Most common objection in replies is govt won’t allow it or won’t integrate.

This misses the key point: bc the AI is doing the part you otherwise do, the govt side doesn’t need to change.

The govt can no more stop you from using a personal AI agent than from using a calculator.

https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1654936975944871937

At the extreme, you can imagine a robot sitting at your desk, filling out a form with a pen, or with a keyboard. It will *not* literally look like that, but the image is a demonstration of why it doesn’t particularly matter what the govt thinks about the method.

By 2030, I expect ~everyone will have a personal AI agent that, among other things, can function as a kind of data broker to help you with:
* health providers
* service providers generally
* filing taxes
* government services generally Filling out the same information on forms countless times every year is maddening, but slow progress on standardized electronic medical records and access protocols suggests this will still happen for the foreseeable future.

Interesting workflow here - to request VF on something, a VP sends a Slack message and the team uses emojis to acknowledge.

With Asana, you could instead initiate this request by making a task, or you could start in Slack and use the integration to make a task from there.

https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney/status/1601793881355739143

Advantages to using Asana:
1/ Most impt, accountability.

What if the person who ack'd this later gets distracted and forgets they are responsible? With Slack, they have to go back through all their messages to make sure they don't forget.

@rcbregman They’re good questions and I spend a lot of time thinking about them. The team also spends a lot of energy trying to model it and we write publicly eg here openphilanthropy.org/research/our-p… @rcbregman I spend a lot of energy trying to recruit other funders and my wife Cari spends even more. We’ve had some moderate success but we’re not close to having a real successor to our spending. I believed we would by now and would spend faster as a consequence.

Two seemingly contradictory things I believe about the SBF situation:

a/ The Effective Altruism community will need to have a strong response/crucible moment

b/ The simplest explanation for his behavior does not imply utilitarianism means-justifying, as widely assumed.

1/15 On a/ many people have been saying that EAs culturally are likely to follow naive utilitarianism into dark corners. I thought this was too cynical, but feel incredibly humbled by this event. e.g. this aged poorly

https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1578835434675011584

2/15

I'm signing off too, folks. You can find me in YouTube comment threads. Also, if in the unlikely event I do stay and in the even unlikelier event I keep paying for Twitter Blue, please let the record show it is because I want to keep Thread Reader.

Effective Altruism AMA Will thread Qs I A. Latency may vary!

@QualyThe how many EAs does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: we could change that lightbulb… ooorrrr we could redirect the money it takes and use it to reduce suffering for like 8 million chickens. How many EAs does it take to change a lightbulb?

Actually, we should leave it broken because changing it will marginally hasten the development of potentially deadly transformative AI.

🚩🚩🚩 Specifically:
- not actually random (for multiple reasons)
- sample too small, huge error bars
- pretty sure users here means actives not any account
- how will they decide one is fake?

San Francisco has now eclipsed the second largest wave, in spite of having 83% of adults vaccinated. A bunch of weird interpretations of my tweet in replies; all I'm pointing out is Delta is extremely viral, even where both vaccination- and NPI-based protection is strong.

I wish I knew more about why SF's curve appears steeper than ostensibly less protected places though.

Many believe that since lockdown demonstrated remote work can be productive, it follows that companies should have flexible hybrid cultures going forward. But remote-only is not hybrid, and almost none have lived hybrid.

I predict few companies will be "fully flexible" by 2023. There are two big differences between remote-only and hybrid.

#1: "mixed mode" meetings. Probably fixable (tech or practice). Not so yet.

In my head, I define remote first as "the culture is to have everyone call in separately, even if multiple participants are in the office."

Some push back on this: do people really fight over this stuff at Asana, or just choose not to engage the left-y majority?

Usually, this doesn't get messy for us. But sometimes it does, and moreover we have conflict in non-political/social conversations all the time. Advice 🧵

https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1386826921850269703

First, I cannot emphasize enough that large distribution text-based discussion is a terrible medium for conflict. That is where all the flame wars happen.

So try to move into a synchronous medium where you can convey emotion and ideally body language. When possible, in person.

Some companies think political discussions belong in any part of their work space. Others feel they get in the way of other communication.

A suggestion to reject false trade-offs: actively create spaces for these conversations. At Asana, this primarily takes the form of employee resource groups. We have them for many kinds of identity, and some spaces are for those groups only and some are ally-friendly. They each have Asana team pages (with projects, e.g. to share articles) and Slack channels.

How much weight did you gain during the pandemic? If you lost weight, just don't answer. Nobody wants to hear your bragging in times like these.

(But also, great job!)

Friends and others have been asking us what we’re doing to respond to COVID-19, given that @open_phil has supported work on pandemic preparedness for several years and that this is exactly the kind of threat many of our grantees have been warning about. Our highest aspiration for our program work is to prevent pandemics like COVID-19 before they start and secondarily to minimize their spread. We're heartbroken to see this one get so far so fast.

I recently read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and was surprised at how familiar the topics felt. Many of the other great books I've read in recent years are deep dives on individual habits, as detailed below. Do you have any suggestions of your own? 1: Be Proactive

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl (cited in book)

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman (esp. commitment #1: Responsibility)

Lead Yourself First by Kethledge/Erwin

Leadership & Self Deception by Arbinger Institute