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Sep
29

California Travelogue

Bay Area * Quality of life seems good overall, nice climate, nice food and things to do. I could see myself
2 min read
May
21

Digital people could make AI safer

Epistemic status: Speculation, I am not confident in my views here and I skim over a lot of issues. TL;
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May
08

Breaking into software development

TL;DR Software developers are well paid and have relatively easy lives. If you want to be a software developer
4 min read
Oct
22

Thoughts on my personality

This is likely of interest only to myself and a few others. It's always interesting to think about
2 min read
Jul
10

UFOs are probably nothing

The recent rash of UFO interest is not unprecedented and you shouldn't conclude much from it
2 min read
Dec
12

2020 Donations

TL;DR I'm giving away £35k this year. £3.5k to SCI and the remainder to the Long
3 min read
Jun
01

Mars as an x-risk reduction strategy

Note 1: This is an old post I wrote in 2019, I have moved it here because I find the
4 min read