Oh sure, an executive assistant i.e. personal assistant in a work context can be super valuable just from an impact maximisation perspective but generally they need to be hired by your employer not by you in your personal capacity (unless you have a much more permissive/low security employer than Google)

Agreed. If I'm talking to someone who I expect to be able to recalibrate, I just explain that I think the standard norms are dumb, the norms I actually follow, and then give an honest and balanced assessment. If I'm talking to someone I don't really know, I generally give a positive but not very detailed reference or don't reply, depending on context.

Strong agree (except in that liking someone's company is evidence that they would be a pleasant co-worker, but that's generally not a high order bit). I find it very annoying that standard reference culture seems to often imply giving extremely positive references unless someone was truly awful, since it makes it much harder to get real info from references

Probably is but I can't think of anything immediately

Idk, I personally feel near maxed out on spending money to increase my short term happiness (or at least, any ways coming to mind seem like a bunch of effort, like hiring a great personal assistant), and so the only reason to care about keeping it around is saving it for future use. I would totally be spending more money on myself now if I thought it would actually improve my life

On the other hand, if you have shorter timelines and higher P Doom, the value of saving for retirement becomes much lower, which means that if you earn a income notably higher than your needs, the cost of cryonics is much lower, If you don't otherwise have valuable things to spend money on, they that get you value right now

I was also thinking recently that I would love this to exist! If I ever had the time I was going to try hacking it together in cursor

Huh, seems to be working for me. What do you see when you click on it?

tinyurl.com/neel-mats-app

I think it's just not worth engaging with his claims about the limits of AI, he's clearly already decided on his conclusion