on doing Real work - by jessica dai

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a working theory

Real as in the opposite of bullshit, as in the opposite of slop, as in the opposite of hype or rhetoric or froth. Real as in true, real as in honest. I’ve been in a somewhat constant low-to-medium-grade crashout all year about what I’ve been calling the Circus. The circus is startups run by new grads and college dropouts claiming to be at the cutting edge of “research”; the circus is Eliezer’s book, and AI safety people defending and disavowing it in turn; the circus is breathless predictions of a 24-month timeline to AI-driven nuclear war, an NYT writeup, an update a few months later that,…

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