Chris and Joanna riff: The dance between flow and structure, between openness and commitment between the receptive energy we often call feminine, and the directional energy we often call masculine, the capacity to feel and yield and the capacity to hold, to follow through. Boundaries, status, society, and truth.
Transcript: Available via Substack.
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Chris Lakin@chrislakin
turns out if you allow yourself to act impulsively, eventually your impulses get really good:
Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo
My greatest strength may well be my extreme inability to coerce myself into doing work I don’t find interesting.
At DeepMind I was meant to work on RLHF but mostly did philosophy about AGI risk.
At OpenAI my attention wandered so much that I wrote a whole book of short stories.
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“Locally optimal”:
“Yang” (agency) and “Yin” (manifestation):
Boundaries:
“Zooming in” on suffering:
Chronic pain:
““God””:
