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> Unsurprisingly, the broad public reaction is to read this as a massive… more
> Louisiana offers two theories of standing. Theory #1 goes like this: if it’s… more
> The cases that matter are the ones a replay cache does not explain: more
> Like biographies use their subject as a prism for the world around them, I… more
> The problem with logic is that if you do it wrong even once it blows up. The… more
> Free yourself. Go back to the old ways. Especially if you're angry about the… more
> I recently learned that Canada’s mushroom production has been growing over… more
> In developing countries, many people become entrepreneurs by default. Most… more
> If an ASI ban is to accomplish anything at all, it has to be effective… more
> What I see when I encounter clips like this is the true gap between the tech… more
> [...] In a survey of 1,044 Australians, we found that endorsement of six… more
> By virtually every metric that matters — employment, crime, fiscal… more
> If you are living in New York’s 12th Congressional District, you may have… more
> One way to tell GiveDirectly’s story is thus as a bellwether for… more
> In 2026, the politics of AI has a new meta: “caring a lot about AI” is no… more
> Human Rights Watch is one of my favorite non-effective-altruist-identified… more
> Of course, I’m not really talking about color here, am I? It’s an allegory, a… more
> Bits do not naturally have Colour. Colour, in this sense, is not part of the… more
> My position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography has… more
> The neat thing about The Joel Test is that it’s easy to get a quick yes or no… more
> After Google abandoned the Maven contract in 2018, Palantir took it over. In… more
> On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled, correctly in my view, that the… more
> The World Bank estimates that every dollar spent on water supply and… more
> I have many, many frustrations when it comes to arguing about education, but… more
> Stallman [...] was well versed in the copyright nuances. He asked the other… more
> If cash is so great, why don’t we shut down all other charities and just give… more
> Women’s rights should not arise from seeing women as isolated individuals, to… more
> Support for abolishing ICE has hit a new high in this week's Economist /… more
> There has recently been a lot of attention to the concept of ‘deep… more
> Here’s my understanding of the situation: more
> American bus stops are often significantly closer together than European… more
> The Claude C Compiler is a milestone, showing progress at a different level.… more
> The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Trump’s IEEPA tariffs, holding that… more
> In 1954 the United States carried out its first full-scale test of a… more
> In the resistance we drive the high school car pool, that holy… more
> In 2024, the voters who knew the least about politics were some of Donald… more
> For three years, I worked at one of the organizations you might expect—I will… more
> I first wrote down these ideas in early 2017, just after I started to make a… more
> November was, for me and many others in tech, a great surprise. Before, A.I.… more
> DC and a few other states now require daycare workers to get degrees. The… more
> The key to it all is the observation that Ikebukuro Station is a terminal of… more
This argument seems a bit surprising coming from the author of "Understand," but I suppose it's fair to say that being able to imagine superintelligence isn't enough to justify believing in it. more
> LLMs are here to stay in our social spaces - there are already 20+ agents on… more
> Fraud has become quite politicized in the United States the last few years.… more
> i want to quickly write down where i am on my journey and share a bull case… more
> You start by realizing that nobody can clean up this mess single-handedly,… more
> Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian… more
> [...] suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. more