Hi Paul! This is prob not the best medium but is your hiring cycle still open for CoS?
Raye
Karma: 353
I feel confused about the rationalists online. It feels like I tolerate you online because I AGREE with ai risk and know many of you personally. However if I encountered yall in the wilds of the internet I would not be moved. I would perhaps bounce off. And a younger me would maybe have even made you my enemy. I’m not sure how to fix this. The space seems void of a certain type of pragmatic femininity and aesthetic sensibility
*adding more specifics:
I largely feel like I’ve noticed people doing attack swarms and piles which feel is weird. It gives the energy of a sugar rush and over excitement
I personally have a nails to chalkboard reaction to the heavy usage of the word ‘bro’ and ‘idk man’ in counter aurging but this is a nit
I get some sense of people putting on a Skin. and the skin is the thing they’re ‘supposed’ to say and not actually what they would totally say.
I get a good feeling when I notice people saying things in a way that feels them shaped, or holds nuance, it makes me feel way more likely to also say the Me shaped thing, which might not be the You shaped thing, but in net i predict might collect more people.
Overall I’m happy things are getting louder so if this is the juice that must come with the squeeze so be it. But I largely think civic/media/policy/field building is what we have time left for, and is too much to ask for people to just get good on it?
I am just not really moved by other people expressing emotions and it gets in the way of my own emotions forming (you might feel scared or hopeful or determined—but I will likely not also feel those things just because you’re sharing it. my emotions are shy)
ALSO I think some of you can pull off saying your OWN thing way better than you might think you can.
Idk man, maybe it’s just me
(see… I said ‘idk man’ the way many of you do!)
as (likely) one of these two people—I still glad I did it / Ben let me do it anyway.
I can think of around ~two people who knew that writing a single blogpost in a day simply wasn’t how they could produce writing they’re proud of, and have since taken substantial parts of their writing offline.
I went in predicting it might not be me!compatible and this turned out to be true! I found publishing work in this way pretty unpleasant but also worthwhile? That said, I think many of the great things in my life have also been unpleasant and worthwhile (sailing across the atlantic; organizing large events; falling in love with the wrong person). In this spirit, I am glad I did inkhaven.
Things I liked include: The organizing team was cool and wrote real good. I made more friends than posts I liked. It was cool to see how publishing became soo much easier over the month. I enjoyed spending time occupying my own brain space. I learned things about myself. I learned things about other people. I enjoyed being around many people trying. The food was good and flexible. I noticed generating material from thin air for a blog everyday made me better at telling stories at parties.
If I were to do inkhaven for the first time again: I would set up systems to get over myself (for example just request feedback, make a script or flip a coin if you have to) and get to know people earlier on in the program—as those turned out to be my favorite parts.
happy to see an april version!
*i moved to drafts because i felt shy (and because I can) but brought it back. i appreciate the perspectives.
(will likely move this post to drafts in a few days after information gathering and appreciate peoples perspectives so far! they have subtly shifted how i think of a few things.)
I appreciate the detailed response thank u
yeah does seem to a known problem. I do think there are few people
ty! yeah. tbc i would also not endorse “falsely tell the world that the book represents you, because it’s close enough” but i do think when parties have ~some reason to want to be cooperative, it is productive to build on areas of agreement, and i felt that has been missin
guys I cut this but honestly do u consider riding a motorcycle to be within your risk budget? would you be excited or discouraging if a friend or loved one started riding a motorcycle? do you consider building superintellgience to be within your risk budget?
This is a review of the reviews
this was so strangely lovely
This doesn’t match my experience of Nate and I wonder if you may hold a bias here
ah yeah
thank you :)
Gosh that was really beautifully written
yay! I applied and wasnt sure if I had missed the window. thank you!