Austin's Notes
blog.austn.io ยท by Austin's Notes ยท clipped 2025-11-04
Clipped from the web into my Obsidian; formatting may be imperfect.
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How to run your first conference
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Apply for funding in parallel, not serial
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Things that suck about building community
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What would it take to revive EA?
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Melding my mind
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What I admire or envy in others
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To found, or to invest?
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Questions about animal welfare markets
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On Loyalty
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Why do high-impact people choose to have kids?
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Why I love my competitors
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Why โguess cultureโ?
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Startup skills & where to learn them
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The structures of companies vs fields
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In favor of higher EA salaries
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Reflections on our wedding
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Attendee to organizer time ratios
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AI for Epistemics Hackathon
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Ada behaviors I love, at 8 months
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Naming things
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Leadership for introverts
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Selling yourself for fun & profit [QTB talk]
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The final retroactive funder is God (aka future ASI)
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Free, or very expensive
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Why not take a grant?
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A space of our own, in SF [minifest]
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Notes from The Curve
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Small business ideas for serving the gray tribe
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Barriers to entry might be good
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Post EA?
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โAgentโ economics
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Web dev, after LLMs
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What is play?
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Can orgs be moral patients?
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Where does the best writing happen?
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Future SOTA model weights may be open
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My brain is a simulator
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Both sides of the story
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Questions about conferences
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Why Iโm donating to Lightcone
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Being alone vs with others
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Welcome to Taco Tuesday
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Firsts of 2023, Firsts of 2024
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Leaving Manifold
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Closed vs Open systems
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Musings on Discord
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Response to Erik Hoel on LK-99
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Funding in EA: Grants, Loans, Equity
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I love Rachel
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Open
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Things Iโve tried for a month
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How EA funders can help grantees more
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Christian songs I find inspirational
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Taco Twosday retro
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Questions about money
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Dating Austin (of June 2022)
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Writers I Follow
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Ways I grew in 2022
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Dating Compatibility Questions
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In Defense of SBF
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Ambition & Relationships
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Forecasting Workshop (EAG DC 2022)
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Learn technical things when youโre young
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EA Software Project Ideas
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Outstanding issues with impact certs
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Why 501c3 grants might be bad
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Why impact certs might be really good
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Being underclocked
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Reflections on Manifold, 7 months in
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What to do with $10m
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You donโt need to be on web3 to be decentralized
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Product < People < Process
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Oshi no Ko and hard work
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What EA can learn from startups
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Your team should move from Google Docs to Notion
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Should you be flamboyantly good?
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What is liquidity?
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Brag about what you did, not what youโre going to do
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Institutional intelligence beats individual intelligence
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New market types
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What We Owe the Past
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Prediction Markets & Addictiveness
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Attention is money, money is attention
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Effective Altruism & Catholicism
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On meeting heroes
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Biggest questions with Manifold
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Thought Shapers
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EA needs better software
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Proposal: A Common App for EA Funding
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Thoughts on blogging
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Web is Fun
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First Post
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From inside acid
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8 Tips for building your online party game
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Storybook Brawl
In progress
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buni dev notes
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model.exchange
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simulation capture