domain | guzey.com |
summary | Here's a summary of the content:
**1. Ideas and Leadership:** - "Ideas not mattering" might be a psyop. - Autistic visionaries aren't necessarily natural-born leaders. - Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" has scientific and factual errors.
**2. Historical Figures and Lessons:** - Napoleon as a cautionary tale for young idealists. - History: A two-sentence jailbreak for GPT-4 and Claude.
**3. Fixing Issues and Productivity:** - Why nobody knows how to fix certain issues. - How life sciences actually work, based on investigation findings. - AI alignment shifting from alchemy to chemistry. - Effects of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days on cognition.
**4. Elon Musk, Fruit, and Patronage:** - Why there's only one Elon Musk. - Why there's so much low-hanging fruit. - Reviving patronage and revolutionary industrial research.
**5. Philosophy and Neurodiversity:** - Alternatives to utilitarianism. - Neurodiversity, mutants, and organizational design. - Every thought about giving and taking advice, concisely.
**6. Future Predictions:** - Forecasting humans becoming generally intelligent with biological anchors by the year 10,000,002,2022.
**7. Tools, Links, and Issues:** - You are a morale-driven machine. - Tools, gear, links, issues with Bloom et al's work. - Are ideas getting harder to find? - Total factor productivity as a measure of innovation.
**8. Research Ideas and Writing:** - Research ideas from Holden Karnofsky and Sam Altman. - Gwern's most important writing in essays, tweets, book reviews. - Most important Slate Star Codex posts. - Don't believe self-reported data.
**9. Books, Questions, and Progress:** - "Troublemakers" by Leslie Berlin. - Theses on sleep. - Ramanujan, Einstein, Tolstoy, Napoleon, Richard Muller, Michael Jackson on God. - Underappreciating technological progress pace. - Contra Scott Alexander's "The tails coming apart".
**10. Happiness, Economics, and Productivity:** - Hedonic treadmill vs meaning/happiness debate. - Fun economic facts. - Interview with Ben Kuhn about productivity, college experience, job choice, EA community.
**11. Newsletters, Technology, and Talent:** - Switching newsletters from Substack to Buttondown. - Polynomial time reductions and the P vs NP problem. - Where talent comes from, discovering talent. - Tweet rot, low-tech recommendations. - Can we trust Peter Turchin's scientific experiments?
**12. Earnings, Prophets, and Hierarchies:** - Earnings of Substack's top writers. - Real prophet of longtermism: Will MacAskill or Sam Altman? - Hierarchies of status in anthropology.
**13. Identity, Productivity Cargo Cults:** - Playing with identity for productivity. - Cargo cult productivity.
**14. Funny Philosophy and Ancient Tablets:** - Philosophers for sale (funny). - Julian Jaynes and the ancient tablets. |
title | Alexey Guzey |
description | I work on building new institutions of basic science at New Science.
I’m most inspired by Augustine of Hippo, Aaron Swartz, Freeman Dyson, Scott Alexander, and Gwern.
Feel free to email me at [email protected] and to follow me on Twitter. If you’d like to ask for advice, please email [email protected].
Recent
Dec 27, People who are going to change the world
Dec 23, Why you shouldn't build your career around existential risk
Nov 19, Abolish the NIH
Sep 30, The ouroboros … |
keywords | productivity, advice, people, self, science, talent, year, history, links, best, possible, life, college, over, time, working, video |
upstreams |
|
downstreams |
|
nslookup | A 3.124.100.143, A 3.125.36.175 |
created | 2025-04-12 |
updated | 2025-04-20 |
summarized | 2025-04-20 |
|
|