(highlight:: The power of actually thinking about something for five minutes with a timer is totally insane
I've been answering questions of the form
"If I was working on extremely important cause X, what would I be doing"
and have come up with things I have never thought of before.)
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(highlight:: "If I was literally trying to solve the AI alignment problem or help with it, what would I do"
"If I was working in nuclear security, what would I do"
"If I was going to work in diplomacy / avoiding great power war, what would I do?"
https://t.co/eQ00hyWZ0r)
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(highlight:: Which I suspect are valuable questions to sit down and actually think about anyway.
Telling that I added three minutes to the first one and was twiddling my thumbs for part of the last one.)
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My ideas are probably all dumb, but still! I have avoided this a lot and the timer just makes it so doable.
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(highlight:: A tool that gives you a 5 minute timer and a text box to write in, which saves your previous iterations of 5 minute bouts!
https://t.co/od5quiREI8)
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