Kyle Steinike

1. Technical safety: Concrete technical measures to alleviate possible harms and maintain control. 2. Audits: A means of ensuring the transparency and accountability of technology. 3. Choke points: Levers to slow development and buy time for regulators and defensive technologies. 4. Makers: Ensuring responsible developers build appropriate controls

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”

– James Baldwin

“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.”

“A simple rule for life that rarely fails:

Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it.”

“Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Of course, you can learn a lot about something without writing about it. However, writing about something complicated and hard to pin down acts as a test to see how well you understand it. When we approach our work as a stranger, we often discover... See more

It’s a truism that you always want to hire folks with very high standards, but I’ve seen a staggering number of folks fail in an organization primarily because they want to hold others to a higher standard than their organization’s management is willing to enforce.

“If an idea is true, criticism will not destroy it, but strengthen it.”

It’s more advantageous to structure decisions to be easily reversible than to take too much time trying to make the perfect choice.