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Once you truly understand that you’re guaranteed to miss out on almost every experience the world has to offer, the fact that there are so many you still haven’t experienced stops feeling like a problem. Instead, you get to focus on fully enjoying the tiny slice of experiences you actually do have time for—and the freer you are to choose, in each moment, what counts the most.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
For a start, a life task **will be something you can accomplish "only by effort and with difficulty,"** as Jung puts it – and specifically, I'd say, with that feeling of "good difficulty" that comes from pushing back against your conditioned preferences for comfort and security.
Find the Life Task
ckarchive.com
Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, Meta, or Anthropic’s other big competitors — is broader. Ganguli sees his job as finding “inconvenient truths” about AI that tech companies have incentives not to publicize, then sharing them with not only Anthropic leadership, but the rest of the world.
Meet the Anthropic team reckoning with AI’s effect on humans and the world
Hayden Field
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