David Boree

Well, unfortunately so.

She starts to really show an interest early on, though, and this is where things get unsettling in enforcement mechanisms, which are methods by which individuals can like blackmail themselves into accomplishing difficult tasks for personal betterment.

She writes about an app called Beeminder, which lets you set goals and punish yourself with a financial penalty if you don't make regular progress.

And she's really obsessed with just the concept of using enforcement mechanisms to make people better, writing, often you have to break things to make them better.

So not a great path we're going down here.

Is she following this herself?

Yes, she's working on, she's trying to use some of these tactics on herself to make herself, to deal with like what she sees as her flaws that are stopping her from, you know, saving the cosmos.

Great stuff.

A lot of pressure to put on yourself.

Yeah.

Poor woman has been under the highest stakes this whole time.

Well, and that's again, that comes that comes.

That's not Ziz.

That's the entire rationalist subculture.

The stakes are immediately.

We have to save the world from the evil AI that will create hell to punish everybody who doesn't build it.

And that actually we'll talk about this later.

That breaks a ton of people in this.

She is not the only one kind of fracturing her psyche in this community.

So right around this time, she's bouncing around short term rentals and like desperately trying to get work.