Daniel May
@danielmay.bsky.social
Machine learning @UCL. Effective altruism, economics, AI.
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Fin Moorhouse interviews @tobyord.bsky.social about the future of AI and the risks it involves. Clear and illuminating.
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Inference Scaling, AI Agents, and Moratoria (with Toby Ord)
Toby Ord is a Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
We discuss the ‘scaling paradox’, inference scaling and its implications, ways to interpret trends in the length of tasks AI agents can complete,...
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June 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Fin Moorhouse interviews @tobyord.bsky.social about the future of AI and the risks it involves. Clear and illuminating.
pnc.st/s/forecast/5...
pnc.st/s/forecast/5...
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Out now: What *is* ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
What Is Ancient History?
From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters—and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way
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April 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Out now: What *is* ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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I signed the 10% Giving Pledge this year, and this week, I decided to donate 19% of my annual income to global health charities.
It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it --
It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it --
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I signed the 10% Giving Pledge this year, and this week, I decided to donate 19% of my annual income to global health charities.
It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it --
It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it --
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GiveWell, an evidence-based charity evaluator that works on global health, has posted their response to the USAID funding cuts, including emergency grants & research pivots: www.givewell.org/research/fun...
USAID Funding Cuts: Our Response and Ways to Help
Last updated: March 18, 2025
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March 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
GiveWell, an evidence-based charity evaluator that works on global health, has posted their response to the USAID funding cuts, including emergency grants & research pivots: www.givewell.org/research/fun...