It is an absolute guarantee that you will make it as long as you earnestly work on something that energizes you for the sole sake of feeling energized by it. Only requirement is that you have to let God be the one to define what it means to make it
We're about to enter a period where not reading or writing becomes as ubiquitous as smoking once was. We can hope people will eventually realize this is bad for them, as they did with smoking. But this is far from certain; the cost may not be as obvious.
extremely bullish on shadow work in the age of AI, because if you have access to infinite intelligence that can construct a reasonable-sounding argument for any perspective, the limiting factor is in the discernment of the human being - and that discernment gets better or worse depending on their ability to pay attention to their own blindspots & complexes
a lot of AI safety assumes the problem begins inside the machine but i think some of it begins with the humans building and governing it becoming increasingly disembodied from ordinary human life
walkable cities force ambient contact with strangers, children, old people, shopkeepers, weirdos, beauty, inconvenience, conflict, cooperation bc you encounter society as something alive rather than as an abstraction or a dataset
if a tiny number of people are going to make decisions about systems that mediate human life, i would prefer them to have as much contact with actual human life as possible
maybe alignment actually starts with keeping humans aligned with reality 👀