Things I read and liked in November
Reminder about the lost art of discovering new music without the direction of algorithms.
How to write using a combination of dictation and Claude.
Disagreements and mistrust in the founding of OpenAI: emails between Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman, 2015-2019.
International AI governance: new report from Claire Dennis, Stephen Clare, and others. Stephen Clare summary here.
Proposed redesign of Serbian currency, beautiful.
Regular jhana content: Jake Eaton’s account of his Jhourney retreat.
James Snowden summarizes: “A really big (3-4x) positive update to GiveWell's estimate of the cost-effectiveness of GiveDirectly, largely driven by more optimism about positive spillovers.” Blog post here.
Related: Giving What We Can turns 15 years old. Here they are looking fire in 2009.
Alex Turner made a pond.
Matthew Adelson makes the Christian case for animal welfare. Proverbs 31:8.