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Maximizing Your Donations via a Job

In November of 2012 I set a goal for myself: find the most x-risk reducing role I can fill. At first I thought it would be by working directly with MIRI, but after a while it became clear that I could contribute more by simply donating. So my goal became: find the highest paying job, so I can donate lots of money to CFAR and MIRI. A little bit of background on me. Started programming in 2000. Graduated in 2009 with Bachelor's in computer science. Worked for about a year and a half at a game company. Then did my own game startup for about a year. Then moved to the bay area and joined a game startup here, which was acquired 10 months later. Worked a bit at the new company and then left. So, just under four years of professional programming experience, but primarily in the game industry. Almost no leadership / managerial experience, aside from the startup I did where I hired freelancers. Below is my experience of finding a software engineering job in the Silicon Valley. If you are not an engineer or not in the Silicon Valley, I think you'll still find a lot of useful information here. Pre-game Before sending out my resume, I spent about a month preparing. I read Intro to Algorithms, which was very good overall, but not a huge help in preparing for interviews.[1] I read Cracking the Coding Interview, which was extremely helpful. (If you read only one book to prepare, make it this one.) The book has a lot of questions that are similar to the ones you'll actually see during interviews. I also did TopCoder problems, which were pretty helpful as well.[2] Looking back, I wish I spent more time finding actual interview questions online and doing more of those (that's why CCI book was so helpful). After several weeks of preparation, I compiled a long list of companies I was going to apply to. I checked on GlassDoor to see what kind of salary I could expect at each one. I then rated all the companies. Companies with low salaries and poor personal fit received the lowest

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Nov 25, 20257

Circle of Support (Oct 14th @ 10am PST)

Having spent some extended time in this community back in 2010s, I am well familiar with a lot of the stressors we can experience: * Feeling of doom from AI (and other x-risks) * Pressure to be more "effective" and more "altruistic" * Fear of (or anger at) aging and...

Oct 13, 202319

Super-Luigi = Luigi + (Luigi - Waluigi)

Edit: I think this actually implements what I was trying to say: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5spBue2z2tw4JuDCx/steering-gpt-2-xl-by-adding-an-activation-vector Referencing: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post First insight: Waluigi isn't exactly opposite of Luigi. And I think misbehaving ChatGPT isn't exactly opposite of a helpful ChatGPT. There are many ways to be opposite of helpful. You could: 1) say nothing, 2)...

Mar 17, 202316

[Link] Digital Democracy Is Within Reach

EPISODE SUMMARY Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audio and video of all conversations between lawmakers and lobbyists are available to the public immediately. Conspiracy theories are acted upon within two hours and replaced by humorous videos...

Nov 11, 202020

Efficient Market Frontier

Recently I gave a talk on EMH: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3TiEZzw4ikneLGp4J/dissolving-the-is-the-efficient-market-hypothesis-dead In there I had a bonus slide about what I call "Efficient Market Frontier" (EMF). In this post I want to expand on EMF, since I feel like a lot of disagreements and conversations around EMH and the market in general can...

Aug 22, 202019

What posts on finance would your find helpful or interesting?

There have been a number of post on finance and trading on LW recently. gilch and I realized that we don't have a great sense of how much people on LW know already and what they would find helpful.

Aug 22, 202032

"The Holy Grail" of portfolio management

TL;DR: Bayes' Theorem : Rationality :: Uncorrelated returns : Investing Recently I gave a talk on EMH: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3TiEZzw4ikneLGp4J/dissolving-the-is-the-efficient-market-hypothesis-dead In there I had a bonus slide about what I call the "Efficient Market Frontier" (EMF). May be there's an existing name for it; I couldn't find it. (EMF is not to...

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Circle of Support (Oct 14th @ 10am PST)

Super-Luigi = Luigi + (Luigi - Waluigi)

[Link] Digital Democracy Is Within Reach

Efficient Market Frontier

What posts on finance would your find helpful or interesting?

"The Holy Grail" of portfolio management

Maximizing Your Donations via a Job

Personal examples of semantic stopsigns

Crypto quant trading: Intro

"The Holy Grail" of portfolio management

Alexei's Shortform

Circle of Support (Oct 14th @ 10am PST)

Super-Luigi = Luigi + (Luigi - Waluigi)

[Link] Digital Democracy Is Within Reach

Efficient Market Frontier

What posts on finance would your find helpful or interesting?

"The Holy Grail" of portfolio management