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I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?

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 I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.
-When you've been at AI safety for too long, you're so used to just "[staring] at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead, trying to figure out what to think next"<ref>https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9SaAyq7F7MAuzAWNN/teaching-the-unteachable</ref> that you might forget that other things aren't like this.
+When you've been at AI safety for too long, you're so used to just "[staring] at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead, trying to figure out what to think next"<ref>https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9SaAyq7F7MAuzAWNN/teaching-the-unteachable</ref> that you might forget that other things aren't like this. You might start to think that, actually, you're just incompetent. So I think it's nice to sometimes take a break and do easier things.
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	When you've been at AI safety for too long, you're so used to just "[staring] at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead, trying to figure out what to think next"<ref>https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9SaAyq7F7MAuzAWNN/teaching-the-unteachable</ref> that you might forget that other things aren't like this.		When you've been at AI safety for too long, you're so used to just "[staring] at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead, trying to figure out what to think next"<ref>https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9SaAyq7F7MAuzAWNN/teaching-the-unteachable</ref> that you might forget that other things aren't like this.
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	I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.		I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.
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		+	When you've been at AI safety for too long, you're so used to just "[staring] at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead, trying to figure out what to think next"<ref>https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9SaAyq7F7MAuzAWNN/teaching-the-unteachable</ref> that you might forget that other things aren't like this.

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-I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?
+I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter from a different person. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?
 I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.
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	I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?		I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?
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		+	I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.

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