Blog & Essays

My Week in DC DC is arguably the second most important city in the world for AI safety. There are many impactful roles there. A large uncertainty in my career is if I live and work in DC. I visited DC from Oct 11-16th to test that.{>>Aris Richardson: How did that test go? :)<<} What I actually did T...

Ask for the top priorities, earn a say in strategy, and other lessons from nine weeks as a chief of staff.

What circling is, my experience with it, and some of the effects it has had on me.

A vague task tricks your monkey brain into a mountain of unnecessary work. Define the task, define done, and hunt.

A quick doc on how I review my week and plan for the next one

TL;DR Real success in changing your behavior comes from changing yourself. Environment plays a role, but only insomuch as it supports the internal work. Stopping the usage of one distraction will lend to another distraction taking its place. This is a good stepping stone, but you shouldn't be satisf...

Spending 4 hours staring at the pixels that represent my friends.

Notes from my first empirical AI safety research project on resampling and multi-sample monitoring.

Analyzing how Trusted Editing performs in the BashArena environment.