I’ve been thinking about these ideas for a while after reading Taleb, and I’d like to signal that demand exists for posts like this. (I assume you’ve read PG’s Black Swan Farming)
My personal, favorite approaches to building AGI
This strikes me as a terrible idea for a post. Even if you’re bearish on x-risk, why give up your edge?
Why are so many trans women elite programmers?
Being a trans woman is a correlate of autism, and estrogen has been shown to reverse autistic symptoms. Maybe going through early brain development while autistic, and then later toning down the autism via estrogen, somehow results in the kind of brain that’s really good at writing software.
I’ve been thinking about these ideas for a while after reading Taleb, and I’d like to signal that demand exists for posts like this. (I assume you’ve read PG’s Black Swan Farming)
This strikes me as a terrible idea for a post. Even if you’re bearish on x-risk, why give up your edge?
Being a trans woman is a correlate of autism, and estrogen has been shown to reverse autistic symptoms. Maybe going through early brain development while autistic, and then later toning down the autism via estrogen, somehow results in the kind of brain that’s really good at writing software.