- Fixed laptop (after the battery died it returned to normal)
- Worked on my website rewrite, it's good! Just need to fix markdown spoilers and I'll be ready to deploy it.
- Booked a meeting with Thomas (Sept 4th) to pre-commit doing alignment things
- Read some random alignment things. Not very productive, tried to do Infrabayes math, but my brain is too tired. Next time account for mental energy in plans.
- Played with stable diffusion locally for ~40min, basically procrastinating
- Worked on my website a bit more. Spoilers for solutions will be annoying. I could write my own remark plugin but that's a pain.
Gratitude list
- I'm only a little sick, I was still able to get a lot done—even if doing math felt impossible.
- My laptop is working again, it wasn't a hardware problem and I think I've fixed it now
- I'm making progress along many axes. I've accepted that I can't do everything at once, doing stuff is enough.
Things to do:
- Write a list of alignment questions for Thomas + read about Natural abstractions + 30min thinking about alignment unplugged.
- (If I feel like it) study functional analysis and logic. Prepare questions for tutor
- Publish rewrite of my site, use brute force when elegant solutions don't exist.
- Signup for prepscholar and start speedrunning it