Gavin Baker

Great post. Would add "Flexibility" as an 8th virtue although at some level it is a product of curiosity, humility and skepticism. Everyone needs to find the right balance between conviction and flexibility for their own particular emotional makeup.

1) Important to read. “Some people in the AI field think the risks of AGI (and successor systems) are fictitious; we would be delighted if they turn out to be right, but we are going to operate as if these risks are existential.”

Must read. “Google has 175,000+ capable and well-compensated employees who get very little done quarter over quarter, year over year. Like mice, they are trapped in a maze of approvals, launch processes, legal reviews, performance reviews, exec reviews,

This is worth a read.