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Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make it obvious. Other times you won’t feel like starting and you’ll need to make it attractive. In many cases, you may find that a habit will be too difficult and you’ll need to make it easy. And sometimes, you won’t feel like sticking with it and you’ll need to make it satisfying.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Experiential Avoidance →Willingness
When challenging thoughts and feelings come up, our tendency is to avoid them—or even better, to avoid situations that might cause them. In ACT we call this experiential avoidance.
The problem is that difficult thoughts and feelings come up all the time, and often in situations that we don't really want to get away from. What we want to learn to do is contact discomfort when it's in service of doing things that we care about. In ACT, we call this willingness.
How to Do Hard Things
Casey Rosengren
The **lab mice problem** **Today's "subhuman" AIs are safe.**What about **future AIs with more human-like abilities?**
Today's AI systems aren't advanced enough to exhibit the basic behaviors we want to study, such as deceiving and manipulating humans.
Like trying to study medicine in humans by experimenting only on lab mice.
How We Could Stumble Into AI Catastrophe
Cold Takes
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