Noted.

(If both parties are interested in that debate I’m more than happy to organize it in whatever medium and do any work like record+transcripts or book an in-person event space.)

The stuff about ‘alien’ knowledge sounds really fascinating, and I’d be excited about write-ups. All my concrete intuitions here come from reading Distill.Pub papers.

Huh, am surprised. Guess I might’ve predicted Boston. Curious if it’s because of the culture, the environment, or what.

Most people, or most people you know.

And “should“ = given their own goals.

I’m asking what you think people might be wrong about. And very slightly hoping for product recommendations :)

I want to know this question, but for the ‘peak’ alignment researcher.

If you could magically move most of the US rationality and x-risk and EA community to a city in the US that isn't the Bay, and you had to pick somewhere, where where would you move them to?

And on an absolute level, is the world much more or less prepared for AGI than it was 15 years ago? 

Follow-up: How much did the broader x-risk community change it at all?

Why did nobody in the world run challenge trials for the covid vaccine and save us a year of economic damage?

Which rationalist virtue do you identify with the strongest currently? Which one would you like to get stronger at?

Paul, if you did an episode of AXRP, which two other AXRP episodes do you expect your podcast would be between, in terms of quality? For this question, collapse all aspects of quality into a scalar.