What I’m reading

🍂 The Precipice

🚂 Atlas Shrugged

What I finished reading recently

Protecting the future

🗺️ Figuring out how to reduce X-risk

🤝 Organizing an international AI governance workshop

Community

🤗 Building a support community in Paris

Current issues I’m working on

Being rational by myself

🪷 Noticing the taste of lotus. How to distinguish activities I do for their own sake and those that I do as a coping mechanism/work avoidance loop?

🧘‍♀️ Beginning again. How to start the day anew when I spent hours in the Dark Playground and am stuck in an aura of self reinforcing mediocrity?

Being rational with others

👁️ Noticing social scripts. I often end up losing my intentions and following old social script when interacting with others. How to snap out of the dream and regain agency?

🛡️ How to avoid defensiveness? A sub-issue is interpreting every comment as an attack where I need to justify myself to keep my status. How to enter a scout mindset when receiving criticism?

Sleeping well

😴 How to untangle the causes of years of bad sleep? Everything seems untractable, nothing seems to have significant effects, and I don’t even know what to measure.