This very closely mirrors a large chunk of a learning framework that I’ve formalized and written the draft of a book about. I would like to perhaps interview you about this process, how it has impacted your life, as well as some other things that weren’t included in the scope of this article. If you’re interested, please let me know, I can be easily found on LinkedIn.com/in/zoid...
As far as the exhaustion part, I feel you. I have developed severe back problems from sitting in my computer chair for 20 hours straight deconstructing my latest obsession. I’ll tell you, what, though—it made me a hell of a writer. I was looking through my inbox and realized Grammarly had been sending me these “stats” emails I just assumed were spam and ignored. I started looking at them and was flabbergasted as to how much I was outputting. On my strongest week, I output over 1,000,000 words, with 99% precision (something like 640 corrections across the million words) and a vocabulary in the top 1% of Grammarly users (20,000+ unique words.) There was another week with 450k, and several in the 100k, although my weekly average is more like 30k over the entire year. Perhaps someone knows an employee at Grammarly, do I win something? LOL...
Holden was previously Open Philanthropy’s CEO and is now settling into his new role at Anthropic.
I am not privy to any non-public information, but please do not be disappointed if he has no time for contacting you via LinkedIn for the purpose of booking the interview you are requesting.
The Carnegie website says he is no longer at Carnegie. A Harvard page says:
> Holden Karnofsky is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he focuses on the design of the company’s Responsible Scaling Policy and other aspects of preparing for the possibility of highly advanced AI systems in the future.
His LinkedIn confirms and dates the move to January 2025.
OpenPhil said in April 2024 that he left them for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Carnegie Endowment says he is no longer with them. His linkedin profile (which I presume to be authentic, because it was created in 2008) says he’s at Anthropic since January 2025.
EDIT: Additional source, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center.
What were you outputting over a million words in a week for?
And given that there are 7 x 16 x 60 = 6,720 minutes in a week of 16-hour days, you’d need to output 150 wpm at minimum over the entire duration to hit a million words, which doesn’t seem humanly possible. How did you do it?
This very closely mirrors a large chunk of a learning framework that I’ve formalized and written the draft of a book about. I would like to perhaps interview you about this process, how it has impacted your life, as well as some other things that weren’t included in the scope of this article. If you’re interested, please let me know, I can be easily found on LinkedIn.com/in/zoid...
As far as the exhaustion part, I feel you. I have developed severe back problems from sitting in my computer chair for 20 hours straight deconstructing my latest obsession. I’ll tell you, what, though—it made me a hell of a writer. I was looking through my inbox and realized Grammarly had been sending me these “stats” emails I just assumed were spam and ignored. I started looking at them and was flabbergasted as to how much I was outputting. On my strongest week, I output over 1,000,000 words, with 99% precision (something like 640 corrections across the million words) and a vocabulary in the top 1% of Grammarly users (20,000+ unique words.) There was another week with 450k, and several in the 100k, although my weekly average is more like 30k over the entire year. Perhaps someone knows an employee at Grammarly, do I win something? LOL...
Holden was previously Open Philanthropy’s CEO and is now settling into his new role at Anthropic.
I am not privy to any non-public information, but please do not be disappointed if he has no time for contacting you via LinkedIn for the purpose of booking the interview you are requesting.
Wait, what? When did Holden Karnofsky go to Anthropic? Even his website doesn’t mention that and still says he’s at Carnegie.
The Carnegie website says he is no longer at Carnegie. A Harvard page says:
> Holden Karnofsky is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he focuses on the design of the company’s Responsible Scaling Policy and other aspects of preparing for the possibility of highly advanced AI systems in the future.
His LinkedIn confirms and dates the move to January 2025.
He posted it in a bunch of private Slacks a few weeks ago. His LinkedIn is now also updated: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holden-karnofsky-75970b7
I learned it elsewhere, but his LinkedIn confirms that he started at Anthropic sometime in January.
However it is on his LinkedIn.
OpenPhil said in April 2024 that he left them for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Carnegie Endowment says he is no longer with them. His linkedin profile (which I presume to be authentic, because it was created in 2008) says he’s at Anthropic since January 2025.
EDIT: Additional source, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center.
Its on his Linkedin at least. Apparently since the start of the year.
What were you outputting over a million words in a week for?
And given that there are 7 x 16 x 60 = 6,720 minutes in a week of 16-hour days, you’d need to output 150 wpm at minimum over the entire duration to hit a million words, which doesn’t seem humanly possible. How did you do it?