We work really closely with Gates Foundation. They actually mildly criticize us for doing a high overhead thing of distributing malaria bednets instead of just doing vaccines. We’re not against logistics work, just believe some things are more cost effective than others and try to favor them.

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I don’t have a yacht and I was never faced with a choice between only two kinds of philanthropy. I wrote about how and why we got into AI safety here. medium.com/@moskov/work...

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asking claude to fix the last tiny detail

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I both agree and disagree. Discretizing the world into cubic chunks is super fundamental and useful (See: any 2D tile game, Minecraft etc..). Pushing/Pulling are some of the simplest ways to make the player have an effect on the world.

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This is quite a good article on how the cubic formula works, and particularly how root-finding is connected to symmetries (key background for understanding the impossibility of a quintic formula) https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/cubic

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