Kids and Global Warming
I've been seeing people linking to this study to argue that you should have fewer kids: We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to...
View ArticleSuperintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion
I spent most of July working on a project to evaluate risk from AI that is smarter than humans. I posted updates as I went [1] but intended to write up a summary with conclusions when I finished....
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Fixing SSH with RCN 1Gbps Service
Update 2018-04-06: Our modem became unreliable, and today an RCN tech came to swap it out. The new one doesn't have this issue. The tech said when they first started distributing these they had all...
View ArticleUsing Docs for Running Notes
When I work I keep two kinds of notes: Short summary notes aimed at people who are interested in what I'm doing (boss, coworkers, me way in the future trying to figure out what I was working on then)...
View ArticleRejoining Google
A week from Monday I'm starting back at Google. [1] I'm pretty excited about it, both the company and the team I'll be on. When I left Google for Wave I wrote: This does mean taking a pay cut: I'll be...
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