Found in the Struce David Reinstein

First of maybe 3 episodes with some audio giving you a flavor of (my experience of) the EA Mexico Fellowship. Most of this episode surrounds my conversations with Agustin Covarrubias.



Some people might find the "Branches of AI Safety" (jump to that section) the most interesting part.



27 May 2023 -- Sorry, I see the audio ordering was wrong — my 30 second comment on Columbus should not have been at the beginning. I moved it.


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Practicing what I preach = reading what I wrote... Seeing the effects of your donation and making incremental choices in EA Forum

Part of the 'giving and gifts podcast trilogy'
along with Profusion: The Big, Christmassy Data Special and

FITS "The Economics of the Gift" reading


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I read and blather about "The Economics of the Gift", an essay I wrote for an interdisciplinary conference and book on "Gift Giving and the 'Embedded Economy' in the ancient world". 

Part of a planned multi-part series on "reading old stuff I wrote and seeing how much I cringe". 



Full essay is HERE


Ties in with 

- Profusion data podcast Christmassy special

- EA forum post: seeing the effects of your donation




From the essay abstract:

This essay broadly considers gifts, giving, and gift economies, modern and pre-modern, from a mainstream (and behavioural) economics perspective. I present a selective survey of the literature focusing on six key points:

1. Commercial transactions sustained by reputation are not easily distinguishable from gift exchange economies;

2. Gift-giving allows the giver to accumulate goods that cannot be purchased commercially;

3. When the giver retains some use, experience, or control over the gift, she shares in the consumption of it;

4. Considering behavioural issues such as regret aversion, gift-giving may offer overlooked efficiencies that may balance out the deadweight losses from ‘inadequate gifts’;

5. Aggregate (anonymous) giving can be an important signal of overall group identity and character;

6. Historical modes of ‘giving under pressure’ offer insights for modern public policy and philanthropy


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Finally answering the burning question!


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... with only a few comments and explainers.



I finished the post, but I hope to make a part III with the footnotes and EA Forum comments on the Post


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Reading EA Forum post, "Differences in the Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species" by Jason Schukraft ... with only a few comments and explainers

"Why it would matter if different sorts of animals possessed characteristically different intensity ranges of valenced experience" -- Jason

Oversimply perhaps, do some animals 'feel more pain' (and more pleasure) than others ... so which ones do we need to worry about (the most)?

This is a nice long post -- so I'll split these between 2 episodes.

Here, I read through "Cognitive Sophistication and Intensity of Valenced Experience"


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