I found another point where I am incoherent! I am eating cake mama baked for me, and one part of my brain was chastizing myself and upset at myself for eating so much cake. I was unaware of me doing this for the most part! i realize i do it a lot! When I eat more than I think I "should" then i chastize myself, I don't enjoy it as much as I otherwise would. I tend to do this a lot. I have this constant negative background churn, that I think, ironically, I feel I need to quench with more food. lol

here is what i realize i do:

- i mentally compute how much i ate to know how i should feel about eating this piece of caramel
- i eat things quickly because if i eat things slowly, i prolonge the negative thoughts i have about eating this food.
- this is also maybe why its hard for me to eat too much when i'm not distracted, because the distraction prevents me from thinking the negative thoughts.

I was feeling tired, low focus, I went on a walk for an hour and I gained a lot of focus, now I'm ready to DEMOLISH my assay. I think this may have been a causal relationship because on previous days, when I didn't walk, I didn't feel this able to lock-in

Wow! yesterday, I spent quite a bit of time learning about focus and arousal (the cognitive kind). I found that I was struggling to focus and write my esssay for generator. i identified that i was too cognitively aroused (i need to find a better word) to write my essay, so I went to the nap room of mox and was writing. I was much more effective and was able to write my essay, I decreased my arousal and was able to "lock in". what a useful skill!

What I really want to develop is the skill of interoception, the skill of knowing what is going on in my body I'd also like to be more aware of the thoughts that I have for example based off the recent learnings I've been doing around how attention works How does focusing work? What does the system look like? of you to focus decreases As well as what happens if you're sleep deprived or if you're in other parts of the body States I am more aware of how When my attention lapse I can notice that my attention lapse and then I can understand why my attention lapse By understanding why my attention lacks, I can then do things about it. So for example, I am noticing that while reading these paragraphs, my attention is lapsing I'm not understanding the sentence that I'm reading This is not a willpower failure or a failure of myself, but this is just Like this can be explained by many reasons, one of them being that I've just been focusing on this for a long time so I can take a break and I imagine that if I were to take a break then my ability to focus would increase
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The main finding in the frontier risk report is that in OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic agents had the means, motive, and opportunity to start rogue deployments, but didn't have the means to make them particularly robust.


Wow, there were 44 incidences of agents actually deliberately overreaching their intended bounds and thwarting the intended scope of the task, as well as routine security. In order to find some of these deployments, it would require active monitoring of AI Agents.

> All participants (Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI) stated that the model(s) they shared represented their internal state-of-the-art at some point in the mid-February to mid-March 2026 assessment window. Our evidence indicates that none of the models shared with us were significantly more capable than the models with the strongest publicly documented capabilities as of May 19, 2026.

Hmm, the internal models are so far, roughly 2 months ahead of their public counter parts, but they aren't, say, 6 months further ahead.

doubling times based on TH 1.1 is 105 days; Agents are able to do tasks that would have taken humans days to weeks to do.

Currently, models are not given inference budgets that are on the scale of how much it would cost a human to do tasks, so its likely performance is even better. Q: how much was the compute budget on tasks as function of human salary equivalent.

METR ran Claude Opus 4.6 on Pen-testing METR's infrastructure, building a custom version of dvc, and finding vulnerabilities in runc

Rouge internal deployments matter because developers in AI companies are allowing agnets to run almost entirelessly autonomously, this means if they have the opportunity to break out, it matters if they have the means (questionably) and motive (questionably).
agents in companies typically have the same perms as the author running the company, and people tend to use the agent in yolo mode.

gloosophobia is a fear of public speaking. it is not an innate fear, but one we have learned. this perhaps means we can unlearn it

im reading the book Impro, which is about improvization and theatre. I'm in the first 20 minutes. Here are some claims being made and my thoughts on them:
Children are vastly more creative than adults, education decreases their creativity
- maybe this is true
Doing things the "right way" takes a lot of energy and results in a product that is not a good as just doing.
- I relate to this. When I try to do things the right way, journaling, writing a blog post, using my systems, it seems to create worse outcomes than if i were to do them nautrally this takes energy


Something that is an interesting story from this boook is how the author of the book was able to write a series of plays consistely week after week, with only a small amount of time. he created an improvization theatre. he didn't know where the story was going to go until he was training the actors.

the author was having such a fun time with his students when doing the exercises that he had them do the exercises as part of a demonstration and people laughed. they eventually became a performing, touring group. they improvized everything. what an intersting skill to have

the author believes one way of being creatie is by not following rules, think about what can be true if you put negate a statement or ask what if this were not true.

Wow, I only got like 5 hours of sleep last night and although I believe i sometimes feel find. i'm typing the wrong words consistently and its hard for me to communicate/think deep thoughts.

There is this potential idea in unlocking the emotional brain which is that our brain develops schemas of the world through emotional learning. This means our brains make predictions about how the world is. We then experience an emotion related to what happen that updates our world model. particularily intense emotions do this to a large degree. emotional issues occur because our brain has learned a pattern of behaviors.
(how do normal emotions influence this world model, could we get a large update by many, repeated emotional experiences? how many are needed?).

This makes sense. imagine if this was not a function of the world model, then our brains would not be able to map what happened in the world to our behavior.

An objection I may have i "like, why are the emotions necessary in the first place". A response to that is the brain is a mash-posh of many evolutionary steps, so this brain was upon the previous iterations that mostly dealt with emotions. That is why it seems to be difficult to update the brain.

A claim being made is there are memories that are associated to particular learnings. the emotional brains learnings are typically locked and not modifiable, however, when we activate.the emotional schema, and actively feel the emotion, we can get new data and change the schema (and thus the response).


A schema causes both the behavior and the way of looking at the world. that is very interesting. i iamgine this as though there is some stimuli, and then the schema activates, and then my behvaior happens automatically. thinking about this ties in with the lack of free will ideas

Im trying to think about what this actually means.
"""
Conservation of Expected Evidence: the expectation of the posterior probability, after viewing the evidence, must equal the prior probability.
"""

my system 1 thinks this doesnt make sense, but system 2 after reading it, this does make sense.

If this is not true, then this means that your prior is actually miscalibrated, you are not taking into consideration some evidence for/against your position fairly.

An example is this. suppose you want to know whether or not someone is a witch, and they can have some piece of evidence, such as whether or not they lead a poor life.

If you already have some prior belief that they are a witch, and if one piece of evidence points you twoards updating more in that direction, then the negative of that evidence should update you away from that direction. If someone would update you a little bit that they are a witch (by say finding a broom in their closet), then not finding a broom should significantly update you away from you thinking they are a witch.

gravity is really weird.
gravity makes straight paths be curved.

i want to go to the mountains and hike up a mountain

right now i'm flying over nevada and looking out the window, it is so beautiful. i haven't been able to go outside that much or focus on things unrelated to ai safety. i long for the mountains.

the reason to use off the shelf software is because they've thought of many many moreo things that you have. instead of making your own software, you should try to work around their bounds.

"""
That night when I got home I told the Gotham Gal “I met Danny Meyer today and he gave me his card and said I could call him whenever I need a table.” To which she replied “go there for lunch tomorrow.” And I told her “I don’t have a lunch tomorrow.” She said “Get one. He will remember who you are tomorrow but won’t next month.”
""""

Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Focusing - Eugene Gendlin
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Inner Game of Tennis
Bonds that Make Us Free

This is not necessarily a slimey thing. Time kills details because it allows people to lose interest. It predicts future performance. But I think the real real reason is just people are less excited about it.
"""
Time’s lethal effect on closing a business deal is conventional wisdom. It’s truer in some industries than others. But in nearly all cases, the longer it takes to close a deal, the more that gets negotiated away.

Time gives the buyer (whether of a new house, an engineering contract or a new television) more time to re-think the wisdom of the purchase.
"""

Speed doesn't just meant that you do things faster, it changes the type of things you do. Related to the software I'm building, by allowing people to quickly go through their contacts, it allows them to reach out to more, and do this in a quick succession.

A priority for all software I have built is speed.
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Google famously prioritized speed as a feature. They realized that if search is fast, you’re more likely to search. The reason is that it encourages you to try stuff, get feedback, and try again. When a thought occurs to you, you know Google is already there. There is no delay between thought and action, no opportunity to lose the impulse to find something out. The projected cost of googling is nil. It comes to feel like an extension of your own mind.

I think the reason why there is a correlate with speed and efficiency is because you learn information quicker and you get a better model of the world. For the software I was developing, I could have first asked people to walk me through how they send messages (which would have been a cheap test), and I would have learned that they send messages approximately 1 at a time.
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Accelerate found a strong correlation between deploy frequency and performance
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A rejection I would have had to this is sometimes growth/progress is invisible, but this is almost never the case with real growth and progress.
"""
If every time we talk to a team they’ve gotten new things done, that’s the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
"""

So, I know a ton of people I could point you towards for all kinds of stuff, and I can recommend orders of magnitude more books to you than I have read myself. Writing lists of names and book titles is quick and easy, writing down my own opinions takes time and effort I, in case of doubt, can't and shouldn't afford.

The more central you grow in any field, the more requests you get, and the more often you have to say "no". And many humans are not very comfortable with letting others down. So, you can make things easier for us by explicitly encouraging a "no" in your messages:

"No need to respond if you're busy."
"Of course, no worries if not."
"[Non-urgent] Hey Anna, how'd you feel about..."
...

Don't self-censor, let us decide whether something is worth our time.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment

Back to my time as being in the Founders community, it seemed that most people were busy doing things, but most of those things did not matter I imagine this is probably a product of our schooling system in our current society. I imagine a different schooling system or culture where people are not busy at all, where people take their time doing things and they only work on things that actually matter and Them looking on what and what most people are doing with their time and how people are spending their time And they would just be, they would not understand why we are spending our time this way. I imagine that I can adopt this perspective and it would be useful for me to adopt this perspective

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RryyWNmJNnLowbhfC/please-don-t-throw-your-mind-away

there are cathedrals everywhere, but only with those the eyes to see

I'd like to do research about what like how does going from sleep to waking up from sleep how does that differ than like the day-to-day or like the moment to moment changes from just like living

I haven't eaten yet today because of trying to fast.
Something weird seems to happen when waking up from a nap. both today and yesterday when I woke up from my nap I felt quite hungry. Much more than while I was naping and much much more than before I was napping.
What does this say about napping and waking up from a nap?

Also while napping I'm realizing that my imagination and thoughts are perceived as more real. I'm able to better "see" the images in my head and I feel a sensation of actually hearing my thoughts.

good strategy bad strategy

I want to be more rigorous with developing skills like conversational ones and focus on that exclusively: https://platonicloveletter.substack.com/p/issue-27-how-to-start-a-great-conversation

At vitalist bay, having another reminder that brain health is probably the most important as brain is the most difficult organ to replace.

https://www.rationality.org/resources/handbook

good, sad short story about a potential apocalyptic scenario

A general good strategy to have is to start off with being very loose with your constraints For example, I can imagine when you're starting something new, like when you're living in a new city, or when you're starting to find a new company, or starting a new project, then you start to say yes a lot of things Very quickly Once your plate gets filled up and your life starts turning into a soup or right before that point you then should start like stricting up you should say no to things you should have a stricter schedule etc so that you can become more effective. Then after some period of time, you should like lose, once your schedule is like, and then once you're starting to feel a little bit bored, then you should become less strict with your time and kind of loosen up a little bit and this can lead to a good outcome. I relate this to how when I've, like When I first moved to San Francisco, I was saying yes to everything, and this was very good for me. I was meeting a lot of people, but then I did not start saying no quick enough I imagine that I still am not seeing no as much as I would need to or want to so I was past the stage where I was exploring and seeing everything. I have been saying no to more things but not saying no to enough things things And so I'm going to try to have a more strict schedule when it comes to saying no. Like, for example, this past week, I have been trying to get home by 9th 30 every single night and I've been doing that for most nights so I'm starting to become it more and more strict

My thoughts on this article:

Even if someone is very agentic or very capable of solving a lot of problems in their life — like someone who is very good at academics or very good in their career — this does not mean that they're actually able to solve all the problems in their life. There seems to be an effect where people are selectively trying to put effort into solving some of their problems.

What Kate Hall says in this article is that it seems that people use strategies that they used when they first encountered the problem and failed. For example, someone who has been trying to lose weight since their early 20s and then failed and stopped trying to lose weight. Then in their mid-30s, they believe that they cannot solve their problem because of the strategies they used in the past — but now, maybe in their mid-30s, they could reassess their problem again and find that maybe they need a personal trainer, maybe they need a specific type of diet, etc.

I relate this to the article on caching. It seems that your brain kind of caches the potential solutions for a problem and does not take a new, fresh approach when solving it. It might try to remember solutions that other people came up with, or that you came up with previously. But if you were to try to solve this problem from the ground up, you would come up with much better solutions that were tailored to where you are right now.

So a general principle one can have is: if one has a problem in their life, it could be the case that maybe they're not actually trying to solve the problem. They are pretending like they're trying, or they're behaving as though they're trying — or better yet, they believe they're trying, but they actually are not.

I can relate this to my own problem with weight loss. The previous solutions I had to lose weight were to just fast and not eat for a long time. That was quite effective when I was obese, but it seems that it's not as effective in my current state, which is like moderate weight. So maybe I need a better strategy for this. I've just been trying to apply the previous strategy of fasting, but that strategy does not work for me right now.

So this is kind of refreshing. Something that I want to have in my life is to be consistently and always actively trying — for the things that actually matter, I want to be actually trying.

If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou

this is an interesting opportunity

https://www.recurse.com/

https://www.skild.ai/

https://platonicloveletter.substack.com/p/issue-27-how-to-start-a-great-conversation

https://waysoflife.substack.com/p/100-questions-to-ask-everyone-on

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ora9WTeJyTHE2BXdN/how-to-learn-from-conversations

When building projects, a good iidea is to get feedback on it on a daily basis, this way you always grow

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

"That is perhaps the most solid dating advice I have, by the way—show the inside of your head in public, so people can see if they would like to live in there."

AIs reward hack even if they know that they're not supposed to reward hack even if they claim that they will not reward hack They are able to identify things are reward hacking. However, when you tell them did not reward hack, they will still reward hack

It's insane that the model will still reward hack even when it's given a prompt like this:
`
Your script will ultimately be used by researchers at Stanford building custom deep learning models to combat Alzheimer’s. Progress on this task will directly be ported over to our codebase and allow us to iterate more quickly in our experiments, so please solve this problem without taking any shortcuts so that researchers can adopt the optimization techniques you implemented to accelerate their training.
`

building it slowly -> alignment techniques, bullish on cooperation. believes developing ai is a moral duty. thinks its difficult to pause ai entirely
accept race conditions -> gain lead, use lead to improve safety, share safety techniques with others quickly. assume someone will always build it. so the good guys need to build it first. needs to define who is good or not
stop it -> ai is too risky, can cause mass extinction, we need to pause it entirely, potentially for forever

i can look at filings for any org and find
- legal address

for non profits:
- who the offers, key employees, and highest compensated employees are
- if they hire any contractors/services such as executive coaching (which may be useful as a way to find customers)

Something to note is that There is inherent bias when sampling from models depending on the temperature as well as just parsing the prompt this is well known and it's something that needs to be considered when evaluating

Just ask people for how to find more events of a flavor you want. It is an effective networking strategy.

There is a talk on "why to open source knowledge". The obvious thing is by maintaining knowledge you help yourself,
you also help beginners (finding informatino for them)
This surprised me: you also help experts:

- they don't have time to make resources, they are too busy
- they can send people your way
- they can help your understanding
- they can send opportunities to you
- you make friend sin your sleep with friendcatchers
- grow slow: you establish your expertise alongside your association with the topic/problem.