Last week, in part one, Leah Sargeant shared how her household was formed and what keeps it running. In part two, we discuss work, AI, how Eliezer Yudkowsky helped Leah convert to catholicism, and what keeps us human.
A Random Walk Across Careers
N: I would love a brief overview of your work.
I’ve held a large number of jobs, in what you could describe as a random walk across careers — it’s very hard, looking at whatever job I held at time point N, to predict what job I will hold at N+1. If anything united these jobs, they’re interesting, and hopefully high-impact. For me, changing jobs is often about picking somewhere where I’m going to learn something new, or need to acquire mastery of something. Whatever job I take has to be compatible with hosting book clubs and debates at my house, and spending a long time working on my Halloween costume every weekend.
