Media Log
Videos, essays, podcasts, and books I recommend or return to often.
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being actually agentic (Tzu Kit Chan)
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Machines of Loving Grace (Dario Amodei)
A good overview of the potential upsides of powerful AI, I disagree with a good amount of it though.
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Hamish McArthur — Olympic path, motivation, Paris 2024 (The Testpiece Podcast)
Has a ton of great spiritual and psychological insights
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The Most Beautiful line Sylvia Plath ever wrote (Balbec)
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We're Not Ready for Superintelligence (AI In Context)
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You and Your Research (Richard Hamming)
Advice on doing important/impactful work
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Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like (80,000 Hours)
I mean I'm just a big fan of a lot of Daniel Kokotajlo's work
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I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I’m Unemployed And Alone In The Mountains How Did I Get Here? (Goobie and Doobie)
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You will lose | Roger Federer (dandelionaq)
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Ryan Greenblatt on four likely paths to AI takeover, and AGI in under eight years (80,000 Hours)
This podcast is one of the main things that got me into AI safety
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The Power of Intelligence (Rational Animations)
This was the main thing that convinced me AI could be something other than next token prediction
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My Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
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an astronomer meets a violinist (akezu)
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The Bhagavad Gita
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It Only Takes Two Weeks (The Math Sorcerer)
Discusses how quickly you can make huge progress in most things
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Deep Work (Cal Newport)
The best productivity book I've read
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
The best psychology book I've read
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Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
There's a reason I reread this every year