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David Mears

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  • Next.js pre-renders every page by default
    What is Rendering? - How Next.js Works | Learn Next.js
  • Once you feel more confident, also check out these other React topics: How React handles renders and how to use refs How to manage state How to use context for deeply nested data How to use React API hooks such as useEffect()
    How to continue learning React - From JavaScript to React | Learn Next.js
  • Since the Square components no longer maintain state, the Square components receive values from the Board component and inform the Board component when they’re clicked. In React terms, the Square components are now controlled components. The Board has full control over them.
    Tutorial: Intro to React – React
  • To collect data from multiple children, or to have two child components communicate with each other, you need to declare the shared state in their parent component instead. The parent component can pass the state back down to the children by using props; this keeps the child components in sync with each other and with the parent component.
    Tutorial: Intro to React – React
  • "like, will we wish in 5 years that EAs had more outside professional experience to bring domain knowledge and legitimacy to EA projects rather than a resume full of EA things?"
    Young EAs should choose projects more carefully - EA Forum
  • They get the reputation as someone who can “get shit done” but in practice, they’re usually solving ops bottlenecks at the cost of building harder-to-acquire skills.
    Young EAs should choose projects more carefully - EA Forum
  • Instead of grappling with the complexity of the problems you want to solve, hopping between projects gives you a shallow understanding of several different things.
    Young EAs should choose projects more carefully - EA Forum
  • While projects might seem valuable in the short term, I think it damages young people’s longer-term impact. (i.e. by delaying you from developing deep expertise and career capital.)
    Young EAs should choose projects more carefully - EA Forum
  • This also exacerbates talent bottlenecks further down the funnel once the community lacks expertise in specific fields/career paths.
    Young EAs should choose projects more carefully - EA Forum
  • This also exacerbates talent bottlenecks further down the funnel once the community lacks expertise in specific fields/career paths.
    Young EAs should choose projects more carefully - EA Forum
  • The driving force behind this judgement is not necessarily the belief that most futures will be good. Rather, it is the belief that the ‘rather good’ futures will contain more net value than the ‘rather bad’ futures will contain net disvalue.
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • the “default” level of welfare of powerless beings
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • Side-effects of future agents’ actions negative for other agents’ welfare would mainly arise if their civilization is not coordinated well. However, compromise and cooperation seem to usually benefit all involved parties, indicating that we can expect future agents to develop good tools for coordination and use them a lot.[31] Coordination also seems essential to avert many extinction risks. Thus, a civilization that avoided extinction so successfully that it colonizes space is expected to be quite coordinated.
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • Sentient “tools” could include animals, farmed for meat production or spread to other planets for terraforming (e.g. insects), but also digital sentient minds, like sentient robots for task performance or simulated minds created for scientific experimentation or entertainment. The last example seems especially relevant, as digital minds could be created in vast amounts if digital sentience is possible at all, which does not seem unlikely. If we find we morally care about these “tools” upon reflection, the future would contain many times more powerless beings than powerful agents.
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • For example, if the future contains powerless beings in addition to powerful agents, the welfare of the former will depend to a large degree on the other-regarding preferences of the latter (much more about that later).
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • It remains unclear whether the EV of a future in which a human civilization similar to the one we know colonized space is positive or negative.
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • From very disvalue-focused views, (post-) human space colonization may not seem desirable even if the future contains a much better ratio of value to disvalue than today. There is little to gain from space colonization if the creation of value (e.g. happy beings) morally matters little. On the other hand, space colonization would multiply the amount of sentient beings and thereby multiply the absolute amount of disvalue.
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • future agents will likely care morally about the same things we find valuable or about any of the things we are neutral towards. It seems very unlikely that they would see value exactly where we see disvalue. If future agents are powerful enough to shape the world according to their preferences, this asymmetry implies the EV of future agents colonizing space is positive from many welfarist perspectives.
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • most expected value (EV) or disvalue of the future comes from scenarios in which (post-)humanity colonizes space, because these scenarios contain most expected beings
    The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive - EA Forum
  • Many ways of reducing biorisk will involve the development of new technologies. This means there may also be opportunities to work as an engineer or tech entrepreneur. Following one of these paths could mean building expertise through working as an engineer at a “hard-tech” company or working at a startup, rather than building academic biological expertise at university. Though if you do take this route, make sure the project you’re helping isn’t advancing biotech capabilities that could make the problem worse.
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • One constraint on expanding the number of people working directly on GCBRs is limited by operations and management capacity. Common to the wider EA community, people with these skills remain in short supply (although this seems to be improving).66
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • Unlike technical fields, policy fields are accessible to those with backgrounds in the humanities or social sciences as well as ‘harder’ science subjects.59 They therefore tend to be better approaches for those who have already completed an undergraduate degree in the humanities or social sciences looking to move into this area than technical fields (but people with technical backgrounds are often highly desired for government jobs).
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • If there are clear new technologies that we will need to develop to mitigate GCBRs, it’s possible that you could also have a significant impact as a generalist engineer or tech entrepreneur. This could mean that general training in quantitative subjects, in particular engineering, would be helpful.
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • The more one is persuaded by a ‘recovery is robust and reliable’ view, the more one should focus effort on existential rather than globally catastrophic dangers (and vice versa). Such a view would influence not only how to allocate efforts ‘within’ the GCBR problem area, but also in allocation between problem areas. The aggregate risk of GCBRs appears to be mainly composed of non-existential dangers, and so this problem area would be relatively disfavoured compared to those, all else equal, where the danger is principally one of existential risk (AI perhaps chief amongst these).
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • We may take the trajectory of our current civilisation to be unusually propitious out of those which were possible (consider reasonably-nearby possible worlds with totalitarian state hyper-power, or roiling great power warfare). Even if a GCBR ‘only’ causes a civilisational collapse which is quickly recovered from, it may still substantially increase risk indirectly if the successor civilisations tend to be worse at navigating subsequent existential risks well.
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • Unlike prehistory, the survivors of a ‘99%’ catastrophe likely have much greater knowledge and access to technology than earlier times, better situating them for a speedy recovery, at least relative to the hundreds of millions of years remaining of the earth’s habitable period
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • When applying this perspective to biological risks, the issue of whether a given event threatens the long-term trajectory of humankind becomes key. This question is much harder to adjudicate than whether a given event threatens severe worldwide damage to human welfare.
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • The reason to focus here on events that kill a larger fraction of the population is firstly, that they are not so unlikely, secondly, that the damage they could do would be vastly greater still — and potentially even more long-lasting. These impressions have pervasive influence on judging the importance of GCBRs in general, and choosing what to prioritise in particular. They are also highly controversial: One may believe that the ‘threshold’ for when an event poses a credible threat to human civilisation is even higher than I suggest (and the risk of any biological event reaching this threshol…
    Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
  • The key difference is that these dependencies only include what the application is directly using.
    Demystifying Code Bundling with JavaScript Modules - Simple Thread