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Published · transcript-backedGwern: uncertainty
13 Nov 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
“If someone wanted to give me, I don’t know, $50–100K/year to move to SF and continue writing full-time like I do now, I'd take it in a heartbeat.”
— Gwern
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- Gwern
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- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 13 Nov 2024
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…It seems like you’ve enjoyed this recent trip to San Francisco? What would it take to get you to move here? Yeah, it is mostly just money stopping me at this point. I probably should bite the bullet and move anyway. But I'm a miser at heart and I hate thinking of how many months of writing runway I'd have to give up for each month in San Francisco. If someone wanted to give me, I don’t know, $50–100K/year to move to SF and continue writing full-time like I do now, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Until then, I'm still trying to psych myself up into a move. That sounds very doable. If somebody did want to contribute to making this move, and your research more generally, possible, how would they get in touch with you?…
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