Open Thread 437

This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/), Discord (https://discord.gg/RTKtdut), and bulletin board (https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php), and in-person meetups around the world (https://www.lesswrong.com/community?filters%5B0%5D=SSC). Most content is free, some is subscriber only; you can subscribe here (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/subscribe?). Also: 1: AI Security Bootcamp is a fully-funded program intended to help people get into AI-related cybersecurity. The current cohort will be in Las Vegas, August 2-8. Apply here (https://aisb.dev/vegas26). 2: More detail now available on opposing the Save Our Bacon Act, which would ban most state animal-welfare and anti-farmed-animal-cruelty laws. Bentham’s Bulldog has a post making the case against here (https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-most-important-decision-for-animals), and Dwarkesh Patel here (https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2063753306296746276). If you’re interested in pushing back can find your senators here (https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm), and there’s a script for calling them here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xNkLlyVZ9RBrWhcGAyeiLuucMYH-L23o5pijDUwDSt0/edit?tab=t.0). And opponents of the bill are uniting behind the American Meat Producers Association, a group of pro-animal-welfare small farmers; if you want to help financially, you can donate to their ad campaign here (https://donorbox.org/american-meat-producers-association). Calls and donations are both pretty time-sensitive, and doing it this week would be much better than waiting.