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[silverspawn]

is there anything more rude than asking smn to attend to a personal meeting without telling them why?

[silverspawn]

I guess I will try to assume that the absolute worst possible explanation is accurate and accept it, since that is better than dreading it for the rest of the day.

Just have to figure out what the worst possible explanation is.

One more reason not to have an employer at all.

[silverspawn]

Ok I'd say the worst possible explanation is that someone complained about me deviating from the curriculum in one of the classes. Can't figure out anything else I could have gotten in trouble for.

Which would be annoying but I guess tolerable. (Also pointless to complain about it now since that part is over.)

[faust]

Ok I'd say the worst possible explanation is that someone complained about me deviating from the curriculum in one of the classes. Can't figure out anything else I could have gotten in trouble for.

Which would be annoying but I guess tolerable. (Also pointless to complain about it now since that part is over.)

I can think of worse explanations!

Maybe I'll keep them to myself.

[silverspawn]

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[silverspawn]

so angry about this. you can't do this to someone with social anxiety. won't get anything else done today

[silverspawn]

even emailed the director directly (first mail was from a secretary) but no answer yet

[faust]

How do you think this could have been handled better? As far as I can tell, some people would also find it rude to find out certain news (not just bad news) via mail.

[silverspawn]

I feel like this way is infinity worse if it's harmless and probably still worse than hearing the bad news directly if it's bad news

[silverspawn]

OR don't message me on a day that I'm not at school. Write the same email tomorrow morning

[silverspawn]

well I suppose the lack of an answer increases P(not harmless)

[silverspawn]

So based on my internal state, I'd say the worst part is over, not that anything has changed but that's just how these things work

faust what worse thinks did you think of?

[silverspawn]

this is what I mean when I say "so much in life is about not being afraid of things". I don't even care about this job, there's objectively nothing bad that can happen

[silverspawn]

but it's hard for some things and impossible for situations like thisone

[faust]

OR don't message me on a day that I'm not at school. Write the same email tomorrow morning

Oh yeah it's not even today? Well, that's not great.

[faust]

So based on my internal state, I'd say the worst part is over, not that anything has changed but that's just how these things work

faust what worse thinks did you think of?

Oh, you can come up if a lot of things if you're creative. The one I had in mind was "a student wrongly accused you of sexual harassment".

[silverspawn]

OR don't message me on a day that I'm not at school. Write the same email tomorrow morning

Oh yeah it's not even today? Well, that's not great.

well it could have been today, the secretary just told me to "briefly come by the director", but I don't have classes today and it's a 40 minute drive with the bike to school

So based on my internal state, I'd say the worst part is over, not that anything has changed but that's just how these things work

faust what worse thinks did you think of?

Oh, you can come up if a lot of things if you're creative. The one I had in mind was "a student wrongly accused you of sexual harassment".

my brain generated that hypothesis as well, but it felt too low p to be scary. I over-respect physical and social boundaries irl so it'd have to be conjured out of less than zero

[silverspawn]

I really almost decided to just drive there and get it over with but then didn't, mostly because I didn't know if the director would even still be there

[silverspawn]

not-at-all-amusingly, the single most likely reason for the mail is probably still that there is opportunity for me to teach for another year after all because they had more new students than expected. (A few weeks ago I had a talk with the director, and he told me there was no way to keep me because they were cutting classes (and me being there is only a special rule after all)). But if that's the case, I think I'll say no. There is so much money in EA nowadays, I really should be able to get paid somehow. If nothing else I could distill alignment research, I've got lots of practice with that.

[silverspawn]

also I thought people who can code are in rare supply, so theoretically I should get a job as a coder? I'M ACTUALLY NOT BAD AT CODING

[silverspawn]

much of my life since finding hpmor has just been a progression of gathering courage to aim for higher things

[silverspawn]

He responded to the mail. It's completely harmless. Just an opportunity he wanted to tell me about. Man that was some A level unnecessary suffering right there.

[silverspawn]

That episode was something else. This kind of thing has got to be avoidable. Ughh

[silverspawn]

everyone in my online-social bubble is freaking out about AI progress right now. Maybe they're right and AGI is < 5 years away, in which case we're almost definitely going to die

[silverspawn]

e.g., https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wrkEnGrTTrM2mnmGa/it-s-time-for-ea-leadership-to-pull-the-fast-timelines-fire