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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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