Super tired today since I stayed up till 2:20 last night watching Assassination Classroom.

Managed to do 2h physics (practiced springs and stuff)

Then spent 4h freaking out about alignment. EY's MIRI announces new "Death With Dignity" strategy post really freaked me out. I think I finally understand what EY meant by "realizing on a gut level that nature can kill you", I'm going to focus my efforts on stopping unaligned AI from now on. Plenty of the problem space intersects things I'm interested in. then perhaps I can die with dignity.

What does dying with dignity look like? Well:

• Put in an exceptional effort. I'll still learn lots of math since that interests me, and it'll be useful for alignment, but I'm also going to put a lot of time into reading alignment posts.
• Be disciplined, get off computer early, read lots, stop bad YT habit
• Actively participate in eleutherai alignment, ask stupid questions without fear of embarrassment