I've been it feels almost wildly successful lately, or at least more successful than I thought I'd be, and its all downstream of a paper. And I'm not sure how that paper exists without Lighthaven (met coauthor as a guest/office visitor during a MATS semester, and it was at Lighthaven that Buck argued that we should pivot from novel architecture proposal to eval). To say nothing of what I owe to LessWrong!

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