📚 Emerson Spartz

EA, AI, history, complex systems, crypto

Goal: die #1 on the leaderboard of people who changed the world.

►Founder: @Dose, @OMGfacts, @MuggleNet, Nonlinear

[📚 Emerson Spartz @EmersonSpartz]

My #1 speed reading hack: listen to the audiobook WHILE you read the book.

Keeps you focused. Uses visual AND auditory processing systems.

You will be able to increase your speed to 2-3x in no time. Trying to go back to regular reading will feel painful and slow.

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@Kat__Woods Interesting reframe!

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@pkazman Thanks! Glad you got value from the discussion :)

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@michaeldsimmons @SpencrGreenberg It's very important as a social lubricant and to show that you're not crazy/dangerous. My goal is to small talk JUST enough to signal this, then move on.

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@EMostaque Emad, if you're interested in funding/supporting AI safety projects, check out https://t.co/qRr2TPfiqk.

One of these ~500 projects might catch your interest.

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@NPCollapse 👏👏👏 would love to see more orgs doing this to elicit latent knowledge/assumptions in the community!

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@EAheadlines A reminder that people can apply to 60+ AI safety funders here (many EA infrastructure-type projects qualify): https://t.co/qRr2TPfiqk

Deadline is May 24th!

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@Kat__Woods Many therapists prefer to try 0 techniques other than listening or rambling

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@TheZvi

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@ManifoldMarkets @Kat__Woods Thanks! Fixed

https://t.co/XtUpsi4owi

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@liron Appreciate the signal boost! 🙏

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@JustJamieJoyce Midjourney is magical

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Just launched a service that will hopefully make it waaaaaay easier to get funding in AI safety 🥳https://t.co/SW2qBsVmq7...

TLDR: Apply to >30 AI safety funders in one application with the Nonlinear Network

This will hopefully increase your chances of becoming fully funded for practically no extra effort.

Inspired by the Nonlinear Emergency Fund, where we asked applicants if they were OK sharing their applications with other potentially interested funders.

Those who said yes 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱 their chances of getting funded, and 10x’ed the amount they got overall.

Which makes sense if you think about it. The more people you ask, the more likely it is you’ll get a yes.

Except that asking tons of people is usually super hard. It’s hard/awkward to even find the people, and then you have to go through tons of rejections.

With our system you can skip over all of that and you just hear from the people who like what you’re doing and want to support you.

On the funder side it makes sense too: instead of just funding the big names or the people you happen to run into, you can get access to a similar “deal flow” as the big EA funders.

Except since you’re anonymous, you don’t have to give any awkward rejections or feel overwhelmed by people constantly “selling” to you.

This increases the odds of you finding a hidden gem or under-invested in strategy that you wish more people were doing.

Excited to see how this goes. Could really help make the AI safety funding ecosystem healthier, help earning to givers during their time of triumph, and help make it easier to fundraise.

Deadline to apply to be a funder or to apply for funding, is May 17th: https://t.co/Fg3XZHBmOY

Upvotes and retweets appreciated as always! If we get more people seeing this, more poeple will be able to get funding and find funding opportunities. Which then leads to more AI safety work getting done and sweet sweet market efficiencies.

AND it gives me warm fuzzies, and I mean, who would say no to that opportunity 😛
https://t.co/Pd7cBqz7Nm...
https://t.co/SW2qBsVmq7...

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@Kat__Woods 🥳🥳🥳

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@Pandatronai These are some of the big questions being explored in the alignment field but you'll be disappointed to hear we are probably not close to resolving them.

This post by @leopoldasch is a good summary:

https://t.co/AdyxbCf8CS

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@unaiaso Love that!

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The more we learn, the more we thirst for knowledge, until our curiosity is as vast as the universe itself.

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@charleswangb What's your p(doom)?

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How is anyone able to work on or think about anything other than AI right now?

It's the most hyped technology in history and is still, somehow, way *way* underhyped.

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@MattMickiewicz It's about to get *wild*

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@theemikehobart I think about this a lot! Think these models are very underutilized for alignment researchers.

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@SvenSchnieders I'm down. My sense is that it's a few years away but I don't have good models for robotics timelines.