figure out the mission and then learn any skill you need to succeed at it (instead of the other way around)
@sama
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Twitter becomes the hardest working tech company
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on absolutely no one's 2022 bingo card was "twitter becomes the hardest working tech company"
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Startup Founders’ Wealth Contradiction: Ineffective and Miserable
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people who claim to hate wealth and guiltily chase it anyway are both ineffective and miserable the weirdest subset of startup founders for sure
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Psychology of Catastrophe: Why People are Drawn to Calamity
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a surprising percentage of people get off thinking about calamity happening i regret to inform you this site is very unlikely to be going anywhere
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EA Movement Self-Reflection Ethics Well-Meaning Individuals
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but though i think EA is an incredibly flawed movement, i will say: as individuals, EAs are almost always exceptionally nice, well-meaning people. the movement has some very weird emergent behavior, but i'm happy to see the self-reflection and feel confident it'll emerge better.
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EA Tweetstorm: Effective Altruism and AI Ethics Debate
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i've been stopping myself from sending my EA tweetstorm for a week but idk how much more self-restraint i have
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AI Safety and Capability Are Not Orthogonal Vectors
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it's a dangerous myth that AI safety and AI capability are orthogonal vectors. also a myth that we can "avoid ruin" without careful iteration and contact with reality. things have not gone as our best experts have predicted, and that will continue to be the case.
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Society Takes Longer Than Expected to Adopt Powerful AI
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(this is a little bit different than 'slow takeoff'–i think it will just take society longer to figure out what to really do with very powerful than intuition suggests)
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AGI Development Timeline and Delayed Societal Impact
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prediction: agi gets built sooner that most people think, and takes much longer to "change everything" that most people imagine
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Mid-Stage Companies Distracted From Core Product Excellence
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biggest indicator of a mid company is spending tons of energy on things other than making their core product/service better