Writing
Notes on Rao on Ooze
June 9, 2024
Safe, Unsafe and Universal Singletons June 9, 2024
Conservative progressivism May 10, 2024
On a similar path, but. January 11, 2024
Mill on Bentham and Coleridge December 19, 2023
Mapping the debate about desirable futures November 21, 2023
AI safety and the Last Man November 6, 2023
The case for the Scaling Hypothesis, in two sentences October 31, 2023
How to parent your digital children October 24, 2023
Alien invaders vs children vs servants vs tools October 24, 2023
Policy for the day after October 23, 2023
The Sun is massive October 8, 2023
Alien invaders, or children? September 24, 2023
Reading suggestions September 24, 2023
ChatGPT is a junior engineer today; a senior designer and engineer next year September 21, 2023
AI will improve a lot, very soon September 20, 2023
200 IQ and made of meat September 17, 2023
What is AI alignment? September 14, 2023
Digital Minds or Butlerian Accord? (Part 1) September 10, 2023
Who will rule the Earth in 2100? September 10, 2023
When you’re writing to learn, very short posts are fine September 9, 2023
Email to Tyler on Bernard Williams & effective altruism January 13, 2023
Naturalism, pragmatism, impartiality June 23, 2022
Digital minds: descendents or rivals? June 23, 2022
Pragmatism, evolution & moral philosophy April 22, 2022
Reading Robin Hanson April 1, 2022
Fallow period February 17, 2022
Thoughts on Robin Hanson and David Deutsch on predicting the future December 27, 2021
State credences as fractions to avoid suggesting false precision December 23, 2021
Plato was good at wrestling December 18, 2021
The realism we’re looking for December 6, 2021
Maximising whims December 1, 2021
The atrocious fact of wild animal suffering November 24, 2021
Blogging every day is hard November 23, 2021
“We genuinely just want to do what’s best for the world” November 8, 2021
Make it easier November 7, 2021
Careless strawman due to inferential distance October 31, 2021
Tetlock vs King & Kay on probabilistic reasoning October 24, 2021
Trial and error is great until it kills you October 22, 2021
Very Big If True, therefore probably wrong and/or crazy (part 1) October 21, 2021
Nietzsche wasn’t climbing Parfit’s mountain October 19, 2021
Notes on public philosophy October 16, 2021
Advocates who refuse the name October 15, 2021
Safe, Unsafe and Universal Singletons June 9, 2024
Conservative progressivism May 10, 2024
On a similar path, but. January 11, 2024
Mill on Bentham and Coleridge December 19, 2023
Mapping the debate about desirable futures November 21, 2023
AI safety and the Last Man November 6, 2023
The case for the Scaling Hypothesis, in two sentences October 31, 2023
How to parent your digital children October 24, 2023
Alien invaders vs children vs servants vs tools October 24, 2023
Policy for the day after October 23, 2023
The Sun is massive October 8, 2023
Alien invaders, or children? September 24, 2023
Reading suggestions September 24, 2023
ChatGPT is a junior engineer today; a senior designer and engineer next year September 21, 2023
AI will improve a lot, very soon September 20, 2023
200 IQ and made of meat September 17, 2023
What is AI alignment? September 14, 2023
Digital Minds or Butlerian Accord? (Part 1) September 10, 2023
Who will rule the Earth in 2100? September 10, 2023
When you’re writing to learn, very short posts are fine September 9, 2023
Email to Tyler on Bernard Williams & effective altruism January 13, 2023
Naturalism, pragmatism, impartiality June 23, 2022
Digital minds: descendents or rivals? June 23, 2022
Pragmatism, evolution & moral philosophy April 22, 2022
Reading Robin Hanson April 1, 2022
Fallow period February 17, 2022
Thoughts on Robin Hanson and David Deutsch on predicting the future December 27, 2021
State credences as fractions to avoid suggesting false precision December 23, 2021
Plato was good at wrestling December 18, 2021
The realism we’re looking for December 6, 2021
Maximising whims December 1, 2021
The atrocious fact of wild animal suffering November 24, 2021
Blogging every day is hard November 23, 2021
“We genuinely just want to do what’s best for the world” November 8, 2021
Make it easier November 7, 2021
Careless strawman due to inferential distance October 31, 2021
Tetlock vs King & Kay on probabilistic reasoning October 24, 2021
Trial and error is great until it kills you October 22, 2021
Very Big If True, therefore probably wrong and/or crazy (part 1) October 21, 2021
Nietzsche wasn’t climbing Parfit’s mountain October 19, 2021
Notes on public philosophy October 16, 2021
Advocates who refuse the name October 15, 2021