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While I want people to support PauseAI

the small movement that PauseAI builds now will be the foundation which bootstraps this larger movement in the future

Is one of the main points of my post. If you support PauseAI today you may unleash a force which you cannot control tomorrow.

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There's a lot of overlap between alignment researchers and the EA community, so I'm wondering how that was handled.

It feels like it would be hard to find a good way of handling it: if you include everyone who indicated an affiliation with EA on the alignment survey it'd tilt the survey towards alignment people, in contrast if you exclude them then it seems likely it'd tilt the survey away from alignment people since people will be unlikely to fill in both surveys.

Regarding the support for various cause areas, I'm pretty sure that you'll find the support for AI Safety/Long-Termism/X-risk is higher among those most involved in EA than among those least involved. Part of this may be because of the number of jobs available in this cause area.

Sure sounds good. Can you crosspost to the EA forum? Also I think Nicky's pronouns are they/them.

I watched and read a ton of Lab Muffin Beauty Science when I got into skincare. Apart from Sunscreen, I think a lot of it is trial and error with what has good short-term effects. I'm not sure about long-term effects at all tbh. Lab Muffin Beauty Science is helpful for figuring out your skin type, leads for which products to try first, and how to use them. (There's a fair number of products you wanna ramp up slowly and even by the end only use on some days.)

Also related: Yudkowsky on making Solvable Mysteries:

If you have not called upon your readers explicitly to halt and pay attention, they are already reading the next sentence. Even if you do explicitly ask them to pay attention, they are already reading the next sentence. If you have your character think, “Hm… there’s something funny about that story, I should stop and think about that?” guess what your reader does next? That’s right, your reader goes on to read the next sentence immediately, to see what the character thinks about it.

Can you confirm or deny whether you signed any NDA related to you leaving OpenAI? (I will indeed assume a "no comment" or something to that degree implies a "yes" with reasonably high probability. Also, you might be interested in this link about the U.S. labor board deciding that NDA's offered during severance agreements that cover the existence of the NDA itself have been ruled unlawful by the National Labor Relations Board)

Oh yeah, food banks for sure!

No comment.

Thank you for your work there. Curious what specifically prompted you to post this now, presumably you leaving OpenAI and wanting to communicate that somehow?