Archive - world spirit sock stack

'Wicked': thoughts

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Association taxes are collusion subsidies

Under present norms, if Alice associates with Bob, and Bob is considered objectionable in some way, Alice can be blamed for her association, even if…

May 27 •

February 2025

Mental software updates

And where to get them

Feb 27 •

November 2024

Winning the power to lose

The doomed dog's victory

Nov 11, 2024 •

August 2024

Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk

and polls on which are the most compelling

Published on AI Impacts blog • Aug 14, 2024

June 2024

Secondary forces of debt

A general thing I hadn’t noticed about debts until lately:

Jun 27, 2024 •

Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists

For those of you who enjoy learning things via listening in on numerous slightly different conversations about them, and who also want to learn more…

Jun 23, 2024 •

What if a tech company forced you to move to NYC?

It’s interesting to me how chill people sometimes are about the non-extinction future AI scenarios. Like, there seem to be opinions around along the…

Jun 9, 2024 •

Podcast: Center for AI Policy, on AI risk and listening to AI researchers

I was on the Center for AI Policy Podcast. We talked about topics around the 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI, including why I think AI is an…

Jun 6, 2024 •

May 2024

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