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At the local AI safety co-working space, there are ~two kinds of regulars. There's the kind of regular who's been thinking seriously about AI safety and alignment since pre-2022, who have passing to intimate familiarity with the funding ecosystem, the Sequences, and various conferences that happen at Lighthaven. Let's call...

Pour more money and effort into them than you think is reasonable. Treasure them, because you can't actually host that many of them and keep expecting everyone to show up, even if they're good friends. Especially if they're good friends. We were wonderfully close friends, and I thought we'd meet...

content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern art Credit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically baller for the Whitney museum to make the exhibit about how a disabled artist wants to fuck their dog the first one that people see when they attend the...

1. If you are reading this post, odds are you are not actually someone who would self-identify as a creative type. But perhaps your way of thinking about the tension between job, career, and the actual work you think is important to do has much in common with the bind...

In The Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset writes (translated from the original Spanish): > The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the...

One day in 2022, I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and I saw one of Yves Klein's monochrome blue paintings in person for the first time. Here is a photo that does zero justice to what I saw. I had learned about Klein in art history class,...

jenn Hi Jas! After our recent meetup on moral mazes, we were talking in the KWR discord about how much one can trust someone who says that there are no mazes or status games being played in their corner of the world. You had some interesting things to say in...