Rob Wiblin

And I had to like...

sort of, like, prove this new way of doing things and, like, felt... Yeah, like, I thought and still think that there was, like, a lot to the arguments I was making, but also, like, I didn't... It was not a wild success when I, like, took a swing at it, like, by myself, so... So September last year, you decided to step away and just take some time away from work, I guess after eight years of working very hard full-time.

Yeah.

It was a mix of things.

I...

Just did a lot of like life stuff.

Like, I don't know, I just invested more in like, like I found a new group house to move into or like started a new group house.

So that was cool.

Did more just like trying to take care of myself.

I started an exercise habit off that exercise habit now again.

So we'll see.

And then I did a lot of reflecting on why,

this work situation ended up being so hard for me and like also just like my journey through just like my career as a whole and like what are the patterns and when things were hard for me.

I also just jumped in and helped with some random projects going on.

So the Curve Conference, which is a conference that kind of brings together AI skeptics and AI safety people and like people kind of on all sides of the issue of like

ai's impact on society that that was like having its first iteration while i was on sabbatical so i was able to like uh kind of get involved with that more and like try to be helpful more than i like uh could have been if i had a full-time job which was really cool did some writing uh most of that writing hasn't been published um but it was still good for me to do um but yeah it kind of went by really fast honestly there was a lot of stuff to think about and a lot to do

Yeah.

So I think in terms of 2023 and 2024 specifically, I really do feel like I want to be like...

an advisor and a helper to the kind of central organization.

And I had been that in many ways over the last, over the previous six years.