Shows
Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)Getting better at LLMs, with Zvi MowshowitzIn this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) recorded with Zvi Mowshowitz (TheZvi) live at the LessOnline conference. They explore practical strategies for getting better results from large language models. Zvi explains how to customize AI behavior through thoughtful system prompts, while Patrick shares techniques for using LLMs as writing partners and research assistants. They discuss the evolving relationship between content creators and AI training data, touching on the emerging field of "generative engine optimization" (GEO). The conversation also covers multimodal capabilities, recursive AI use, and strategies for avoiding common failure modes like hallucination and sycophancy. –Full transcript: www.co...2025-06-1251 min
LessWrong posts by zvi“Grok Grok” by ZviThis is a post in two parts.
The first half is the post is about Grok's capabilities, now that we’ve all had more time to play around with it. Grok is not as smart as one might hope and has other issues, but it is better than I expected and for now has its place in the rotation, especially for when you want its Twitter integration.
That was what this post was supposed to be about.
Then the weekend happened, and now there's also a second half. The second half is about ho...2025-02-2544 min
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastZvi's 2024 In MoviesPodcast episode for Zvi's 2024 In Movies.DWAtV Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.DWAtV Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/zvis-2024-in-movies?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueMusic: The Road Home by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)Licensed under Creative Commons BY...2025-01-1334 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Zvi’s 2024 In Movies” by ZviNow that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Table of Contents
The Rating Scale.
The Numbers.
Very Briefly on the Top Picks and Whether You Should See Them.
Movies Have Decreasing Marginal Returns in Practice.
Theaters are Awesome.
I Hate Spoilers With the Fire of a Thousand Suns.
Scott Sumner Picks Great American Movies Then Dislikes Them.
I Knew Before the Cards Were Even Turned Over.
Other Notes to Self to...2025-01-1328 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Balsa Research 2024 Update” by ZviFor our annual update on how Balsa is doing, I am turning the floor over to Jennifer Chen, who is the only person working full time on Balsa Research.
For my general overview of giving opportunities, see my post from last week.
Previously: The 2023 Balsa Research update post, Repeal the Jones Act of 1920.
tl;dr: In 2024, Balsa Research funded two upcoming academic studies on Jones Act impacts and published the Jones Act Post. In 2025, we’ll expand our research and develop specific policy proposals. Donate to Balsa Research here.
To...2024-12-0310 min
Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastZvi's Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFFPodcast episode for Zvi's Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF.Voice powered by ElevenLabshttps://elevenlabs.io/?from=partnerperez4447DWAtV Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/zvis-thoughts-on-his-2nd-round-of?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webMusic: The Road Home by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/42024-11-2020 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Zvi’s Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF” by ZviPreviously: Long-Term Charities: Apply For SFF Funding, Zvi's Thoughts on SFF
There are lots of great charitable giving opportunities out there right now.
I recently had the opportunity to be a recommender in the Survival and Flourishing Fund for the second time. As a recommender, you evaluate the charities that apply and decide how worthwhile you think it would be to donate to each of them according to Jaan Tallinn's charitable goals, and this is used to help distribute millions in donations from Jaan Tallinn and others.
The first time that I served...2024-11-2018 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Book Review: On the Edge: The Future” by ZviPreviously: The Fundamentals, The Gamblers, The Business
We have now arrived at the topics most central to this book, aka ‘The Future.’
Rationalism and Effective Altruism (EA)
The Manifest conference was also one of the last reporting trips that I made for this book. And it confirmed for me that the River is real—not just some literary device I invented. (6706)
Yep. The River is real.
I consider myself, among many things, a straight up rationalist.
I do not consider myself an EA, and never have.
Thi...2024-09-271h 29LessWrong posts by zvi“Book Review: On the Edge: The Fundamentals” by ZviThe most likely person to write On the Edge was Nate Silver.
Grok thinks the next most likely was Michael Lewis, followed by a number of other writers of popular books regarding people thinking different.
I see why Grok would say that, but it is wrong.
The next most likely person was Zvi Mowshowitz.
I haven’t written a book for this type of audience, a kind of smarter business-book, but that seems eminently within my potential range.
On the Edge is a book about those living On The Ed...2024-09-2357 min
Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)Bet on it: Zvi Mowshowitz on professional gambling, trading, and AI futuresIn this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Zvi Mowshowitz (TheZvi) to discuss his wide-ranging career as a professional Magic: The Gathering player, sports gambler, equities trader, public intellectual on the covid-19 epidemic, and AI-focused journalist. They go into depth on how trading happens in less formal markets with lessons that resonate in more formal markets. They also explore the fallacies of rational decision-making in large organizations, the significance of obsession and practice in achieving excellence, and exchange predictions on AI.–Full transcript available here: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/betting-trading-zvi-mowshowitz/–Sponsors: Safebase R...2024-08-081h 26LessWrong posts by zvi“AI #75: Math is Easier” by ZviGoogle DeepMind got a silver metal at the IMO, only one point short of the gold. That's really exciting.
We continuously have people saying ‘AI progress is stalling, it's all a bubble’ and things like that, and I always find remarkable how little curiosity or patience such people are willing to exhibit. Meanwhile GPT-4o-Mini seems excellent, OpenAI is launching proper search integration, by far the best open weights model got released, we got an improved MidJourney 6.1, and that's all in the last two weeks. Whether or not GPT-5-level models get here in 2024, and whether or not...2024-08-012h 15LessWrong posts by zvi“RTFB: California’s AB 3211” by ZviSome in the tech industry decided now was the time to raise alarm about AB 3211.
As Dean Ball points out, there's a lot of bills out there. One must do triage.
Dean Ball: But SB 1047 is far from the only AI bill worth discussing. It's not even the only one of the dozens of AI bills in California worth discussing. Let's talk about AB 3211, the California Provenance, Authenticity, and Watermarking Standards Act, written by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who represents the East Bay.
SB 1047 is a carefully written bill that tries to maximize benefits...2024-07-3023 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Llama Llama-3-405B?” by ZviIt's here. The horse has left the barn. Llama-3.1-405B, and also Llama-3.1-70B and Llama-3.1-8B, have been released, and are now open weights.
Early indications are that these are very good models. They were likely the best open weight models of their respective sizes at time of release.
Zuckerberg claims that open weights models are now competitive with closed models. Yann LeCun says ‘performance is on par with the best closed models.’ This is closer to true than in the past, and as corporate hype I will essentially allow it, but...2024-07-2459 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Monthly Roundup #20: July 2024” by ZviIt is monthly roundup time.
I invite readers who want to hang out and get lunch in NYC later this week to come on Thursday at Bhatti Indian Grill (27th and Lexington) at noon.
I plan to cover the UBI study in its own post soon.
I cover Nate Silver's evisceration of the 538 presidential election model, because we cover probabilistic modeling and prediction markets here, but excluding any AI discussions I will continue to do my best to stay out of the actual politics.
Bad News
Jeff Bezos’ rocket co...2024-07-231h 14LessWrong posts by zvi“On the CrowdStrike Incident” by ZviThings went very wrong on Friday.
A bugged CrowdStrike update temporarily bricked quite a lot of computers, bringing down such fun things as airlines, hospitals and 911 services.
It was serious out there.
Ryan Peterson: Crowdstrike outage has forced Starbucks to start writing your name on a cup in marker again and I like it.
What (Technically) Happened
My understanding it was a rather stupid bug, a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.
Zack Vorhies: Memory in your computer is laid out as one giant array...2024-07-2232 minLessWrong posts by zvi“AI #73: Openly Evil AI” by ZviWhat do you call a clause explicitly saying that you waive the right to whistleblower compensation, and that you need to get permission before sharing information with government regulators like the SEC?
I have many answers.
I also know that OpenAI, having f***ed around, seems poised to find out, because that is the claim made by whistleblowers to the SEC. Given the SEC fines you for merely not making an explicit exception to your NDA for whistleblowers, what will they do once aware of explicit clauses going the other way?
(Unless, of...2024-07-181h 40
Belief in the FutureGhost in the MachineDeath isn't always an elegant ending. When Muhammad Ahmad, a research scientist with a doctorate in machine learning, learned his father’s diagnosis was terminal, he began to create a text-based AI simulation. Host David Zvi Kalman explores the successes and limitations of this process with Mohammed and Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky, who shares a Jewish take on "DeathGPT" and wonders if ancient scholars could enter the chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-07-1556 minLessWrong posts by zvi“AI #72: Denying the Future” by ZviThe Future. It is coming.
A surprising number of economists deny this when it comes to AI. Not only do they deny the future that lies in the future. They also deny the future that is here, but which is unevenly distributed. Their predictions and projections do not factor in even what the AI can already do, let alone what it will learn to do later on.
Another likely future event is the repeal of the Biden Executive Order. That repeal is part of the Republican platform, and Trump is the favorite to win the...2024-07-111h 16LessWrong posts by zvi“Medical Roundup #3” by ZviThis time around, we cover the Hanson/Alexander debates on the value of medicine, and otherwise we mostly have good news.
Technology Advances
Regeneron administers a single shot in a genetically deaf child's ear, and they can hear after a few months, n=2 so far.
Great news: An mRNA vaccine in early human clinical trials reprograms the immune system to attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor. It will now proceed to Phase I. In a saner world, people would be able to try this now.
More great news...2024-07-0934 minLessWrong posts by zvi“AI #71: Farewell to Chevron” by ZviChevron deference is no more. How will this impact AI regulation?
The obvious answer is it is now much harder for us to ‘muddle through via existing laws and regulations until we learn more,’ because the court narrowed our affordances to do that. And similarly, if and when Congress does pass bills regulating AI, they are going to need to ‘lock in’ more decisions and grant more explicit authority, to avoid court challenges. The argument against state regulations is similarly weaker now.
Similar logic also applies outside of AI. I am overall happy about overturning Chevron...2024-07-041h 09LessWrong posts by zvi“Economics Roundup #2” by ZviPreviously: Economics Roundup #1
Let's take advantage of the normality while we have it. In all senses.
Insane Tax Proposals
There is Trump's proposal to replace income taxes with tariffs, but he is not alone.
So here is your periodic reminder, since this is not actually new at core: Biden's proposed budgets include completely insane tax regimes that would cripple our economic dynamism and growth if enacted. As in for high net worth individuals, taking unrealized capital gains at 25% and realized capital gains, such as those you are forced to take to...2024-07-0245 min
Belief in the FutureThe Two Lamp MysteryTwo religious communities invented the same lamp. Why?In our first episode David Zvi is joined by Lindsay Ems, an expert in the sociological impacts of technology on religious communities. Through the lens of Amish technology and the Sabbath for Orthodox Jews, they explore innovative ways these groups maintain their traditions in an increasingly electrified world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-07-0135 minLessWrong posts by zvi“AI #70: A Beautiful Sonnet” by ZviThey said it couldn’t be done.
No, not Claude Sonnet 3.5 becoming the clear best model.
No, not the Claude-Sonnet-empowered automatic meme generators. Those were whipped together in five minutes.
They said I would never get quiet time and catch up. Well, I showed them!
That's right. Yes, there is a new best model, but otherwise it was a quiet week. I got a chance to incorporate the remaining biggest backlog topics. The RAND report is covered under Thirty Eight Ways to Steal Your Model Weights. Last month's conference in Seoul is...2024-06-271h 25LessWrong posts by zvi“Childhood and Education Roundup #6: College Edition” by ZviChildhood roundup #5 excluded all developments around college. So this time around is all about issues related to college or graduate school, including admissions.
Tuition and Costs
What went wrong with federal student loans? Exactly what you would expect when you don’t check who is a good credit risk. From a performance perspective, the federal government offered loans to often-unqualified students to attend poor-performing, low-value institutions. Those students then did not earn much and were often unable to repay the loans. The students are victims here too, as we told them to do it.
2024-06-2645 minLessWrong posts by zvi“Monthly Roundup #19: June 2024” by ZviLooks like we made it. Yes, the non-AI world still exists.
Bad Governor
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has gone rogue and betrayed New York City, also humanity, declaring a halt to congestion pricing a month before it was to go into effect. Her explanation was that she spoke to workers at three Manhattan diners who were worried people would be unable to drive to them from New Jersey. Which, as Cathy Reilly points out, is rather insulting to New Jersey, and also completely absurd. Who in the world was going to go into Manhattan...2024-06-251h 41LessWrong posts by zvi“On Claude 3.5 Sonnet” by ZviThere is a new clear best (non-tiny) LLM.
If you want to converse with an LLM, the correct answer is Claude Sonnet 3.5.
It is available for free on Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, or you can subscribe for higher rate limits. The API cost is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
This completes the trifecta. All of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic have kept their biggest and more expensive model static for now, and instead focused on making something faster and cheaper that is good enough to be...2024-06-2426 minLessWrong posts by zvi“On OpenAI’s Model Spec” by ZviThere are multiple excellent reasons to publish a Model Spec like OpenAI's, that specifies how you want your model to respond in various potential situations.
It lets us have the debate over how we want the model to act.
It gives us a way to specify what changes we might request or require.
It lets us identify whether a model response is intended.
It lets us know if the company successfully matched its spec.
It lets users and prospective users know what to expect.
It gives insight into how people are thinking, or what might be missing.
It...2024-06-2356 minLessWrong posts by zvi“AI #69: Nice” by ZviNice job breaking it, hero, unfortunately. Ilya Sutskever, despite what I sincerely believe are the best of intentions, has decided to be the latest to do The Worst Possible Thing, founding a new AI company explicitly looking to build ASI (superintelligence). The twists are zero products with a ‘cracked’ small team, which I suppose is an improvement, and calling it Safe Superintelligence, which I do not suppose is an improvement.
How is he going to make it safe? His statements tell us nothing meaningful about that.
There were also changes to SB 1047. Most of them can...2024-06-231h 36LessWrong posts by zvi“On DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework” by Zvi On DeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework
Previously: On OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, On RSPs.
The First Two Frameworks
To first update on Anthropic and OpenAI's situation here:
Anthropic's RSP continues to miss the definitions of the all-important later levels, in addition to other issues, although it is otherwise promising. It has now been a number of months, and it is starting to be concerning that nothing has changed. They are due for an update.
OpenAI also has not updated its framework.
I am less down on OpenAI's framework choices...2024-06-2316 minLessWrong posts by zvi“OpenAI #8: The Right to Warn” by ZviThe fun at OpenAI continues.
We finally have the details of how Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired, at least according to Leopold. We have a letter calling for a way for employees to do something if frontier AI labs are endangering safety. And we have continued details and fallout from the issues with non-disparagement agreements and NDAs.
Hopefully we can stop meeting like this for a while.
Due to jury duty and it being largely distinct, this post does not cover the appointment of General Paul Nakasone to the board of directors. I’ll co...2024-06-231h 03LessWrong posts by zvi“The Leopold Model: Analysis and Reactions” by ZviPreviously: On the Podcast, Quotes from the Paper
This is a post in three parts.
The first part is my attempt to condense Leopold Aschenbrenner's paper and model into its load bearing elements and core logic and dependencies.
Two versions here, a long version that attempts to compress with minimal loss, and a short version that gives the gist.
The second part goes over where I agree and disagree, and briefly explains why.
The third part is the summary of other people's reactions and related discussions, which will also...2024-06-231h 45LessWrong posts by zvi“AI #68: Remarkably Reasonable Reactions” by ZviThe big news this week was Apple Intelligence being integrated deeply into all their products. Beyond that, we had a modestly better than expected debate over the new version of SB 1047, and the usual tons of stuff in the background. I got to pay down some writing debt.
The bad news is, oh no, I have been called for Jury Duty. The first day or two I can catch up on podcasts or pure reading, but after that it will start to hurt. Wish me luck.
Table of Contents
AiPhone covers the announcement...2024-06-231h 31LessWrong posts by zvi“AiPhone” by ZviApple was for a while rumored to be planning launch for iPhone of AI assisted emails, texts, summaries and so on including via Siri, to be announced at WWDC 24.
It's happening. Apple's keynote announced the anticipated partnership with OpenAI.
The bottom line is that this is Siri as the AI assistant with full access to everything on your phone, with relatively strong privacy protections. Mostly it is done on device, the rest via ‘private cloud compute.’ The catch is that when they need the best they call out for OpenAI, but they do check with you...2024-06-2327 minLessWrong posts by zvi“On Dwarksh’s Podcast with Leopold Aschenbrenner” by ZviPreviously: Quotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Paper
Dwarkesh Patel talked to Leopold Aschenbrenner for about four and a half hours.
The central discussion was the theses of his paper, Situational Awareness, which I offered quotes from earlier, with a focus on the consequences of AGI rather than whether AGI will happen soon. There are also a variety of other topics.
Thus, for the relevant sections of the podcast I am approaching this via roughly accepting the technological premise on capabilities and timelines, since they don’t discuss that. So the background is we...2024-06-101h 49LessWrong posts by zvi“Quotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness Paper” by ZviThis post is different.
Usually I offer commentary and analysis. I share what others think, then respond.
This is the second time I am importantly not doing that. The work speaks for itself. It offers a different perspective, a window and a worldview. It is self-consistent. This is what a highly intelligent, highly knowledgeable person actually believes after much thought.
So rather than say where I agree and disagree and argue back (and I do both strongly in many places), this is only quotes and graphs from the paper, selected to tell the...2024-06-071h 12LessWrong posts by zvi“AI #67: Brief Strange Trip” by ZviI had a great time at LessOnline. It was a both a working trip and also a trip to an alternate universe, a road not taken, a vision of a different life where you get up and start the day in dialogue with Agnes Callard and Aristotle and in a strange combination of relaxed and frantically go from conversation to conversation on various topics, every hour passing doors of missed opportunity, gone forever.
Most of all it meant almost no writing done for five days, so I am shall we say a bit behind again. Thus, the...2024-06-061h 13LessWrong posts by zvi“SB 1047 Is Weakened” by ZviIt looks like Scott Weiner's SB 1047 is now severely weakened.
Some of the changes are good clarifications. One is a big very welcome fix.
The one I call The Big Flip is something very different.
It is mind boggling that we can have a political system where a bill can overwhelmingly pass the California senate, and then a bunch of industry lobbyists and hyperbolic false claims can make Scott Weiner feel bullied into making these changes.
I will skip the introduction, since those changes are clarifications, and get on with it.2024-06-0616 minLessWrong posts by zvi“The Gemini 1.5 Report” by ZviThis post goes over the extensive report Google put out on Gemini 1.5.
There are no important surprises. Both Gemini Pro 1.5 and Gemini Flash are ‘highly capable multimodal models incorporating a novel mixture-of-experts architecture’ and various other improvements. They are solid models with solid performance. It can be useful and interesting to go over the details of their strengths and weaknesses.
The biggest thing to know is that Google improves its models incrementally and silently over time, so if you have not used Gemini in months, you might be underestimating what it can do.
I’m...2024-05-3136 minLessWrong posts by zvi“OpenAI: Helen Toner Speaks” by ZviHelen Toner went on the TED AI podcast, giving us more color on what happened at OpenAI. These are important claims to get right.
I will start with my notes on the podcast, including the second part where she speaks about regulation in general. Then I will discuss some implications more broadly.
Notes on Helen Toner's TED AI Show Podcast
This seems like it deserves the standard detailed podcast treatment. By default each note's main body is description, any second-level notes are me.
(0:00) Introduction. The host talks about OpenAI's transition from non-profit...2024-05-3024 minLessWrong posts by zvi“AI #66: Oh to Be Less Online” by ZviTomorrow I will fly out to San Francisco, to spend Friday through Monday at the LessOnline conference at Lighthaven in Berkeley. If you are there, by all means say hello. If you are in the Bay generally and want to otherwise meet, especially on Monday, let me know that too and I will see if I have time to make that happen.
Even without that hiccup, it continues to be a game of playing catch-up. Progress is being made, but we are definitely not there yet (and everything not AI is being completely ignored for now).
2024-05-301h 42LessWrong posts by zvi“I am the Golden Gate Bridge” by Zvi Easily Interpretable Summary of New Interpretability Paper
Anthropic has identified (full paper here) how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, their current middleweight model. The features activate across modalities and languages as tokens approach the associated context. This scales up previous findings from smaller models.
By looking at neuron clusters, they defined a distance measure between clusters. So the Golden Gate Bridge is close to various San Francisco and California things, and inner conflict relates to various related conceptual things, and so on.
Then it gets more interesting.
Importantly...2024-05-2749 min
The Net Zero LifeIntroducing: The Net Zero Life Season 4Welcome to The Net Zero Life Season 4, I’m Nathan Zvi. The question driving us this season is “How Do We Measure Impact?”
Our guests are climate leaders from all over the private sector. Their expertise intersects with a host of different climate challenges, and each of them need to be measured. Our guests are founders, authors, CEOs, board members, and writers. They represent climate science, journalism, consumer goods, water tech, climate tech, and venture capital.
Together, we discuss this theme along with their climate origin stories, first principles of their work, and, of course, how th...2023-01-1002 min
שיחה ללא נושאמה שלא היה נכנס - פרק בונוסהפרק הזה הינו כל מה שלא נכנס לפרקים הרגילים עם הודעה מיוחדת לרוני שחר האזנה נעימה!-=קישורים=-אתר - https://RadioBenZvi.github.io/יוטיוב - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-d-xH0hS5D4RPLKBBe5ogהפודקאסט בספוטיפי - https://open.spotify.com/show/00AVovDZ91dF3ccD2Tmhs8?si=d78a5bc5e0434392הפודקאסט בגוגל - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9zaGFrZWRrb2QuZ2l0aHViLmlvL0FUV0FTX1BvZGNhc3QvZmVlZC5yc3M/הפודקאסט באפל מיוזיק - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1654325732?app=podcast&at=1000lHKX&ct=linktree_httpitscg=30200&itsct=lt_p&ls=1&mt=2/כל הפרקים ביוטיוב - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGUNdKopvOVJhSI29vR9_IA_iscAWBelT/-=מוזיקה=-* Howard Harper-Barnes - We All Need Adventures(The Center)© Radio Ben Zvi 20222022-11-1521 minשיחה ללא נושאלאן הגענו?הפרק הרביעי של שיחה ללא נושא עם שקד, רוני, ליעד, שירה, רוטמן, גלעד וגם כפי שידוע לי ישו משום מה.בפרק זה הם מדברים על פוליטיקה, נועה קירל, ומלא דברים רנדומליים אחרים האזנה נעימה!-=קישורים=-אתר - https://RadioBenZvi.github.io/יוטיוב - הפודקאסט בספוטיפי - https://open.spotify.com/show/00AVovDZ91dF3ccD2Tmhs8?si=d78a5bc5e0434392הפודקאסט באפל מיוזיק - כל הפרקים ביוטיוב - -=מוזיקה=-* TheFatRat - Xenogenesis© Radio Ben Zvi 20222022-10-2739 minשיחה ללא נושאמעולמות שוניםהפרק השלישי של שיחה ללא נושא עם שקד, טל, אלון, יואב, ליעד ואוריאן.בפרק זה הם מדברים על שירים, דברים רנדומליים, לימודים, קולה ועוד האזנה נעימה!-=קישורים=-אתר - https://RadioBenZvi.github.io/יוטיוב - הפודקאסט בספוטיפי - https://open.spotify.com/show/00AVovDZ91dF3ccD2Tmhs8?si=d78a5bc5e0434392הפודקאסט באפל מיוזיק - כל הפרקים ביוטיוב - -=מוזיקה=-* Howard Harper-Barnes - We All Need Adventures(The Center)© Radio Ben Zvi 20222022-09-2745 minשיחה ללא נושאעל מבחנים, החיים ושיריםהפרק הראשון של שיחה ללא נושא עם שקד, טל, ויואב.בפרק זה הם מדברים על המבחנים הבאים, על שירים, פרסומות ועודהאזנה נעימה!-=קישורים=-אתר - https://RadioBenZvi.github.io/יוטיובהפודקאסט בספוטיפיהפודקאסט באפל מיוזיקכל הפרקים ביוטיוב-=מוזיקה=-* Luis Humanoide - Clockwork Lands: Chronicles Aboard an Airship © Radio Ben Zvi 20222022-09-131h 08
Ideas and LivesPaula Hogan, author, pioneer and entrepreneur in personal financial advisingPaula Hogan describes her early experience with finance, growing up with a father who pioneered concepts of variable annuities. After graduating college, Paula thought she would enter a health policy field, but came to begin financial advising while living in Texas. Learn how Paula chose to embrace ideas developed by co-host Zvi Bodie, how she built her own personal financial advising practice and ultimately sold the practice while continuing to provide financial advice to clients. Her publications and her efforts to promote fiduciary responsibilities of advisers have contributed to improving the financial futures of Americans.2022-05-1050 minIdeas and LivesZvi Bodie, financial economist, co-host of Ideas and LivesZvi Bodie describes his lifelong interest in ideas and learning. From his birth and high school in Brooklyn and his evolution from a socialist/Zionist and kibbutz life to becoming a noted financial economist, Zvi recalls how his thinking evolved and how he luckily encountered much help from teachers and friends. Zvi explains the importance of finance and of financial innovation that drives much of the world economy.2022-03-021h 04
Zvířata nejímeBarbora Bartušková Večlová, Svoboda zvířat: Za pokusy bez zvířatPovídání s Bárou ze Svobody zvířat o jejich aktuální kampani Za pokusy bez zvířat. www.zapokusybezzvirat.cz2021-12-0415 min
Zvířata nejímeTvůrci dokumentu Svědectví: Petr Beneš, Věra Mikušová, Adele, Lukáš Vincour, Michaela VincourováKrátký rozhovor s tvůrci dokumentu Svědectví, který ukazuje život zvířat v českých chovech. Bavili jsme se o tom, zda se zaměřuje pouze na velkochovy, s jakými zvířaty se v něm diváci/čky setkají, jak bylo časově náročné získat záběry a proč neuvádíme konkrétní místa, z nichž záběry pocházejí. www.sledujsvedectvi.cz2021-11-0119 min
The Thinking Jewish PodcastParshas Lech Lecha: Opportunities not testsThe origins of the Jewish nation starts with Avrohom Avinu. Yet his beginning we read in the Torah are full of challenges. Wouldn't it be nicer if the stories we read worked out better for Avrohom?
Rav Berkovits would say, "This is what we are here for. We have one purpose in this world, which is to earn eternity. To bring ourselves to be closer and closer to Hashem. Everything in this world is nothing other than a test. They are the things that give us the ability to jump higher".
Good Shabbos
Zvi...2021-10-1406 min
Zvířata nejímeLukáš Krása: Otevřené záchrany zvířat, proč netají svou identitu, jak se záchranné akce připravují a momenty, které se mu vryly do paměti.Povídání s Lukášem o tom, co jsou to otevřené záchrany zvířat, proč netají svou identitu, jak se záchranné akce připravují a momenty, které se mu nesmazatelně vryly do paměti.2021-08-0136 min
Ideas and LivesInterview with Economist, Author Eugene SteuerleZvi and Bob interview Eugene Steuerle, a highly noted economist and expert on budget, tax, and social benefit programs. Gene is an Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute. He has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987-1989), President of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), and co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He is the author of 18 books and over 1,000 articles. He discusses how he became an economist, people who influenced his career, and disturbing trends in patterns of federal spending and budget deficits.2021-07-0858 min
Zvířata nejímeKaty: Co jsou to vigily (pietní akty před jatkami), v jakém stavu jsou zvířata v transportech smrti a jak na událost reagují zaměstnanci jatek.Povídání s Katy o tom, co jsou to vigily (pietní akty před jatkami), v jakém stavu jsou zvířata v transportech smrti a jak na událost reagují zaměstnanci jatek. 2021-06-3031 min
Zvířata nejímeVěra Mikušová: Osobní vývoj v rámci veganství, éčka v potravinách, proč dává smysl občanská neposlušnost v otázce zneužívání zvířat.Povídání s Věrou o jejím vývoji v rámci veganství, o vajíčkách od babičky, éčkách v potravinách, ale i o tom, proč dává smysl občanská neposlušnost v otázce zneužívání zvířat.2021-06-0141 min
Zvířata nejímeAneta Marková, azyl Šťastný Zvěřinec: Co znamená slovo azyl, jak je to s veterinární péčí u různých druhů zvířat, proč Zvěřincem neproudí návštěvy.Povídání s Anetou o životě se zachráněnými zvířaty ve Šťastném Zvěřinci.https://stastnyzverinec.cz/2021-05-0127 minIdeas and LivesInterview with Meir Kohn: Wealth of Nations ReduxIn this first episode of Ideas and Lives, Professor Meir Kohn of Dartmouth College describes his historically-based theory of economic growth, based on his manuscript,Commerce, predation, and production: a new theory of economic progress. His interview with fellow economists Bob Lerman and Zvi Bodie not only offers an in-depth discussion of this theory but also deals with Meir's life journey from birth in Czechoslovakia, to growing up in England, to joining a kibbutz in Israel, and to becoming an accomplished economist in the US. In addition, Meir describes his intellectual journey from econometrics, to finance and banking, and f...2021-03-2256 minThe Net Zero LifeThe Net Zero LifeNathan Zvi is on a mission to bring climate innovators to the forefront of media and help the people of the world reduce their carbon footprint, save money, and live happier. The Net Zero Life podcast answers the most basic question of “Why should you care about climate change?” and dives deep into topics such as “How many times do you need to use your Hydroflask before it is better than a Poland Springs water bottle?”
Along the way you’ll hear from sustainability thought leaders such as climate scientists, politicians, celebrities, business people, and everyday folks who are liv...2021-02-2802 min
Zvířata nejímeLucka Marková, Nela Bartoníčková: Aktivismus a veganstvíPovídání o aktivismu a veganství se spoluzakladatelkami organizace Zvířata nejíme, Nelou a Luckou.2021-01-0124 min
Zvířata nejímeMichaela & Lukáš Vincourovi: Zakladatelé organizace Zvířata nejímeÚvodní podcast se zakladateli organizace Zvířata nejíme, Michaelou & Lukášem.2020-11-2631 min
From Our Mouths To G-d’s EarsBehaalotcha 2020 - The one with the feet in the windowA late but jam-packed episode in which Cholentface and Rabbi Yisroel Bernath discuss an extraordinary wedding and border crossing - you'll want to read this article: https://medium.com/@loverabbi/once-upon-a-clear-blue-sky-8050b51fed6d
They also discuss the NDG Raffle launch - buy a ticket with Zvi as canvasser here: https://ndg.chabadsuite.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5 [tickets are only 50 dollars].
Plenty of stories, comedy, and Torah in this episode.2020-06-121h 06From Our Mouths To G-d’s EarsTzav 2020 - The one with the secret screenplayCholentface and the Mzoinoiser Rebbe discuss taking out the garbage, reciting HaGomel, and Zvi’s jobs in this late Parsha and comedy episode.2020-04-0356 minFrom Our Mouths To G-d’s EarsKi Tisa 2020 - the one with all the scamsWhile Rabbi Yisroel Bernath gives a brief cameo in this episode, Cholentface and the Mzoinoiser Rebbe interview his Dad, and Eric Klein. Together, they discuss the weekly Parsha (Torah portion), golden calves, Rebbes, Zvi’s soccer skills, and Dan’s Ohel story.2020-03-091h 08
Mindful U at Naropa University36. Zvi Ish-Shalom: Kedumah and Jewish MysticismTraditionally, Judaism is practiced by way of rituals. This includes actual ritualistic practices that involve ritual objects, but it also includes ritualistic prayer, as well as ritualistic forms of study, such as studying Torah in a certain way. My personal practice has shifted from one that is centered around ritual to one that is more about integrating the direct experience of presence, or of divinity, or of reality into everyday life. The rituals' original function was to facilitate that kind of a process, but there are more accessible ways for many people in our culture to access an embodied...2018-08-2735 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsTorah & Tech: A Formal InvitationThis is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone into its creation.2014-09-0700 minHadar Campus ScholarsTorah & Tech: A Formal InvitationThis is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone into its creation.2014-09-0700 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)Torah & Tech: A Formal InvitationThis is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone into its creation.
2014-09-0713 minHadar Campus ScholarsHow to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar TorahThis class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014.2014-04-2800 minHadar Campus ScholarsHow to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar TorahThis class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014.2014-04-2800 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)How to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar Torah (sources in notes)This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014.
davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/how_to_dvar_torah_sources.pdf
2014-04-2851 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies?This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013.2013-12-0500 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies?This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013.2013-12-0500 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_and_New_Technologies.pdf
2013-12-0556 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in HalakhahThis class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on April 24, 2013.2013-04-2500 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in Halakhah (sources in notes)This class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on April 24, 2013.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_10_Halakhan_and_Theology.pdf
2013-04-2557 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in HalakhahThis class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on April 24, 2013.2013-04-2500 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah SeriouslyThis class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David Zvi Kalman.2013-04-1100 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah Seriously (sources in notes)This class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David Zvi Kalman.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_9_Is_Social_Justice_Halakhah_a_Farce.pdf
2013-04-1150 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah SeriouslyThis class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David Zvi Kalman.2013-04-1100 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it?This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman.2013-03-2100 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it? (sources in notes)This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_8_Halakhot_of_Sex.pdf
2013-03-2156 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it?This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman.2013-03-2100 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and HomosexualityThis class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman2013-03-1400 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and Homosexuality (sources in notes)This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_7_Halakhah_and_Homosexuality.pdf
2013-03-1459 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and HomosexualityThis class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman2013-03-1400 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Can Women Lead All Parts of Communal Prayer?This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barriers (or lack of barriers) to women leading tefillah.2013-02-2800 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Can Women Lead All Parts of Communal Prayer? (sources in notes)This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barriers (or lack of barriers) to women leading tefillah.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_6_Women_in_Prayer_II.pdf
2013-02-2854 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Can Women Lead All Parts of Communal Prayer?This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barriers (or lack of barriers) to women leading tefillah.2013-02-2800 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Can Women Count in a Minyan?This is the fifth class in the series ON HALAKHAH. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on February 20, 2013.2013-02-2100 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Can Women Count in a Minyan? (sources in notes)This is the fifth class in the series ON HALAKHAH. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on February 20, 2013.
davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_5_Women_in_Prayer_I.pdf
2013-02-2154 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Can Women Count in a Minyan?This is the fifth class in the series ON HALAKHAH. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on February 20, 2013.2013-02-2100 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Reading Halakhah through "Norms, Forms, and Values" (with sources)This is the fourth installment of the On Halakhah class. It was given at Penn by David Zvi Kalman on February 13, 2013. In this class, we discuss an approach to read (and writing) all halakhic sources.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_4_Forms_Norms_and_Values.pdf
2013-02-1454 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Reading Halakhah through "Norms, Forms, and Values"This is the fourth installment of the On Halakhah class. It was given at Penn by David Zvi Kalman on February 13, 2013. In this class, we discuss an approach to read (and writing) all halakhic sources.2013-02-1400 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Reading Halakhah through "Norms, Forms, and Values"This is the fourth installment of the On Halakhah class. It was given at Penn by David Zvi Kalman on February 13, 2013. In this class, we discuss an approach to read (and writing) all halakhic sources.2013-02-1400 minHadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Values-Based HalakhahThis is the third class in the series ON HALAKHAH. The class was given on Feb. 6, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. This week we began our discussion of halakhic interpretation by examining contemporary philosophy of law, including legal positivism, natural law, legal realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Robert Cover.2013-02-0700 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Values-Based HalakhahThis is the third class in the series ON HALAKHAH. The class was given on Feb. 6, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. This week we began our discussion of halakhic interpretation by examining contemporary philosophy of law, including legal positivism, natural law, legal realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Robert Cover.2013-02-0700 min
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Values-Based Halakhah (sources in notes)This is the third class in the series ON HALAKHAH. The class was given on Feb. 6, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. This week we began our discussion of halakhic interpretation by examining contemporary philosophy of law, including legal positivism, natural law, legal realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Robert Cover.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_3_Values_Based_Halakhah.pdf
2013-02-071h 08
On Halakhah (Hadar Campus Scholars)On Halakhah: Halakhic Activism (sources in notes)The second Episode of ON HALAKHAH, delivered at Penn on January 30, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman. It specifically focusses on how we have, both now and in the past, made halakhic decisions for ourselves.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_2_Halakhic_Activism.pdf
2013-01-311h 01Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Halakhic ActivismThe second Episode of ON HALAKHAH, delivered at Penn on January 30, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman. It specifically focusses on how we have, both now and in the past, made halakhic decisions for ourselves.2013-01-3100 min
Hadar Campus ScholarsOn Halakhah: Halakhic ActivismThe second Episode of ON HALAKHAH, delivered at Penn on January 30, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman. It specifically focusses on how we have, both now and in the past, made halakhic decisions for ourselves.2013-01-3100 min