I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Happy Hardcore History Day everyone. I was really hoping to get this out before 2024 ended but it wasn't quite ready. But it is now.
I hope you like it!

dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

This year’s faves open.substack.com/pub/samwesto...

Another great episode this week from
@jerusalem.bsky.social on Good on Paper, learning from New Zealand's response to housing crisis.

One of the best podcasts around IMO - only been 6 months, but consistently great interviews on important, interesting topics
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/goo...

Okay, early days, but here's a quick starter pack for Universal Basic Income with some accounts to follow besides mine, and the UBI feed that's super useful to leverage to find fellow UBI supporters and amplify their UBI content.

Reply if you want to be added as UBI-focused.

go.bsky.app/4UuZizA

Great @80000hours.bsky.social podcast episode with @cameronmeyershorb.bsky.social about all the excellent work that @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social is doing to build wild animal welfare as a research field. If you want to see why wild animal welfare is important and potentially tractable, check it out!

🔭🧪🧬 Amazing DeepMind longread on how AI advances science by tackling scale/complexity bottlenecks: processing literature, enhancing data quality, simulations modeling complex systems, and exploring solution spaces that exceed human cognitive limits. www.aipolicyperspectives.com/p/a-new-gold...

The Edge of Sentience (print edition) is released TODAY in North America. And the online edition will remain free forever at academic.oup.com/book/57949. It's been great to see the ideas already generating lots of discussion and commentary.

“i’ll put it on my list”

A weird glimpse into how hard it is to publicly advocate for animal welfare

I'm pleased to inform you that Pantheon (S1 anyway) is finally up on Netflix! www.netflix.com/title/81937398

this is absolutely wild

arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109

Not groundbreaking insight here but I think the skills that will matter the most in the coming decade is being adaptive, quickly grasping new developments, being highly agentic, being good at specifying intent in detail, and using tools/AI early and well.