Tomás B. 1:15

18d ago1:15

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Though, given my doomerism, I think the natsec framing of the AGI race is likely wrongheaded, let me accept the Dario/Leopold/Altman frame that AGI will be aligned to the national interest of a great power. These people seem to take as an axiom that a USG AGI will be better in some way than CCP AGI. Has anyone written justification for this assumpt…

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“Surprising LLM reasoning failures make me think we still need qualitative breakthroughs for AGI” by Kaj_Sotala 35:51

23d ago35:51

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Introduction Writing this post puts me in a weird epistemic position. I simultaneously believe that: The reasoning failures that I'll discuss are strong evidence that current LLM- or, more generally, transformer-based approaches won't get us AGI As soon as major AI labs read about the specific reasoning failures described here, they might fix them …

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“Frontier AI Models Still Fail at Basic Physical Tasks: A Manufacturing Case Study” by Adam Karvonen 21:00

24d ago21:00

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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automated, leading to class tensions between the automated and non-automated. Instead, he predicts that nearly all jobs will be automated simultaneously, putting everyone "in the same boat." However, based on my experience spanning AI research (including fi…

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What Makes a Curriculum Good? 30:45

24d ago30:45

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In this episode, Jen Wilkin is joined by Elizabeth Woodson, a fellow Bible teacher and curriculum writer, to discuss the first leg in the three-legged stool. Elizabeth Woodson is the founder of The Woodson Institute, an organization that equips believers to understand and grow their Christian faith. She loves helping people internalize their faith …

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Resurrection, The Empty Tomb and Easter - A Victory that Changed Everything 20:21

26d ago20:21

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CHECK OUT MY FREE RESOURCES HERE!! :) https://stan.store/gatherthegals Grab my free anxiety guide My #1 Way to make money from home guide! Join our weekly FREE bible study Grab my prayer journal Follow us on social media @gatherthegals All in the link above! I would love your help in supporting this podcast to keep it going! For the price of a Star…

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CONVERSATION | Boredom | Feat Ben and Randy 12:05

24d ago12:05

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In today's episode of our CONVERSATION Podcast, Pastors Ben Applebee and Randy Iacovetta sit down and talk about boredom! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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MESSAGE | For the World... Series (Week 5) | A Crowd Worth Dying For 38:15

24d ago38:15

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This Palm Sunday, Pastor Ben Applebee continues our series called "For the World and your Neighbor too", with his sermon called "A Crowd Worth Dying For"! Here is the link to Vision Sunday message that Pastor Ben talks about in this sermon video! Watch it here! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to sta…

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“Negative Results for SAEs On Downstream Tasks and Deprioritising SAE Research (GDM Mech Interp Team Progress Update #2)” by Neel Nanda, lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, Callum McDougall ... 57:32

29d ago57:32

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Audio note: this article contains 31 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. Lewis Smith*, Sen Rajamanoharan*, Arthur Conmy, Callum McDougall, Janos Kramar, Tom Lieberum, Rohin Shah, Neel Nanda * = equal contribution The following piece is a list of snippet…

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[Linkpost] “Playing in the Creek” by Hastings 4:12

29d ago4:12

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This is a link post. When I was a really small kid, one of my favorite activities was to try and dam up the creek in my backyard. I would carefully move rocks into high walls, pile up leaves, or try patching the holes with sand. The goal was just to see how high I could get the lake, knowing that if I plugged every hole, eventually the water would …

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“Thoughts on AI 2027” by Max Harms 40:27

30d ago40:27

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This is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opinions of their named authors, and do not claim to speak for all of MIRI. Okay, I'm annoyed at people covering AI 2027 burying the lede, so I'm going to try not to do that. The authors predict a strong chance that all humans will be (effectively) dead i…

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“Short Timelines don’t Devalue Long Horizon Research” by Vladimir_Nesov 2:10

1M ago2:10

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Short AI takeoff timelines seem to leave no time for some lines of alignment research to become impactful. But any research rebalances the mix of currently legible research directions that could be handed off to AI-assisted alignment researchers or early autonomous AI researchers whenever they show up. So even hopelessly incomplete research agendas…

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“Alignment Faking Revisited: Improved Classifiers and Open Source Extensions” by John Hughes, abhayesian, Akbir Khan, Fabien Roger 41:04

1M ago41:04

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In this post, we present a replication and extension of an alignment faking model organism: Replication: We replicate the alignment faking (AF) paper and release our code. Classifier Improvements: We significantly improve the precision and recall of the AF classifier. We release a dataset of ~100 human-labelled examples of AF for which our classifi…

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An Introduction to the Three-Legged Stool Method 41:37

1M ago41:37

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In this episode, Jen Wilkin introduces her method for growing Bible literacy through curriculum, small group time, and teaching. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. As an advocate for biblical literacy, she has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts and authored several books, including the best s…

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Podcast LIVE - How to live a life of obedience to God. No matter your past, God can use you! 18:14

1M ago18:14

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CHECK OUT MY FREE RESOURCES HERE!! :) https://stan.store/gatherthegals Grab my free anxiety guide My #1 Way to make money from home guide! Join our weekly FREE bible study Grab my prayer journal Follow us on social media @gatherthegals All in the link above! I would love your help in supporting this podcast to keep it going! For the price of a Star…

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“METR: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks” by Zach Stein-Perlman 11:09

1M ago11:09

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Summary: We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend predicts that, in under five years, we will see AI agents that can independently complet…

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MESSAGE | For the World... Series (Week 4) | You can't have the Messiah without his mission of love! 27:45

1M ago27:45

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Today, Pastor Bucky Dennis continues our series called "For the World and your Neighbor too", with his sermon called "You can't have the Messiah without his mission of love"! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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“Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased?” by Arjun Panickssery 9:08

1M ago9:08

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“In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elms trees were green and higher than the houses, where the front yards were wide and pleasant and the back yards were bushy and worth finding out about, where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge, where the lawns ended in orc…

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“AI 2027: What Superintelligence Looks Like” by Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, elifland, Scott Alexander, Jonas V, romeo 54:30

1M ago54:30

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In 2021 I wrote what became my most popular blog post: What 2026 Looks Like. I intended to keep writing predictions all the way to AGI and beyond, but chickened out and just published up till 2026. Well, it's finally time. I'm back, and this time I have a team with me: the AI Futures Project. We've written a concrete scenario of what we think the f…

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“OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux” by Zvi 18:01

1M ago18:01

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Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment. The battle was fought largely through control of the public narrative, and the above was my attempt to put together what happened.My conclusion, which I still believe, was that Sam Altman had engaged in a variety of unacceptable co…

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“The Pando Problem: Rethinking AI Individuality” by Jan_Kulveit 27:39

1M ago27:39

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Epistemic status: This post aims at an ambitious target: improving intuitive understanding directly. The model for why this is worth trying is that I believe we are more bottlenecked by people having good intuitions guiding their research than, for example, by the ability of people to code and run evals. Quite a few ideas in AI safety implicitly us…

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“You will crash your car in front of my house within the next week” by Richard Korzekwa 1:52

1M ago1:52

1:52

I'm not writing this to alarm anyone, but it would be irresponsible not to report on something this important. On current trends, every car will be crashed in front of my house within the next week. Here's the data: Until today, only two cars had crashed in front of my house, several months apart, during the 15 months I have lived here. But a few h…

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“My ‘infohazards small working group’ Signal Chat may have encountered minor leaks” by Linch 10:33

1M ago10:33

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Remember: There is no such thing as a pink elephant. Recently, I was made aware that my “infohazards small working group” Signal chat, an informal coordination venue where we have frank discussions about infohazards and why it will be bad if specific hazards were leaked to the press or public, accidentally was shared with a deceitful and discredite…

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“Leverage, Exit Costs, and Anger: Re-examining Why We Explode at Home, Not at Work” by at_the_zoo 6:16

1M ago6:16

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Let's cut through the comforting narratives and examine a common behavioral pattern with a sharper lens: the stark difference between how anger is managed in professional settings versus domestic ones. Many individuals can navigate challenging workplace interactions with remarkable restraint, only to unleash significant anger or frustration at home…

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It's Time to Pull the Fire Alarm 31:47

1M ago31:47

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In this first episode of season 3, Jen Wilkin calls attention to the lack of Bible literacy in the Church today. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. As an advocate for biblical literacy, she has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts and authored several books, including the best seller 'Women of …

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“PauseAI and E/Acc Should Switch Sides” by WillPetillo 3:31

1M ago3:31

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In the debate over AI development, two movements stand as opposites: PauseAI calls for slowing down AI progress, and e/acc (effective accelerationism) calls for rapid advancement. But what if both sides are working against their own stated interests? What if the most rational strategy for each would be to adopt the other's tactics—if not their ulti…

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“VDT: a solution to decision theory” by L Rudolf L 8:58

1M ago8:58

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Introduction Decision theory is about how to behave rationally under conditions of uncertainty, especially if this uncertainty involves being acausally blackmailed and/or gaslit by alien superintelligent basilisks. Decision theory has found numerous practical applications, including proving the existence of God and generating endless LessWrong comm…

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“LessWrong has been acquired by EA” by habryka 1:33

1M ago1:33

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Dear LessWrong community, It is with a sense of... considerable cognitive dissonance that I announce a significant development regarding the future trajectory of LessWrong. After extensive internal deliberation, modeling of potential futures, projections of financial runways, and what I can only describe as a series of profoundly unexpected coordin…

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“We’re not prepared for an AI market crash” by Remmelt 3:46

1M ago3:46

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Our community is not prepared for an AI crash. We're good at tracking new capability developments, but not as much the company financials. Currently, both OpenAI and Anthropic are losing $5 billion+ a year, while under threat of losing users to cheap LLMs. A crash will weaken the labs. Funding-deprived and distracted, execs struggle to counter coor…

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MESSAGE | For the World... Series (Week 3) | Gravity in the Garden 39:27

1M ago39:27

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Today, Pastor Ben Applebee continues our series called "For the World and your Neighbor too", with his sermon called "Gravity in the Garden"! Want to learn more about Watermark? Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/ We would love to start a conversation with you!By Watermark Church

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