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Back to Search"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…
1 month 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…
1 month 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…
1 month 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…
1 month 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…
1 month ago
"Gemma Needs Help" by Anna Soligo
This work was done with William Saunders and Vlad Mikulik as part of the Anthropic Fellows programme. The full write-up is available here. Thanks to…
1 month ago
"On Independence Axiom" by Ihor Kendiukhov
The Fifth Fourth Postulate of Decision Theory
In 1820, the Hungarian mathematician Farkas Bolyai wrote a desperate letter to his son János, who had …
1 month ago
"Solar storms" by Croissanthology
Most of civilization's electricity is generated far off-site from where it's delivered. This is because you don't want to be running and refueling c…
1 month ago
"Schelling Goodness, and Shared Morality as a Goal" by Andrew_Critch
Also available in markdown at theMultiplicity.ai/blog/schelling-goodness.
This post explores a notion I'll call Schelling goodness. Claims of Schell…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Maybe there’s a pattern here?" by dynomight
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundr…
1 month, 1 week ago