If I took 2 weeks off from work I could build this prototype quite easily. We're in an interesting period where the space of possibilities is so large it just takes a while for the "market" to exhaust it.
It’s more likely he tried to cover up massive Alameda losses due to all the usual reasons people turn to illegal acts: shame, myopia, gambling addiction. One core EA principle is integrity. If he was actually “EA”, this wouldn’t have happened the way it did.
Longtermism in a moral context rewards thinking about the value of future beings that do not yet exist. Existential risk is important in this consideration, because it is an event that severely limits the amount of future beings that could exists. The strongest argument against longtermism is a flavour of a person-affecting moral view.
Smart people tend to be libertarian-leaning. It is a most natural predisposition. Most people living in the west are economically privileged.
Ajross, you don't seem to really believe what you are saying. Sci-fi arguments? Really? Since when is the risk from nuclear war, pandemics or artificial intelligence constrained to sci-fi? The Spanish flu, Black Death and the Plague. The Cold War. These events should all inform our way of thinking about risk.
Happiness always reverts back to a baseline level. You will never escape this baseline level.
Up until this point in your life, meaning has been a projection – a goal ahead of you. You have now reached this goal, realised the projection, and must find a new projection, a new project. You must find an I beyond the self, a goal that encompasses but is larger than yourself.
I recommend the book "What is Existentialism?" by Simone de Beauvoir as a starting point.
This is unlikely to work. Why? Whenever you impose a stringent system of categorization on top of information that eludes easy categorization, you will likely fail. “I’ll handle the edge cases” — that’s not an easy task. The edge cases add up, until all you are left with is edge handling. This reminds me of someone who lives in a theoretical, platonic plane without consideration for real world problems.
A system that has a higher success of working is developed organically, from the bottom up. I’d say Zettelkasten is one such example, though its primary beneficiaries are researchers in text-heavy fields (e.g. sociology).
While speaking from limited expertise, it is my general understanding these layoffs are a vital part in keeping a company lean and reducing bloat. Over time, in any company, some roles will be made redundant and is the reason for these occasional layoffs. If I was an investor, I would see this as a good sign of vision and a clear direction.
They say so themselves:
> "To stay competitive, we need to remove duplication of work now that we are one Arm; stop work that is no longer critical to our future success; and think about how we get work done."