my_projects/current_project.html

2026-01-01

My Current Project

Current projects

• Make list of all blogs from searchmysite.net that talk about AI risk, for technical audience.
  • Should be able to do this within a week, using grep to filter keywords from commoncrawl data from searchmysite blogs.
  • Following 100-500 personal blogs and using search filters sounds like a better solution to me, than relying on either twitter or lesswrong. Currently some blogs have good content but get missed out.
• Finish one last youtube video about Snowden, for non-technical audience.
  • Need to spend one day making recordings, then send it to my editor.
• Reply to important email around political philosophy, technical audience.
  • Need to spend 2-3 days minimum, writing this

Potential future projects

• Read and write more about politics on AI risk, for technical audience.
• Learn hacking, to (eventually) leak AI company secrets, for non-technical audience.
• Make some game or computer art on AI risk, for technical audience.

Probably not future projects

• Make scary demo of drone use on people in my city, or scary demo of AI sex video chat, both for non-technical audience.

Timeline

• Independent work until 2026-04-01. After that probably will take job.

Heuristics

• I still need to figure out some long-term project where I both enjoy (or atleast tolerate) the process, and value the outcome.
  • I only seem to enjoy political philosophy. But I think studying philosophy probably won't lead to any useful outcome if ASI gets built in next 5 years.
• All things equal, I will prefer projects I am likely to see more retaliation for, be it social ostracism, finances being cut off, being sued etc
  • Obviously, don't be a rebel just for the heck of being a rebel. But also, I am playing a zero-sum game here, and my opponents running AI companies and govts are highly intelligent and power-seeking. If they retaliate against something I do, it is atleast a medium strength signal that what I am doing is actually working. If they ignore what I do, it is a weak signal that what I am doing is not working.
• For next few months: Avoid projects that involve lot of interaction with people. Make projects whose audience values either technical knowledge or power.
  • In my life I have generally failed on projects that involve interacting with people, and succeeded at projects that don't.
  • I am almost never able to meet people whose specific priorities and broader priorities in life, are same as mine. I take a little damage from interacting with people whose specific life priorities are unrelated to AI risk, but who broadly value knowledge or power. I take more damage from interacting with people who value neither.
  • This includes people in both offline and online circles. I can deliberately silo myself from both, by avoiding work meetings offline and online, and by logging out of all social media platforms where I have work accounts.
  • Last few months I have interacted with lots of AI safety people online who are misaligned with me, and I learned a lot from it. But now I want to pick my next project to be something I can work on solo.

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