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Giving up my dreams? I refer you to http://yudkowsky.net/ http://yudkowsky.net/.

• ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Umm...congratulations? Not sure what point you're trying to make here. Your earlier statement was: What makes me come alive is writing fiction. This is not what the world most needs from me. But now you're linking to this site as proof that you haven't given up your dreams? So which is your dream? And regardless, my point is just that if writing fiction is what makes you come alive, what truly makes you happy, are you so certain that you're going to make more of a difference in the long run doing something else?
  • dandrews 17y ago
    In the discussion that followed the video answers entry on lesswrong, Wei Dai quoted Eliezer: "I have to remind myself that it's not what's the most fun to do, it's not even what you have talent to do, it's what you need to do that you ought to be doing." Eliezer presumably means that time is in short supply, and that every month's advance toward AI has the potential to save a great many people. Plenty enough time to write a novel after we crack that nut, but there's no time now.