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Hello! I work at Lightcone and like LessWrong :-). I have made some confidentiality agreements I can't leak much metadata about (like who they are with). I have made no non-disparagement agreements.
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Sometimes, a friend who works around here, at an x-risk-themed organisation, will think about leaving their job. They’ll ask a group of people “what should I do instead?”. And everyone will chime in with ideas for other x-risk-themed orgs that they could join. A lot of the conversation will be...
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it. If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and...
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it. If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and...
Suppose that I have some budget set aside for philanthropic funding, say $1,000, but I think there are a big returns to scale, so that it would be >1,000x better if I had $1,000,000.[1] What are my best options for some bets I can make to get some chance of...
> Matt Levine is the most well-known newslettrist (“Money Stuff”) in the financial industry, having blogged or written since 2011, finding his niche in popularization after stints in Wall Street & law. His commentary is influential, people leak to him, he sometimes interviews major figures (notoriously, Sam Bankman-Fried) or recounts...
Adam Mastroianni writes about "actually caring about stuff, and for the right reasons", rather than just LARPing. The opening is excerpted below. > I once saw someone give a talk about a tiny intervention that caused a gigantic effect, something like, “We gave high school seniors a hearty slap on...
> Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died. > > Professor Dennett wrote extensively about issues related to philosophy of mind and cognitive science, especially consciousness. He is also recognized...