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Phoenix in my room at the time of writing
Phoenixes have always been my spirit animal, and I bought this tapestry long before reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, however, yes, this is also the group house in which HPMOR was completed, Godric’s Hollow, which if I’m not mistaken does give us the non-exclusive, non-copyrighted, non-commercial, completely unrelated to J. K. Rowling rights to use the term “Order of the Phoenix”
Originally written November, 2025. I still endorse maybe 50-70% of this memo[1].
0. PreambleWith this memo, on the top floor of the tallest tower of Godric's Hollow, I instantiate the real-life Order of the Phoenix, and begin the proceedings with our group cheer which carries the initials of this memo and is hereby imbued with the full force of our collective energy-wisdom-intentionality:
OOO-OOP-HOH!!!Now that that’s out of the way…
This memo began as a response to an email from Dony which I found deeply energizing and epic. In the spirit of "Yes-And," I am responding in kind. I grouped together all Dony’s ideas that seemed similar, noticed they fell into a few main categories, and prioritized them in what I believe is very roughly the order of operations in which they should be enacted. I'll start each section with some of Dony's text and then add my commentary.
Table of Epicness1. Prioritization: Comprehensively list best project ideas and carefully pick the #1 hinge-iest project for preventing x-risk, then take the #1 hinge-iest action on it every day
2. Feedback: Publish #1 hinge-iest idea OR ship #1 hinge-iest project feature every day to real people and source high-quality feedback
3. People: Meet numerous people, collaborate constantly on little projects; ultimately build a community around the project and find world-class core collaborators
4. AI: Continuously build new AI tools to accelerate our projects and ExoBrain components to bring out the best in ourselves and others
5. AI EA: Launch an offshoot of EA, "g/acc", th