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What I Worked On

February 2021

Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep.

The first programs I tried writing were on the IBM 1401 that our school district used for what was then called "data processing." This was in 9th grade, so I was 13 or 14. The school district's 1401 happened to be in the basement of our junior high school, and my friend Rich Draves and I got permission to use it. It was like a mini Bond villain's lair down there, with all these alien-looking machines — CPU, disk drives, printer, card reader — sitting up on a raised floor under bright fluorescent lights.

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Once there was a big red bird.
He lived in a tall tree by a blue lake.
Every day, the bird would fly around and sing.
One day, he saw a little yellow bird.
The yellow bird looked sad and alone.
"Why are you sad?" asked the big red bird.
"I can't fly high," said the yellow bird.
"I can teach you," said the red bird.
They practiced flying together every day.
Soon, the yellow bird could fly as high as the red bird.

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Today I’m interviewing Gwern Branwen. Gwern 
is an anonymous researcher and writer. He’s  
deeply influenced the people building AGI.


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