Comment by Marshall Kirkpatrick (marshall-kirkpatrick-1) on Considerations on interaction between AI and expected value of the future · 2021-12-07T03:25:44.483Z · LW · GW

Interesting but hard to read beyond the Hobbesian state of nature founding assumptions. I’m reading Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything a new history of humanity. I presume you haven’t read it, given your arguments, but you might really appreciate it!

Comment by Marshall Kirkpatrick (marshall-kirkpatrick-1) on AI Safety Papers: An App for the TAI Safety Database · 2021-08-21T03:13:17.406Z · LW · GW

This looks amazing and is so so important. Someone should fund a kick-ass evangelist, with a marketing budget, to make sure this is front of mind for people on an ongoing basis.

Comment by Marshall Kirkpatrick (marshall-kirkpatrick-1) on What are your greatest one-shot life improvements? · 2020-05-16T17:01:17.285Z · LW · GW

I started prioritizing my to do list each day by urgency+impact+ease, and I accepted the fact that time spent prioritizing is time very well spent.