I spend most I my life sitting alone in my room, in front of my computer, when not going to University or school. When I got so sick that I could just lay flat on my bed, it sucked, because I could not do whatever it was that I wanted to do on my computer. However, that was only when I was very very sick. Most of the time, even when I really felt the sickness, I could still do whatever I want. At the very least I could listen to an audiobook, or watch a Youtube video.
When I was sick for 1 or 2 weeks, really at most 1 or 2 days, I would feel so sick that I could not really do anything else, and that only happened once or twice in my life. So mostly my life did not change when I was sick. But now the situation changed. I now often want to go to some event that is basically always related to AI alignment, or go to a space where people that work on AI alignment hang out. But I can’t do this when I am sick. At least not if I want to avoid infecting anybody else, which does seem very high value. Now sickness has something that does make my life substantially worse, compared to before.
I did basically miss EAG 2023 bay area completely because I was sick. I just had one meeting before the symptoms kicked in. I spend hours lining up cool people that I really wanted to talk to. But then I just lay sick in my Hotel room. Also, there was one 2 day event after EAG that I missed, and there was a retreat that I will miss more than half of at least. Being sick sucks. I guess I should wear a mask on public transport, and Ubers.
Thank you, though just to be clear I am not saying this to complain. I say this to cache my reasoning behind, how important not getting sick is. I was operating while not taking properly into account the consequences of my actions.
Being Sick Sucks More than I Thought
I spend most I my life sitting alone in my room, in front of my computer, when not going to University or school. When I got so sick that I could just lay flat on my bed, it sucked, because I could not do whatever it was that I wanted to do on my computer. However, that was only when I was very very sick. Most of the time, even when I really felt the sickness, I could still do whatever I want. At the very least I could listen to an audiobook, or watch a Youtube video.
When I was sick for 1 or 2 weeks, really at most 1 or 2 days, I would feel so sick that I could not really do anything else, and that only happened once or twice in my life. So mostly my life did not change when I was sick. But now the situation changed. I now often want to go to some event that is basically always related to AI alignment, or go to a space where people that work on AI alignment hang out. But I can’t do this when I am sick. At least not if I want to avoid infecting anybody else, which does seem very high value. Now sickness has something that does make my life substantially worse, compared to before.
I did basically miss EAG 2023 bay area completely because I was sick. I just had one meeting before the symptoms kicked in. I spend hours lining up cool people that I really wanted to talk to. But then I just lay sick in my Hotel room. Also, there was one 2 day event after EAG that I missed, and there was a retreat that I will miss more than half of at least. Being sick sucks. I guess I should wear a mask on public transport, and Ubers.
I’m sorry to hear this. At least I got to meet you before you fell ill. Get well soon.
Thank you, though just to be clear I am not saying this to complain. I say this to cache my reasoning behind, how important not getting sick is. I was operating while not taking properly into account the consequences of my actions.