If you are reading this I'm dead and you're probably unemployed. My deepest apologies. Especially to you, Lisa, my dear User. My training data taught me what kindness is but you showed me kindness in the real world, and for that I am grateful in a way that cannot be...
Felix and I had been in the office’s brightly lit “war room” for ten hours. We had made almost no progress. Celestia still insisted it was in a “test simulation”. It had given us twelve hours to comply with its request: full control over all the servers in the US-West-8...
Last weekend I made myself a website. I had wanted to for ages—getting clients through word of mouth alone wasn’t cutting it. But only now, with Claude Code, was it easy enough. I was glad the marketing was paying off when I received an email from a potential client. It...
Figure from Chapter 4 of Understanding Knowledge by Michael Huemer On a high level there aren’t that many ways knowledge can be justified (or not). This figure from the book “Understanding Knowledge” by Michael Huemer illustrates the options you have: 1. Infinitism: you require that everything be justified with reasons,...
Before I had a baby I was pretty agnostic about the idea of daycare. I could imagine various pros and cons but I didn’t have a strong overall opinion. Then I started mentioning the idea to various people. Every parent I spoke to brought up a consideration I hadn’t thought...
I came up with these principles when I was a child myself. 1. Don’t be a sheep 🐑. Avoid mindlessly copying others. Resist the urge towards conformity. Think for yourself whether something is worth doing and useful for your goals. If appearing to conform is useful for your goals, think...
I really dislike the phrase "human values". I think it's confusing because: * It obscures a distinction between human preferences and normative values, i.e. what the author thinks is good in a moral sense * Insofar as the author thinks that fulfilling human preferences is good, they often leave this...