Dogs are good for your mental health
More EAs should know about Wilberforce (abolitionist). Quote from his bio:“He seems to have wanted to know what was true, but until now had been unable to find out to his satisfaction. He knew if he discovered a truth to his satisfaction he would have no choice but to embrace it & act upon it
TIL that activist-writer Frederick Douglass called his writing room a "growlery". Based on Bleak House's Mr Jarndyce who had a little refuge of books and papers in which he hid when out of humor, the place where "I come and growl"
Good summary of IFS parts
Jane Austen gets it
Make two people proud: your younger self and your older self [image]
Demis Hassabis says AGI that is robust across all cognitive tasks and can invent its own hypotheses and conjectures about science is 3-5 years away
Google DeepMind CEO says AGI that is robust across all cognitive tasks and can invent its own hypotheses and conjectures about science is 3-5 years away
Imagine waiting to have your pandemic to have a pandemic strategy. This seems to be the AI safety strategy a lot of AI risk skeptics propose
You can get to about the 90th percentile in your field by working either smart or hard, which is still a great accomplishment. But getting to the 99th percentile requires both. Extreme people get extreme results
AI safety people should consider reading Sam Altman’s blog. There’s a lot of really good advice there and it also helps you understand Sam better
AI safety people should consider reading Sam Altman’s blog. There’s a lot of really good advice there and it also helps you understand Sam better, who’s a massive player in the field
Nothing worth having comes from ease. In a word chasing instant results, we forget the importance of patience, discipline, and grit [image]
People keep talking about how life will be meaningless without jobs, but we already know that this isn't true. It's called the aristocracy. There are much worse things to be concerned about with AI
People keep talking about how life will be meaningless without jobs, but we already know that this isn't true. It's called the aristocracy. We don't need to worry about loss of meaning. We need to worry about AI caused unemployment leading to extreme poverty.
Intresting to watch part 3
What regions of the world tend to eat spicy food
[Discussion] How to beat chronic procastination?
What it feels like when your compassionate, curious, and calm center is making space for a part
The perfect sign doesn't exi-
How to do 25 different loving-kindness techniques
Tasty and cheap
TIL that the origin of the word February is "the month of purification". Before England took the Latin name for the month it was called "solmonað", which means "mud month"
