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Title sums it up. I am a mid-level software engineer (no CS degree*, but 4 years of full-stack dev work at mid-size local company). I was recently laid off, and have been looking for new jobs. However, I am seriously considering taking this time to retool myself to work on...

When you play chess against a grandmaster, you know you're going to lose. But do you really understand how badly? You might think to yourself, “There's only like 20 possible moves per turn. Even a novice like me can quickly rule out half of those.” In this post, I'd like...

More specifically, the Anthropic Principle tells us that AGI/TAI are unlikely to be conscious in a world where 1) TAI is achieved, 2) Alignment fails, and 3) the 'prominence' of consciousness scales with either increasing levels of capability or with a greater number of conscious being/the time of their existence....

I am not quite ready to pull my own personal fire alarm. The word 'quite' is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. Because a fire is starting to feel like a real possibility in my future, I've begun to think about what pulling the fire alarm would actually...

I don't want to accelerate an arms race, and paying for access to GPT seems like a perfect way to be a raindrop in a dangerous flood. My current idea is to pay an equal amount monthly to Miri. I'll view it as the price being $40 per month with...

In another universe, in another time, the stars don’t shine like ours. In fact, they act in a manner quite more familiar to you and I as that of a black hole. Take Los Ral as an example. An average star, whose future in this universe is rare, and storied....

Epistemic status. I am just a regular person who follows the space, and this is just my hunch based on a few days of musing on long walks. You should not update on this. I just wanted to put my thoughts out there, and if it generates discussion, all the...