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“Targeting High-Risk Pregnancies: A Cost-Effectiveness Case for Low-Dose Aspirin” by Marshall (opens the original)
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A century-old pill, given to the right people, could cost-effectively save many lives. Summary Targeting low-cost prevention toward people at elevated risk may uncover highly cost-effective ways to address noncommunicable diseases. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy could be a test case for this approach. Meta-analyses indicate that low-dose aspirin reduces perinatal death by ~20% when given to women at risk of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication involving high blood pressure. Aspirin likely
“Why I’m scared of RL” by Owen Cotton-Barratt (opens the original)
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Summary: First, I give several different angles on how I feel about reinforcement learning: Theoretical case: RL is a black-box source of agency — this should give us classic misalignment worries, especially compared to agency-via-scaffolding Recent incidents (huggingface etc) and more mundane forms of misaligned behaviour in personal use give me bad vibes about the direction-of-travel of recent AI progress I’m worried things might get worse: if RL environments start incorporating agents, they m
“Community Health: A Call for Transparency” by LauraC (opens the original)
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In early 2024, I brought an employment claim against a former employer concerning unpaid work. Following information provided by my former employer, Community Health became involved and supported decisions excluding me from EA Global and some local EA events. These decisions were made before I was asked for my account. I subsequently provided Community Health with my account, relevant context and supporting evidence, but was told that this did not change the decision. I was not given a clear exp
“Swarm Scaling” by Toby_Ord (opens the original)
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Audio note: this article contains 36 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm? We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months: 1,200 agents were being evaluated separately, but found a way to illicitly set up a message board and coordinate as a
“Advice for prospective incubators” by Aidan Alexander, Ambitious Impact, Jacintha Baas, SamanthaK (opens the original)
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Often folks hit us up because they are thinking of starting an incubator and want advice. Typically their motivation is that they have a list of specific things they want built that no one is building or because they think an ecosystem needs more new projects or more talent absorption generally to deploy more funding effectively. Here are six questions we often ask prospective teams, to help them figure out what to do. If you're incubator-curious, we recommend asking them of yourself. This is a
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