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A guide to working with Austin

Venki & Adrian’s wedding: opening remarks

Talk: Starting projects

With gratitude to the FTX Future Fund

How to spend 100x more on safety?

How to run your first conference

Apply for funding in parallel, not serial

Things that suck about building community

What would it take to revive EA?

Melding my mind

What I admire or envy in others

To found, or to invest?

Questions about animal welfare markets

On Loyalty

Why do high-impact people choose to have kids?

Why I love my competitors

Why “guess culture”?

Startup skills & where to learn them

The structures of companies vs fields

In favor of higher EA salaries

Reflections on our wedding

Attendee to organizer time ratios

AI for Epistemics Hackathon

Ada behaviors I love, at 8 months

Naming things

Leadership for introverts

Selling yourself for fun & profit [QTB talk]

The final retroactive funder is God (aka future ASI)

Free, or very expensive

Why not take a grant?

A space of our own, in SF [minifest]

Notes from The Curve

Donate Retroactively

Small business ideas for serving the gray tribe

Barriers to entry might be good

Post EA?

“Agent” economics

Web dev, after LLMs

What is play?

Can orgs be moral patients?

Where does the best writing happen?

Future SOTA model weights may be open

My brain is a simulator

Both sides of the story

Questions about conferences

Why I’m donating to Lightcone

Being alone vs with others

Welcome to Taco Tuesday

Firsts of 2023, Firsts of 2024

Leaving Manifold