On Contact, Part 1

October 14, 2024Posted inFavorites, ProjectsTags: ,
Context: for fun (and profit?) Basic Contact Contact is a lightweight many-versus-one word guessing game. I was first introduced to it on a long bus ride several years ago, and since then it's become one of my favorite games to play casually with friends. There are a few blog posts out there about contact, but I think it's incredibly underrated. The rules of contact are simple, but I often tell…

Retrospective: 12 Months Since MIRI

September 1, 2024Posted inUncategorizedTags:
Not written with the intention of being useful to any particular audience, just collecting my thoughts on this past year's work. September-December 2023: Orienting and Threat Modeling Until September, I was contracting full time for a project at MIRI. When the MIRI project ended, I felt very confused about lots of things in AI safety. I didn't know what sort of research would be useful for making AI safe, and…

What I Got From EAGx Boston 2022

April 6, 2022Posted inUncategorizedTags: , , , ,
Epistemic Status: partially just processing info, partially publishing for feedback, partially encouraging others to go to EAG conferences by demonstrating how much value I got out of my first one. The following is a summary of what I took away from EAGx Boston overall - it's synthesized from a bunch of bits and pieces collected in 30-minute conversations with 19 really incredible people, plus some readings that they directed me…