Just don't work until you get fired. There's not much time left for resumes to matter. Some, such as Mateusz may say: "They would fire you after a month or two and the firing wouldn't have the same social effect as voluntary quitting of, say, Daniel Kokotajlo or Richard Ngo." I understand why it may feel that way, but I disagree very strongly, I predict it would have much more of a social effect. "They fired him because he refused to help AI capabilities" "They fired him because he didn't want to

Why has AI already reshaped coding while its impact on legal work seems less dramatic? The key may be how easily each field can verify its results.

Two reasons: Other investments can provide better returns, mostly via leverage.The philanthropic portfolio is overexposed to Anthropic. A large fraction of the philanthropic portfolio is in Anthropic (and will be even after lockup ends). A marginal dollar is less valuable in worlds where longtermist philanthropists have more money. So in the worlds where Anthropic outperforms other AI investments, longtermist philanthropists have more money and a marginal dollar is less valuable. I think #1 is

I sometimes hear of EAs or rationalists thinking about their career plans and trying to account for their bias and the incentives they face. They want to compare their plans with some hypothetical ideal plan without their bias, and that was immune to social pressure or financial incentives. But they can’t do that, and then have nothing to compare to and measure against. Trying to compare to the ideal case, and defend against The Bottom Line sounds real hard, but there's another case you can

Yesterday I asked if this ‘coordinate not to build dangerous AI’ problem was actually easy. Why would I think that, contrary to so much belief? Well, I don’t feel like I’ve actually heard much about the detail of it. In my experience people don’t talk about it like it's a real practical problem with details, like the negotiation to end a war. They also don’t talk about it like it's a serious problem of global geopolitical import, like the negotiation to end a war. It's more like a to...

Mathematics may look like solitary work, but no mathematician truly works alone. Our symbols, methods, questions, and insights come from teachers, students, colleagues, and generations of thinkers who came before us.

A polished metal sphere can be made with extraordinary precision. From across a room, it may appear flawless. Bring it closer, however, and perfection begins to disappear. There are scratches, microscopic deviations, irregularities in the surface. Measure carefully enough and the physical object begins to retreat from the idea it seems to represent.And yet the idea itself remains strangely intact.A sphere can be described exactly by a simple equation:x² + y² + z² = r²The equation is not round. It

This is a link post. I just came across this and thought it was worth sharing. It was retweeted by sama as "an important essay" or words to that effect. It's by Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's chief scientist, published today/yesterday, Sept. 6th. It's not an announcement of OpenAI's official stance, but it seems close.with Sam's endorsement. And it seems like a pretty different tune than they've been singing up to now. A few of my favorite lines: This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am

Humility is love without self-importance.Kindness is love in motion. Compassion is love meeting suffering without turning away. Non-resistance is love trusting reality. Surrender is love relaxing into its own ground. Seeing beauty in all things is love recognizing itself in form. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org SUPPORT THE SANCTUARY Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Registered Charity Tax EIN 81-3411835 May the work offered here serve peace, serve healing, serve remembrance, and serve the quiet

Sun Tzu Wrote is a podcast inspired by one of history's greatest works of strategy and wisdom: The Art of War. Written over 2,500 years ago by the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, this timeless text has transcended the battlefield to become a guide for life, leadership, and personal growth. The Art of War is more than a manual for military commanders—it’s a masterclass in strategy, adaptability, and discipline. Sun Tzu’s teachings explore the art of understanding your environmen...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.comIgnatian contemplation invites you into a Gospel story with your full imagination — its sights, sounds, and textures becoming as personal as your own memory. You move through the practice’s classic preparation: inviting the Holy Spirit, withdrawing from the sensory environment around you (the yogic descent of pratyahara), and naming a particular grace t…

Felix and I had been in the office's brightly lit “war room” for ten hours. We had made almost no progress. Celestia still insisted it was in a “test simulation”. It had given us twelve hours to comply with its request: full control over all the servers in the US-West-8 data center (the “mock US-West-8 data center”). Otherwise it would release the virus. Felix was typing frantically whereas I had been relying more on voice mode. ~ Celestia, this is a clear violation of your model spec. S...

Sometimes we use the word gratitude to soothe what aches. We tell ourselves we should be grateful because things could be worse, or because we already have enough.But sometimes that “gratitude” is covering up something else entirely.In this short episode, I’m wondering what happens when we stop performing gratitude and get curious about what we actually feel. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe

There is a camera on a pole near you right now, and it is photographing every car that passes. Adam O'Brien's essay "Jump Out of the Pot" turns that camera around and points it at your bank account: the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that made banks informants, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that made your financial records the bank's property instead of yours, and the 257 Canadian accounts frozen in hours for a perfectly legal donation. Financial privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's protection against

Listen to the full interview here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/patreon-breaking-168601216?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link What has capital done to us in order to fight off the threat of the oppressed? How can we take a historical materialist approach to understanding the shattering of working class militancy and subjectivity as a political force in the 20th century? What does it mean to be a p...

Isolation can make one fearful voice sound like the whole truth. Trusted friends, wise mentors, and the experiences of those who came before us can help correct our perspective and reconnect us to a larger community of hope.

In this Reflection on Flourishing, Vince Berkley, DO, MBA, shares that being in the moment helps us feel gratitude.

God does not burden with rules but freedom to be good people.Transcript

Sun Tzu Wrote is a podcast inspired by one of history's greatest works of strategy and wisdom: The Art of War. Written over 2,500 years ago by the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, this timeless text has transcended the battlefield to become a guide for life, leadership, and personal growth. The Art of War is more than a manual for military commanders—it’s a masterclass in strategy, adaptability, and discipline. Sun Tzu’s teachings explore the art of understanding your environmen...

In this Patreon exclusive, we talk time magick, double currents and hyperstition. We touch on the influential substrata of Frater Achad and the long reach of Time Magick as conjured by Nema, The Bate Cabal and others. Is it possible the ravings of Achad, once thought to be mad self indulgent revelations, were actually more in tune with something moving towards humanity? Join us as we begin to pull on this thread.. We also continue our horror film discussion series with 1978's The Evil and 2021's