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Back to Search"“The AI Doc” is coming out March 26" by Rob Bensinger, Beckeck
On Thursday, March 26th, a major new AI documentary is coming out: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Tickets are on sale now.
The movie…
4 months ago
"Customer Satisfaction Opportunities" by Tomás B.
I am monitoring surveillance camera V84A. A tall man is walking towards me. He is roughly twenty-five. His name is Damion Prescott. He has a room b…
4 months ago
"Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline" by Ihor Kendiukhov
The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas h…
4 months ago
"Personality Self-Replicators" by eggsyntax
One-sentence summary
I describe the risk of personality self-replicators, the threat of OpenClaw-like agents managing to spread in hard-to-control w…
4 months ago
"My Willing Complicity In “Human Rights Abuse”" by AlphaAndOmega
Note on AI usage: As is my norm, I use LLMs for proof reading, editing, feedback and research purposes. This essay started off as an entirely human …
4 months, 1 week ago
"Economic efficiency often undermines sociopolitical autonomy" by Richard_Ngo
Many people in my intellectual circles use economic abstractions as one of their main tools for reasoning about the world. However, this often leads…
4 months, 1 week ago
"Don’t Let LLMs Write For You" by JustisMills
Content note: nothing in this piece is a prank or jumpscare where I smirkingly reveal you've been reading AI prose all along.
It's easy to forget th…
4 months, 1 week ago
"Thoughts on the Pause AI protest" by philh
On Saturday (Feb 28, 2026) I attended my first ever protest. It was jointly organized by PauseAI, Pull the Plug and a handful of other groups I forg…
4 months, 1 week ago
"Prologue to Terrified Comments on Claude’s Constitution" by Zack_M_Davis
What Even Is This Timeline
The striking thing about reading what is potentially the most important document in human history is how impossible it is…
4 months, 1 week ago
"Less Dead" by Aurelia
Come with me if you want to live. – The Terminator
'Close enough' only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. – Traditional
After 10 years of res…
4 months, 1 week ago