Resurfaced advice from Jack Clark recommends that new tech hires pursue hobbies completely unrelated to computers

Anthropic: ALL YOUR JOBS AND HOBBIES ARE BELONG TO US. BOW DOWN TO ALMIGHTY CLAUDE AND US IN THE PRIESTLY CLASS

Next thing you know: "Why are people looking to confiscate half our company 😩😭"

@edzitron This thing is blurring stuff together in a way that's pretty inaccurate. I just tell people who start at the company to get hobbies that don't involve computers because I think people who work in tech shouldn't spend all their time doing tech stuff. Touch grass, basically.

Jack has been extremely consistent about this over the years. In no small part because being able to connect with other people without the warping effect of tech is fundamentally good for the soul

I encourage everyone to goto the gym though.

@edzitron @jackclarkSF seems accurate?

@verdakorz @edzitron I would also include touching boats as a legitimate hobby and I will consider recommending this to colleagues

@jackclarkSF What about the second part? The one about the superhuman coder?

@jachiam0 see: when we reunited on the other side of covid at a punk show in downtown oakland!

@jackclarkSF @edzitron https://x.com/verdakorz/status/2062992136765894699?s=46 touch boats!!!

@jackclarkSF @edzitron Polymarket slop tweets and Ed - you’re entering the bad faith Olympics here

@jackclarkSF @edzitron Indeed, I have felt very supported in my pizza making endeavors and empowered to do so sans the help of a computer.

@beffjezos They also want to activate an AI pause at the same time. Why now though and not 2-3 years ago.

Looks very suspicious from them doesn’t it?

@jackclarkSF @edzitron I think people should choose hobbies based on what they like and enjoy doing, and this should be the only measure.

@jackclarkSF @_arohan_ @edzitron Funny how these things get legs of their own.

@jackclarkSF @jachiam0 Is there an Anthropic event I can come to later this year

@jackclarkSF @edzitron lmao

@beffjezos Nah, it's like this.

@beffjezos Maybe we should try let US gov taking over Anthropic, putting a bureaucrat in charge, and see how things go

@edzitron @jackclarkSF You mean the truth?

@beffjezos Anthropic is getting a little extreme they need to chill a bit as honestly it hard to take them seriously the more they push claims that simply don't prove out.