Can you elaborate on how the writeup is outdated?
What is the best way for an individual to fund you?
Jeremy
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I’m pretty convinced. Has anyone written about how to find these types of opportunities?
I like Jacob’s advice over at Put a Num on It from a few years ago. robo-investing, diversified internationally. Not keeping much beyond what you need for bills in cash. https://putanumonit.com/2017/02/10/get-rich-slowly/
Zvi does a pretty in-depth AI news round up every week or two now, plus some individual posts on AI topics. Not exclusively about safety, but often gives his own safety-informed perspective on capabilities news, etc. https://thezvi.substack.com/
Great thank you. Late to the party, but by less than a month :).
[Question] Should we publish arguments for the preservation of humanity?
Excellent choice of screenshots :)
If you like, I have some extra bandwidth this week and could transcribe some of them.
Agreed. Worth looking into alternatives that would be good for everyone.
Low hanging fruit sounds like a good alternative :p now I’m picturing the minks chilling under a bunch of trees, picking and ’til they get their fill. Sadly, that’s very far from the situation…
Is the hypothesis that the minks are more likely to have caught it from encounters with wild birds, than the raw poultry that you mention they were fed on?
Perhaps a ban on feeding them poultry would be tractable/helpful if not?
This should be possible by adding noindex meta tags. That would indicate to search engines that a page shouldn’t appear in their results. They don’t have to honor that, but the major ones do, which is probably all we’d care about. I’m not sure how quickly stuff that is already in their index would be removed but there might be a way to manually trigger that.
I like the idea, but it probably wouldn’t/ shouldn’t change how much one should self-censor based on the possibility of things being quoted out of context by journalists. Any journalist worth their salt would have no trouble coming here to use the forum search, or creating an account.
Awesome! Let’s keep in touch and when you guys are up and running we can provide you a proper welcome :)
Thank you for the feedback! I agree that it’s not the best one I’ve reposted. I haven’t had much time for digging in the LW archives lately though and I came across it, and it actually helped me make some concrete improvements to productivity, so I thought it could possibly help others. I am realizing now that I may be more excited about the productivity-hack genre than most, so I will keep that in mind moving forward.
If you haven’t checked out the ~30 earlier reposts, you can find them by clicking on the tag. I would be surprised if you didn’t find that stuff higher quality as they are mostly older and higher karma. Feel free to tag your own reposts as well. I think it would be great to have a collection of stuff that doesn’t just reflect my tastes/interests, and I am not sure how frequently I will be able to keep posting at this point.
Fixed thanks!
I have been using Focusmate* for a while now and this post helped me realize that one of my biggest failure modes with it was not having sessions setup to begin each day. I would use it a lot for a while and then get out of the habit and my productivity would gradually start to suffer and it took me some time to realize and get back into it.
Now I have been booking first sessions out for two weeks. It’s flexible in that I can always cancel it if something comes up, but I usually won’t and it’s elastic in that even if I bail on it for the good part of a day, my first session is setup by default for me for the next day. Usually that’s enough to get and keep me on track.
*A service that matches you with video co-working partners for accountability. More about it and EA group details here.
LW4EA: Elastic Productivity Tools
Otherwise, they will be effectively alone in the middle of nowhere, totally dependent on the internet to exchange and verify ideas with other EA-minded people (and all the risks entailed by filtering most of your human connection through the internet).
The first part of this sentence seems fine to me, and living in the country can be isolating and is not for everyone, but just because there aren’t other EAs around, doesn’t mean you have to get all your human connection through the internet. Having interests and relationships outside of EA/AI Safety circles is probably beneficial for mental health.
FWIW I live in Vermont, on the border of NH and it’s about 2 hours to Boston. Not sure where this group house is, but Burlington is 90 minutes from here on the opposite side of the state, so 3.5 hours from Boston—not that it couldn’t take longer if you aren’t near a highway.
I know of 2 or 3 (not sure if one of them is still there) people in Burlington working on AI safety and there are ~8 of us Vermont EAs that have been getting together sporadically for the last year or so. Would love to expand that group if anyone wants to get in touch. Don’t be a stranger :)
Thank you!
You could consider adding clams to your diet. Clams, oysters and mussels are all very high in iron, but clams have the most and, if I’m not mistaken, the best (though probably not conclusive) evidence that they don’t feel pain (you’ll want to read up on it and make your own decision as it’s been a long time since I read about it and I don’t remember many details).
I was rejected for blood donation because of low hemoglobin levels. I was worried about messing up the iron supplementation (too much is very bad apparently), so I ate tinned clams once or twice a week and the next time I was well over the minimum.
I should probably add that I’m not vegan and my mom also has low hemoglobin so it could be more of a hereditary thing for me. I also only did this once, but couldn’t manage to keep eating them very often after that and haven’t donated blood in a while. It’s something that would be pretty easy to try out though.