Radimentary

With the release of Opus 5.5 and Suno 6, AI music videos have crossed my uncanny valley.

[Epistemic status: intuitions and anecdotes.]

In conversations with friends and colleagues about x-risk, I am often asked why I focus on extinction risk – which people find fantastical and distant – when more immediate risks like bioterrorism, gradual disempowerment, and misuse are way easier pills to

AI is fantastic at prototyping.

Last time, I introduced the concept of the “Fat Newt” (fatigue neutral) build, a way of skilling up characters in Battle Brothers that aims to be extremely economical with the fatigue resource, relying entirely on each brother’s base 15 fatigue regenerati…

Today, I want to introduce an experimental PhD student training philosophy.

I left China at the age of four.

[I am delighted to be visiting Inkhaven for the next four days and will attempt to post every day I’m here.]

[Calling it for this November, happy to have gotten a few short posts out.]

Today I want to review a concept present in many domains, but most clearly articulated by TCG players.

Today I want to end this discussion about research collaboration with my most useful tip for grad students: build an explicit model of how collaborators work, especially your PhD advisor.

Today we continue our discussion about research meetings with a few concrete strategies.

I once heard the following story about Szemerédi: His daughter was in elementary school at the time, and her teacher asked everyone to share a bit about their parents’ occupations.