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The mechanics of my recent productivity

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[Note: backported from LessWrong] A decade ago, I decided to save the world. I was fourteen, and the world certainly wasn't going to save itself. I fumbled around for nine years; it's surprising how long one can fumble around. I somehow managed to miss the whole idea of existential risk

[Note: backported from LessWrong ] A decade ago, I decided to save the world. I was fourteen, and the world certainly wasn't going to save itself. I fumbled around for nine years; it's surprising how long one can fumble around. I somehow managed to miss the whole idea of existential risk and the whole concept of an intelligence explosion. I had plenty of other ideas in my head, and while I spent a lot of time honing them, I wasn't particularly looking for new ones. A year ago, I finally read the LessWrong sequences. My road here was roundabout, almost comical. It took me a while to come to ter

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