This is a bit of a tangent but what made you pick those ‘experiences’ instead of just watching some lectures from biology profs and reading some books?
I think saying I “picked” those experiences is giving me too much credit haha. In reality, it’s more “my time and mental energy are constrained, and what little I had left was put into AI alignment”. The rest was more free-floating attention; if I came across it (a youtube video, a Wentworth post, the Intelligence Enhancement tag on LW) I’d pay more attention, but seeking out lots of biology background knowledge is more on the “strategically become an intelligence-enhancement researcher myself” path. Not saying I’ll never do anything like that, but I’m too constrained to go after that in a remotely serious way right now.
Loosening such constraints and increasing my mental capacity are, in fact, key reasons why I keep making these threads.
This is a bit of a tangent but what made you pick those ‘experiences’ instead of just watching some lectures from biology profs and reading some books?
I think saying I “picked” those experiences is giving me too much credit haha. In reality, it’s more “my time and mental energy are constrained, and what little I had left was put into AI alignment”. The rest was more free-floating attention; if I came across it (a youtube video, a Wentworth post, the Intelligence Enhancement tag on LW) I’d pay more attention, but seeking out lots of biology background knowledge is more on the “strategically become an intelligence-enhancement researcher myself” path. Not saying I’ll never do anything like that, but I’m too constrained to go after that in a remotely serious way right now.
Loosening such constraints and increasing my mental capacity are, in fact, key reasons why I keep making these threads.