The coming world is slowerAnd as we slow down,We will riseTo meet the angels Who have time to spare.But you knew that. You knewThat all the rushing, toiling, pressing, and grinding,Was blocking your other ears, your other eyes.So slow down. Take time to listen.The new world can only come One hearer at a time.

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Since at least 2017, OpenAI has asked departing employees to sign offboarding agreements which legally bind them to permanently—that is, for the rest of their lives—refrain from criticizing OpenAI, or from otherwise taking any actions which might damage its finances or reputation.[1]If they refused to sign, OpenAI threatened to take back (or make unsellable) all of their already-vested equity—a huge portion of their overall compensation, which often amounted to millions of dollars. Given this...

Summary: Zoning out is difficult to avoid and common, zoning out without admitting it hurts your comprehension, therefore you should admit that you zoned out and ask people to repeat things.If you’re anything like me, you’ve “zoned out” before. You’ve probably even zoned out when you’re trying to learn something interesting. In fact, I’d bet that you’ve zoned out when listening to someone you respect teaching you something interesting, and that you didn’t admit it, and that this left you with a gap

This is a link post. METR clarifying what auditing it has or hasn't done, and what its plans are for the future, seems very important for understanding the landscape. Excerpt: METR has not intended to claim to have audited anything, or to be providing meaningful oversight or accountability, but there has been some confusion about whether METR is an auditor or planning to be one. To clarify this point: METR's top priority is to develop the science of evaluations, and we don’t need to be auditors in

This is a link post. You can read the book on nanosyste.ms."Anyone who needs to talk AGI or AGI strategy needs to understand this table from Drexler's _Nanosystems_, his PhD thesis accepted by MIT which won technical awards. These are calculation outputs; you need to have seen how Drexler calculated them."- Eliezer Yudkowsky[1] The book won the 1992 Award for Best Computer Science Book. The AI safety community often references it, as it describes a lower bound on what intelligence should probably be

This is a link post.Linus Pauling was a chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. He later became well-known for advocating large doses of Vitamin C.I've heard that advocacy referred to as a cautionary tale, but I've long had a bit of sympathy for Linus, and I'm writing this post to explain how and why. mainstream nutrition One reason for my sympathy for Linus is that I've heard him used as an example of why you shouldn't go off on your own instead of trusting mainstream views in a

There's usually a little realIn the midst of pretense.And where there is anyThere is hope.

Since 2017, EA Funds has been providing grants across four distinct cause areas. While there are payout reports available, there is a lack of reports detailing the outcomes of these grants, so I delved out of curiosity into the Grants Database to review some of the proposals that received funding and evaluate their outcomes. Some of the findings were quite unexpected, particularly for the Long-Term Future Fund and the EA Infrastructure Fund. The case involving a $100.000 grant for a video game In

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Old Joe sits on the porch and moans, Or rather, growls, but under his breathAs the storm clouds gather on the horizon.He’s seen it a thousand times in his long dog life,The white, the grey, the nearly black,And he knows that it will rain,Like cats and dogs,Like cats and dogsThey say.Why do they put it that way?He doesn’t rain. He sits and stays,And watches the horizon every day.And because of that, he has seen rain.Rain that drives the birds away.Where do they go? he wonders.Far away, he thinks,But

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“The good Epicurean believes that certain events occur deterministically, that others are chance events, and that still others are in our own hands.He sees also that necessity cannot be held morally responsible and that chance is an unpredictable thing, but that what is in our own hands, since it has no master, is naturally associated with blameworthiness and the opposite.Actually it would be better to subscribe to the popular mythology than to become a slave by accepting the determinism of the

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan sit down for a postgame analysis of Luca Guadagnino’s new film “Challengers”, a torrid tale of a trio whose shared passion is tennis – and who would rather spend their days on the court than simply go to throuples therapy. The conversation ranges from tennis to desire to how desire is the desire of the Other and what exactly that means. Alo...