If you're working at the intersection of cryptography, security, and AI, this is the last chance to apply to Foresight Institute May 14-15, AGI: Cryptography, Security & Multipolar Scenarios Workshop. We'll explore AI infosec, privacy in AI evaluation, multi-agent alignment,…

Consider sponsoring our May 14-15, AGI: Cryptography, Security & Multipolar Scenarios Workshop. We'll be discussing AI infosecurity, privacy in AI evaluation, anti-collusion, & much more: foresight.org/2024-intellige…

Professor Evelyn Yehudit Bischof discusses optimizing the healthspan along the lifespan, creating guidelines for and shaping a new medical discipline: youtube.com/watch?v=W72MjV…

.Scott Alexander was nice enough to critique my position on medicine, & then to respond to my response. Here I respond to that. overcomingbias.com/p/second-respo…

Announcing the 2024 The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive, the second cohort of our 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog.

Learn about progress studies, get into a regular writing habit, improve your writing, and build your audience

It was wonderful to have you as a guest, Hannu Rajaniemi, loved this one!

Can’t wait to chat with the wonderful Marta Belcher on AI, Decentralization, and Regulating Emerging Technologies — thanks for making this event possible Filecoin Foundation!

ICYMI, Day 1️⃣ of Paths to Progress (co-hosted with Foresight Institute) highlighted Longevity Biotechnology with presentations by:

🎤 Aaron King
🎤 Allison Duettmann
🎤 Amit Deshwar
🎤 & more

#LabWeekPG 🌿

⏪ Watch a highlight from the session on genetic medicine pathways. 👇

Interesting new framing on the effects of compute overhang *post* AGI increasing takeoff speed to ASI — any thoughts, rebuttals, implications?

Congratulations to the Gordian Biotechnology team!

Great primer on hi-fi vs. lo-fi approaches to WBE by Patrick Mineault: neuroai.science/p/connectomics…

So excited for this!

The Foresight Fellowship has “helped me explore career opportunities, inspired new research ideas, and provided a really valuable network of connections”.

Applications for our 2025 Fellowship cohort close on midnight pst on July 31: foresight.org/foresight-fell…

Very excited to settle in Edge City in California in June, and to curate LabWeek on Breakthrough Tech w/ Foresight Institute and Protocol Labs.

this paper on collective intelligence by Michael Levin is one of the most mind-blowing things I've read in a while

it's full of examples of the under-appreciated intelligence of biological systems, with some deep perspective shifts on our understanding of ourselves

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great new post by Eric Drexler on 'credible realism': stretching the overton window to better align perceived options with reality: aiprospects.substack.com/p/toward-credi…

Today we unveil the Pareto Holdings pH Fellowship with the goal of accelerating efforts to take on aging and age-related diseases.

We have so far backed nearly 1,000 early stage startups around the world, mostly focused on being the first to take a chance on great teams.

We…