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I'm Terrified of Old People

I used to be extremely confident in myself. I was barely 20 years old and I would tell people how to sleep, how to make friends, and how to live their lives. I started a nonprofit aiming to literally rebuild the institutions of science from the ground up. I was dismissive of everyone who didn’t impress me in the first 7 minutes of talking to them. I was especially dismissive of old people. I’m 26 years old now, I (hope that I) got a tiny bit wiser but I’m pretty sure I have no …

created: 2024-06-28; modified: 2024-06-28 5 random top posts> Neurodiversity, mutants, and organisational design> Reviving Patronage and Revolutionary Industrial Research> Theses on Sleep> Omens of exceptional talent> Best of Holden Karnofsky and Sam Altman I used to be extremely confident in myself. What kinds of crazy heuristics and meta-heuristics they’ve got in their minds, hearts, and muscles after decades of poking the world? How about because I have a bunch of stupid shit on my blog that’s going to follow me into the grave now and because now whenever I talk to someone they usually “remember” me writing something even dumber than what I actually wrote (“oh, Alexey, weren’t you the guy who thought that sleeping 4 hours a night is totally fine?” “No, I wrote that sleeping 4 hours a night didn’t make me dumb AND that it was absolutely terrible, please stop asking me about this”)?

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