Writing

• Automation of most white-collar work—already baked in? May 24, 2025
• How well will it generalise? January 29, 2025
• 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
• Alien invaders vs children vs servants vs tools October 24, 2023
• How to parent your digital children 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
• Very Big If True, therefore probably wrong and/or crazy (part 1) December 21, 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
• 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

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