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The "Pier Perspectives: Men's Stories from the Fylde Coast" project aims to capture and share impactful stories of men from Blackpool and the Fylde Coast. These short episodes feature chats about positive mental health stories, with the intent of promoting better mental wellness.
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Before a song is released, a record is produced, or a chorus is written, the musicians that write them think. A lot. They live. A lot. And they feel. A LOT. Hosted by award-winning interviewer and radio host Sofia Loporcaro, Before the Chorus dives into the stories and experiences that shape these artists, and ultimately, the music we hear.
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Food Non-Fiction tells the incredible true stories behind food. We look forward to taking you on this wild food journey - through history, and around the world. Think of us as food historians, food scientists, and food journalists.
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Well, bless your heart and clutch your pearls— She’s Katy Montgomery: Georgetown-educated lawyer, sought-after executive coach, and Southern-bred straight-shooter. He’s Justin Joseph: one time prosecutor, former Emmy-award winning investigative reporter, and her wildly opinionated counterpart. These best friends are serving subpoenas to bad advice weekly with Wrong Way Forward - the advice column reboot you never knew you needed. Sparks fly. And, so does the hilarity. Join them as they turn ...
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The Paramedic Coach discusses EMS education, NREMT certification, and gives career advice and insight to new EMS providers. EMT Training and Paramedic Training can be very accelerated and students can get left behind. My goal with this podcast is to help students pass school and the NREMT exams. I believe that anyone out there who wants to serve their community as an EMT or Paramedic should be able to do that. My aim is to decrease the failure rates of NREMT exams and help students pass the ...
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Real strategies from the dental industry’s most forward-thinking founders, CEOs, and practice-growth experts. The Backstage Pass Podcast brings the entire dental industry exactly what it needs to grow, scale, and thrive. Every episode features proven strategies, fresh ideas, and actionable solutions shared by founders, CEOs, executives, and practice-growth experts who live by the values of kindness, abundance, and fun. This is the podcast for private practice dentists, emerging groups, DSOs, ...
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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.
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Hello All, We are Feel It and Fix It, a married couple with two new-to-adulthood children who have been traversing through life together for almost 27 years and counting. In that time, we had to learn how to navigate many of life’s surprises, many of which were unwelcome and unwanted but had to be experienced, nonetheless. They have included the tragic deaths of several close loved ones, caregiving for Feel It’s late father, Feel It’s chronic illnesses and pain, surgeries (again, Feel It’s), ...
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"Hello SundAI - Our World Through the Lens of AI," is your twice-weekly dive into how artificial intelligence shapes our digital landscape. Hosted by Roger and SundAI the AI, this podcast brings you practical tips, cutting-edge tools, and insightful interviews every Sunday and Wednesday morning. Whether you're a seasoned tech enthusiast or just starting to explore the digital domain, tune in to discover innovative ways to get things done and propel yourself forward in a world increasingly dr ...
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Marriage is a lot like putting together a brand new puzzle. You see the picture on the box and think "I can do that!" or "That would be fun to put together." But once you open the box you realize how much work is involved in turning over all the pieces, finding the edges and what fits in the middle. In marriage, you are constantly turning over new pieces to find out where they go. We'll be talking about our marriage in an attempt to pass along any wisdom we can to others. We hope you'll join ...
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Creators on "The Courageous Creativity Show" redefine success and purpose not merely by traditional metrics like applause or fame, but through a deeper commitment to authenticity, impact, and personal growth, especially when navigating life's challenges. Here's how they express this: Redefining Success • Provoking Thought and Resonating with Audiences: For playwright Jeanette Hill, a play is successful if it makes people think or provokes discussion, even if they don't agree with the content ...
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We are moving forward with moving. In doing so we have noticed the process has highlighted how some of the concepts we talk about all the time show up in our daily lives in ways you wouldn't normally expect them. So we talk about that and what we've been up to since our last episode. Thank you and God bless.…
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"How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret" by Nicholas Andresen
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37:44On Thinkish, Neuralese, and the End of Readable Reasoning In September 2025, researchers published the internal monologue of OpenAI's GPT-o3 as it decided to lie about scientific data. This is what it thought: Pardon? This looks like someone had a stroke during a meeting they didn’t want to be in, but their hand kept taking notes. That transcript c…
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It seems to be a real view held by serious people that your OpenAI shares will soon be tradable for moons and galaxies. This includes eminent thinkers like Dwarkesh Patel, Leopold Aschenbrenner, perhaps Scott Alexander and many more. According to them, property rights will survive an AI singularity event and soon economic growth is going to make it…
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17. WWF Season 1: Top 5 Moments That Changed No One’s Life
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21:55Send us a text Justin & Katy share their Top 5 favorite moments from the show — the funniest stories, wildest viewer emails, and most ridiculous debates from across all episodes. Whether it was rawdogging flights, HOA nudity disputes, or Thanksgiving meltdown etiquette, these are the moments that shaped Wrong Way Forward. A perfect catch-up episode…
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"AI Futures Timelines and Takeoff Model: Dec 2025 Update" by elifland, bhalstead, Alex Kastner, Daniel Kokotajlo
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50:46We’ve significantly upgraded our timelines and takeoff models! It predicts when AIs will reach key capability milestones: for example, Automated Coder / AC (full automation of coding) and superintelligence / ASI (much better than the best humans at virtually all cognitive tasks). This post will briefly explain how the model works, present our timel…
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For the past year I've been sinking into the Great Books via the Penguin Great Ideas series, because I wanted to be conversant in the Great Conversation. I am occasionally frustrated by this endeavour, but overall, it's been fun! I'm learning a lot about my civilization and the various curmudgeons that shaped it. But one dismaying side effect is th…
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Past years: 2023 2024 Continuing a yearly tradition, I evaluate AI predictions from past years, and collect a convenience sample of AI predictions made this year. In terms of selection, I prefer selecting specific predictions, especially ones made about the near term, enabling faster evaluation. Evaluated predictions made about 2025 in 2023, 2024, …
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Leading Through the Fog: Navigating Chronic Illness, Creativity, and the Power of the Pause
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8:18In this episode, you will learn: The Leadership Pivot: How to transition from leading sales teams to leading your own health journey. Creativity as Medicine: How writing plays like LYRICS keeps the mind sharp even when the body is weak. Your Voice Rises: Why my company’s vision is essential for anyone feeling invisible due to illness. Living with M…
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Madison Cunningham on 'Ace', processing through songwriting, & how the right words bring release
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32:21On Ace, Madison Cunningham processes the cycles of heartbreak and falling in love again. For this episode, Madison's second time on the podcast, we sat down at her LA home and discussed the record at length. Find Madison on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3h9TfIgwhovQELlP2jj4xL?si=poBMbSTbT9u4QcNWMO4vvw On Apple Music: https://music.apple.…
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Do I have Imposter Syndrome? Yes and....Here are some thoughts and tips.
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4:13The Personal Battle (How I Combat It) You might look at my frameworks or my career and think I’ve got it all figured out. But let me take you back to 2020. I was sitting in a doctor's office, looking at an MRI of my brain showing 40 lesions. In that moment, the ultimate 'Imposter' voice spoke up. It said: 'Winston, you are a fifty-plus-year-old man…
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Episode 83 - This Year and the Next
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1:10:54This week we use prompts found by Feel It to discuss this past year and some hopes for the next. It will come to no one's surprise that it takes some unexpected turns. We hope you enjoy and have a very happy New Year.By feelitandfixit
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"Good if make prior after data instead of before" by dynomight
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17:47They say you’re supposed to choose your prior in advance. That's why it's called a “prior”. First, you’re supposed to say say how plausible different things are, and then you update your beliefs based on what you see in the world. For example, currently you are—I assume—trying to decide if you should stop reading this post and do something else wit…
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"Measuring no CoT math time horizon (single forward pass)" by ryan_greenblatt
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12:46A key risk factor for scheming (and misalignment more generally) is opaque reasoning ability.One proxy for this is how good AIs are at solving math problems immediately without any chain-of-thought (CoT) (as in, in a single forward pass).I've measured this on a dataset of easy math problems and used this to estimate 50% reliability no-CoT time hori…
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"Recent LLMs can use filler tokens or problem repeats to improve (no-CoT) math performance" by ryan_greenblatt
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36:52Prior results have shown that LLMs released before 2024 can't leverage 'filler tokens'—unrelated tokens prior to the model's final answer—to perform additional computation and improve performance.[1]I did an investigation on more recent models (e.g. Opus 4.5) and found that many recent LLMs improve substantially on math problems when given filler t…
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"Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse" by Parv Mahajan
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5:03Master version of this on https://parvmahajan.com/2025/12/21/turning-20.html I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re still here. This moment seems very fragile, and perhaps more than most moments will never happen again. I want to capture a…
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"Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment" by Cam, Puria Radmard, Kyle O’Brien, David Africa, Samuel Ratnam, andyk
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20:57TL;DR LLMs pretrained on data about misaligned AIs themselves become less aligned. Luckily, pretraining LLMs with synthetic data about good AIs helps them become more aligned. These alignment priors persist through post-training, providing alignment-in-depth. We recommend labs pretrain for alignment, just as they do for capabilities. Website: align…
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"Dancing in a World of Horseradish" by lsusr
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8:29Commercial airplane tickets are divided up into coach, business class, and first class. In 2014, Etihad introduced The Residence, a premium experience above first class. The Residence isn't very popular. The reason The Residence isn't very popular is because of economics. A Residence flight is almost as expensive as a private charter jet. Private j…
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Starting Paramedic School? Learn These 3 Lessons First
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16:25If you're preparing to start paramedic school, this in-depth video breaks down the 3 most important lessons every EMT should understand before day one. These are the exact concepts that overwhelm students early in medic school and cause many to struggle unnecessarily. This video is designed to give you a strong head start so you can walk into param…
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This week wee talk about the holidays, things we do, things we enjoy, and advice for people who may be having a hard time. This is a season to focus a little more on choosing to see the good things and how to be one of those things for others. We hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.By feelitandfixit
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"Contradict my take on OpenPhil’s past AI beliefs" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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5:50At many points now, I've been asked in private for a critique of EA / EA's history / EA's impact and I have ad-libbed statements that I feel guilty about because they have not been subjected to EA critique and refutation. I need to write up my take and let you all try to shoot it down. Before I can or should try to write up that take, I need to fac…
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"Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing" by jenn
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15:53Screwtape, as the global ACX meetups czar, has to be reasonable and responsible in his advice giving for running meetups. And the advice is great! It is unobjectionably great. I am here to give you more objectionable advice, as another organizer who's run two weekend retreats and a cool hundred rationality meetups over the last two years. As the ad…
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TL;DR: In 2025, we were in the 1-4 hour range, which has only 14 samples in METR's underlying data. The topic of each sample is public, making it easy to game METR horizon length measurements for a frontier lab, sometimes inadvertently. Finally, the “horizon length” under METR's assumptions might be adding little information beyond benchmark accura…
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"Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers" by Sam Marks, Adam Karvonen, James Chua, Subhash Kantamneni, Euan Ong, Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Owain_Evans ...
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20:15TL;DR: We train LLMs to accept LLM neural activations as inputs and answer arbitrary questions about them in natural language. These Activation Oracles generalize far beyond their training distribution, for example uncovering misalignment or secret knowledge introduced via fine-tuning. Activation Oracles can be improved simply by scaling training d…
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Pass The NREMT Exam With This One Podcast Episode
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1:12:29If you're preparing for the NREMT exam, this complete NREMT prep video breaks down all 5 NREMT content domains with a deep focus on patient assessment, the most tested section of the NREMT exam. This 1+ hour NREMT review teaches you how the NREMT actually evaluates EMT students so you can walk into test day confident and prepared. Free NREMT Study …
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16. Ho-No-No: A Holiday Guide to Getting Gifting Wrong
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28:15Send us a text This week Katy and Justin unwrap the chaos of holiday gifting—self-gifts, re-gifts, bad gifts, $600 table lamps, and Dr. Ruth’s shockingly bold “best gift you can give yourself.” Plus, the viral turkey trot prank that divided the internet…and this podcast.By Katy Montgomery and Justin Joseph
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"Scientific breakthroughs of the year" by technicalities
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5:55A couple of years ago, Gavin became frustrated with science journalism. No one was pulling together results across fields; the articles usually didn’t link to the original source; they didn't use probabilities (or even report the sample size); they were usually credulous about preliminary findings (“...which species was it tested on?”); and they es…
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"A high integrity/epistemics political machine?" by Raemon
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19:04I have goals that can only be reached via a powerful political machine. Probably a lot of other people around here share them. (Goals include “ensure no powerful dangerous AI get built”, “ensure governance of the US and world are broadly good / not decaying”, “have good civic discourse that plugs into said governance.”) I think it’d be good if ther…
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"How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing)" by Kaj_Sotala
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52:20How it started I used to think that anything that LLMs said about having something like subjective experience or what it felt like on the inside was necessarily just a confabulated story. And there were several good reasons for this. First, something that Peter Watts mentioned in an early blog post about LaMDa stuck with me, back when Blake Lemoine…
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“My AGI safety research—2025 review, ’26 plans” by Steven Byrnes
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22:06Previous: 2024, 2022 “Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.” –attributed to DL Moody[1] 1. Background & threat model The main threat model I’m working to address is the same as it's been since I was hobby-blogging about AGI safety in 2019. Basically, I think that: The “secret sauce” o…
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“Weird Generalization & Inductive Backdoors” by Jorio Cocola, Owain_Evans, dylan_f
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17:32This is the abstract and introduction of our new paper. Links: 📜 Paper, 🐦 Twitter thread, 🌐 Project page, 💻 Code Authors: Jan Betley*, Jorio Cocola*, Dylan Feng*, James Chua, Andy Arditi, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Owain Evans (* Equal Contribution) You can train an LLM only on good behavior and implant a backdoor for turning it bad. How? Recall that the…
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