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Claude & I vibecoded an interface for the extropians mailing list. It’s live! Have a look here: https://extropians.boydkane.com/. From Wikipedia, discussing the extropians mailing list: > In the 90s, the Extropy Institute launched an email mailing listserv through which members could receive updates from the institute and have conversations about...

Basically every meeting is scheduled with an explicit duration. This is convenient for scheduling, but it implies that the entire meeting is equally likely to give you value. I think there’s a better way to schedule meetings that avoids this. If you’re wanting to meet with someone, presumably you expect...

I’m not quite sure how unequal the world used to be, but I’m fairly certain the world is more equal (in terms of financial means) than the world was, say, in the 1600s. There are many things that enormous wealth allows you to buy that’s out of reach for middle-class...

I’m generally very bad with names, and especially struggle when I’m quickly introduced to large numbers of people. Generally I’d just throw up my hands and resign myself to awkward conversations attempting to remember someone’s name. But I’ve been on an Anki binge recently, and also was recently accepted into...

We don’t have AI that’s smarter than you or I, but I believe we do have something that’s somewhat similar, and analysing this thing is useful as an argument in favour of ASI not being aligned to humanity’s interests by default. > epistemic status: I largely believe this argument to...

The problem This tweet recently highlighted two MATS mentors talking about the absurdly high qualifications of incoming applications to the AI Safety Fellowship: Another was from a recently-announced Anthropic fellow, one of 32 fellows selected from over 2000 applications, giving an acceptance rate of less than 1.3%: This is a...

Note: this was from my writing-every-day-in-november sprint, see my blog for disclaimers. I believe that the legal profession is in a particularly unique place with regards to white-collar job automation due to artificial intelligence. Specifically, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are able to make the coordinated political and legal...